F.: The True Self is that manifestation of What I Am, now freed (via Realization) of all ego, all ego-states, and all personas. It is three levels beyond the third-stage religious and/or spiritual ego states, two personas that do a great deal of talking about love even as persons at large also think they know what love is. In fact, no person involved in any ego-state can have any knowledge about "True Love." Little disturbs ego-states and personas more than comments that challenge the delusions that are the very basis of their perceived “existence,” and few topics attract more disparity and delusions than that of “Love.” For persons/personas, love is about body desires and perceived needs stored in the “mind” after cultural programming and conditioning. Thus, because "the mind" is conditioned, love in the relative is always conditional, always self-seeking (in spite of claims to the contrary), and always driven by agendas that are hidden from the one playing the role of “the lover” as well as from the one accepting the label of “the loved.” Both are ego-states, and persons trapped in their egotism can never know truth. Ego, by definition, is the “false I.” That which is false can never know truth. Love, as known by the True Self, is unconditional. What a conditioned person knows about love is as far removed from reality as the True Self is removed from the false roles played out by ego-states. Only the True Self, the Self that is known as a result of the consciousness having been purged of all the effects of programming and conditioning and enculturation and is thus once again “Pure Consciousness,” can know True Love. Here’s the way it was explained during an Advaita session as shared in the book, From the I to the Absolute (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality):
Participant #3: “…It was astounding, almost like I knew for the first time in my life what love truly is. That idea of ‘unicity’ became clear.”
Floyd: “Ego is believing that there’s a vast multiplicity arranged in a hierarchy and that you’re the pinnacle; humility is knowing that you’re nothing, no-thing; love is knowing that You, with a capital ‘Y,’ Are everything.”
Thus, “True Love”/True Self knows no difference, sees no difference, imagines no multiplicity, and imagines no ego (false “I’s”) to be true; therefore, the True Self is fully aware that no separation exists. The True Self knows the unicity. The True Self is free of all ego and is thus free of all desires, perceived needs, concepts, emotional intoxication and ideas. The True Self can know True Love (but even that is only in the relative). Personas, on the other hand, are dominated by ego, desires, perceived needs, concepts, fears, emotional intoxication and false ideas. Personas' beliefs about "love," therefore, are dominated by ego, desires, perceived needs, concepts, fears, emotional intoxication, and false ideas.
Participant #3: “…It was astounding, almost like I knew for the first time in my life what love truly is. That idea of ‘unicity’ became clear.”
Floyd: “Ego is believing that there’s a vast multiplicity arranged in a hierarchy and that you’re the pinnacle; humility is knowing that you’re nothing, no-thing; love is knowing that You, with a capital ‘Y,’ Are everything.”
Thus, “True Love”/True Self knows no difference, sees no difference, imagines no multiplicity, and imagines no ego (false “I’s”) to be true; therefore, the True Self is fully aware that no separation exists. The True Self knows the unicity. The True Self is free of all ego and is thus free of all desires, perceived needs, concepts, emotional intoxication and ideas. The True Self can know True Love (but even that is only in the relative). Personas, on the other hand, are dominated by ego, desires, perceived needs, concepts, fears, emotional intoxication and false ideas. Personas' beliefs about "love," therefore, are dominated by ego, desires, perceived needs, concepts, fears, emotional intoxication, and false ideas.
Yet even the “True Love” that the True Self can know is finite and limited to the relative existence. Since the Absolute is consciousness-at-rest, then once the conscious-energy is no longer manifested, nothing is known. So much for “being re-united with loved ones some day.” So much for the dilemma of “Will my eternal reunion be lived out with spouse #1, #2 or #3”?
Only in the relative can Love be understood, and that understanding can only happen via the Pure Witnessing as undertaken by the True Self. All beliefs held by personas about what love is are merely more falsehoods taken to be truth by those absorbed in ego-states, in body identification, and in the trap of “the mind” (which is nothing more than the storehouse of all lies and misconceptions and falsehoods passed on via the culture). If you know all of the above to be fact, you are likely realized. If you are willing to consider that the above is fact, then you are moving along the path toward awareness. If you find the pointers above to be anathema, then more remains to be understood about ego and ego-states. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
Only in the relative can Love be understood, and that understanding can only happen via the Pure Witnessing as undertaken by the True Self. All beliefs held by personas about what love is are merely more falsehoods taken to be truth by those absorbed in ego-states, in body identification, and in the trap of “the mind” (which is nothing more than the storehouse of all lies and misconceptions and falsehoods passed on via the culture). If you know all of the above to be fact, you are likely realized. If you are willing to consider that the above is fact, then you are moving along the path toward awareness. If you find the pointers above to be anathema, then more remains to be understood about ego and ego-states. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
