Passage 21

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In all these different living beings, Prema keeps flowing in many ways: towards their own young, towards parents, towards friends, towards possessions, vehicles and the like, towards food and drink and the like. Going by this, fitting names have been laid down. Not all of it can be called ‘Bhakti’; that would not be right. When one's Prema turns towards one's own children, that Prema is called ‘vātsalya’. When the same Prema turns towards kinsmen, it is called ‘moha’. In the same way, when it falls on the helpless it is called ‘karuṇā’; when it is shown to equals, ‘maitrī’; and when it falls on possessions and vehicles, ‘icchā’ and ‘vāñchā’.

Sri Satchitananda Sai