[O Killer of Demon called Madhu! You have already told about the four types of souls, which are condensed to two types in the context of love and lust. Please explain the essence of these souls to me.]

 

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

[There are two types of souls in this world:- i) The soul that tries for salvation with lot of interest in God. ii) The soul that is stuck to the worldly life only. The second type of souls are always in the bottommost level only. The first type of souls are in different levels travelling in the spiritual path to reach God.]

 

[The category of i) love-based love is the highest like the sky. The category of ii) love-based lust is in the middle place between earth and sky. The rest two categories of iii) lust-based lust and iv) lust-based love are the lowest like deeply buried in the earth, which have no opportunity to move up in the space between earth and sky.]

 

[Love is God and lust is world. Sacrifice is God and selfishness is the world. The liberated soul represents love-based love. The spiritual aspirant putting spiritual efforts constantly to reach God represents love-based lust.]

 

[The category of souls representing lust-based lust indicates the human beings, which are just like animals. Like demons, these souls are always involved in sinful actions for self-pleasure. The next category, which represents lust-based love is also existing in almost animal life only. In these souls, all their love is about lust only even in their thoughts. Between these two categories, the foremost category is always involved in the activity of lust only without having any time even for the feelings of lust and the second category at least spend some time to enjoy in lustful thoughts also apart from the activities of lust. Both these categories are almost one and the same.]

 

[It is true that the lust disappears when the soul takes an energetic body. But, even in the upper world, this lust remains in the soul as very subtle form called ‘Vāsanā’. For the soul in energetic body, even this Vāsanā becomes an obstruction to merge with God. Generally, we expect that once the soul enters the energetic body after death, the soul will merge with God since the lust automatically disappears in the energetic body. This is told because the lust present in very subtle form is neglected due to its very very small quantity. But, strictly speaking, even this subtle form of lust shall be absent for the soul to merge with God in the upper world.]

 

[If a devoted soul wants that lust to be absent even in subtle form in the upper world, the soul shall attain such state here itself while present in the materialistic body. This means that if lust is completely destroyed while you are alive, the lust will not exist even if you are in the upper world with energetic body.]

 

[If a soul gets salvation here (Jīvan Mukti), we can consider that the soul will attain the salvation when it goes to the upper world (Videha Mukti). Hence, everything is only continuation of a state without any change from here to there. Therefore, the soul has to attain the stage of love-based love without any lust in the life in this world itself.]

 

[When there are devoted souls in this world trying to remove the lust even in Vāsanā state, we shall think about such souls, which are living here having the lust in guṇa state (Lust in weak state is Vāsanā like water vapor in gaseous state. Lust with moderate strength is Saṃskāra like water in liquid state. Lust with highest strength is guṇa like ice in solid state). It is very difficult to destroy lust even in Vāsanā state while living in this world. In such case, what to speak about destroying the lust in guṇa state?]

 

[If the lust reaches the state of guṇa or quality in the case of a bound soul of Dushpravrutti, such soul is a permanently condemned soul, who will be rotating between the hell on the earth while alive and the hell present above after death and this is the endless cycle for such soul. Such soul is called as both demon and animal.]

 

[Therefore, the soul shall put highest effort in this worldly life here itself to attain salvation. In fact, salvation can be understood as impossible for any soul. Hence, you have to make the impossible thing as possible. For this, only God can help the soul. Therefore, along with the efforts for the salvation from worldly fascinations, the soul shall develop devotion to God and become a very strong devotee of God because the aim desired in this direction is very very difficult.]

 

[Even to get petty worldly fruits, the grace of God is very essential. In such case, to get the highest fruit called salvation, infinite grace of God is very very essentially required. Therefore, the devotion of the soul aspiring the salvation must also be very very high.]

 

[There are several souls, who get salvation while they are alive on this earth itself. Such divine souls are like Hanuman, Adishankara, Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Swami Vivekananda, Ramana Maharshi etc. Such divine souls were always in continuous devotion to God throughout their lives. These divine souls made their worldly thoughts, which are in the earliest state of Vāsanā, also get smashed.]

 

[There are three meanings for the word ‘kāma’:- i) General desire. ii) Sexual desire. iii) Angel cupid, who is the deity of sex. Desire when becomes very strong is called as fascination. This general fascination exists in every worldly bond. Lust is nothing but fascination for sex related to spouse-bond or any illegal darling bond.]

 

[The digested essence of food is transformed into seven vital tissues (plasma, blood, muscles, fats, bones, marrow of bones, reproductive fluid called śukram generating ovum in females and sperm in males). The seventh tissue (śukram) generates the final eighth item called ojas, which is called as the vital energy of the total life of the body.]

 

[The mind and intelligence become very strong if the senses are controlled. This is called total good health. Such good health will give super strength to the spiritual efforts of any soul done to attain God.]

 

[If you protect the seventh tissue (śukram), which contains the essence of all the preceding six tissues, the eighth wonderful product called Ojas gets well protected giving stamina to the soul in worldly works as well as in spiritual works. The soul becomes fully potent to succeed in its worldly efforts as well as spiritual efforts.]

 

[As soon as the issues are born to a couple in Gruhastha āśrama, the bond between the couple gets changed immediately from Gruhastha āśrama to Vānaprastha āśrama, in which the husband and wife behave like brother and sister with full focus on God alone. This was the most sacred tradition followed by sages, who lived in this country in ancient times.]

 

[In the ancient days, the treatment for stopping pregnancy by tablets or surgery was not there. At present, people think that having sexual union without getting pregnancy is the best solution for saving health of the body. This is not correct because the health of the body is protected only when the Ojas is conserved. The Ojas is conserved when its preceding tissue called śukram is conserved. The śukram gets destroyed by the sexual union. Hence, if good health is the aim, stopping the generation of children is not the solution and stopping the sexual union is the correct solution.]

 

[Therefore, the devotees entering Nivrutti from Pravrutti sacrifice their lust along with their spouse bonds. The physical lust is confined only to the body and the mental love is surrendered to God alone.]

 

[The love is completely confined to awareness, which is in the forms of mind (Manas), intelligence (Buddhi), memory power (Citta) and basic ego (Ahaṅkāra). Love is never related to the inert body. When the individual soul, which is made of different thoughts of awareness, is totally surrendered to God, the love is completely withdrawn from the body.]

 

[The materialised substances called hormones will create sexual feelings in the mind provided the mind is already congenial to such sexual feeling. If the mind is surrendered to God, the mind is not congenial to sexual feeling. In such case, the hormones will not become active since the mind is not congenial to the sexual feeling.]

 

[You should offer service to God for His pleasure and not for your pleasure. The ultimate stage of true love is the example of a slave without any self-identity. When Goddess Parvati succeeded in the test of God Shiva at the end of her penance, God Shiva was filled with the climax of true love towards Parvati and told “From today onwards, I have become your slave” (Adya prabhṛtyavanatāṅgi tavā'smi dāsaḥ, krītas tapobhi riti vādini candramaulau)]

 

[Here, God told like this to the climax devotee called Parvati. The ultimate aim of such saying is that the devotion of a devotee towards God also shall be like this, which is like the behaviour of a slave. Here, God became the servant of His servant to show how His servant shall be towards God.]