People who have worked hard to amass a fortune would gladly give up everything they have to save their parents if that's what was called for to revive them. They would be willing to give up all external things. Parents, on their part, would be willing to give up not only all external things, but they would even want to give up their own lives to save their children.

When I was a child I observed many bird nests. If you climbed up the tree to go to their nests, the parent birds would attack you, pecking you desperately to protect their young even though you are many times bigger than they are. They are desperate in defense of their offspring. Not just once, but over and over if necessary. Their protective desire transcends their love for their own lives. Isn't that very obvious?

Human beings do the same. One must be willing to give up one's life for love. That makes one a true human being. What is a good human being, we asked earlier? True goodness is in the willingness to give up one's life for the loved ones. This is the only justifiable definition of goodness. It's incontrovertible. Do you recognize this? True goodness is in love....

When I was in Danbury, I saw an interesting phenomenon. They were trying to flatten a slope to make a tennis court out of it. The work went on and off because of the rain which would close up the operation until it became dry enough. During one particular off period, a bird nest had settled there, only about three meters off the track where nearby prisoners used to take a walk everyday. The bird colors blended well into the environment so that no one noticed them until they had hatched, although people walked by every day. That's how the birds were hatched. It was when they heard the little birds chirping for food that people discovered them. The prisoners tried to do nasty things to the birds, naturally. What was interesting was the way the parents brought food. They would land some distance from the nest and would walk, varying their route every day to avoid some nearby predators such as falcons. That's how they protected their chicks.

As the chicks grew, their parents got awfully fussy about people coming near their them, as if they didn't want you to see them. (Laughter) But, who taught them that, to do precisely that all the time? If you pretend that you are not watching, they calm down, but if you look at them again they get very fussy. (Laughter) Who taught them this? It's the universal prime force. The father-son bloodlines... God created love as the axis and everything else on one plane around it, so even if one's position may be lower, one is still on the same plane. Do you understand what I am saying?

Honey bees do the same. They search for honey among the flowers and use their wings and legs to get it. I know something about honey bees, as I was involved in bee-keeping one time. If you tried to pull the bee away during its honey-sucking, it would rather lose its innards than part company with honey. Honey must be awfully good to lose one's life for it! True Love is like that. One is willing to give up one's life for it. One does not calculate benefits and losses on love. True Love demands everything else to become insignificant. Parents will risk their lives to save their children in peril. Parents are willing to die for their love. That's true love, understand?