There Is No Other

They say today, 14 Feb is a valentine day, a lover's day to express love, is there someone to love? Who am I? When you are the witness, at the soul level, beyond the ego and personality, there is no other. The soul drops away the ego and its story. 

When you are somebody, acts as a separate self then you identify with your story.  It only happens when you are at the ego level of ‘I’ and its story. I am this and that. At this level, your love is a possessive type of love; this ‘body’ loves that ‘body’, therefore it is individualistic and unique love, personal and special love for specific persons. Love with conditions, of course. This kind of love, you still don't know who you really are. Another kind of love, is conscious love, you know who you are. You have found the home of love, that's yourself. So you don't need other to love you, because you are. 

When you are the soul, the witness--a flow of love occurs, not active loving in nature but natural present of flow. You are nobody although the storyline is still going on as usual but no owner to create a drama between you and me. Just being and with no other. Because you are no longer identifying with it. There is tremendous release on your life! You are no longer binding to the conventional love, which needs somebody to love, and beloved. You no longer need bodily and possessive love; personal of love and hate relationship--always to be reminded to love and to be loved constantly--because there is simply no one to love. It is empty but there is the individual storyline, floating out there. You see it without identifying with it. How can you fall in love or get involved with the characters of a movie script? Because you know it is just a script with the characters playing and moving on a screen, it is not real. That insight of realisation, that understanding extricates you out of the world of duality--the world of love and hate, of personal, possessive and selfish relationship. What a relief!

When there is no other, the life is simple and easygoing, you save yourself for involving with the complicated and messy relationship. As long as you take somebody as the object of love, this personal involvement with possessive love, indicates you identified with the ego level of separate self, where all the world of emotions and feelings are pressing on you and become a burden to your life. You are trapped and not free when intertwined with this kind of love. Your world is limited and narrowed. That's the ego level of love, all the time  you need to sustain this separate self. You are afraid to lose the love, you cling to it tightly. There will be the end of the world when you lost it! It is terribly tiresome to sustain it. But people are so used to live this kind of life--a life of ups and downs, love and hate, pleasure and pain. Although, it is a burdensome and oppressive life, on ego perspective, it is perfectly aright.

What life style do you want to live? It is like choosing a radio channel, you can switch to another channel--the soul channel, one level up from ego--the witness. Your world change, so your love perspective. And you are ready to open up your heart. Then, there is unconditional and conscious love in the air that previously you have not detected or noticed. It pervades and spreads in every part of the universe, every moment you are in love--with tree, plant, dog, cat, even rock and walls of your house ...  Every moment, everywhere, you are expressing your love to everything. You simply feel indebted to the whole universe for no reason. That's love! So everyday is valentine day. Your soulful love is expressing itself because its nature is love. "The love is in the air" -- This is the real meaning deserved for it.  In the soul level,  there is no other, no lover but only the universal love of soul is ever-present, and it is always and already here, why look outside? So no need to look for lover, you are love. Doesn't it Beautiful? 

Still, wishing those who are engaging in conditional love of ego--a happy valentine day! And hope one day you may be able to upgrade yourself, switch to soul level and know who you really are. At the time being, enjoy while you can.