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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM - VOL 9
also realising that love resides always in our heart in abundance. It is our duty to cast the beam of lovely light on all. It is then, new possibilities emerge and healing solutions ooze out of such love.
Fear of losing the attachment and consequently the love between persons is purely due to possessiveness. Then jealousy rears its ugly head. We should be cautious of jealousy which is an immature emotion. Aspirants in the Path should have learned better but in many cases they have not. Jealousy is less than love, since it resents the other's freedom. Jealousy is to consider another person as an object of possession, a person who has no right to make their own choices. In reality we all feel the sting of jealousy sometimes and we need to acknowledge and accept the emotion, and then release it as something that is simply not rational.
The institution of marriage is the finest example where love is expressed in totality. We realise and affirm that though we were born separately we bind ourselves by strings of love and together we shall be forever even when we are in the silent memory of God. The value of Grhasta life is the possibility of two souls emitting the fragrance of love on all occasions. There is intimacy but it is wise to allow spaces in the togetherness. For, if
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