Learn to love God directly as the only matter worth loving. If your love is sincere, then concentrate on knowing everyone as a form of God you love. But never develop attachment for anyone. That will turn into a source of annoyance for you. You will miss this world during the time you spend on someone because attachment has limitations. Loving God will never leave you depressed, because only God is a limitless phenomenon.

Everything in life is an illusion. If you get attached to someone, God will ensure that you start disliking that person or make that person dislike you. And it is for your own good, because only then you will mend yourself. Else you will get caught in the vicious cycle of births and deaths. But if you are able to take a balanced view of life and not get caught in any attachment, knowing that the world is a passing phase in your journey to the Sole Destination, God, then nothing can make you sad. For, when you do not expect joy, where is the place for sorrow? Neither joy; nor sorrow, equanimity of mind in life and no expectations from the world and this life - - that is the state you must aim for.

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