When our love naturally does not extend to every living being does it mean that we are not actually connect with God’s love?

From Vinayak Deshpande

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question from Vinayak Deshpande Prabhu when our love naturally does not extend to every living being does it mean that we are not actually connected with God’s love answer not necessarily we shouldn’t think of love for Krishna as something digital that either we have it or we don’t have it on a moment to moment basis it is true we are remembering Krishna or we are not remembering Krishna but in an overall sense of consciousness our the development of love of Krishna is more analog than digital so we it is a gradual arising in the heart and that’s why it is compared in the scriptures to the rising of the sun by hearing and chanting the word Krishna just as the sun rises the word uses Uday Uday means to rise so the love for Krishna which is eternally there in the heart arises so therefore what we should understand is that as long as you are practicing Krishna consciousness love for Krishna is getting developed with every passing day but it may if it is not yet developed to an advanced stage then we may not feel naturally love for all living beings you know based on our cultural upbringing our social financial class and other such factors we may relate with some people more and some people less so we can try consciously to go beyond these bias these natural biases or predilections that will be there in our perception of others and try to see everyone spiritually and that is an effort we can put in especially to try to relate with different kinds of people but we also understand that we are individuals and individuals have certain natures so we will be able to gel more with some people and gel less with other people so in general strong inimical feelings if we have towards someone strong feelings of hatred then they are generally hatred would be indicative of Tamoguna and that is undesirable in the practice of devotion so hatred is based generally on Krodha and Krodha is Tamasic so that sort of feelings we should try to give away give up by forgiving and in general we will find that we have a overall positive disposition towards others and that may be reflected in terms of basic courtesy devotees even if they are employing others sometimes in material society when somebody is an employee then people treat the employee sometimes like garbage now devotees may have to assert their authority so that their employees don’t take them on a ride but still devotees will treat their employees also with respect at least basic human courtesy and that also indicates a level of Satvaguna and beyond that in some influence of the transcendental vision of seeing everyone as souls so we shouldn’t become discouraged if we don’t find ourselves actually having love for all living beings we shouldn’t think that we are not developing love for Krishna but we should know that the developing of love of Krishna is a gradual process like the rising of a sun and we can also try to relate at least at a basic level of courtesy and a favorable disposition towards everyone although naturally because we are individuals we will gel more intimately with some people and not so intimately with some people but as long as we don’t have strong negative dispositions towards others and if our disposition towards others is becoming more positive than what it was earlier before we were introduced to Krishna consciousness then that indicates we are moving forward on the path of developing love for Krishna and through that developing love for all living beings in relationship with Krishna