What is love? do I have love? do I give love? do I need love? In Visvanath Chakravarti Thakur's Prema Samputa verse 52, Radha says:
“O My friend, to an eager student someone may give an abstract explanation of true love, but true love is understood only by direct experience. When one tries to analyze it, true love disappears, and when one does not try to analyze it, true love disappears again."
LOVE - Strange topic, or is it? I heard it said that Krishna consciousness is Love disguised as philosophy!
The living entity having forgotten his eternal relationship with the Lord is starving for love. Like a fish out of water, we wonder in the material world trying desperately to find happiness in a place more easily conducive to misery.
The love Krishna has for us cannot be estimated by our material senses it is beyond our understanding and certainly beyond any experience in this world. We are of that world, the spiritual world, wherein loving exchanges of a tremendous nature are constantly shared between the Lord and His devotees and between devotees as well. There is no potential for satiation in this world if we exclude God from the equation. The living entity is made of His love.
“Life is a school of love. In this school, we are not just hungry, but starving for love...
Always thinking of our beloved with genuine love brings amazing solace.
And if we truly experience deep love, forgetting the beloved who we deeply think about and care for is minimizing our own existence.
It is like death. And to not be able to reciprocate
with our beloved is also another expression of death,
especially since we are made for love.
Always thinking of our beloved with genuine love brings amazing solace.
And if we truly experience deep love, forgetting the beloved who we deeply think about and care for is minimizing our own existence.
It is like death. And to not be able to reciprocate
with our beloved is also another expression of death,
especially since we are made for love.
In this school of love, our most essential asset is full dependence on the Lord.
We want to always remember our most beloved Lord and never forget Him.”
(Spiritual warrior II – B.T.Swami)
We want to always remember our most beloved Lord and never forget Him.”
(Spiritual warrior II – B.T.Swami)
We may try to quench this desire for love in so many ways. Some try to find that perfect love in one individual. How can any one individual replace that love that is so familiar to our soul? Are we thinking there is one person who can be our “God”? This pursuit can be compared to a form of atheism. Are we so forgetful of Krishna’s love for us, or are we thinking that one single human being can offer us something that compares.
The desire persists and will remain until the soul is finding a way to give and receive love on a spiritual level. We have the choice to push away Krishna’s love and focus on trivial pursuit of material goals but we can’t have both. The choice is ours.
Kirtaniya sada harih,
gopi-bhartuh pada-kamalayor dasa-dasanu-dasah
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