Human love is conditional and, therefore, worth not pursuing. Unconditional love springs from the fourth plane of consciousness and upwards where all carnality has ceased and the Spirit shines to illumine life and its relations in the light divine. Till at least this plane of the spiritual heart is reached which in scriptural terms is called the anahata chakra, the body holds human relations in its grip of sense selfishness and love remains despite pretensions a distant dream. The decadence of relations is brought about by the diminishing returns of the body and the rosy relations of efflorescent youth soon decay in the scorching rays of heartless practicality where self-survival and self-gratification play the bandmasters by turn.
The lowest three centres of consciousness are the physical centres where matter holds the soul in its tentacles and limits its capacities, clips its wings to fly, so to say, reducing the human mental motion to a series of analysis and synthesis with no escape into a realm where freedom from these constant stirrings and the trappings of flesh and form may be. In pursuance of such finite dealings human love also becomes limited to the cravings of flesh and form and, despite the tallest protestations to the contrary, remains bound in the mire of selfish material desire which no supposed sublimity of poetry or music can undo and release the soul unto a perennial pasture of meadows green.
Written by Sugata Bose
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