Girish ( A devotee) to Master (Sri Ramakrishna) : “ Sir what is ekangi prema (one sided love)?”
Master : “ It means one-sided love. For instance, the water does not seek the duck, but the duck loves the water. There are other kind of love: sadharani, samanjasa, and samartha. In the first, which is ordinary love, the lover seeks his own happiness; he does not care if the other person is happy or not. That was Chandravali;s attitude towards Krishna. In the second, which is compromise, both seeks each others happiness. This is a noble kind of love. But the third is the highest of all. Such a lover says to his beloved. ‘Be happy yourself, whatever may happen to me.’ Radha had this highest love. She was happy in Krishna’s happiness. The Gopis too had attained this exalted state.
From Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
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