The notion that love can exist outside of sacrifice is a dangerous lie Gita 09 14
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a particular purpose Hare Krishna the notion that love can exist out of sacrifice is a dangerous lie in today’s world the word love has often acquired a connotation of just something which is a spontaneous attraction wherein we feel overwhelming hormonal rush when we are with someone we just feel good with them and when we stop feeling good then we start thinking I no longer love this person and this idea of love which is based primarily on positive emotion and positive stimulation in the presence of the object of love can be extended even in the spiritual realm in the devotional realm where people think that they they want to connect with God and it feels good with them and the downside the serious problem with this feel good conception of religion is that of any relationship including the relationship with God is that actually when the relationship breaks relationship breaks when we stop feeling good so what is the solution actually love is centered on sacrifice that means when we love someone we need to sacrifice some of our interest at least for that other person and love doesn’t just give us good feeling it makes us good and it makes us good by forcing us to come out of ourselves our own self centeredness and if we are not ready to do that then we cannot sustain any loving relationship that’s why the notion that love can exist outside of sacrifice that means without if we think that we can love without having to pay any price for that love that is a dangerous lie it is a lie which keeps us deprived of love for our entire life while we are titillating ourselves with some hormonal stimulations and some good feelings that’s all so actually speaking love requires dedication love requires purification that means love means that we need to commit ourselves to the person whom we love and love means that we need to purge aside all those emotions and all those desires that take us away from the object of love and this applies in our relationship with people and also applies in our relationship with Krishna and thus the Bhagavad Gita in 9-14 states that when we are connecting with God that that the great devotees they are constantly glorifying Krishna and they are endeavoring with great determination why do we need to endeavor with great determination because to commit ourselves to Krishna requires us to give up many things of the world it requires sacrifice and to the extent we recognize that love and sacrifice go together to that extent our love, whatever we call as love will become genuine it will become uplifting and it will become when directed toward Krishna, liberating thank you