'Can you talk about the art of nourishing oneself with
love?'
"There is no art because there is no need of any effort. Love is
the nourishment. But humanity has been so confused by its leaders that
one does not know the most inner realms of one's own being. Love is
nourishment in itself. The more you love, the more you will find
untrodden spaces where love goes on and on spreading around you like an
aura.
"But
that kind of love has not been allowed by any culture. They have forced
love into a very small tunnel: you can love your wife, your wife can
love you; you can love your children, you can love your parents, you can
love your friends. And they have made two things so deeply rooted in
every human being. One is that love is something very limited – friends,
family, children, husband, wife. And the second thing they have
insisted is that there are many kinds of love.
"You
love in one way when you love your husband or your wife; then you have
to bring another kind of love when you love your children, and another
kind of love when you love your elders, your family, your teachers, and
then another kind of love for your friends. But the truth is, love
cannot be categorized the way it has been categorized throughout the
whole history of mankind. There were reasons for them to categorize it
but their reasons are ugly and inhuman, because in this categorization
they killed love...
"The
reason why all the cultures have insisted on categorization is because
they have been very much afraid of love, is because if there is
existential love, then it does not know boundaries – then you cannot put
Hindus against Mohammedans, then you cannot put Protestants against
Catholics. Then you cannot draw a line saying that you cannot love this
person because he is Jewish, Chinese. The leaders of the world wanted to
divide the world, but to divide the world they have to do the basic
division which is of love."
