ये भींच लेते हैं जिस्म मेरा फिरभी
दिल को आहट भी नहीं होती,
वो नज़र भर के देख ले बस
औऱ मेरि रूह तक थर्राती है।

The libido is the impulse to life.It comes from the heart.
The heart, which is not a physical organ. The heart is the opening up to somebody else.That’s the human quality as opposed to the animal qualities. Here,Heart is not a physical organ but a psychic one.
the heart is an organ of opening up to somebody else.That’s the human quality as opposed to the animal quality, which has to do with self -interest .

You know, the usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn’t a person-to- person decision at all. In India :in 20th century,, you have columns in the newspapers of advertisements for wives that are put in by marriage brokers. I remember, in one family that I knew there, the daughter was going to marry. She had never seen the young man she was going to marry, and she would ask her brothers, “Is he tall? Is he dark? Is he light? What?”

In the Middle Ages, that was the kind of marriage that was sanctified by the Church. And so the troubadour idea of real person-to-person Amor was very dangerous.

The credo says “I believe,” and I believe not only in the laws, but I believe that these laws were instituted by God, and there’s no arguing with God. These laws are a heavy weight on me, and disobeying these is sin and has to do with my eternal character.

That’s the credo. You believe, and then you go to confession, and you run down through the list of sins, and you count yourself against those, and instead of going into the priest and saying, “Bless me, father, for I have been great this week,” you meditate on the sins, and in meditating on the sins, then you really become a sinner in your life. It’s a condemnation, actually, of the will to life, that’s what the credo is