Question

an essay on selfless love becomes suffering for others

Answer 1

Someone has very poetically said, 'It is in loving, not being loved
                                                              The heart finds its quest;
                                                               It is in giving, not in getting
                                                               Our lives are blest.'
Selfless love is the divinest sentiment humans have. It is the only emotion that makes him a god. Selfless love is the quality of the angels. We can say people who have evolved to the highest level of existence, become selfless lovers. There are many examples in history that prove the premise.

Jesus Christ, the Messiah, is the divinest example of selfless love. His entire life is an epitome of selfless love in practice. He taught mankind how to love selflessly. We saw the culmination of his selfless love in his suffering inflicted upon him by the then Pharisees and religious authorities. On the cross, when he was being nailed, he prayed to God to forgive them. He loved mankind selflessly; and he did not flinch from suffering.

All great lovers of mankind have been selfless, and they also suffered patiently to make this world a better place. Mother Teresa, Florence Nightingale, and many more who worked to preserve peace in the world are selfless lovers of mankind.

There is a selfless lover in each one's life. Our mothers are the best examples of selfless love in action! They suffer smilingly on account of their children and families. So selfless love usually involves suffering for others. The most sublime thing about selfless love is its infinite strength and vastness. Selfless love volunteers to suffer on its own will. It has the power to turn any suffering into everlasting joy.     



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Answer 2

Not always. Self-less love is compassion (compassion being the ability to see and feel for another's suffering). Putting the needs of another before your own. 

For example, maybe you were on your way to the store to go buy a few things. Then you see a homeless person - you know they're mostly likely hot and hungry this summer. You consider the suffering that they must be enduring and suddenly you have compassion for them - you feel bad for what they must be going through. You want to help. You know that you only have so much money for the things you need to get, but you put yourself and your desires aside and take from what you have, to give to that other person, to help satisfy a need they have: a cold drink and a meal. 

You sacrificed something you needed or wanted but could live without just a little longer. Self-less love. You gave out of the kindness of your heart. You put yourself aside to give to someone in need. 
It doesn't mean you suffered. It just means you did something that required placing someone else above yourself. 

Usually in a situation with suffering, it tends to be dire for the both of you. Maybe you are broke, have little money. You haven't eaten in a day. Someone you know hasn't eaten in 3 days. You are hungry - you need the food. But you know that someone else has gone longer without it. They are more at risk right then and there, than you are. You give your meal (or share it or whatever.) You chose to "suffer" to save a life today. Self-less love - does it involve a little suffering? Sometimes, like in this type of case, yes, but I believe that knowing the good you have done, will tame and subside the feeling of hunger. 

I realize I used hunger for these examples but I'm a humanitarian and so this question seem to fit within my character. These are the kinds of things I think about often. I see so much suffering in the world and I think that if we would all just have a little self-less love, we could make a difference in the world, in one way or another. 

Again, it doesn't necessarily mean that we will suffer, it just means thinking about someone else before yourself.