13 March 2015 - QA 1

Gurudev, if love is our very nature, then why do we make one person as the object of our love? Why do we think that we love that one person the most?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

From birth we have known love to be directed from a person. Love gets personalized from birth. A child opens the eyes and looks at the mother and starts feeling that love. Association kindles the feeling of love inside of you. But when it matures you start understanding love is not just an emotion, it is your very existence.

Love directed towards an individual is one aspect of universal love. First a person stimulates the love inside of you, then when you go deep in meditation you will find that love doesn’t need any stimuli from outside, it is already existing everywhere.

Actually we are floating in an ocean of love. It is like when you are in a bath tub, you feel the heat or cold as you get into it the tub. But after a while you get used to it, and you don’t feel it anymore. Same way when you get into a hot pool, for the first few moments, you feel the heat. Then you don’t feel the heat, you get used to it.
In the same way, the personalized love in the beginning kindles that. Once it is there it assumes the universal form. So you may not feel it but still it will be there. Individuals remind you that there is love in the universe, and you are love.