Sacred Concord

RV 56 (7)

Rig Veda · translated by Ralph T.H. Griffith

2 When Soma pours the strengthening food a hundred ever−active streams 3 Ten Dames have sung to welcome thee, even as a maiden greets her love: 4 Flow hitherward, O Indu, sweet to Indra and to Visnu: guard
RV 56 (7) · Rig Veda · null

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Love in other traditions

The same theme, as Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Hellenism address it.

For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
Luke 6:32 · Bible · Luke
From affection comes grief, from affection comes fear; he who is free from affection knows neither grief nor fear.
Dhp 16.213 · Dhammapada · Pleasure
Say, (O Muhammad, to mankind): If ye love Allah, follow me; Allah will love you and forgive you your sins. Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
Quran 3:31 · Quran · The Family Of Imran
Then he: “O prince! allied in blood and fame, Dearer than all that own a brother’s name; Of all that Hecuba to Priam bore, Long tried, long loved: much loved, but honoured more! Since you, of all our numerous race alone Defend my life, regardless of your own.”
Iliad 22.22 · Iliad · 22

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