Evolution of love

Time

Time works on men's minds, especially on those removed from the instant of happening, to enhance or detract from the character of noteworthy personages and the events associated with their lives. If these are of religious import, transformations of facts into legend seem to be even more precipitate. Yet who can gainsay that the charm and mystery of pulling the threads of truth from the fabric of legendary tellings does not produce a singular inspiration and awe absent in the merely prosaic? India well understood this and cloaked her most sacred spiritual wealth and the godly givers of this treasure with symbology and a depth of meaningful mythology that has preserved her scriptural principles and codes throughout generations of foreign domination and influence. Perhaps the voices from antiquity should not be altogether silenced by offhand dismissal from our mental consideration. Discriminative perusal, however, is certainly warranted. Both innocent distortion and outright willful falsity are inevitable when truth is passed through the interpretations of successive generations, or even of individuals within a single generation, each of which finds it expedient to make it "clearly understood" according to what best suits the present time and purpose