How word love is used
Love , the word is used in the english language as a verb and also a noun.
There is love. I love you. I am in love. Love is important.
The same word is both a noun and a verb.
It can also be an adverb. He is a good gardener, he does his work with love.
Is their an object called love
Although love is also a noun, there isnt an object called love.
Love is a noun with respect to being something we know and call to be love, but what it is , cannot be pointed out as an object.
To understand love, we can delve into experiences through which we come to know something called love exists.
First understanding of love- Mother Child
The first understanding of love is as a child under the care of a mother.
Whenever the mother is present the child feels secure and safe.
Both psychologically as well as physically the child is well cared, well nurtured. (usually)
So the child does not feel any fear or alienation.
The experience of this complete acceptance, we call as love.
Other kinds of love
When we seek love, we seek such unconditional acceptance. An acceptance where, the one who is to be accepted, does not feel, anything more is needed, than what IS, in order to feel accepted and complete.
This can be in various relationships, as a father, as a son, as a daughter and mother, as a spouse, as a friend.
We can also love our country, our culture and so on.
The noun, the verb and the adverb
So we saw how we have experienced love.
Love necessarily entails a relationship is what we saw.
It is what obtains in relationship.
When in a relationship, we see no resistance, and complete acceptance, we call it love.
So love a such being a noun, is what exists, but in a certain condition, it is experienced.
So what exists is experienced, and in the dynamism of experience it becomes a verb.
Mother loves child, here it is a verb.
Love is, here it is a noun.
So what is, is dynamically experienced.
In the experience of love, any action that might be done is done with love, so love becomes an adverb.
Where is love really from vedantic POV
From vedantic POV, while all that is here, is variety and difference , and there is realtionships between each entity and the other, at the same time, there is a natural unity, which is given.
Inspite of the differences there is a self existent unity.
We call this unity as truth or satyam, and the differences as mithya.
Therefore this natural acceptance , without any conditioinality, is the same as what we experience when we as a person feel as accepted.
Hence love is another name, another word, for the natural unity or satyam.
Satyam being god, from the vedantic POV, love is simply another name for god.
So when we experience love, we experience god.
When we act with love, we act with love of god.
And each action being non separate from god, is love in action.
Hence it is said anbe sivam. Anbe murugan.
In sanskrit also the lord is extolled as prema moorthi.
Om Sri Gurubhyo Namaha.
Love , the word is used in the english language as a verb and also a noun.
There is love. I love you. I am in love. Love is important.
The same word is both a noun and a verb.
It can also be an adverb. He is a good gardener, he does his work with love.
Is their an object called love
Although love is also a noun, there isnt an object called love.
Love is a noun with respect to being something we know and call to be love, but what it is , cannot be pointed out as an object.
To understand love, we can delve into experiences through which we come to know something called love exists.
First understanding of love- Mother Child
The first understanding of love is as a child under the care of a mother.
Whenever the mother is present the child feels secure and safe.
Both psychologically as well as physically the child is well cared, well nurtured. (usually)
So the child does not feel any fear or alienation.
The experience of this complete acceptance, we call as love.
Other kinds of love
When we seek love, we seek such unconditional acceptance. An acceptance where, the one who is to be accepted, does not feel, anything more is needed, than what IS, in order to feel accepted and complete.
This can be in various relationships, as a father, as a son, as a daughter and mother, as a spouse, as a friend.
We can also love our country, our culture and so on.
The noun, the verb and the adverb
So we saw how we have experienced love.
Love necessarily entails a relationship is what we saw.
It is what obtains in relationship.
When in a relationship, we see no resistance, and complete acceptance, we call it love.
So love a such being a noun, is what exists, but in a certain condition, it is experienced.
So what exists is experienced, and in the dynamism of experience it becomes a verb.
Mother loves child, here it is a verb.
Love is, here it is a noun.
So what is, is dynamically experienced.
In the experience of love, any action that might be done is done with love, so love becomes an adverb.
Where is love really from vedantic POV
From vedantic POV, while all that is here, is variety and difference , and there is realtionships between each entity and the other, at the same time, there is a natural unity, which is given.
Inspite of the differences there is a self existent unity.
We call this unity as truth or satyam, and the differences as mithya.
Therefore this natural acceptance , without any conditioinality, is the same as what we experience when we as a person feel as accepted.
Hence love is another name, another word, for the natural unity or satyam.
Satyam being god, from the vedantic POV, love is simply another name for god.
So when we experience love, we experience god.
When we act with love, we act with love of god.
And each action being non separate from god, is love in action.
Hence it is said anbe sivam. Anbe murugan.
In sanskrit also the lord is extolled as prema moorthi.
Om Sri Gurubhyo Namaha.
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