Swami B.A. Paramadvaiti


Perennial Psychology

Are you loving?

1. Do you feel sorry when you hear of others suffering?

O Yes O No

2. Do you make sure others around you first get what they urgently need before you look after your own general needs?

O Yes O No

3. Do you interfere if someone mistreats an animal in front of you?

O Yes O No

4. Do you feel love for people you do not know personally?

O Yes O No

5. Do you feel love for children from other races than yours so that you will make an effort to help them? Like doing volunteer work or giving a substantial monetary donation within your means?

O Yes O No

6. Is love your priority?

O Yes O No

7. Do you think that there is real love without sacrifice?

O Yes O No

8. Do you think love can be purchased?

O Yes O No

9. Do you accept that universal love is our superior self-interest?

O Yes O No

10. Do you work hard when it is not for your own sense-gratification?

O Yes O No

11. Do you first share with others before you start eating?

O Yes O No

12. Do you work hard and with joy to serve God in your mystical faith or ideal?

O Yes O No

13. Do you think your own pleasure will make you happy?

O Yes O No

14. Do you think it is justified to make others suffer to further your cause?

O Yes O No

15. Do you feel that there is a common cause for all beings?

O Yes O No

16. Do you speak about finding real love on the bodily platform?

O Yes O No

17. Do you read books with joy where people are treated unjustly?

O Yes O No

18. Do you view movies where hate and violence is promoted?

O Yes O No

19. Would you allow a person to speak ill to you about others without any need?

O Yes O No

20. Do you like to share good news even with those whom you do not know personally?

O Yes O No

21. Do you feel that loving others has any importance?

O Yes O No

22. Can you forgive someone who has done something against your interest?

O Yes O No

23. Do you believe in friendship?

O Yes O No

24. Do you think that love is the goal of human life?

O Yes O No

25. Can you rest in peace while others in your reach are in avoidable misery?

O Yes O No

26. Do you pray to become loving and forgiving?

O Yes O No

27. Is love a tangible consideration in the decisions you make?

O Yes O No

28. Is the sweet will of God a tangible consideration when you are making your decisions?

O Yes O No

29. Do you believe in love?

O Yes O No

30. Do you believe in love that lasts beyond this present life?

O Yes O No

Evaluations of the questionnaire:

Add together all your answers (yes and no) which are in bold script. The more you have the better

If you feel that you need a lot more love after answering these questions, you got the message. It is love which is impossible to measure but necessary to develop. Love is a word which you can transform into the most wonderful experience for others and which can even take you into a personal relationship with the Supreme Lover of all souls. That is the faith of those who have discovered love to be what must have descended from above. Such a lofty realm cannot be the product of chemical formulas.

If you feel you have been exposed as not being loving enough from these questions, there is good hope for you.

If you feel that these questions invaded your privacy, you do not understand the importance of love.

If you feel love is a concoction and only lust is real, you will need urgent help to become a saner human being.

If you feel that you should just be left alone and that we don’t have to take any responsibility in life for anything we do, you are not trustworthy at all.

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