Krishnamurti famously said: “When you say you love God what does it mean? It means that you love a projection of your own imagination, a projection of yourself clothed in certain forms of respectability according to what you think is noble and holy; so to say, `I love God', is absolute nonsense. When you worship God you are worshipping yourself - and that is not love.”
This was quote in fuller form on a post on Facebook and it struck me as a strange thing to say and confused me at first. But then what is love if we cannot love that which is love and what is true love? I have also seen people debate what love it but to attempt to define it is to attempt to define (i.e. limit) God or the universal consciousness and in my opinion it can never be defined, its expressions being as infinite as the love it seeks to define.
So, I think that this statement is fundamentally flawed because “to love is divine”: it is all the Lord does and is; love is all there is and all that is derives from love; the Lord loves none more than itself, for there is nothing other than itself. How could it possibly be absurd to love God; the absurdity is the notion that it could be otherwise, since it would then mean that all love is absurd: to love anything is to love God in one or more of its infinite forms and so all love would thereby be invalidated according to this statement and so, therefore, would God and all life would not exist in any of its forms and dimensions, whether this illusory world or otherwise.
That to me is the essence of absurdity.
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