What is love? Does it exist?
Everyone or creature on this earth experience love always unknowingly. How? Everyone knows about his/her mistakes, drawbacks, sins, unkindness etc but yet never stop thinking that he/she is great and continue live life by not thinking about mistakes of his/her own. He will never think of what mistakes or sins he performed because he loves him more and more. So he always seeks happiness as he loves him always. He never wants to be sad or punished for his earlier mistakes. He covers them up saying that circumstances pushed him to do so. He never think of sin he performed yet think about others' sins or mistakes. He will realize slowly that he needs to take dharma as highest compared to pleasures. So the definition of love is nothing but striving for making the loved person to be happy always irrespective of flaws, mistakes, sins. Swami Vivekananda says if you can love others in the same way you love yourself then you experience the beauty of love with every creature in the world. A person's goal should be to start loving his parents, family, society, country, and entire universe. Such is the person is truly spiritual.
If a person does not love himself, he commits suicide as he cannot tolerate sins of him anymore. So love yourself fully, expand the same love to family, expand it further to love colony, village, district, country and finally universe. Such is the destination of scriptures (Hindu Scriptures)
---An Excerpt from complete works of Swami Vivekananda
Everyone or creature on this earth experience love always unknowingly. How? Everyone knows about his/her mistakes, drawbacks, sins, unkindness etc but yet never stop thinking that he/she is great and continue live life by not thinking about mistakes of his/her own. He will never think of what mistakes or sins he performed because he loves him more and more. So he always seeks happiness as he loves him always. He never wants to be sad or punished for his earlier mistakes. He covers them up saying that circumstances pushed him to do so. He never think of sin he performed yet think about others' sins or mistakes. He will realize slowly that he needs to take dharma as highest compared to pleasures. So the definition of love is nothing but striving for making the loved person to be happy always irrespective of flaws, mistakes, sins. Swami Vivekananda says if you can love others in the same way you love yourself then you experience the beauty of love with every creature in the world. A person's goal should be to start loving his parents, family, society, country, and entire universe. Such is the person is truly spiritual.
If a person does not love himself, he commits suicide as he cannot tolerate sins of him anymore. So love yourself fully, expand the same love to family, expand it further to love colony, village, district, country and finally universe. Such is the destination of scriptures (Hindu Scriptures)
---An Excerpt from complete works of Swami Vivekananda
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