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He does not accept the but this situation has darkened
psychologists’ definition of love due to life’s daily and irregular
in the book “Elixir” and considers activities. (Chopra, 2009: 84)
it as a physical interpretation It should be noted that there
and says: is a difference between transcendent
In the past, the most values that are achieved through
fleeting infatuations had love and sensual desire. Many
a spiritual meaning, and people find life in achieving
cordiality and connection money, power, security, and comfort;
with God through the (Ibid: 144) but spirituality seeks
beloved were serious points. not to be an attachment to the
After Freud, psychologists physical world. A person can
have believed that falling be freed from sensual desires
in love is nothing more and reach pure pleasure with
than a deception and its spirituality.
passion is unrealistic. There is no single view on
This view made us look the position of sexual desire in
at love as a temporary spiritual perfection; Some spiritualities
and unstable thing and try to suppress it, and others
accept that we must consider it as a cause of human
ignore the fact that we perfection; however, Chopra thinks
can be such passionate that the suppression of sexual
lovers and immortal and desires is wrong and believes
safe. (Chopra, 2009: 46) that these things can lead to the
spiritual perfection of the human:
He believes that human beings “Poetic (worldly) love is
have been born with pure pleasure,
worldly undoubtedly, but
