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Pure Love
Pure Love
there be in India who have no expectations?
because she made him very happy. What if she were to abuse him instead of making him happy? Even then he would think of her. Therefore it is because of both the raag (attachment) and dwesh (abhorrence) that people are remembered.
Love Amongst Birds And Animals One has to understand these things! Right now you wonder whether there is such a thing as love in this world?
Questioner: Nowadays, we think that the affection we have for our children is love.
Dadashri : Is that so? Even a sparrow has love for her young ones. When she returns to her nest with food, the little hatchlings get excited. The sparrow will place one seed at a time in the mouth of each of her young ones. I am amazed as to how she manages to store the seeds in her beak and yet dispense only one seed at a time in the mouths of her hatchlings.
Even when a person grows a mango tree he does it with the expectation that he and his family will enjoy its fruit. He even expects his grandchildren to benefit from it. He does not nurture the tree for the sake of nurturing it and not expecting anything in return. He nurtures it for its fruit. That is why people raise children, for their own benefit, so that their children will take care of them later on. Do you think they raise their children so the children would abuse them when they are old?
Questioner : They raise them so they will take care of them.
Dadashri : But nowadays they abuse them. One man told me, "My son does not take care of me'. I replied, "Then what do you expect, you yourself are not deserving of their care.
Love Of The Mother Questioner : It has been written in the scriptures that parents have equal love for all their children, is it true?
Dadashri : No. Parents are not God that they can have equal love for each of their children. Only God has equal love for everyone. Parents are just parents, they are not God. They will always be partial. I have equal love for everyone.
The love that people talk about is worldly love. People keep singing about love, but in vain. Even with a woman, how can one have real love? These are all self-serving relationships. And the mothers' love is nothing but the attachment of illusion, because the baby is born from her body. Even the cows have attachment for their offspring, but this attachment lasts only for six months. A mother on the other hand will be attached even
Questioner : But how can they have infatuation and attraction when they do not have any intellect?
Dadashri : Yes. That is what I am telling you. This is just something to illustrate the point. Actually even that is not considered love. Love should be with understanding. Even then it is not considered love. This is just an analogy given to understand the difference between the two. Have you not heard people say that the cow has so much affection towards her calf and she has no expectations in return?
False Love: Infatuation And Attraction Is
Associated with Expectations Infatuation and attraction is found where there is expectation for something in return. How many people must
