Love at the level of the personality is usually based on need and external stimuli. An affectionate embrace of a mother or a wife or a child comes from the attachment one has to the other. These are the relationships we have built either by birth or by association. Like one can have so much love for their pet which sometimes can make you feel the pain that the animal goes through. These all because of the astral feelings which humans and animals alike can express, impose and exchange or interact and affect the moods and behaviours in day to day life. These sentiments are important for a committed relationship, partnership, etc. But when this same personality immersed itself into the spiritual light of the soul some of matured souls experience detachment. Or for a better term detached-attachment. The love that the soul experiences is not entangling nor it swells with situation and person. It is unconditional, unlimited and unbinding. So such a person who experiences this starts to develop something called ‘Vairagya’ a Sanskrit term for matured detachment. But this attachment is so important for the soul to evolve and the pain of the attachment leads to momentary detachment and cycle of attachment and detachment is evolutionary. I would like to quote Master DK from Discipleship in the New Age 1

“When I say “love,” I refer to soul love and not to affection, emotion or sentiment. I refer to that detached, deep love which can pour through the personality, releasing it from limited expression and at the same time streams out into the environment.”

Dr. P