So called love

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KŠa tells Arjuna, His disciple, that “It is lust only... which is the

all-devouring, sinful enemy of this world.” (Bg. 3.37) In the Vedic language

there is no word for materialistic “love,” as we call it in the present day.

The word k€ma describes lust or material desire, not love, but the word that

we find in the Vedas for actual love is prem€, meaning one’s love of God

only. Outside of loving God there is no possibility of loving. Rather, there

is lusty desire only. Within this atmosphere of matter, the entire range of

human activities—and not only every activity of human beings but all living

entities—is based upon, given impetus and thus polluted by sex desire, the

attraction between male and female. For that sex life, the whole universe is

spinning around—and suffering! That is the harsh truth. So-called love here

means that “you gratify my senses, I’ll gratify your senses,” and as soon as

that gratification stops, immediately there is divorce, separation, quarrel,

and hatred. So many things are going on under this false conception of love.

Actual love means love of God, KŠa. (from SSR)