Friendship is not something of the market place.

Friendship is not something of the market place.

Friendship is one of those rare things which belong to the temple and not to the shop. But you are not aware of that kind of friendship; you will have to learn it.

Not a Natural Instinct-Friendship is a great art. Love has a natural instinct behind it; friendship has no natural instinct behind it. Friendship is something conscious; love is unconscious.

What we call love is more animalistic than human. Friendship is absolutely human. It has something for which there is no inbuilt mechanism in your biology; it is non-biological. Hence, one rises in friendship, one does not fall in friendship. It has a spiritual dimension. When he says that Friendship only rises and does not fall as it is not biological, it means that 'normal' friendship in everyday life is fraught with expectations which are biological in nature, in the sense that it involves emotions. And where emotions are involved one can 'only fall'.

Unconditional love on the other hand is not an emotion it is our nature, it is our being.

If this moment is full of friendship and the fragrance of friendship, why be worried about the next moment? The next moment will be born out of this moment. It is bound to be of a higher, deeper quality. It will bring the same fragrance to a higher altitude. There is no need to think about it — just live the moment in deep friendship.

And friendship need not be addressed to anyone in particular. Rather than creating friendship, create friendliness. Let it become a quality of your being, a climate that surrounds you, so you are friendly with whomsoever you come in contact.

Multi fold Returns-This whole existence has to be befriended! And if you can befriend existence, existence will befriend you a thousand-fold. It returns to you in the same coin but multiplied. It echoes you. If you throw stones at existence, you will be getting back many more stones. If you throw flowers, flowers will be coming back.

Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.

People know perfectly well that if you are friendly to a dog, even the dog becomes friendly to you. And there are people who have known that if you are friendly to a tree, the tree becomes friendly to you.