Excerpt from Endless love - by Ravindra Swarupa Dasa
We have a propensity to love and it naturally tends to expand without limit. Yet, in this world, it meets with repeated impediments. The baffling of our urge to love becomes one of the most tragic features of life. The crux of the problem is that although we want to love, we are never more vulnerable than when we do. As soon as we love someone, we open ourselves to rejection, abandonment, betrayal, separation, loss, and all the related anguish and pain. Experience of these things has filled the world with bitter and disappointed people, cynics and misanthropes.
Even before we face the walls of thwarted love, we aren't able to love fully and unconditionally. There is an essential incompatibility between what we are and what we can love in this world, and in our hearts we all know it. Our desire to love without limit and without end is a clear indication that we ourselves are eternal, spiritual beings. At the same time, all the objects of love in this world are material and temporary. As a result, we cannot love without fear - fear of an end, or loss - and cannot help but withhold the full investment of our love.
A frequent theme in literature concerns a hero/ heroine who loves recklessly and without restraint, inevitably undergoes the most intense kind of suffering and finally ends up depressed or suicidal. We sometimes take these as cautionary tales. But we don't need these examples to remind us of the frustration of our existence. We have no adequate object for our love in this world.
Therefore, out of boundless compassion for us, Krishna reveals His kingdom of transcendental, unrestricted love, in which He is eternally manifest as the ultimate object of affection - the perfect hero, master, friend, child, and lover. His beauty is unrivaled, and His personality, expressed in infinitely varied exchanges of love, is ceaselessly fascinating.
When we turn to Krishna, our loving propensity breaks loose from the shackles and confines of matter and opens up into an ever-expanding flow that never meets any resistance. This is why Krishna is perpetually inviting us to come to Him in His eternal abode, and enjoy with Him forever the delights of an endless love.
Even before we face the walls of thwarted love, we aren't able to love fully and unconditionally. There is an essential incompatibility between what we are and what we can love in this world, and in our hearts we all know it. Our desire to love without limit and without end is a clear indication that we ourselves are eternal, spiritual beings. At the same time, all the objects of love in this world are material and temporary. As a result, we cannot love without fear - fear of an end, or loss - and cannot help but withhold the full investment of our love.
A frequent theme in literature concerns a hero/ heroine who loves recklessly and without restraint, inevitably undergoes the most intense kind of suffering and finally ends up depressed or suicidal. We sometimes take these as cautionary tales. But we don't need these examples to remind us of the frustration of our existence. We have no adequate object for our love in this world.
Therefore, out of boundless compassion for us, Krishna reveals His kingdom of transcendental, unrestricted love, in which He is eternally manifest as the ultimate object of affection - the perfect hero, master, friend, child, and lover. His beauty is unrivaled, and His personality, expressed in infinitely varied exchanges of love, is ceaselessly fascinating.
When we turn to Krishna, our loving propensity breaks loose from the shackles and confines of matter and opens up into an ever-expanding flow that never meets any resistance. This is why Krishna is perpetually inviting us to come to Him in His eternal abode, and enjoy with Him forever the delights of an endless love.
posted by Vyoma at Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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