Category: Love Class

Hi Friends, 

This class has delved deep into, with profound insights, on what really causes unhappiness in our life. It asserts that it is precisely in avoiding our problems and hurdles that we suffer in our life; it is the pain and suffering caused by difficulties in life that we have to meet in order to grow mentally and spiritually. We cannot solve life’s problems except by solving them. We so often view love as a noun instead of a verb… as something that just happens to us or doesn’t happen to us, instead of an ongoing task we must work at…that work, that action-is love.

Though there were some concepts which I did not agree with, and some discussions during the classes were disturbing for me and contrary to my beliefs, I would still like to thank and appreciate our mentors Nayna ma’am and Anita ma’am for this journey of love that we all were a part of.

The love class defines love by its aim: The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth,” which also results in one’s own spiritual growth. Love is intimately associated with self-discipline rather than with passion or feeling, uniting love of another and of self. The class connects love with development from infancy to maturity, rejecting the myth of romantic love, asserting instead the necessity of individuality and clearly rejecting as forms of love both dependency (which does not foster growth of the other) and self-sacrifice (which can be masochistic tolerance of abuse). Love is attentive, courageous, and willing to risk loss, independence, commitment, and confrontation..

My best learning has been Parenting. I realised the mistakes I do while handling kids. Love class taught me how to treat a child. It helped me as a teacher and i am sure it’ll help me in my personal life as well.

Our last session was on forgiveness and parenting. I have learnt so far that forgiving needs a lot of courage and plays an important role in one’s emotional well being. Basically to my point of view, life is an experience between birth and death, if we consider it as a whole. On the other hand, experience is different with every passing moment. We are always working or trying to make these experiences good. Our feelings are always under our control if we wish to. Yet, most of the time we get carried away by the expression of others and that impacts our feeling for good and bad. Our tomorrow is based on our actions of today, yet we procrastinate, which gives us pain, perhaps with a hope that action would not be required in future or we are not certain for the result of our action. In fact we need not be worried for our actions. If we review our action plans on regular basis and learn to transform, our experience also gets expanded towards the journey of life with sweet memories, a robust history to get followed or repeated. We need to act in best manner to every moment of life and refrain from the situations which gives us negativity. For that, we need to engage ourselves to the actions which we like. I believe human behaviour is a joint function of the personal behaviour and the properties of environment. Hence we always need to keep a balance between self and the environment. And for that we need to sometime forgive some situation which affects the balance of emotions and surround.

I never knew what actually ‘Forgiveness’ meant till I attended the last session of Love class. I always thought of forgiveness as an obligation for the opposite person who commits the sin. For me, it was always an action or process of forgiving someone or being forgiven. After reading few articles and watching videos, I realized that forgiveness helps us more than the person whom we are forgiving. It helps us to overcome the pain and start afresh. This was a WOW learning for me (though I took time to understand and accept this fact). It is rightly said by Mark Twain, “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the rose sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”

Thank you Nayna ma’am and Anita ma’am for sharing this with us!!

Wow! Where do I start..? I would like to begin with a hearty “THANK YOU” to my beloved FS for probably saving marriage from gradual destruction..!! I can honestly say that I experienced 90% of what we had discussed throughout the duration of this “LOVE CLASS”….!

My personality and attitude towards marriage, fatherhood and being a good husband has evolved…i hope i am a better man to say the least..!! In fact, I am feeling guilt of not writing the whole truth here, but will still con tribute a fewbits and pices of this life changing experience….!
First off, the 2015 – 2016 academic year started well with my PE / PS TEAM-MATES….We got off to a flying start with school games and PE sctivities…! And then all of a sudden….. “LOVE CLASS” happened…We thought “love”, “sex” and “making love” and “woman explained” will be the topics of the day…But boy, were we dissapointed…? Instead we were handed a first class experience of what mutual love and understanding is all about, forgiveness and learning to be true to your partner and most of all, we got to experience it, rather then learn it, we’ll I did anyway….!!

I see my darling wife differently now, in a more positive light( She always was this way, but it just took me a few years to figure it out, but better later then never) In fact, she has also admitted that I have changed and become a better lover, husband and father, not in this order, but you know what I mean…! Hearing these sweet words from her has boosted my confidence as a man. I am more efficient in my work, even though others will say otherwise, I am learning fatherhood always, I am more in touch with my wife’s feelings and moods then before and it has given us a new lease of life, if you like…i don’t think anything was wrong, but I feel it was not right, until LOVE CLASS came into our lives…so much has been the impact of this class in my life….also I would like to take this opportunity to highlight my participation in these sort of rehabilitative classes. Ask the others and they will vouch for me as I was an avid contributor to most of the topics discussed, the setting provided me an opportunity to express my inner feelings towards life in general and this is where the greatest impact was for me….we all realized that our situations are very different and we all have stages of life that we go through at various periods in our existence on God’s grear creation…!!! I am enquiring always….and want to be a better husband, father and coach to the best of my abilities. This class has benefitted my family greatly…THANK YOU MY dearest FS…!
Sincerely,

Kalpesh Patel

P.S I still have a few things to share, but do not have the courage or confidence to pen them at this moment, as they are intimate and mesmerizing, but I do know I am stronger for it and still learning daily of what the great force of LOVE is. …!

“I LOVE YOU MY SWEETHEART, ALWAYS AND FOREVER, TILL DEATH DO US PART..!”

FS PRIDE..!