Pure Love 19
found anywhere, it is with the mother. With her you can see some signs of love. However it is a relative love subject to increase and decrease, and has its limitations. It may fracture at any time.
These are all relative relationships, not real. If the father were to die, his son would follow him if it were real love. That is called love but would any son do that?
Questioner: Nobody has done that.
Dadashri: Has there ever been an exception? Has there not been such a case where the son is so overcome with grief over his father’ s death that he is ready to die along with his father? Has such an event occurred in Mumbai?
Questioner: No. Dadashri: So what does he do at the crematorium? Questioner: He cremates his father.
Dadashri: Is that so? Then he must not eat anything after returning home from the cremation, right? He does eat, doesn’ t he? So this is all superficial. Everyone knows that this is a relative relationship. The one who is gone is gone. After the funeral the rest of the family come home and have a nice meal.
Questioner: So when someone dies and we weep, is it due to our attachment that we cry or is it because we have pure love for him or her?
Dadashri: There is no pure love in this world. The crying is all due to attachment. This world is never without selfish interests, and where there is self-interest, there is attachment. Even a mother has self-interest. People think that their love for their mother is pure, but every mother has self-interest. However her love has been revered because the self-interest is limited. It is still a consequence of attachment of illusion.