I LOVE something?

[ancient_paztriot]

Hridyananda…

 

What do you give to the Deity that has everything? So Krsna says there's nothing I don't have. There's nothing I'm trying for, still I work.

 

So Aristotle couldn't figure this out. So why does Krsna say (Sanskrit)? Why is Krsna still working even though He has nothing to achieve? What is He working for? He syas that I don't want anything. So why is He working?

 

He's working… He says (Sanskrit) … because if I didn't work, I would mislead other people, and out of compassion for them… out of compassion for the fallen souls I'm acting.

 

In other words, selfishness has it's antomym or it's antithesis. The antithesis of selfishness is pure love.

 

Now we may not understand this because in this world we use 'love' to describe something which is a type of affection with a healthy dose of selfishness …Lots of heaping tablespoons of selfishness mixed in.

 

When we say in this world, "Oh I love that!" … people may …just like a woman may go to the store, "Oh, I love dress!" (I don't know if people where dresses anymore. Well, whatever they wear.) "I love those clothes!" Or a man may say, "Oh I love that rifle… or I love that woman."

 

In this way, people love everything nowadays, isn't it? To give someone a nice … anything … "Oh, I love it!"

 

So in this world the word love is kind of being stripped or drained of it's meaning because it's used in so many superficial and trivial ways, in situations where what we really mean is, "I want to exploit that thing." So love just means that it pleases my senses.

 

In other words, love really… the term is an active verb… what is it called? … a verb that takes objects? … a transitive? It's a 'verb'. We say I love someone or I love something. In other words, I want to give to that thing. If you love your country you want to give everything to your countyry - even your life. If you love another person you want to give everything… give your whole self to that person.

 

But now the word love is used exactly in the apathetical sense. When I say I love something I mean it gives me something. It does something for me. Isn't it?

 

"Oh, I love this food." In other words this food does something for me, it's giving me something."

 

So it's interesting to see how the language has become reversed and inverted. A verb which… actually means giving and not taking.

 

So therefore, we love things… but when we say we love something it's mixed with so many selfish desires that we don't really see love as the antithesis of selfishness. Love is just one aspect of selfish pursuit.