The Perfection of Love

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Hare Krishna,

"The Perfection of Love"

Everyone is looking for love. Even plants and animals thrive on love, what to speak of human beings. How we can achieve the perfection of love? The more we can give love to others, the more we become happy. Simply trying to take love leaves one feeling selfish, dirty, and guilty. We become happy to the extent that we can selflessly give our love to others. The more our circle of love expands, the more our happiness expands. When we have mastered the art of expanding our circle of love to include everything, we have reached perfection. This is the ultimate level self-realization and is known as universal consciousness or

Krishna consciousness. What is the practical technique for achieving that perfection of love? It is simply a matter of seeking out the source for all of existence, the universal root of all being and fully reposing our love there. Fortunately that ultimate source is a person whom we can learn to trust and love as our dearest friend. If we had to repose our love in impersonal oneness or nothingness, this would prove to be rather frustrating. In fact it would be impossible. As the original source that person is the mother and

father of all that exists. That person has revealed Himself to us as Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, through His appearance on this planet 5,000 years ago and through the realizations of great, enlightened spiritual personalities throughout the ages. Our very psyche, when stripped free of all material conditioning, is naturally a pure lover of Krishna, the Supreme God. Therefore the self-realization process is simply a process of being who we are, in the real sense of the term. Self-realization is simply a process of cleansing our mind of all the dirt accumulated through millions of lifetimes of transmigration in the cycle of birth and death. The practical techniques of purifying our consciousness have varied throughout the ages. In the Satya Yuga when people lived to be 100,000 years old the method was the mystic yoga system. The great sage Valmiki, the compiler of the Ramayana, sat in yogic meditation for 60,000 years to achieve his perfection. In the following age, the Treta Yuga, when people lived to be 10,000 years old, great sacrificial ceremonies performed by brahmanas, which induced the appearance of the Supreme Lord Himself, were the method of achieving perfection. In the prior age, known as Dvapara Yuga when people lived to be 1,000 years old, opulent temple worship was the prescribed means of self-realization. Now we are in the age of

Kali, when the life span is reduced to 100 years and is shrinking down gradually until someone who is from twenty to thirty years old will be considered a grand old man. In this age the recommended means is to chant the holy names of Sri Krishna. As Krishna, the Supreme God is unlimited, He has unlimited names. Any of these names can be chanted for achieving perfection. However, there is one particular mantra which is most recommended in the Vedic scriptures as the most powerful means of purifying the consciousness. That is the Hare Krishna mantra :

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare HareHare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare

If you chant these names on a regular daily basis you will quickly advance on the spiritual perfection and will achieve the ultimate nirvana of pure love for Sri Krishna . Since Krishna is the root cause of everything you will then become the perfect lover of all living beings including yourself. Please take this chanting process very seriously.Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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