Friendliness
From the Series
Satyam Shivam Sundram
Discourse #10
11 November 1987 pm
in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Duration :115 Mins.
Friendship is love without any biological tones to it. It is not the friendship that you understand ordinarily --the bodyfriend, the girlfriend. To use the word friend in any way associated with biology is sheer stupidity. It is infatuation and madness. You are being used by biology for reporducation purposes. If you think you are in love, you are wrong; it is just hormonal attraction. You chemistry can be changed and your love wil disappear. Just an injection of hormones and a man can become a woman and a woman can become a man.
Friendship is love without any biological tones. It has become a rare phenomenon. It used to be a great thing in the past, but a few great things in the past have completely disappeared. It is a very strange thing that ugly things are stubborn, they don't die easily; and beautiful things are very fragile, they die and disappear very easily.
Today friendship is understood either in biological terms or in economic terms, or in sociological terms-- in terms of acquaintance, a kind of acquintance.
But friendship means that if the need arises you will be ready even to sacrifice yourself. Friendhship means that you have made somebody else more inortant than yourself; soembody else has become more precious than you yourself.
It is not a business.
It is love in its purity.
