Love cannot be defined in positive terms, only negatively. Its nature is of the form of renunciation.
In its more general sense it might be divided threefold:
(1) That love which is for one's own pleasure, irrespective of pleasure or pain to others--the purely selfish, the lowest.
(2) That love which exchanges--"I will love you if you love me. We will make each other mutually happy"--the partially selfish, the middle path trodden by the great majority of mankind.
(3) That love which gives all and asks for nothing, without premeditation and which never regrets, unconquerable by any evil thing done to him from whom it emanates.
It is the highest, the divine.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Report in ‘Maidenhead Adviser’
(October 23, 1895) of a Talk in England
In its more general sense it might be divided threefold:
(1) That love which is for one's own pleasure, irrespective of pleasure or pain to others--the purely selfish, the lowest.
(2) That love which exchanges--"I will love you if you love me. We will make each other mutually happy"--the partially selfish, the middle path trodden by the great majority of mankind.
(3) That love which gives all and asks for nothing, without premeditation and which never regrets, unconquerable by any evil thing done to him from whom it emanates.
It is the highest, the divine.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Report in ‘Maidenhead Adviser’
(October 23, 1895) of a Talk in England
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