...and love, which kind of love you are talking about: eros, philos, or agape.
She looked at me blank, but her friend smiling with a slight effort to hide it. I easily could sense that she knew the three Greek words for love.
The feeling of love, I continued, that exists between two people is 'eros'.
Love in the form of friendship is 'philos'.
And when the flame of philos stops burning, it transcends into the highest form of love i.e. 'agape'- something beyond discussion, to be felt and to be lived.
Whether the girl was a bit embarrassed or enlightened, I could not make it, but her friend looked at me with adoration in her eyes and I looked her elegant coiffure by the corner of my right eye.
"Have you ever been in love?" asked the girl.
This unexpected question supposed to reveal my private life surprised me a bit. I waited for a moment and started, "I have known a lot of woman, if that is what you mean. And I have really loved each one of them. But I experienced agape only with one. The one........" I kept on speaking in my trance for long. I don't know when I got my consciousness.
"Agape is the total love. It is the love that consumes the person who experiences it. Whoever knows or experiences agape learns that nothing else in this world is important- just love. It is the kind of love Jesus felt for humanity. It exists in two forms- enthusiasm or ecstacy; a state of pure bliss, quite different of orgasm; a connection with God."
And the other is death, said her friend.
The "PRESENT", said the girl.
I found my mouth open in wonder, looking at the girl.
She looked at me blank, but her friend smiling with a slight effort to hide it. I easily could sense that she knew the three Greek words for love.
The feeling of love, I continued, that exists between two people is 'eros'.
Love in the form of friendship is 'philos'.
And when the flame of philos stops burning, it transcends into the highest form of love i.e. 'agape'- something beyond discussion, to be felt and to be lived.
Whether the girl was a bit embarrassed or enlightened, I could not make it, but her friend looked at me with adoration in her eyes and I looked her elegant coiffure by the corner of my right eye.
"Have you ever been in love?" asked the girl.
This unexpected question supposed to reveal my private life surprised me a bit. I waited for a moment and started, "I have known a lot of woman, if that is what you mean. And I have really loved each one of them. But I experienced agape only with one. The one........" I kept on speaking in my trance for long. I don't know when I got my consciousness.
"Agape is the total love. It is the love that consumes the person who experiences it. Whoever knows or experiences agape learns that nothing else in this world is important- just love. It is the kind of love Jesus felt for humanity. It exists in two forms- enthusiasm or ecstacy; a state of pure bliss, quite different of orgasm; a connection with God."
And the other is death, said her friend.
The "PRESENT", said the girl.
I found my mouth open in wonder, looking at the girl.
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