Love between man and woman
This talk explores the difference between human love and the eternal love of God. Quoting his song Bhagavati, of two willow trees intertwined yet independent, he illustrates the essence of true love: free from each other yet deeply connected by the love of God. Barry emphasizes that in sex, the imagination only fuels psychic possession and warns of the psychic realm’s influence on human experience, explaining how emotional love is warm, while true love is detached, clear, and free. Through the stillness of consciousness man and woman can experience love not as an emotion but as a profound state of being—cold, unwavering, and beyond manipulation.
LANGUAGE: English
YEAR RECORDED: 2000
PLACE RECORDED: Gold Coast of Australia
DURATION: 47 minutes
EPISODE NOTES
Extracts from this episode:
'There are many paths to God, but there is only one way, and that is love.'
'Love is the sacrifice of myself. What for? For something greater, for something something nobler than the ordinary human aspirations. That's what love is.'
'So my teaching is about man and woman giving up the need of fantasy. Why? Because the bodies are sufficient. They're two magnets.'
'Consciousness is the way, and consciousness is the ability to be able to see things without becoming attached to them, without being sentimental.'
'I'm just not concerned only with love between man and woman. But where is the greatest unhappiness in this existence? Right, in the love between man and woman. So where would you expect to find me, although I deal with the other and describe the other in my Origins of Man and the Universe, I focus on the place where man and woman make each other most unhappy. Indeed, but not to the exclusion of God in the other, of the reality of the other, never, because you have to be vast, because you are vast. You're greater than your little mind. You're greater than your emotions. You're as great as love, and love is great.'
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