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Pure Love
The Test Of Love
Questioner: So what kind of love do parents have?
Dadashri: If one day you were to insult your parents,
they would retaliate. This worldly love is temporary. It may
disappear after a few years. Love should be real. Love should
not increase or decrease.
Despite this, when a father gets angry with his son, there
is no intent to hurt in his anger.
Questioner: Is that real love then?
Dadashri: That can never be real love. If it were real
love, then there would be no anger. Nevertheless, there is no
intention to hurt behind that anger, and so it cannot be called
anger. Anger is defined as that which has intention to hurt.
Of All Worldly Loves, The Love Of The
Mother Is The Highest
Real love should not break under any circumstances. So
it can only be called love if it never breaks. That is the test of
love. However, whatever love there is which is of any worth,
it is the love of a mother.
Questioner: You said that mothers have love and not
fathers. So would the father not feel bad?
Dadashri: Even then, there is evidence of a mother’s
love. The mother feels happy when she sees her child. What is
the reason behind that? It is because for nine months the child
had made the mother’s body a dwelling place. The mother feels
that she gave birth to the child and the child feels that he was
born out of his mother. This is how intense the oneness between
the two becomes. Whatever the mother ate, became blood for
the child. So this is a kind of love of oneness. Really speaking
it is not love. Relatively speaking it is love. So if love is to be