Comments on: Love in India

By: MW

MW — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 11:16:43 +0000

In reply to S K raman.

thanks for sharing it

By: S K raman

S K raman — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 11:13:10 +0000

So beautifully explained. Thank you Maria! I will be passing this on to ppl in my circle. Thank you again

By: Atul Khole

Atul Khole — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:19:40 +0000

You forgot to write about Karma marga. Jnana, Bhakti and Karma.

By: saurabh

saurabh — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 10:04:51 +0000

In reply to Vijai Singh.

u r right..family is the only hope in this hopeless world.

By: Utkarsh Aditya Dwivedi

Utkarsh Aditya Dwivedi — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 11:59:37 +0000

Substantial

By: Dr M

Dr M — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 11:33:15 +0000

Excellent as always!

Love it!

By: Srinath Srinivasa

Srinath Srinivasa — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 06:44:37 +0000

Beautiful as always. Recently, I was reading this book called “The Art of Loving” by Erich Fromm, written in 1958. It starts off with very similar views. For instance, love is defined as “Oneness” that is a deep underlying notion, than “Sameness” that is pursued in the name of love between individuals.

However, as I read through the book, I felt that Fromm could not resist the urge to compartmentalize, disassemble and finally “conquer” the concept of love — by leaving no stone unturned in defining it comprehensively. It left me feeling disillusioned by the time I finished reading the book.

As you have rightly noted, the quest for love is universal. But the Western mind (and our mainstream education in India), is conditioned to articulate, compartmentalize, formalize and finally take control of whatever catches our fancy. This fixation on form, unfortunately keeps our mind ignorant of the underlying spirit..

By: Bhogaraju Venugopala Rao

Bhogaraju Venugopala Rao — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 16:30:19 +0000

Loving God is simply reciprocity. We are blessed with a ‘life’, worldly knowledges, professions, riches, opportunities, successes, fame… everything. When in the next second of our success, triumph or fulfillment we shall be able to attribute it to God and not to ourselves, it means we love God. But to achieve this we need to practice being grateful to God and expressing gratitude too very frequently. For, all our achievements are but for the opportunities and blessings of God including the caliber, intelligence and all human enterprises. Secondly our ability to love all the creation both with and without life, the good, bad and the ugly – will determine to what extent we are loving God. Because as I said reciprocity means loving everything SINCE God loves everything and everyone of His creation.

By: Akash Deep

Akash Deep — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 18:51:45 +0000

Reblogged this on Mango Man.

By: Talk to IIT Roorkee students in memory of Swami Vivekananda | MARIA WIRTH

Talk to IIT Roorkee students in memory of Swami Vivekananda | MARIA WIRTH — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:13:49 +0000

[…] I reflected on ‘falling in love” which is considered a highly desirable state in the west, and wondered why there is so much “falling out of love”, too. I wrote on my blog about it: “Love in India”. Please have a look https://mariawirthblog.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/love-in-india/ […]