What is the effect of Love upon the various thoughts, feelings, desires, aversions, capacities, incapacities, and the tendencies or impulses found to be the main features of various personalities?
Self-love and self-assertion, resisting and overcoming the efforts of other selves adversely disposed are basic urges for ensuring the safe maintenance and progress of the physico-psychical organism in the ordinary individual.
But altruism or care for others, even (for) adverse individuals, to the detriment of one’s own material interests but in promotion of one’s higher or nobler side is also found.
It may be weak in many but in the saint it gets quickly developed and overshadows or overpowers the earlier self-love and self-assertion of the brute or lower level. This altruism and active care for others form the important facets of Love.
Love grows stronger by exercise, by Abhyasa and Vairagya. By constant altruism one becomes Sarva bhuta hite ratah BG 5(25), ie. interested in the welfare of all creatures; all creatures get to be identified with oneself.
Thus Love unifies, synthesises and strengthens one’s self or moral nature, especially by the perception of unity of one’s self with other selves.
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"I draw to Me, My man from far off or even across the seven Seas to Shirdi, like a sparrow with a string fastened to its feet"-Shirdi Sai Baba, Indian Spiritual Guru-God 