Love as the Ultimate Religion

As for amorous love, it is a small sub-set of the spiritual universal love. It is limited in applicability and scope. Amorous love is equally strong towards the object, usually the spouse or partner.

As a small child, one has a greater capacity for the spiritual universal love, as one smiles at and feel good with all, suspecting or hating none. As we grow older, we start being selective in the objects of our love - parents, siblings, relations, friends and so on. Later on still, our love objects narrow further until our attention and love predominate on spouse and nuclear family, while love for others dwindles.

Further in our growing-up days, we mistake God's injunction -universal love- for religiosity. We start sleeping in churches and mosques in an attempt to "please" God, but forgetting to carry out His injunction by pleasing His creatures with love. A small child on the way to our church or mosque needs urgent help, but we feel that we are too late for church or mosque, and so cannot give love to the small creature.

A time has come for us to realise that all the prophets of God preached love - universal love. Religions are just the various methods adopted by the followers to advance the cause of love. Unfortunately, somewhere along the line, they lost focus and treated religion itself as the end in itself rather than the means to the end. What do we get? The opposite of universal love (universal hate) has now turned the world asunder.