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Hey Lesley, I think it's quite possible that love and idealization can be separate things. Maybe they overlap at times and I have experienced that.
For me (in the context of life with Rawat) idealization meant a type of blindness, an irrational obedience, a wind shield wiper for dissonance, a reason for self doubt and personal sacrifice, a substitute wisdom, a spiritual fantasy, an unreachable goal.
He stoked and fed this illusion for all it was worth in my opinion. I don't think for a minute that he was coerced into his role. If he was half as wise as he claimed to be, he would have taken a stance like Krishnamurti and renounced his inheritance.
Your relationship with your mum sounds quite different on the other hand. More on the contented end of the spectrum and worthy of some veneration, sounds like. You know it's real by the way you feel, right ?
But I always like it when a post turns poetic, something truish about those words. Like driving home while watching a sunset.
Keep up the good work.
Modified by Manincar at Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 20:11:19
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