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Lust vs Love?

Lust vs love?

Of course people today connect the two and form a vivid definition of love. But it is so flickering that the feeling goes off just a few mins later of being indulged in lust. We have to hanker for more in order to fill the space that automatically became empty because of temporariness.

But in the spiritual sense, love comes from that divine being who is all-attractive, eternal and source of everything, even love.

There's one famous story of how a prostitute was changed just by hearing holy name of Lord Krsna from the mouth of Srila Haridas Thakur. She left everything, even her hair, in order to pursue spiritual bliss.

Why she left her profession just to chant holy names of Lord Krsna? It's not like she was lazy, she wouldn't be sitting wide awake at the door of Srila Haridas Thakur's house until the next morning!

It was actually, she found ultimate bliss in His name, that she never felt even after having indulged in lusty activities all day. She became determined to do devotional service to Lord Krsna.

But look at us now! You know, if one is seriously seeking spirituality, should think like this:

I still don't have enough attraction to the Holy name of Lord. I'm still mentally fighting over lusty thoughts of mine. I'm still begging for their mercy. I must be then even degraded than a prostitute.

What a fool I'm to believe my mind! It keeps on through thoughts of sense gratification upon me, thoughts of lusty desires. And I helplessly believe it, as if there is nothing higher than that. It's my mind that makes me dance on the plane of material desires and I happily start to pursue them because I'm helpless.

No more I should be helpless because Lord is even greater than the mind. Thoughts come and go, and just as prostitute keeps searching for men after men, I keep searching for things after things to be indulged in fulfilling desires. I forget that I don't have to do that. Just as a prostitute also has Lord inside her heart, who can fulfill all her needs and give her lasting fulfillment, so as He can give me the same!

And moreover, this body is temporary, what if in the next birth I get a body of a man? Would my desires still be the same? No, they change according to the body you have.

Love is so much deeper than lust, later is just a flickering shadow of real love. Love is pure, eternal. And it is the reason why lust is even present in this world. So why don't we turn towards the actual source of this love, Lord Sri Krsna?

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Hello, beautiful people. I hope you enjoyed my new attempt. It's just a rant nothing else. This book is a place where I'll be writing my feelings and thoughts. Have fun reading them. :)

Pooja