Pure love
Question:
Should a person lead his/her life according to heart or mind? What is the most important in the life of every person? What is the difference between action in pure love and false love?
Answer:
Dear Bhaktin Kasia,
Hare Krsna! Thank you for your inquiry. Actually a person should lead their life according to the principles set forth by guru, sadhu and sastra. Sastra is the base, we must judge guru and sadhu according to sastra. Therefore Srila Prabhupada put so much emphasis on translating, writing purports, publishing in so many languages, and distributing his books. But in order to understand the books properly we definitely need guru and sadhus.
Otherwise at our present neophyte position we will be mislead by both our heart and our mind. When we are fully realized then our mind, which is actually situated in the heart, will continuously, and spontaneously, engage us in loving service to Krsna. But this is a very advanced state which we should not imitate at present. Therefore we should now follow the principles of sadhana bhakti out of duty until we come to that stage.
Pure love always seeks to please the beloved, false love or lust seeks it’s own gratification at the expensive of others.
I hope this finds you happily engaged in devotional service to Lord Sri Krsna.
Your sincerely,
Trivikrama Swami
