Pure, Eternal Love

As long as our tendency for love is tinged by even the slightest degree of selfishness it will never bring us permanent, lasting happiness. Real love is selfless service to the Supreme Being and through Him to all living beings. The atheist may claim that he loves everyone with the exception of God, that he does not need to love God because God does not exist. But let us see if he can purely love everyone without any thought of return. We challenge him to do this.

Pure love or eternal love requires to be channeled through the central point from which all of existence has arisen. That original point is point is God, who must necessarily be a person in order to manifest so many unlimited millions and billions of persons from Himself.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: What is Love?

Love for the Lord is the topmost priority. But what is love? Why is love the reason for everything? Why maya is entangled with love ? Should man love his near and dear ones? Why do we love those whom we don't even know? Is love the reason of the Lord's creation? Why do we become selfish in love? Why did the Lord created feeling of love?

Are the gopis, Krishna's cowherd girlfriends, present on this earth during the Kali Yuga?

Bhavesh

Answer: Pure, Selfless Surrender unto the Supreme Person

Love means pure selfless surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the source of all existence. God is expanding everything from Himself simply for the purpose enjoying loving relationships with an infinite number of living beings.

When our love becomes selfish it is no longer love. It is then known as lust. The pure, selfless state of love makes us happy. And the impure, selfish state of lust makes us miserable.

The gopis departed with Krishna back to the spiritual world. Therefore they are not here on this planet during the Kali Yuga, the present age of quarrel and hypocrisy.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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