Can You Separate Love & Attachment?

Love is beautiful, spacious, exhilarating. Attachment causes suffering, contraction and stress. So, how to separate attachment from love? When we truly love, it’s not the body of the other person we love. If we only love the body, then it’s not love — it’s lust. When we really love someone, we love their essence, their soul, the core of the other person, not only their body. That’s how you know it’s really love. The dilemma is that so often we don’t really love someone’s core essence – we only love what they do for us or how they treat us or how they make us feel. And, when we love for that reason, that’s more like a contract than like love. We are simply attached to the results of the relationship. That’s when you know there’s a problem!

In this beautiful teaching, Sadhviji helps us to understand the dynamics of love and relationships, and offers beautiful insights into the ways that we can make sure that when we’re in a relationship, we’re in it for love and not just attachment.