Category:Real Love
Theme Analysis
The concept of real love, as presented in these teachings, transcends the temporary, lust-driven affections of the material world. By deeply analyzing the provided quotes, it becomes clear that true love is an eternal, unmotivated, and spiritual exchange between the pure soul and the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. The material world only offers a perverted reflection of this love, characterized by frustration, conditionality, and bodily identification. A practitioner achieves true universal love not by loving everyone individually in a material sense, but by directing all love to the supreme root, God, which naturally encompasses all living entities.
- The Illusion of Material Affection: Affection based on the physical body and temporary relationships is not actual love but lust, which inevitably leads to frustration when material desires are unfulfilled.
- The Perverted Reflection: The love experienced in the material world is described as a shadow or a distorted reflection of the soul's original, eternal relationship with the Supreme Lord.
- The Supreme Object of Devotion: Real love is directed exclusively toward Kṛṣṇa, the all-attractive Supreme Personality of Godhead, and is exchanged without any expectation of material return.
- Universal Equality Through Devotion: True universal love and equality (samah sarvesu bhutesu) are only realized when one loves Kṛṣṇa, just as watering the root of a tree nourishes all its leaves and branches.
- The Eternal Engagement: Reawakening this unmotivated, continuous, and unending loving service (prema) to the Lord is the ultimate goal of human life and the essence of spiritual perfection.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Spiritual Essence of Real Love in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.
Pages in category "Real Love"
The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total.
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- A boy, a girl or a man, a woman in relationship of love but it breaks as soon as the lusty desire is not fulfilled. So here there is no question of love. It is all lusty desire. Real love can be achieved when it is exchanged with Krsna or God
- A little love for God can save you from the greatest danger of life. That is real love. So if you love Krsna, then you can love with everyone
- As explained in Caitanya-caritamrta, loving service to the PG is of two different kinds: aisvarya-purna, full of opulence, and aisvarya-sithila, without opulence. Real love of Godhead begins with aisvarya-sithila, simply on the basis of pure love
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- Everyone is trying to love something: either personally his body, senses, or expanded: wife, children - family, community, society and country, humanity, extending. But there is no, I mean to say, satisfaction. Because the real lovable object is Krsna
- Everyone loves somebody. But we are being frustrated, because that is not real love
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- If actually there is any sympathizer for the fallen conditioned souls, he is a Vaisnava. He knows why they are suffering. Therefore he wants to give him the information: "My dear friend, you are suffering simply for forgetting your real lover, Krsna"
- If we approach God for some material benefit, for personal sense gratification, that may break at any time. So that is not real love. Real love is without cause
- If we reestablish our relationship, or our original relationship with Krsna, and Krsna is for everyone, therefore I become for everyone. That is real universal love
- If we want real transcendental love, we have to transfer our love to the supreme lovable object - the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is the basic principle of Krsna consciousness
- If we want real, transcendental love, we have to transfer our love to the supreme lovable object - Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is the basic principle of Krsna consciousness - CC Intro
- If you want real love, real position, then you have to transfer your, these loving propensities in five different kinds of mellows to Krsna. Then it will be permanent, and you'll be happy
- In our original relationship with the Supreme Lord there is real love, and that love is reflected pervertedly through material conditions
- In our original relationship with the Supreme Lord there is real love, and that love is reflected pervertedly through material conditions - CC Intro
- In this material world there is only reflection of that love. Actually, there is no love. It is the mirage in the desert. Therefore, if we want really love, this word can be applied only to Krsna, all-attractive
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- Our aim is how to become free from this material bondage and real sneha, real affection, real love should be spread. And that can be done through Krsna consciousness. Otherwise, it is all false
- Our real love is continuous and unending, but because that love is reflected pervertedly in this material world, it lacks continuity and is inebriating
- Our real love is continuous and unending, but because that love is reflected pervertedly in this material world, it lacks continuity and is inebriating - CC Intro
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- Real love and devotion is accepted by the Lord. Many valuable foodstuffs may be presented to a person, but if the person is not hungry, all such offerings are useless for him
- Real love begins when you try to give God. Everyone is trying to take from God, "Oh father, give us our daily bread." This is not pure devotee. This is good because he has approached God, but this is not devotion
- Real love can be perceived only on the platform of Krishna Consciousness where there is no possibility of thinking oneself in the bodily concept of life
- Real love cannot be appreciated with our, this material senses. Whatever we appreciate or experience by the material senses, that is not love, that is lust
- Real love for God is called prema, the highest perfectional stage of life. BG 1972 purports
- Real love is gold, and the so-called love, or lust, is iron
- Real love is to myself. So naturally, if you love yourself, then this self is the part and parcel of the Superself. Therefore you love indirectly the Superself
- Real love of Krsna becomes manifested when Krsna becomes the recipient of charity and the devotee becomes the giver
- Real love, if it is executed for the service of the Lord, then our life is successful
- Real love, the friendship is there between Krsna and His cowherds boy. Real love between animal and man is there - Krsna is loving the cows and calves. Real love between trees, flowers, water. Simply that is the platform of love. That is spiritual world
- Regarding love affairs in the material world: they are only shadows or reflections of the real love with Krishna
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- Samah sarvesu bhutesu. Equality to all living entities. That is real love. That is real concern, Krsna consciousness. A lover of Krsna will hesitate to kill even one ant
- Simply I love you and you love me, formality, but there is no service, that is not real love
- Since the performance of sacrifice culminates in the manifestation of real love for Lord Visnu, loving devotional service to Lord Visnu is the very best form of sacrifice
- Spiritual life means to develop real love. Everyone says love. There are so many signboards, so many papers, "love, love." But there is no love. This is illusion. It is all lust. Love for intoxication, love for sex, love for this... This is going on
- Svarupa Damodara Gosvami strictly prohibits the behavior of the materialistic so-called hearers of Srimad-Bhagavatam. Instead of awakening real love for Krsna, such hearers of the Bhagavatam become more and more attached to household affairs and sex life
- Symptom of love means when one is eager to render some service to the beloved. That is love. Simply I love you and you love me, formality, but there is no service, that is not real love
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- Tamasi ma jyotir gama: "Go to the light." Have real friendship, real fatherhood, real lover, real beloved, real son
- That is Radha-Krsna. That is real love. There is no separation. There is no cheating. There is no divorce. There is no sex attraction. Simply for love's sake, loving, that is real love
- The demigod-worshippers have no real love or devotion for the particular demigod they worship
- The nature of love is this, that the lover wants every moment to see without any remuneration, without any return. That is real love
- There is no love. So the nature of love is this, that the lover wants every moment to see without any remuneration, without any return. That is real love
- This is a manifestation of real love (Tapana Misra and Candrasekhara's decision to give up their lives because they could not stop Mayavadis' criticizing Caitanya) for Krsna and Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu
- This is Vaisnava philosophy. "Krsna may be very cruel, but I cannot withdraw my love for Him." This is real love. "If Krsna benefits me, then I will love," then that is not love; that is business
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- We are giving Krsna consciousness. That is loving, real loving. We are giving him eternal life, eternal bliss. Unless we love them, why we are taking so much trouble?
- We are loving our society, loving this body, loving our family, loving our kinsmen, or loving internationally human society. But this love is actually perverted reflection of real love of God
- Whatever love we see in this world, that love is only a perverted reflection of that real love with Krsna