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SPIRITUAL LIGHT.
આ દશામાં હામાં મનુષ્ય તરફથી જે તે પ્રેમ તૂટી જાય, તે તેને અત્યંત Blodly 24344491 43 . "-38 एकपक्षीयप्रेमकरणं प्रतिषेधतियत्प्रेम्णि चित्तं रमते त्वदीयमन्यत्र चित्तं रमते तदीयम् । .. कथं वृथा मुह्यसि तत् परत्र ? नोकपक्षः प्रमदाय रागः ॥ ३५ ॥
( 35 ) The person to whom you are warmly and lovingly attached has ardent feelings of love else where. Why are you deluded into false love for others ? One-sided love can not give happiness.
Notes—The true aspect of love or affection consists in its extension to the whole universe. Naturally it starts from oneself and family and then to his immediate society and thus further on. This is no doubt a desirable and laudable phase of love. But on the contrary when it is confined only to his family or some one else and proceeds no further, it becomes a subject of regret and contempt. The author here rightly disparages the one-sided attachment of men in this world-a theatre of inconstancy and fluctuations. Even judging it from the phenominal standpoint it is not desirable as it proves to be a source of many evils and sins. He has in view the expansion of the mind for the good of the whole society by the cultivation of benevolent feelings as an important duty in life. He says, these affections may be in the beginning warm, comforting and hopeful, but they eventually turn out cool and
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