What is love? It means different things to different people. Have you thought about it? Do read: POWER OF LOVE When a mother loves her child, have you noticed that the mother's love doesn't change with time or place or even when a child does not reciprocate it? Perhaps there is none of the ' 'my happiness', 'my priority', 'my desires' sort of mentality in the relationship. There is an element of being desireless , in the sense, that the mother wants no material or physical gain from the relationship. The mother may have big dreams of her child becoming X,Y and Z but not necessarily to materially benefit from this. Being itself is enough. 'Being a Mother' is tinged with a sense of happiness despite all the daily struggles and challenges that it brings. Typically a mother is so engrossed and involved in raising her child, without a sense of a separation of the Self. In a sense, everything else ceases to matter. That kind of love do...
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