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CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY

Q: If a loved one dies, grief results. Could we avoid such grief by either loving all alike or by not loving at all?

M: If one dies, there is grief for the other who lives. The way to get rid of grief is not to live. Kill the one who grieves!

 Who will then remain to suffer?

 The ego must die. That is the only way. 

The two alternatives amount to the same state. When all is the Self, who is there to be loved or hated?

There is no kind of sorrow for those who give up seeing through their physical senses and begin to see everything as their own Self. 

Further, this grief does not indicate real love. Love which one displays towards external objects and forms is not real love. Real love always has its abode in one's own Self.