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CHAPTER 10. SPIRITUALISM, RELIGION AND POLITICS
And never ask what the highest state of love is. Love is always the highest state. When love comes,
it comes at its pinnacle. There is no other state of love, it is always the highest.
There are no degrees of love – less and more. Let us go into it more deeply. I cannot say that I love
you a little. Love is never less than the whole. A little love has no meaning. Either there is love or
there is not. It is meaningless to say, ”Right now I love you less than I loved you before.” It does not
happen like that. If I love you, I love you totally or I don’t love you at all. For example, if someone
steals two cents and another person steals two hundred thousand dollars, you cannot say that one
committed a small theft and another a big one. Of course, people who worship money will say that
a theft of two hundred thousand is big and that of two cents is petty. But in reality theft is theft,
whether it involves two cents or two hundred thousand dollars. There are no degrees of theft, large
and small. One is as much a thief when he pockets two cents as he is when he bags two hundred
thousand dollars.
Love is neither small nor big; love is simply love. There is no such thing as the highest state of love;
love is the highest state. Love is always the climax; there are no short climaxes and long ones.
Water becomes steam at a hundred degrees. You cannot say that it will be less steam at ninety-five
or ninety degrees. No, water changes into steam only at a hundred degrees, not before. So the
hundredth degree is the first and the last point of that climax when water turns into steam. Similarly
love is the first and the last; love is the climax. Its alpha and omega points are the same. The first
and the last rungs of love’s ladder are the same. Love’s journey begins and ends with the first step;
one step is enough.
Since we don’t know love we raise strange questions about it. I have yet to come across a person
who asks a right question about love. I am reminded of a story:
Morgan, a multi-millionaire, was having a discussion with another multi-millionaire who was his rival
in business. Morgan said, ”There are a thousand ways of earning money, but the way of earning it
honestly is only one.”
His rival asked with some amazement, ”What is that one way?”
Morgan said, ”I knew you would ask this question, because you don’t know. I was certain about your
raising the question because you don’t know an honest way to make money.”
It is the same with love. We cannot formulate a right question about love; we never ask a right
question about it. Whatever questions we raise are irrelevant, beside the point, because we don’t
know a thing about love. Like Morgan, I knew you would ask this wrong question. We can only ask
wrong questions about love. And the irony is that one who knows love is not going to ask a question,
which would be the right question, about love. The question does not arise because he knows it.
Question 12
QUESTIONER: KRISHNA INSPIRES ARJUNA TO FIGHT IN THE BATTLE OF THE MAHABHARAT.
BUT IT IS SAID THAT ONCE IT HAPPENS, KRISHNA HIMSELF PREPARES TO FIGHT WITH
ARJUNA. WHAT IS THE MATTER?
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