[O Shri Krishna! Who can reveal the essence of the Veda except Yourself? I like to know the difference between love and lust. Please explain to me this difference so that I can understand the spiritual knowledge very clearly.]

 

Śrī Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Uvāca:-
[God Shri Krishna spoke:-]

[When the love is confined only to sexual union, such narrow love is called as lust by the scholars. If the love extends to all angles as most broad generalised item, such love is called as love as per the knowledge of spiritual scholars.]

 

[Lust is limited to the process of sexual union. Love is always limited to a personality liked. Lust is born by some chemicals called hormones. Love is born from infinite number of past births.]

 

[The twelve Gopikas, who passed the tests of all the three worldly bonds (fascinations to wealth, issues and wife) represent that pure love. The other Gopikas, who passed only the test of spouse-bond represent that impure lust.]

 

[If one is attached to a worldly item in all angles, such attachment is called as love. If the same love exists when the soul is attached to God, such love is called as devotion. There is no trace of difference between love and devotion except the attached goals. If you understand that both are one and the same in essence, devotion is very clearly understood.]

 

[The devotee crossing Pravrutti and standing in Nivrutti leaves both the worldly bond and its fascination. Such greatest devotee crosses even justice (Pravrutti) due to his/her purest love to God. Such devotee is the highest climax devotee.]

 

[The soul immersed in Dushpravrutti is controlled by both the worldly bond and its fascination. That soul is a sinner. In this transformation from Dushpravrutti to Pravrutti, the worldly bond is changed, but not its fascination. Such bad female souls are transformed to Pravrutti by having lust on God. Slowly on studying the divine personality of God, they leave lust on the unjust bonds retaining lust on the justified bond. These devotees travel from the lowest Dushpravrutti and stand in the middle Pravrutti. Among such devotees, one fortunate devotee leaves even the justified Pravrutti and enters into Nivrutti developing pure love to God.]

 

[Each patient will have a mixture of diseases in a specific ratio. The doctor will develop a specific mixture of treatments for each patient. Similarly, every human being has a specific mixture of various qualities and the divine preacher or the contemporary human incarnation develops a specific mixture of various spiritual paths for every devoted human being. Two patients and two devotees are not totally similar. Hence, generalization is impossible in medical treatment and spiritual guidance.]

 

[If one follows the eight Ayurvedic principles, such a person will not get illness. These principles must be followed by every human being whether it is male or female.]

 

[The eight condensed Ayurvedic principles are:- i) You should eat the food that does not bring disease. ii) You should eat well cooked food that is slightly hot. iii) You should eat the food in limited quantity and not in excess. iv) After eating food, you must walk. v) When you lie down, you shall keep your left side of the body downwards. vi) You shall not restrict urination. vii) You shall not restrict excretion. viii) You should control your sexual activity as far as possible. The human being whether male or female following these principles will be highly energetic and will be able to do worldly efforts as well as spiritual efforts.]

 

[Lust follows the nature of food taken. If you take food of Sattvam quality, lust will be fully controlled. If you take Rajasic and Tamasic foods, lust will be very high (refer the Gita for identifying foods). Generally, males have less power to control lust. Of course, scriptures say that females eat two times more than males and possess lust eight times more (Strīṇāṃ dviguṇa māhāram, strīṇā maṣṭa gunaḥ kāmaḥ). But, they also possess many more times the power of resistance to lust.]

 

[Therefore, female birth is selected as the final birth for salvation. This doesn’t mean that all females are in their final births. In deciding the female birth for male souls as the final birth, there are several reasons.]

 

[Lust is always in the form of action. Love is always in the form of firm thoughts related to mind and intelligence. By this, you should not mistake that love is only theoretical, whereas lust is only practical. Theoretical love results in practical sacrifice in all angles around. Love alone is the basis for all types of practical sacrifice.]

 

[Lust always contains selfishness due to the desire for self-pleasure. Love always contains sacrifice without selfishness. Desiring union with God is selfishness based on self-pleasure. Love is the reverse of this. If God desires the union with a soul, the soul shall be prepared to sacrifice anything for the sake of the pleasure of God (this is only an assumption). Selfish aspiration in return for the love to God is strictly prohibited. Such love with total surrender without any selfish desire in return from God is climax devotion (Parābhakti).]

 

[God will never have lustful desires on souls. He is always the perfect celibate without any slip anywhere at any time. If God gets such lustful desire, His inherent power called Mahā Māyā is always ready for God.]

 

[People shall not twist the above statement and say that God may get lust sometimes. God is always the embodiment of pure love and is the possessor of an infinite ocean of bliss.]

 

[If sweet devotion with the female embodiment of His inherent power is not exhibited, people may say that God is an impotent masculine personality. Moreover, romance is included as one of His auspicious qualities and deficiency in the auspicious qualities is not good since it disturbs the fully satisfied devotion of devotees. Based on this reason, He appears as a romantic hero with love-based lust on His power called Mahā Māyā.]

 

[Four possibilities result when love and lust are combined:- i) Love based love. ii) Lust based lust. iii) Love based lust. iv) Lust based love. The first and third possibilities are pure related to divine life, whereas the second and fourth possibilities are impure related to worldly life. Love is fire and burns the lust–matter, which results in pure ash.]

 

[In the sexual life of Radha and Krishna or Sita and Rama, lust is not important. In their sexual lives, only love is very important. If the attachment pervades on all sides, it is love. If the attachment proceeds in one side only, it is lust. Lust is a very minute part of love.]

 

 

[The ancient sages (males and females) must be the ultimate examples for us since they are the climax scholars of spiritual path. They limited their lust by two rules:- i) Lust shall be confined to the justified life partner only and ii) Lust shall not be extended after getting children.]

 

[A spiritual aspirant must make the higher spiritual aspirants like sages as the goal so that the ordinary human soul can easily follow their life as the example everywhere in worldly life or spiritual life. The ordinary human soul shall not fix God as its goal since the life of God in human form is not easy to understand for the limited intelligence of human souls.]

 

[If you read the story of God, it will create love on God. For the sake of correct knowledge of the correct path to reach God, you must read the stories of devotees. The story of a devotee will act like a torchlight to show the spiritual path very clearly.]

 

[A spiritual aspirant shall follow the devotees, who are climbing towards God. One should see God, who is sitting on the top of the tree, who already climbed the tree. God in the top of the tree must attract the two eyes to develop the devotion on God. The climbing devotees must attract the two legs so that one can climb the tree.]

 

[The soul may be in the spiritual path, but does not leave its inherent nature, which is that he/she is the essence of lust and worldly desires only. The liberated souls, who are merged in God alone possess the pure love to God and such souls are totally surrendered to God without any aspiration even when they accompany God on earth.]

 

Śrī Rādhādevī Uvāca:-
[Shri Radha Devi spoke:-]

[How can Gopikas differentiate the real form from the illusory form while they are seeing the illusory form with faith that it is Your true form? Such differentiating knowledge is essential for me also. Otherwise, in reality, I may be one of these Gopikas and You may be the illusory form of God Krishna. O Lord! Please clarify this concept.]

 

Śrī Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Uvāca:-
[God Shri Krishna spoke:-]

[O Radha! You don’t have mental stability. Hence, you are often asking Me this same question again and again. I have to give a suitable answer for your question. My answer is that if you are a Gopika, I am certainly the illusory form of God Krishna in which there is no trace of doubt.]

 

[Certainly, there is a possibility for you to be an ordinary Gopika and certainly, there is a possibility of Myself being illusory Krishna. In such case, as per the plan of this program, the Gopika shall believe the illusory Krishna as real Krishna. Had you felt Me as real Krishna, the above possibility is having every chance to be true. But, you are doubting Me as illusory Krishna, which is against the plan of the program. Therefore, your thinking can be proved as unreal. This means that neither you are Gopika nor I am an illusory Krishna.]

 

[The alternative possibility leftover is that you are the embodiment of My inherent power called Mahā Māyā and I am the incarnation of Parabrahman. In this possibility also, you may get an inevitable doubt, which is that why you are unable to recognize yourself, whereas I am always recognizing Myself.]

 

[I am in the role of the divine preacher to remove the ignorance of devotees. You are in the role of a devotee with ignorance. You have to become My student and disciple to learn the spiritual knowledge from Me to remove your superimposed ignorance and propagate My spiritual knowledge to the devotees to stand as the leader for devotees in the spiritual path.]

 

[Whatever is happening, all that is as per the will of Parabrahman only and this is the divine plan. Hence, I am not worried at all. Only you are worried due to the ignorance pressing you that is necessary for your role.]

 

[If a scientist creates two exactly similar items, we can find the difference between the two items using our sharper scientific knowledge. But, if the unimaginable God or Parabrahman wishes that even two clear distinct items shall not be differentiated, even the greatest scientist can’t differentiate the two different items using even his climax scientific knowledge.]

 

[Therefore, it is impossible for the human beings having little capability of intelligence to distinguish illusory Krishna from real Krishna in spite of their climax hectic efforts. After knowing this truth, don’t waste your time in trying to understand the difference between illusory and real forms of God Krishna. This concept is beyond worldly logic since it is introduced by the divine will.]

 

[All this world, which is made of inert and non-inert items, is just My will only. Whether it is inert item or non-inert item, every item follows My will only.]

 

[I have created this rāsa-dance as the path for salvation. Accordingly, this plan of rāsa-dance will give salvation to any soul. There will be no alternative to My will. Ignorant people attribute several misinterpretations for this rāsa-dance. All those will be useless and become waste.]

 

[Instead of realizing that God is helping the lustful devotees in reformation and spiritual upliftment, the ignorant fools criticize Me as monger of romance with females. In My view, all this world is just My imagination and My will only. Therefore, all these ignorant critics are also giving Me a variety of entertainment only.]

 

[Some unmarried Gopikas were doing the worship of Goddess Katyayani Devi with a desire to get Me as their husband. They went to Yamuna River and were taking bath nakedly. The ethical scripture says that one should not take bath nakedly without wrapping the body with a towel. I preached them the justified tradition.]

 

[I stole their clothes kept on the bank of river Yamuna. When they prayed Me to return their clothes, I pressed them to do salutation to Me with both raised hands. They did so and I returned them their clothes. I preached them about the justified tradition of taking bath. Anyway, I am going to be their husband in future since they are worshipping for that purpose only and hence, the sin can’t touch Me (Just like the illusory Krishnas created by God Krishna danced with other Gopikas, these Gopikas were also married by illusory Krishnas only. God Krishna told here that He will marry these Gopikas as an arthavāda because so far, He didn’t reveal the secret of creating illusory Krishnas except to Radha alone just now. God Krishna seeing the naked bodies of these Gopikas is not a sin in the view point that God Krishna is creator of this world.).]

 

[Not only were they preached in the ethical scripture, but also were preached clearly in the spiritual knowledge. These Gopikas along with all other Gopikas are sacred sages doing penance in the past several births to attain My grace. These Gopikas recognized Me as God with their spiritual power and have undisturbed firm faith that I am God.]

 

[The bodies of all the souls are created and grown by Me only. The Veda says that creation, maintenance and dissolution of this entire world are the three divine actions of God only.]

 

[I am the creator of this entire world and every atom of this world is designed and materialized by Me. The body of any soul is a tiny part of this world only. To hide the body before Me with shyness is total ignorance. Will such ignorance be the spiritual knowledge of God? What is there in My imaginary world that is not seen by Me?]

 

[Even though these Gopikas were divine sages and perfectly knew all the Vedic spiritual knowledge, they forgot all that sacred knowledge once they were born in the bodies of female Gopikas having qualities like shyness. They resulted as ignorant souls due to the effect of the medium that is associated with them. The deepest spiritual knowledge shall be always beyond the influence of associated medium.]

 

[These worldly people are ignorant being trapped by the illusory world and hence, they speak about Me as womanizer. These people have very strong cataracts on both their eyes. One cataract is the ignorance of true knowledge and the other cataract is the knowledge of falsity, which means that they believe falsity as truth.]