Daily Meditation: Wednesday, March 20, 2002

What form does human love generally take? Human beings love …

03/20/2002

What form does human love generally take? Human beings love each other the way a farmer loves his chickens. He is very generous, very kind to them in that he looks after them and gives them grain every day. But still the chickens gradually disappear, one after the other. Why is this? Because the farmer comes and gets them, chops off their head, and then the farmer's wife serves them up for dinner. So, having looked after their chickens, they eat them and they say: 'Mmm, this chicken is delicious. So succulent; cooked to perfection.' This is what most human beings call love. They think of love as an appetite, a taste for tender, succulent meat, which they have to satisfy. This is an age-old instinctive tendency and human beings should set to work at elevating themselves from it. In the new life we will learn that the first rule we should observe when we love someone is to think of them, not of ourselves. Love is first wanting to discover, in the person we love, the needs of their soul, to help them in their evolution, to give them the right conditions to find freedom.