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Saadhanaa Through Human Love

Dr. Monica Gulati

Abstract
Love is an important and essential aspect of our life. This article examines love in the light of Sri
Aurobindo and The Mother, the common notions of this often mis-used word and explores how
we can use our so-called ‘love’, which is mixed with the impurities of selfishness, egoism and self-
centeredness, as a ladder, as a stepping-stone, towards its purification, and move towards a love,
which is love just for the sake of love. Where there are no conditions attached to it; for in that love
lies also our true fulfilment.

upon the very person we think we love.
The commonly used word ‘love’ hides in its
curtain — I want you to fulfil me, to make me
happy. And in that, we burden the person
we love, we torment ourselves and the other,
and continue claiming — ‘I love you.’

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother know very
well where we start from, the lower rungs
of the ladder of love. But how can we use it
to go higher, how can we step onto the next
rung and come a bit closer to true love? Let
us explore, and since it is our day-to-day life,
Love is a highly misused word. So misused, we must reflect upon what really is love!
that it has lost its true meaning in common
daily usage. And yet in our ignorance, we Common Notions of Love
continue to use the word ‘love’ to hide our
selfish agendas, expectations, demands, and Our movies and social media have heavily
a craving to possess the person we claim to conditioned our minds and we are carrying
love. We end up inflicting the most torture those images in our head when we think

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