|| Om Namo Bhagavathe Vasudevaya||

Chapter – 339 – The legend of Lord Krishna -  190

Bhagavan speaks “ Oh! Udhdhava, The Prakrithi is the mixture of purities and impurities, the essential five elements such as Earth, Air, Ether, Water, and Fire have no impurities in it, even when it resides in the human body, these elements are void of impurities.  Oh! Udhdhava, whoever engages in the constant contemplation upon me will have ‘Shaucham’/purity/detachment to Sthoolashareera, they remain pure, therefore none of the thoughts could impure them.  The mind and intellect get impure with the worldly matters and bondages, the constant contemplation upon me remove those impurities from the mind.  Oh! Udhdhava, people who are soaked in worldly matters and bondage, live in utter illusion, anxiousness, fear, grief, excessive desires, and lust, are equivalent to dead.  Their intense lust and desire, will not let them realize the nature of the supreme soul, they are wasting their lives on Earth, like a tree.  They consume a meal to build the flesh and ruin their lives. They are ignorant who caught in the Phalashruthi/performing deeds expecting the fruitful results, intellectuals will not follow any of these absurdities.  They will not look for fruitful results in the Karma; they perform all the deeds with utmost sincerity and devotion, surrendering all the deeds and fruitful results to me.  They accept the results of the Karma with contentment, as the grace of me and elevate their souls, eventually attain the bliss.  Oh! Udhdhava, if you contemplate upon me without any qualms and doubts, you could elevate your soul.”

The illustrious Rishis and Sages describe the definition of ‘Love’ and its necessities in material life and spiritual life, and the balancing act of the same.   In the material life feeling of ‘Love’ is an emotion, it is an expression of intimacy to the other person, being loved and became enslaved by love, gradually it will lead to fear or grief, either fear of separation or fear of uncertainties.  The animals do not get attached to each other, they mate each other and get satisfied, therefore the expression of love is not a burden for them, and so they do not have fear of separation, insecurities or grief.  Interestingly, in material life people, possessions, fame, richness, are under the constant influence of ‘Time’, therefore the love in material life is impermanent as its nature.   The spiritual love is the understanding of the supreme soul who is the source of the functioning of the mind, intellect, Gnana and Karmendhriyas, Panchapranas, it has neither birth nor death, it is beyond ‘Time’ and it is void of change or impurities.  Spiritual love is the love for the supreme soul which is beyond ‘Time’, and changeless, and the outcome remains as its nature.