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Love Series Volume 8

TYPES OF LOVE

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There are two kinds of love:

  • Horizontal Love
  • Vertical Love
Illustration of Nithyananda Paramashivam
A deity/ascetic figure in ornaments and rudraksha beads

Horizontal love is like a horizontal line, flat. It is related to time: it starts and ends. Anything that starts must end. If it takes more time to end, don't think it is permanent. Anything that starts must end. It may take a few years or a few months, but it ends. It is impermanent and time bound. This is horizontal love.

Portrait of Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam in a circular badge

Vertical love is related to

consciousness. Vertical love

neither starts nor ends. It does not

discriminate. It is our very quality.

It flows.

Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam
Paramashiva deity