Pure Love

whats the difference between love and attachment ? it appears like both are one and the same. Sometimes in this world we love people -- get attached to them and during the process get burned leading to frustration. Givers keep giving and when they aren't acknowledged, they fall as victims of frustration. What exactly is true love all about thats spoken in the scriptures ?

Love is the sum of all the spiritual laws.

We may say that love is the heart of the mind. Anything that comes before you in life can be conquered through universal love, a force which is a demonstration of the soul. Universal love has nothing to do with emotional infatuation, attachment or lust. It flows freely through the person whose mind is unclouded by resentment, malice, greed and anger. But in persons whose minds are partially out of control and under the control of another, the force of the soul ends up as infatuation or attachment.

I have experienced/experiencing these states myself in life and struggled to get out of these.

Pure love is a state of Being. Whereas everyone is running around trying to get love, it is found in giving. When a person begins to lose the idea of his own personality through concern for others, he will attract a like response to himself. The outgoing force of the soul in action brings freedom to the lower states of mind. The instinctive person is ordinarily so preoccupied with his own self, so wrapped up in his own shell, that he cannot give a thought to the welfare of another. He cannot give anything of himself. Such a person usually feels sorry for himself and finds other people unloving and unresponsive. He is still far from any realization of the Self within.

The unfortunate person who is burdened by resentment, for instance, feels that the world owes him more kindness than he is receiving. When he loses his resentment for the world simply by becoming interested in people, the world will once again reflect back the expression of this soul force, known as universal love.

Personally i have found practicing this goal of selfless love has burnt me a lot in life and has made me feel miserable. To lose myself in another's happiness even though its affecting me and burning me. Nevertheless it has to be done. The cycles of tension and release, tension and release -- which are constantly given birth to in the instinctive and intellectual state of mind -- are only broken as the unfolding soul expresses itself in devotion, breaking up the crust of personal concern and hurt feelings.

I have decided to break this crust of personal concern and hurt feelings completely and i have a plan to achieve it.