Is Nirvana a state of eternal love?

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No.

Love is what you feel when you experience a temporary glimpse into your true nature, when the ego is temporarily suppressed and ceases control. When it happens in relation to a person, we call it love. When it happens in relation to an object, we call it beauty. It can be a fleeting moment or an undercurrent feeling which is always there. The phenomenon is still the same.

When you realize your true nature, you become love. Everything becomes love, because existence is love. You can no longer experience love, because everywhere you look, it’s love. It’s all there is to experience, and it’s all that you are.

But of course, if everything is love, what is love? It becomes a non-concept. You cannot point your finger to it. You can only notice that everything around you is love if you have been deprived of love, just like you can only notice the air around you after you’ve been deprived of air.

It is described this way, it will be described this way, and you will probably describe it this way also, but this description is based on comparison, it arises at the moment of rising to the surface after holding your breath underwater for too long.

As you spend more and more time in this state, when you can finally breathe, love and bliss become empty. Which is why they call it emptiness, Shunyata. People are afraid of this word, or misunderstand it thinking it’s a bad thing. But the air is empty to you right now - you don’t notice it, you don’t think about it.

What follows is an unfathomable peace and serenity. The absolute suchness, isness of all existence. Love is forgotten, and even beauty is forgotten. Everything is just what it is, and you’re in complete and never ending peace with it.

Only ugliness can remember beauty and only hatred can remember love.

Now, having said that, don’t run away from love. Love is your lighthouse, your guiding star. Ego hates love. Unconditional love is exceptionally painful for the ego.