Love – its nature
Love is a much misunderstood subject. Normally in our selfish relationship we often misconstrue love as the possessive love. But possessive love is almost certainly selfish love, it is also not unrequitted. If for some reason the other party does not pay back, often the love vanishes and is replaced by its sworn enemy – hate and repulsion. Such type of love is called "Raga" in Sanskrit and is intrinsically linked to its opposite - "Dwesha" or hatred.
Love of a divine nature is on the other hand most often unselfish, unpolluted and unrequitted. It is also unconditional, not dependent on anything else. It is non possessive, since it is unselfish – the lover has no hassles in sharing her object of love with others, because she knows that by sharing her own love will not diminish, instead it will magnify by coming in contact with other love sources.
Most often in a family set up love is possessive, selfish and conditional and dependent on so many preconditions to be fulfilled. This kind of love often leads into many problems, much heartburns and a lot of conflicts and troubles, jealousy, hatred, anger and other negative emotions.
Divine love is not bounded, it has the capacity of being and becoming infinite, so much so that the lover merges with the object of love and there is nothing to really differentiate between the two. This is one supreme form of love which Gopis had for Lord Krishna. Simple, illiterate peasant women as they were, they were bound by moral scruples and yet found an ocean of unbound love for the Lord whom they devoted everything – their body, mind and spirit, societal and family obligations and even ego and reputation.
That’s the highest form of love, which if realized, gives instant emancipation from all form of bondages, whereas selfish love binds one rigidly. This is something which is not comprehended by materialistic mortals.
The highest form of devotion is divine love and the supreme form of devotee is the state of "Radha", a state where there is really no difference between devotee and the Lord, they merge in each other and one cannot be conceived without the other. Sri Ramakrishna therefore used to say - "Bhagavat-Bhakta-Bhagavan", i.e. words of devotion, devotee and the object of devotion are in reality the same. This is the ultimate form of realization in the path of devotion and is the product of highest form of love.
Love of a divine nature is on the other hand most often unselfish, unpolluted and unrequitted. It is also unconditional, not dependent on anything else. It is non possessive, since it is unselfish – the lover has no hassles in sharing her object of love with others, because she knows that by sharing her own love will not diminish, instead it will magnify by coming in contact with other love sources.
Most often in a family set up love is possessive, selfish and conditional and dependent on so many preconditions to be fulfilled. This kind of love often leads into many problems, much heartburns and a lot of conflicts and troubles, jealousy, hatred, anger and other negative emotions.
Divine love is not bounded, it has the capacity of being and becoming infinite, so much so that the lover merges with the object of love and there is nothing to really differentiate between the two. This is one supreme form of love which Gopis had for Lord Krishna. Simple, illiterate peasant women as they were, they were bound by moral scruples and yet found an ocean of unbound love for the Lord whom they devoted everything – their body, mind and spirit, societal and family obligations and even ego and reputation.
That’s the highest form of love, which if realized, gives instant emancipation from all form of bondages, whereas selfish love binds one rigidly. This is something which is not comprehended by materialistic mortals.
The highest form of devotion is divine love and the supreme form of devotee is the state of "Radha", a state where there is really no difference between devotee and the Lord, they merge in each other and one cannot be conceived without the other. Sri Ramakrishna therefore used to say - "Bhagavat-Bhakta-Bhagavan", i.e. words of devotion, devotee and the object of devotion are in reality the same. This is the ultimate form of realization in the path of devotion and is the product of highest form of love.
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