The Power of Love, The Power of Attraction
Although love is of various types and may mean different things to different people, putting semantics aside for the moment, love's attractive, energetic power is a force to be dealt with and naturally nurtured, in everyone's timeless journey of conscious awareness.
Usually, love and attraction go hand in hand, reciprocated between a lover and beloved. But other times, a one-way attraction can be felt for a person or object, where an exploitative, consumerism-type mentality predominates, devoid of any genuine affection for the person or thing being objectified. Such a "love" then degrades into a selfish compulsion, rather than reciprocal bliss.
The Oxford Dictionary includes these dual components in it's definition of love: an intense feeling of deep affection, a great interest and pleasure in something. One may wonder about love's source.
The type of attraction felt for animate or inanimate objects, is first felt in the subjective mind of an observer; who's particular tastes have been developed over time, and fed by one's particular set of senses, grouped around the mind. In other words each individual has a particular set of senses and mental constructs, which determine what's attractive or not, on the subjective conscious level. How each person's individual tastes and desires are manifested over time, is described nicely in the Bhagavad Gita, As It Is - texts 15.8-11
"The living entity in the material world carries his different conceptions of life from one body to another as the air carries aromas.
The living entity, thus taking another gross body, obtains a certain type of ear, tongue, and nose and sense of touch, which are grouped about the mind. He thus enjoys a particular set of sense objects.
The foolish cannot understand how a living entity can quit his body, nor can they understand what sort of body he enjoys under the spell of the modes of nature. But one whose eyes are trained in knowledge can see all this.
The endeavoring transcendentalist, who is situated in self-realization, can see all this clearly. But those who are not situated in self-realization cannot see what is taking place, though they may try to."
How a person interacts with the object of desire or attraction, depends on the individual's nature as to mind, intelligence, material ego, as well as one's heart of hearts (real spiritual ego/identity) One's pure spiritual heart and soul, is underlying the other 3 subtle material bodies (mind, intelligence, false ego). It is on the platform of pure spiritual identity that one can reciprocate love of an eternal nature, with the Supreme Source of love, even in the present moment, in one's present body with one's purified transcendental senses. One way to awaken the spiritual senses, is through repeating the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra; the great chant/prayer for deliverance.
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare
"The living entity in the material world carries his different conceptions of life from one body to another as the air carries aromas.
The living entity, thus taking another gross body, obtains a certain type of ear, tongue, and nose and sense of touch, which are grouped about the mind. He thus enjoys a particular set of sense objects.
The foolish cannot understand how a living entity can quit his body, nor can they understand what sort of body he enjoys under the spell of the modes of nature. But one whose eyes are trained in knowledge can see all this.
The endeavoring transcendentalist, who is situated in self-realization, can see all this clearly. But those who are not situated in self-realization cannot see what is taking place, though they may try to."
How a person interacts with the object of desire or attraction, depends on the individual's nature as to mind, intelligence, material ego, as well as one's heart of hearts (real spiritual ego/identity) One's pure spiritual heart and soul, is underlying the other 3 subtle material bodies (mind, intelligence, false ego). It is on the platform of pure spiritual identity that one can reciprocate love of an eternal nature, with the Supreme Source of love, even in the present moment, in one's present body with one's purified transcendental senses. One way to awaken the spiritual senses, is through repeating the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra; the great chant/prayer for deliverance.
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare
Love, and Rumours of Love
Govinda - Giver of Pleasure to the Transcendent Senses
Prayers from Lord Brahma the secondary, co-creator of the material universe to Sri Krishna.
Brahma Samhita text 1,32,33,35,37,38
Brahma Samhita text 1,32,33,35,37,38
Kṛṣṇa who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes.
I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, whose transcendental form is full of bliss, truth, substantiality and is thus full of the most dazzling splendor. Each of the limbs of that transcendental figure possesses in Himself, the full-fledged functions of all the organs, and eternally sees, maintains and manifests the infinite universes, both spiritual and mundane.
I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is inaccessible to the Vedas, but obtainable by pure unalloyed devotion of the soul, who is without a second, who is not subject to decay, is without a beginning, whose form is endless, who is the beginning, and the eternal puruṣa; yet He is a person possessing the beauty of blooming youth.
He is an undifferentiated entity as there is no distinction between potency and the possessor thereof. In His work of creation of millions of worlds, His potency remains inseparable. All the universes exist in Him and He is present in His fullness in every one of the atoms that are scattered throughout the universe, at one and the same time. Such is the primeval Lord whom I adore.
I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, whose transcendental form is full of bliss, truth, substantiality and is thus full of the most dazzling splendor. Each of the limbs of that transcendental figure possesses in Himself, the full-fledged functions of all the organs, and eternally sees, maintains and manifests the infinite universes, both spiritual and mundane.
I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is inaccessible to the Vedas, but obtainable by pure unalloyed devotion of the soul, who is without a second, who is not subject to decay, is without a beginning, whose form is endless, who is the beginning, and the eternal puruṣa; yet He is a person possessing the beauty of blooming youth.
He is an undifferentiated entity as there is no distinction between potency and the possessor thereof. In His work of creation of millions of worlds, His potency remains inseparable. All the universes exist in Him and He is present in His fullness in every one of the atoms that are scattered throughout the universe, at one and the same time. Such is the primeval Lord whom I adore.
I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, residing in His own realm, Goloka, with Rādhā, resembling His own spiritual figure, the embodiment of the ecstatic potency possessed of the sixty-four artistic activities, in the company of Her confidantes [sakhīs], embodiments of the extensions of Her bodily form, permeated and vitalized by His ever-blissful spiritual rasa.
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I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is Śyāmasundara, Kṛṣṇa Himself with inconceivable innumerable attributes, whom the pure devotees see in their heart of hearts with the eye of devotion tinged with the salve of love.
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