What is the highest form of love?

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what is the highest form of love? love itself can have various forms and depending on time, place, circumstance one form may be higher, another may be higher at another time by form, you basically mean expression of love so there is no one form which can be called as the highest expression of love or the highest form of love love is a feeling in the heart which is expressed through actions I’ll give different examples to illustrate this what I mean that in any relationship love can be expressed in different ways at different times and it needs to be expressed in different ways so which particular form is highest? there is no life is not mathematical if you want to ask how much do you love me? there is no Richter scale to say how much you love so we cannot really classify things like that in fact, what to speak of love even our emotions itself they can’t be mathematically quantified in a very tangible or expressive sense there are there is however not just if we use the word form not just in terms of actions but in terms of channelization of love so the Gita explains that love for God love for Krishna he is referred to as Krishna in the Bhakti tradition that is the highest expression of love because in that in loving Krishna we love the supreme object of love and therein we find the highest fulfillment but this God is not just some conception somewhere up there the Bhagavad Gita reveals a conception of God who is inclusive sometimes some people ask that if God created everyone who created God this question comes from misunderstanding of God conception of God itself if we think of God as just another being, this is a chair this is a table this is a room, so like that this is God you know God is not just another thing in a causal chain God is outside the causal chain so example if a child reads a novel for the first time and ok this is the hero, this is the heroine, this is the villain these are the assistant characters and then the child comes to know oh there is an author the child tries to find out oh where is the author in the book read the full book you can’t find the author there so the author has created the timeline the story line but the author exists beyond it the author underlies everything so like that God, just as the author exists outside the book, God exists outside everything and God the author doesn’t just exist outside everything, the author is the underlying person because of whom everything is happening in the story so like that when we learn to love God, that is not a love which cuts us off from everyone else rather it is a love which includes everyone else so the highest channel for our love is when we love God and in our relationship with God we love everyone else that becomes the most sustainable, the most fulfilling form of love but specifically as far as expression of love is concerned the love may be expressed differently at different times a baby when a baby is small the mother may pick the baby and embrace her when the baby is crying, that is the expression of love when the mother is breast feeding the child and the baby bites the mother the mother tolerates that and still feeds the child that is an expression of love when after a hard day’s work the mother has come and is sleeping and the baby wakes up and starts crying in the middle of the night and normally even after we have set an alarm clock to wake up and when the alarm rings, bang we switch it off but which mother when the baby starts crying, bang no mother does that so that is waking up in the middle of the night and at least the alarm clock is something we have set the baby is like an alarm clock which we don’t even set it just goes off any time but the mother wakes up at that that’s an expression of love and when the child grows up and needs education, the mother may take an extra job so that the child can get education now which of these expressions of love is the highest, which is the highest form of love, now it will vary according to time, place and circumstance so love is expressed differently at different times but when that love is directed towards Krishna and is directed through Krishna to other living beings then the love attains the highest fulfillment does it address your question? thank you