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LOVE IS THE INNER AWAKENING TO REALITY
integral with its true being. The first signs Viveka lie in understanding this nature of loving ourselves and finding it loathsome start, learning to love others. This is the true and real awakening to the Reality that must precede all other awakenings. The narcissistic love has very strong foundation in the expression of all forms of life: I am referring to the preservation instinct as you might have understood already. But what is life? It is simply a matter of integrated expression of several functions and organs of the being in the Organic world. A bit of understanding of the modern day science would reveal to us that the difference between organic and inorganic world is more a matter of practical convenience and we know every thing is an expression of the interplay of energy particles. Loving self therefore is at the superficial level only but even then it is a matter of loving a particular pattern of expression of several particles as we shall see later. This basic understanding of interdependency of life and its forms and for that matter all that exists is the first awakening we should
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