Pujya Gurudev in this letter to his dear Bala Vihar children writes on love, and man’s “search” for it:
Round the world, every intelligent man is ever hungry for love – even animals seek and thrive upon love received. Man irrespective of his race and class, creed and belief, language and nationality, seeks love daily all around him.
Yet only a rare few seem to discover an apparent satisfaction in the personal love relationship. No activity in human life is taken up with so much sincerity and elaborate preparation as man’s search for the joy of love, and yet, no enterprise of man fails so consistently, with such regularity, as his quest for love.
He merely strives to deserve more and more, he helplessly waits for love to be given to him, to ‘receive’ love. Alas! None gives love, all are anxiously waiting to ‘get’ love.
Father demands love. Mother expects love. Brothers and sisters ask for love. You cry for love.All are always disappointed. Nobody seems to get love. There is a universal disappointment. Why?
We must, therefore, enquire into the nature and function of love.