The Land of Krishna Has So Much to Offer

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THE SPEAKING TREE: The Land of Krishna

Has So Much to Offer

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In our quest for materialistic goals or spiritualistic loftiness we

forget that life needs certain basic qualities to make the world a

better place to live and evolve.

 

For example, take the case of marriages

the world over. It is not very astonishing to find that as the divorce

rate goes on increasing more and more people — especially in the West —

prefer staying alone or without the rigid framework of marriage.

 

Social norms are taking new contours. In

France, a small but growing number of couples are taking advantage of a

new law recognising civil

partnerships, which provides for legal recognition of a couple but stops

short of the entanglements of a marriage.

 

Each human being has the right to be

happy. Love between a man and a woman is indeed one of the means to

find this way, but increasingly, this choice seems difficult.

 

A high court judge would prefer to call

love as a subject matter belonging purely to the taste and liking of an individual person.

 

However, to place Love under the

restricted domain of individuals would be a folly for Love is universal

and so Love cannot be

categorised or subjected to physical beings.

 

Love is a subject without end. Nothing

could be easier and all the same more difficult than to love someone.

Misconceptions about love are one and many.

 

However, love is very simple. To find

love it is useless to run everywhere and after everyone. To put it

simply, every individual is a bundle of love.

 

Everything depends on you. However,

people are not able to comprehend the basics about love. In France, for

example, after much consideration and with all the panoply of the

cabinets of psychotherapy and personal development, one still wonders:

"But is that what love is about? "Everywhere one ends up finding a

world of violence and indifference.

 

It is confusing for the intellectual and

the average person is just clueless. One does not know and ends up

running after small transitory

satisfactions.

 

What a waste, because the pleasure

passes before the smile. Finally, one discovers that love under the

umbrella of marriage is the most difficult way to purify a heart.

 

As society is geared by technological

advancements taking us to new shores in amusement, entertainment and

communication, the principle tenets of love and relationship is left

behind.

 

Love cannot be confined to individuals.

Love is basically an abstract feeling that cannot be contained behind

barriers. It can be related to human evolution for certain persons are

more inclined towards love and are able to share their feelings on a

wider canvas.

 

To love someone veritably it has to be

unconditional. For any expectations on the part of a person is bound to

raise certain conflicts in the relationship.

 

To love unconditionally is not easy but

it is not that difficult either. As genetic research keeps unfolding it

will be clear that various categories of love can be traced to some

neuronal activity or genes that one inherits.

 

However, one can consciously try to

evolve and make the quality of neuronal connections better. Many people

regard Krishna as the lover who went after Gopis. Actually, Krishna was

able to overcome all his desires (vasanas). Thus his love towards the

Gopis was unconditional and pure.

 

That was the reason the Gopis went after

him madly even forgetting social norms and their households. The world

needs a better understanding

of love and that is the only way one can withstand the dynamics of

today' fast-paced world.

 

Indeed, India as the Land of Krishna has

a lot to offer to the world.