How to stop expecting love and attention from God?

[Ms. Laxmi Thrylokya asked: Swami, You told us many times to love God without aspiring anything in return. You also said that we should have a one-directional love for God. But, most of us (humans) have this tendency to expect love from the other end. Sometimes, we tend to expect time and attention from the other end. As a habit, we also expect all these from God. How to stop expecting love and attention from God? Kindly enlighten me. - At Your divine Lotus Feet, Laxmi Thrylokya]

Swami replied:- God may test your love to see whether it is one-way traffic or two-way traffic by pretending no care in return. By this, if your one-way traffic gets effected, your love to God is not the climax of pure love. One thing you must remember that God is ocean of love and devotee is a drop of love. If the devotee is putting one step towards God in the path of pure love, God has already put 100 steps in the same path towards devotee. God hides His love for the devotee in order to test the purity of the love of devotee towards Him. All these questions arise when God tests the devotee because the devotee decides seeing the external phase of God. The soul has internal sight. Once God makes you and others to know about your pure love to Him, a Tsunami wave of love of God jumps towards the devotee and the devotee-drop simply and silently merges with the God-ocean. When the depth is less waves appear. The depth of the lake is very less with lot of waves-questions. When the depth is very high as in the case of middle area of the sea, the waves-questions do not appear. During the test of devotee, God-ocean is very deep without any expression-wave misleading the devotee that the depth of love of God-ocean is very negligible.

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