Indian Spiritual Science

This is very much evident. If you can sincerely answer this question, then you'll understand this the way it is expressed. "What makes you love your family?", "Why are you attached to your family?". Lets understand this with very specific answers. We love our spouse because he/she earns, fulfills our desires, cooks good food, etc. This is a genuine answer. We might feel: "But, no I sincerely love him/her." You don't love your neighbor or a stranger. Just because they are not related to you. They don't contribute to you emotions. They are not giving you any ind of pleasure. So, simply the answer to this question concludes that we love our family because they satisfy our desires. We love our children because they are our extended form of ego, etc. We are attached to our family because they are ours. We are attached because, we find that particular entity interesting. "That particular entity gives me pleasure and so I love him/her....

As described love in many posts earlier, love is sacrifice. Yes, sacrificing your selfishness is the dawn of love. Love cannot be achieved as it is not a thing or a stage to reach. It is nowhere apart from you, but it is you, yourself. It is the revelation of the 'self' that is hidden by the dirt of ignorance, marking the fulfillment of love. One can only love when one has to give something to the other. Now giving something is only possible when the other lacks it and you have it. Everybody is ignorant. Thus, love is only established when one gifts an untainted self, devoid of the ignorant mind. So, to truly love means to become one who is priceless, a spiritual entity. Here, 'spiritual man' does not mean devoid of love, but it means only love, love in the truest for. Even selfish and opportunists love as defined by the world. But, this is not love. So the reality of love goes beyond the definitions of the world. It is not as propagated in the world. One must t...