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Characteristics of Human Love, Psychic Love and Spiritual Love · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  if we examine the nature of love, as we see it in human
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  society, There is a considerable amount of expectation as well as
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  bargaining in our expressions of love.
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  We tend to expect that the object of our love will
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  reciprocate and return a measure of Love or some other concrete.
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  Manifestation of response. If we do not get what we expect,
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  our love tends to sour or decline and we move on to other
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  potential objects of love to get our expectation and needs
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  fulfilled. As human love turns towards the
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  Divine, similar reactions and expectations, take place
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  initially. And thus, we expect to be
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  compensated or rewarded for our devotion, in some form either in
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  this life or in a future status, such as acceptance into heaven
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  and Cetera. We expect our prayers to be
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  answered. Our needs to be met.
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  Our desires to be fulfilled. psychic love is a pure
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  manifestation that focuses on adoration and self giving
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  without expectation of any specific return as a condition
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  The act of self giving is unconditioned and unconditional
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  towards the divine. Spiritual love identifies.
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  The Seeker in Oneness with the rest of the creation and widens
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  the being to embrace all SRI aurobindo notes, quote, when the
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  love goes towards the Divine, there is still this ordinary
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  human element in it. There is the call for a return
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  and if the return does not seem to come the love may sink.
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  There is the self-interest the demand for the divine.
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  As a giver of all that the human being wants and if the demands
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  are not acceded to of Amana against the Divine loss of Faith
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  loss of fervor, etc. Etc.
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  But the true love for the Divine is in its fundamental nature,
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  not of this kind, but psychic and spiritual the psychic
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  element is the need of the inmost being for self giving
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  love adoration Union which can only be fully Satisfied by the
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  divine. The spiritual element is the
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  need of the being for contact merging Union with its own
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  highest and whole self and source of being and
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  Consciousness and Bliss. The Divine, these two are two
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  sides of the same thing. The Mind vital physical can be
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  the supports and recipients of this love.
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  But they can be fully. That only when they become
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  remolded in harmony with the psychic and spiritual elements
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  of the being and no longer bring in the lower insistence has of
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  the ego and quote, reference SRI aurobindo, integral yoga, SRI
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  aurobindo teaching and method of practice, chapter 6, sadhna
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  through love and devotion. Divine love.
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  The emotions Pages. 162 2164, Four.