The focus in this part is on nature of the human love and how it gets limited and distorted with impurities such as vital attractions, surface emotions, expectations and possessiveness. Human love can be taken as a practice ground to expand and purify oneself to receive the universal force of love.
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The author highlights the words of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo to throw light on the origin and nature of parental love and love between family relations and friends. We also see how human love and relationships can never satisfy the deep thirst for love which can only be quenched by the divine love.
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For her first contribution to Renaissance, Gayatri Majumdar pens a poem that evokes a range of subtle emotions that make up most of our human relations. And yet there is always that gentle reminder, a call even to transcend the bondage of those emotions toward an inner freedom.
Shilpi – Who Saw and Sang Read More »
We feature a Pauranic story which illustrates the hold that our attachments have on the ordinary experience of human relationships.
Such Indeed is Maya – a Tale Retold by Sri Ramakrishna Read More »
The author shares how her understanding of human relations has been deepening as she makes conscious effort to be an aspirant on the path of Integral Yoga.
Deepening My Understanding of Relationships Read More »
How important are human relations in larger scheme of life and our spiritual destiny? A Zen story highlights the attitudes of detachment and equanimity.
Make Not a Bond of Love Read More »
The Kurukshetra war must have been caused by several political factors. Sri Aurobindo analysed the preceding political tangle which is as important as the war.
Sri Aurobindo’s Interpretation of Indian Culture: The Mahabharata – 2 Read More »