i found there is a very close boundary between these two feeling desire and love.
Selfish love seems to be desire to me....and Universal love seems to be Love to me....
here are few scenarios to describe these feelings:
Desire:
If you want something say a Ferrari, your only goal seems to be getting that Ferrari...(you are attached to the goal and fail to concentrate on the actions to get that Ferrari like working hard to earn more ....) This can be termed as desire. When you don't get what you desire for, it hurts you very badly.....that's where your emotion overpowers your intellect. You fail to act at that very moment rather than collapse. Do you think our life is just confined to those objective pleasures? Isn't it something bigger than that? I feel that having goal and working towards the goal is healthy. However, getting yourself attached to that goal would not be an intellectual thing to do for human beings. If you attach towards your actions, even if you don't attain your goal at last.....you don't feel dejected because you were attached to the action that you did and you know that you did it at your best.....you would have realized your mistakes during your course of action and make use of that experience in your future actions to attain better goal.......okay, back to our previous problem....desire is your objective attachment and hurts you if you don't attain.
Love:
You are walking in a serene street. Seeing a child playing with a ball...enjoying that very moment...that charming smile on his/her face...suddenly falls down and starts crying. No one near that child....what do you do?..don't you just run and pick that child and check if she/he is fine?...at that very moment, do you expect that you get reputation from that crying child or from her parents? or do you expect someone to reward you for that action?...No....you just do that because when that child fell down, you put your feet on that child's shoes and realized that child's pain and helped him/her. This helpless help can be called as Love. Help may not just in actions...it may be even a thought. Most of us might have a healthy, comfy lifestyle, however when we get to know some news about bombing in Iraq, poverty in Africa, or any other natural calamities in any where......don't we feel in that very moment about the suffering lives? That is also Love.
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