QUOTE : It is said in one of the Upanishads:<br />Na vā arē putrasya kāmāya putrah priyō bhavati, ātmanastu kāmāya putrah priyō<br />bhavati<br /><br />It is not that thou lovest thy son because thou desirest him, but thou lovest thy son because thou desirest thine own soul. <br /><br />The meaning of this is, that whomsoever we love, in him we find our own soul in the highest sense. <br /><br />The final truth of our existence lies in this. Paramātmā, the supreme soul, is in me, as well as in my son, and my joy in my son is the realisation of this truth. It has become quite a commonplace fact, yet it is wonderful to think upon, that the joys and sorrows of our loved ones are joys and sorrows to us - nay they are more. Why so? Because in them we have grown larger, in them we have touched that great truth which comprehends the whole universe.