Divine love is beyond

Gunarahitam kamanarahitam pratikshanavardhamanam avichinnam sukshmataram anubhavarupam

- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Gunarahitam - free from the three types of love.

There are three types of love:

1. Satvik love is unconditional love. I love you for what you are, not because of something you did for me. Not because you help me so much.

2. Rajasik love is the second type of love. I love you because you did this for me.

3. Tamasik love is the third type of love. Tamasik love is love because we have a common enemy -“I don’t like that person. Oh, you also do not like that person? Come we are friends, we love each other.”

The first category of love is - “I love you because the way you are is simply lovable. What you did to me is not a matter of concern at all.”

“Because you give me some pleasure, because you helped me, because you care for me, I love you,” is Rajasik love. There is a string attached to Rajasik love.

Loving because you hate somebody else is Tamasik love. Making friends to gain strength to hate is Tamasik love. Often, two people get together just because they have a common enemy. Their common goal is to eliminate or destroy something, so they get together. That bonding out of ignorance, out of dullness or destruction, is Tamasik love.

Divine love transcends all these three types of love.