Swajan: Mota, it seems that, what we consider true love is mixed up with many impurities. Is not it?
Pujya Shree Mota: There are many impure elements mixed up in what we call love, that seems very intense at times. Love is not true love if we have physical attraction and desires towards loved ones. It can also get mixed up if we have a deep rooted subtle desire to control the loved ones. The workings of the mind is so deep and mysterious that human has no concept regarding it. Only the person who has developed the habit of introspection with awareness and equanimity, can see that. Even the intense love of the mother towards her child, is mixed up with the deep and hidden feeling that child is her creation and her own blood. To that extent it is not pure and is lessened. For this reasons, most mothers cannot develop broader love towards the world from the love of her child. How can we say that there is no love of higher calibre in the people who are ready to give up their lives for their ideal and nation? Even here, there is a tendency of measuring others with subtle ego and materialistic viewpoint. For this reason, they also have the element of attachment and hate to a higher degree. True and pure love is the true nature of the Atman.
Pujya Shree Mota
Daampatya Bhavna (ideal Matrimony)
Edition 1; Pages 8 - 9.
