1839- LOVE
Ancient Greeks identified four forms of love:
kinship or familiarity (in Greek, storge),
friendship (philia),
sexual and/or romantic desire (eros),
and
self-emptying or divine love (agape).
Agape: In the New Testament, agapē is charitable, selfless, altruistic, and unconditional. It is parental love, seen as creating goodness in the world; it is the wayGod is seen to love humanity, and it is seen as the kind of love that Christians aspire to have for one another.
Phileo: Also used in the New Testament,phileo is a human response to something that is found to be delightful. Also known as "brotherly love."
Two other words for love in the Greek language, eros (sexual love) and storge (child-to-parent love), were never used in the New Testament.
In Hinduism:
kāma is pleasurable, sexual love, personified by the god Kamadeva or Manmadha. Kamadeva is often pictured holding a bow of sugar cane and an arrow of flowers; he may ride upon a great parrot. He is usually accompanied by his consort Rati and his companion Vasanta, lord of the spring season.
In contrast to kāma, prema – or prem – refers to elevated love.
Karuna is compassion and mercy, which impels one to help reduce the suffering of others.
Bhakti is a Sanskrit term, meaning "loving devotion to the supreme God." A person who practices bhakti is called a bhakta. Hindu writers, theologians, and philosophers have distinguished nine forms of bhakti.
In the Bhakti tradition within Hinduism, it is believed that execution of devotional service to God leads to the development of Love for God, and as love for God increases in the heart, the more one becomes free from material contamination. Being perfectly in love with God or Krishna makes one perfectly free from material contamination. and this is the ultimate way of salvation or liberation.Being absorbed in Love for God is considered to be the perfection of life.
(For details please visit :
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love. )
kinship or familiarity (in Greek, storge),
friendship (philia),
sexual and/or romantic desire (eros),
and
self-emptying or divine love (agape).
Agape: In the New Testament, agapē is charitable, selfless, altruistic, and unconditional. It is parental love, seen as creating goodness in the world; it is the wayGod is seen to love humanity, and it is seen as the kind of love that Christians aspire to have for one another.
Phileo: Also used in the New Testament,phileo is a human response to something that is found to be delightful. Also known as "brotherly love."
Two other words for love in the Greek language, eros (sexual love) and storge (child-to-parent love), were never used in the New Testament.
In Hinduism:
kāma is pleasurable, sexual love, personified by the god Kamadeva or Manmadha. Kamadeva is often pictured holding a bow of sugar cane and an arrow of flowers; he may ride upon a great parrot. He is usually accompanied by his consort Rati and his companion Vasanta, lord of the spring season.
In contrast to kāma, prema – or prem – refers to elevated love.
Karuna is compassion and mercy, which impels one to help reduce the suffering of others.
Bhakti is a Sanskrit term, meaning "loving devotion to the supreme God." A person who practices bhakti is called a bhakta. Hindu writers, theologians, and philosophers have distinguished nine forms of bhakti.
In the Bhakti tradition within Hinduism, it is believed that execution of devotional service to God leads to the development of Love for God, and as love for God increases in the heart, the more one becomes free from material contamination. Being perfectly in love with God or Krishna makes one perfectly free from material contamination. and this is the ultimate way of salvation or liberation.Being absorbed in Love for God is considered to be the perfection of life.
(For details please visit :
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love. )
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