LOVE ( SRADDHA TO PREMA)

Love, by Javier Figiuerola

All things in the material world are influenced by the three modes of material nature, goodness, passion and ignorance, we will try to analyze love as the three modes of material nature. In Spain and around the world there are lot of domestic violence, I remember a poster of battered women who put a fist and said: IF YOU LOVE FOR YOU PEGA, this is love in the mode of ignorance, also prostitution and movies adult sex are in love under ignorance, passion love is influenced by attraction to the opposite sex, at first begins as nectar and ends up as a poison, as I said a great saint and spiritual master of India, I like you and the next moment I do not like you, and love kindness is when people have put into their lives or genuine spiritual life and sexual life used only to procreate. Note that interesting that in Sanskrit is the original language of all languages and also says that spoken in the spiritual world, the word love is PREMA, PREMA MEANS PURE LOVE FOR GOD, and the word for love of people for each other is KAMA KAMA MEANS LUST, lust means enjoying God removing material from the scene. We also understand that love more like love for God in the material world is the love of the mother for her child, the mother love without wanting anything in return. It is said that the goal of human life is to have PURE LOVE OF GOD, THE ONE WHO LOVES GOD LOVES ALL AND ALL, BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY GOD AND ENERGY. To reach this goal we must go through nine stages, these are:

1 - You have to have a lot of faith, faith can move mountains, faith means to have complete conviction that by chanting the holy names of God automatically shall perform all duties and will complete all pious activities that those without faith are unfit to sing holy names.

2 - Partnership of devotees: By partnering with serious and sincere devotees of God one faith increases, association of devotees each other means that will help advance in spiritual life.

3 - Spiritual Initiation: One must be initiated by a bona fide spiritual master must be received spiritual initiation from a spiritual master in the disciplic succession belonging and who has been authorized by the spiritual master who preceded him, that is called diksa-vidhana . In connection with the opening is said: While we are not initiated by a bona fide spiritual master, all our devotional activities are useless, even one can descend back to the animal species.

4 - Cleaning the heart of material contaminations: The result of following the orders given by the bona fide spiritual master is that a heart cleaning dirty things such as lust, anger, greed, envy, madness and illusion. I remember a teacher espiritusal genuine told one of his disciples that in six months if you practice the singing of the holy names of God a serious and sincere and without offense will cleanse your heart of undesirable things.

5 - Fixed: The result of having cleaned dirty things heart is that the practitioner is fixed in his service to his spiritual master and God.

6 - Taste: At this stage the practitioner enjoys singing the holy names of God, likes to associate with the devotees to discuss God, likes to go to holy places like Sri Vrindavana, Sri Jagannatha puri, Sri Mayapur, Jarusalén, etc. ., likes to study the sacred books, likes to eat food offered to God, that superior taste saves him from falling into the inferior taste.

7 - Attachment: One sticks to what he likes, for example materialists like women and money and so they stick to these things, the devotee likes spiritual activities and therefore adheres to these activities. In this connection it is said: The purity of a pure devotee of God is judged because attachment has him by the holy name, and that has nothing to do with his official status, or wealth, scholarship, youth, pleasant appearance, strength or followers, so anyone who takes refuge in the holy name should ring the propensity to criticize the pure devotees of God.

8 - Spiritual Emotions: At this stage the spiritual practitioner spiritual emotional experiences, such as mourn, the hairs stand on end, etc.. I remember being a genuine spiritual master said that when one performs spiritual activities and there are tears in his eyes, those tears are a sign that you are extinguishing the blazing fire of material existence.

9 - pure love of God: All sacred scriptures say that the goal of human life is to attain pure love of God, that love is forever in the hearts of all living entities, the pure love of God is eternally situated in the heart of all living entities, not something to be achieved externally, that love is awakened by hearing talk about God and his devotees. In the same way that a fish can not live without water, one who has awakened his pure love of God, can never live without God. It is said that the goal of human life is to have PURE LOVE OF GOD, THE ONE WHO LOVES GOD LOVES ALL AND ALL, BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY GOD AND ENERGY.