Love is God

It is said Love is God. Selfless love towards all beings human and subhuman should be cultivated. In other words, one should not think, speak or do anything that will harm any creation of the Lord. Harm done to anyone is harm done to God. Very often we fail to comprehend what another person's needs or sufferings feel like. We should always try to look at things with an impersonal perspective. In other words, one should cultivate the habit of considering all as one's own people and treating all as oneself everywhere. Our scriptures also advocate compassion and due respect and regard not only towards persons placed not so fortunately as ourselves, but to others as also all animals, birds and lower species. Helping others, charity, always speaking with a smiling face, humility, feeling very small and powerless, and equality of vision are the hallmarks of compassion. An attempt should be made to be compassionate with our less fortunate brethren and to help them to the extent possible. Lord Krishna declares that the enlightened souls treat a brahminendowed with scholarship and modesty as well as a cow, an elephant, a dog and also the one who eats the dog's meat as similar and do not distinguish among them.