Abstract

Love spontaneously gives itself in endless gifts. He who has no love in him values the gifts of his lover only according to their usefulness. But utility is temporary and partial. It can never occupy our whole being; what is useful only touches us at the point where we have some want. When our whole mind is bent only upon making use of this world, it loses for us its true value. Tagore beautifully mentions- It is our desires that limit the scope of our self-realisation, hinder our extension of consciousness, and give rise to sin, which is the innermost barrier that keeps us apart from our God, setting up disunion and the arrogance of exclusiveness. The idea of selflessness is the essence of love. It is a journey towards realizing the Infinite. Love binds us but by taking the responsibility, we can set the self free. Even though the laws are so important, the status of the Infinite goes beyond logic and law because the Infinite is boundless, limitless.As Sri Sri says, “Love is not an emotion, it is your very existence.” Love is not a relation or a property, it is a phenomenon. In this way, I am trying to explore the abstract notion of ‘love.’