Every one of us experience love everyday. You may not be really feeling it, but you do love some thing. If you love your job, you feel like getting to your office at the earliest. You are in love with your job. True meaning of love for job can be derived at the number of leaves/holidays you take off your job. If you do not enjoy your work, you will be in a hurry to leave the office and do some thing else, that interest you. You need to think over what interests you most and what enjoy doing most. Then, you will realize the true meaning of love for your job.
People experience different types of love in the same family. Brother's love, Sister's love, parent's love etc. No one teaches you to love. It is emotional and it just happens. It is natural. You can not practice love to make it better. You may try to improve your attitude and behavior towards the loved one and be expressive in words or actions. The true meaning of love is not to expect an acknowledgement of your love. You just give your love. Do not expect any return.
While we compare different types of love, mother's love is above all and defines the true meaning of love. Mother gives birth, takes care of the child and never expects anything in return, She does not feel that as a job or duty, that she has to take care of the child. She just does it. Fathers tend to provide all the comfort for their children, but not all fathers provide the comfort, mothers provide to her child.
Popular love stories, Devdas or Romeo-Juliet, talk of selfless love and reflect the true meaning of love. People sacrifice everything for their love. Self destruction in love is a pity and one need to be practical. The person who has experienced a failed love shall not take extreme steps of self destruction as there may be many other people who love them and they will be devastated. They say, it is better to share life with the person who loves you rather with a person whom you love, but he/she does not love you!!
It is a general opinion that true love demands sacrifice. It is true partly. But, then, it is the choice of the individual and the circumstances he/she is in. The person sacrificing does not think about sacrifice or true meaning of love, but just does what he/she thinks is right, particularly for the beloved one. However, the people around may consider his/her sacrifice as foolish action. But then, ask the person who sacrificed some thing about what he got in return. I am sure that he/she has no complaints!
In some Indian families the eldest child of the family gets the burden of managing the family, if the sole bread winner of the family dies suddenly. This eldest child takes up the responsibility and takes care of his/her brothers and sisters. They ensure that the siblings settle comfortably in their lives and see them get educated and/or married. This person, be it a male or female, even sacrifice getting married and raising their own family. This may be termed as true meaning of love. Some argue that it is the duty as the eldest in the family to take care of the family and not to term as true meaning of love. But, is this not a sacrifice? What would you do in that situation? You need lot of conviction and commitment to accept such challenge and sacrifice for the other members of the family.
To be true, true meaning of love is the true love of God. And a True love story is just a small fraction of the complete love of God which originates from our soul. Once you have a taste of True love with some girl or boy, you can also understand how deeper love, the love of God will be. Some people think, they have already experienced the true love when they fell in first love and there is nothing more then that. You need to understand love of soul inside you is the ultimate love and your first love was just a fraction of it. So make your desire more higher to attain the ultimate love through self realization and Meditation .What you see everything is just a myth. there is nothing other then soul and you are soul and not body.
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