Is the love between a pet and a master coming from hormones or from the soul?

Anwser Podcast

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so if there is a love between say a dog and a human being or a pet and a master is that related to the hormonal secretions or is that related to the soul any relationship that we have that the consciousness for that has to come from the soul because the soul is the source of consciousness and any relationship that we have there will be chemical secretions in it because the soul is acting through the body we don’t deny so when we laugh, so when I laugh say there may be certain chemicals that are secreted in the brain, there is nothing wrong in that but the problem is reductionism, reductionism means to reduce it to that level that there is nothing more to emotions than the secretion of chemicals, reductionism is the problem so when we function the soul works through the mind and the body so just as if somebody is happy, I know they have a very grave rose say somebody is cracking a joke and they keep a grave since say why are you not laughing, no my soul is laughing no if your soul is laughing it’s to express at the bodily level also so there is a bodily component to it the mistake is to think that that is the whole now when you come to relationship with pets it’s natural for we as especially when human beings live close to nature then there are domestic animals and there is love for those domestic animals now when many people live away from nature the human heart longs for some replica of that and that’s why we have pets even in urban cities urban places in fact in America in many cities the dog parks are bigger than the human parks you know because they say that the dog, at least human beings you go out for work but the dog is cooped inside the house, the dog needs to walk more than the human beings so they have dog parks basically so the idea is that in any relationship that we have the soul is involved and the biochemical elements are also involved, the point is not who all is involved, the point is what is the purpose that is served by it so ultimately we are meant to our loving relationships can be fulfilled only when we love God and if other relationships are conducive to that relationship with God the assistance in the relationship with God that is good but if these other relationships become a substitute for the relationship with God then it becomes a big problem so we have to evaluate it so for example now in America the fertility rate is good now most people prefer to have dogs than children laughter seriously it’s a big problem in America and Europe people feel that if you have children they are so messy you purchase a dog, the dog is already trained you can offer your love to a dog instead of a child so in many especially metropolitan cities the population of dogs is more than the population of children laughter so here what is happening is the relationship with a pet is becoming a substitute for a relationship with a child having a pet is not a problem but if we make the pet a substitute for the child that is a problem similarly if we make any relationship in this world whether it is another human being or with a dog we make that into a substitute for a relationship with God that becomes a big problem and unfortunately if we don’t have a relationship with God then we can make any relationship into a substitute there was an American billionaire when his pet dog passed away he had a funeral ceremony for the dog and he spent more for that funeral ceremony than what was spent by the American government for Donald Trump’s inauguration laughter laughter so what had happened again you know one relationship has become so big it has blinded one to the big picture so that is the problem so if we have the big picture in mind then whatever other relationships we have we can see them in perspective does it answer your question any other questions