Many things. But there highest manifestation of pure consciousness is pure love.
It is love. When you reach there , you don’t seek love in material things or another person
In fact when we “love” someone it is an error because we stopped seeing the divine everywhere and changed it someone
In that state – you will love your enemy as much as your husband, children, or material things
We can deceive ourself and argue against it. But that will only delay spiritual growth. Why lose a great opportunity
Yes your own mind will protest and hinder you but it is your mind. Who can change your mind besides yourself?
So a pure mind is your friend
An impure mind is your enemy
Gita chapter 6 verse 5
uddharedaatmanaatmaanam naatmaanamavasaadayet |
aatmaiva hyaatmano bandhuraatmaiva ripuraatmanaha || 6 ||
Uplift yourself by yourself, do not deprecate yourself. For only you are your friend, and only you are your enemy
But here is what one of Neem Karoli Baba Bhakta said
In Chants of a Lifetime: Searching for a Heart of Gold (pp. 136) by Krishna Das he recounts a conversation with Kishan Tewari a great devotee of their guru Neem Karoli Baba:
“Once I was telling Tewari about my girlfriend. I was going on and on about how much I loved her. Finally when I was done, he smiled at me and said, “My boy, relationships are a business. Do your business! Enjoy yourself—there’s no harm! But love is what is always here; it’s what lasts the whole 24 hours.”
Tewari, who was happily married with a large family, was giving me the bottom line again: Love is what we are; we don’t get it from somebody, we can’t give it to anybody, we can’t fall in it or fall out of it. Love is our true Being. He was pointing out that I was still looking for the “perfect” relationship, the “perfect” love with another human being. I was imagining that when I “found” it, I’d be completely happy forever. I got so angry at him that I didn’t talk to him for days.
But, of course, he was right.
He was saying that love is not something we “get” from people; it’s always here, yet we can’t find it because we’re looking outside ourselves. He was saying that our relationships with other people, based as they are on the mistaken belief that we’re separate from each other, are really a “business.” In a sense, we’re doing business—bartering our affection and attention in order to attract another person who will do the same for us.
Tewari wasn’t saying that this was “bad” in any way. He told me to enjoy it, that there was nothing wrong with satisfying my emotional and physical desires. He was simply pointing out that water can’t come from a stone, and if I expected a relationship to make me happy forever, I was going to be very disappointed.”
Bhavin