It's a common saying that 'Love is blind' which means Love is blind to reason, common sense and logic. In fact traditionally Cupid(love God) is also pictured as blind with arrow in hands.
Actually real love is not blind, it not only opens the eyes but illuminates the everything around. There is common misunderstanding between love and lust. What people mean to say is that lust is blind, sense gratification is blind, when senses sees the sense objects they desire to enjoy them without bothering for further consequences. Just like moth rushes to the fire getting attracted with something illuminating, it doesn't bother for future results thus although having eyes moth is considered as blind.
To fulfil the lust, to perform sense gratification is also not so easy just like animals do whenever they want. But for humans we have pay heavy amount in terms of physical and mental endeavour but at the end one realises that pleasure is totally insignificant compared to endeavours gone to have it. But people keep hoping from material nature that one day we will become successful in enjoying the senses at the topmost level even though getting defeated again and again they try different methods of sense gratification thus gets entangled in laws of karma.
As a soul we have an eternal relationship with the God, we are eternal lovers of him but due to misidentification with this material body we have completely forgotten to love him and serve him instead we started loving and serving our own senses. Devotional service is a process of again engaging ourselves in the service of God thus developing forgotten loving relationship with Him. This love reveals that service to Lord is real aim of life and can provide pleasure for soul. In conclusion when we start loving God without having ulterior motives it opens our eyes to eternal realities.
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
Actually real love is not blind, it not only opens the eyes but illuminates the everything around. There is common misunderstanding between love and lust. What people mean to say is that lust is blind, sense gratification is blind, when senses sees the sense objects they desire to enjoy them without bothering for further consequences. Just like moth rushes to the fire getting attracted with something illuminating, it doesn't bother for future results thus although having eyes moth is considered as blind.
To fulfil the lust, to perform sense gratification is also not so easy just like animals do whenever they want. But for humans we have pay heavy amount in terms of physical and mental endeavour but at the end one realises that pleasure is totally insignificant compared to endeavours gone to have it. But people keep hoping from material nature that one day we will become successful in enjoying the senses at the topmost level even though getting defeated again and again they try different methods of sense gratification thus gets entangled in laws of karma.
As a soul we have an eternal relationship with the God, we are eternal lovers of him but due to misidentification with this material body we have completely forgotten to love him and serve him instead we started loving and serving our own senses. Devotional service is a process of again engaging ourselves in the service of God thus developing forgotten loving relationship with Him. This love reveals that service to Lord is real aim of life and can provide pleasure for soul. In conclusion when we start loving God without having ulterior motives it opens our eyes to eternal realities.
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
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