Aim:
To understand that without love there will be no other values.
To understand the importance of loving God.
Introduction:
What is love? Love is the energy of the mind. It is a spontaneous reaction and is unchanging. The first value that comes out of mans love. He starts loving his mother, father, brothers, sisters, relatives, friends and loves prakriti (nature). Like this, life starts with love. The same love is expanded in our words, actions and thoughts. Without love, where can you find truth, right conduct, peace and non-violence? The understanding principle of all life is the one and only principle, love.
'The reflection and the spark that has come out of love is called Truth. The same Love when expressed in action, is called Dharma. When this love is contemplated upon one's mind attains supreme peace. When we enquire from where this love has come and understand its very source, then we realise the great principle of non-violence. Love that is present in everyone is verily the divine energy inherent in all'
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Associated values with love:
| Caring | Compassion | Devotion |
| Compassion | Dedication | Tolerence |
| Friendship | Forgiveness | Generosity |
| Helping | Inner Happiness | Joy |
| Kindness | Patience | Sharing |
| Sincerity | Sympathy | |
Quotations:
"Love as Thought is Truth
Love as Action is Right Conduct
Love as Feeling is Peace
Love as Understanding is Non-Violence"
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
"Don't tell someone Jesus love them until you are ready to love them yourself."
- Amanda Street
"Of all human values, three are most important. The foremost of love of God. Where there is love there is sacrifice. there arises purity of heart. there should be fusion of love, sacrifice and purity. They are not mere human qualities. They constitute vital organ of a human being. They are as essential for a human being as the head, hands and legs for the body. Without these attributes, no one is a complete human being"
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
"My only desire is your happiness. Your happiness is my happiness. I have no happiness apart from yours."
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
"Start the day with love
Fill the day with love
End the day with love
This is the way to God."
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
"I must tell you of the paramount importance of love. Love is God, live in love. God is the embodiment of perfect love. He can be known and realised, reached and won only through love. You can see the moon only with the help of moonlight, you can see God only through the rays of love."
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
"Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of love,
help to make the world happy
Like the heaven above."
- Julia A.F. Carney
"Love lives by giving and forgiving; self lives by getting and forgetting."
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
"My teaching is love, my message is love, my activity is love, my way of living is love. There is nothing more precious than love, within human grasp. the spark of love in you has to be cherished and fed to that it may reach God. Then every being will be God, every act will be divine, every reaction you get from the outside world will be charged with love and sweetened with that nectar."
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba, discourse on 3rd July 1970
Activities:
1. Have a group discussion and think of the best way of loving God.
2. What is love? What does each of the world religions say about love?.
3. Prepare a role play entitled 'Love in Action'.
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