2007-05-22 19:06:21 · 18 answers · asked by Dhruva 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
CC Adi 4.164: Lust and love have different characteristics, just as iron and gold have different natures.
CC Adi 4.165: The desire to gratify one's own senses is kama [lust], but the desire to please the senses of Lord Krishna is prema [love].
CC Adi 4.166: The object of lust is only the enjoyment of one's own senses. But love caters to the enjoyment of Lord Krishna, and thus it is very powerful.
CC Adi 4.167-169: Social customs, scriptural injunctions, bodily demands, fruitive action, shyness, patience, bodily pleasures, self-gratification and the path of varnasrama-dharma, which is difficult to give up -- the gopis have forsaken all these, along with their families, and suffered their relatives' punishment and scolding, all for the sake of serving Lord Krishna. They render loving service to Him for the sake of His enjoyment.
CC Adi 4.170: That is called firm attachment to Lord Krishna. It is spotlessly pure, like a clean cloth that has no stain.
CC Adi 4.171: Therefore lust and love are quite different. Lust is like dense darkness, but love is like the bright sun.
2007-05-22 20:24:28 · answer #1 · answered by Gaura 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lust, is a desire for something that opposes the word of God. so not just sexual desire out of marriage, but strong desire for anything unGodly.
Love, is a choice. Love is a decision to love someone without terms and conditions for as long as you live. love, can be in a friendship also. there are four types of love.
Agape (God's unconditional love which as a Christian you are capable of giving to others also if you are obedient and willing.)
Storge' - the kind of love that is between family members, like a mother and child.
Fillio - (im not sure thats spelled right) but the kind of love between the best of friends, u know the kind that are friends forever.
and Eros - romantic love between a husband and wife (or to the world, this is called lust, and is just sexual desire toward the opposite sex no matter the marital status, but there IS a difference between lust and Eros. Eros is encouraged between married couples. lust, is not encouraged at all in any area of life.)
2007-05-22 19:18:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lust is wanting to have sex with someone you don't really have emotional attachment to. You want their body and not their mind or anything else. Love is more than sex. Lust is just sex. Love is listening to the other person. Love is letting them lean on you when the other is feeling bad. Love is holding someone without having an ulterior motive. Love is making love not only in body but with emotions too.
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2007-05-22 19:13:44 · answer #3 · answered by Mawyemsekhmet 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought that I knew the difference but I don't. I thought a lady was in love with me but found out she was not. Lust, and money was love to her. If she got what she wanted she loved you, if she didn't you didn't matter. Her way or the highway.
2007-05-22 19:24:03 · answer #4 · answered by Shawn 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is based on trust, kindness, commitment, and various other things. Lust is based on stuff like looks or how good the other person is in bed.
2007-05-22 19:10:33 · answer #5 · answered by Soichiro 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lust is generally more of a physical longing. It's sexual.
Love is an emotional reaction.
2007-05-22 19:10:08 · answer #6 · answered by drink_more_powerade 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lust-sex love-love.
2016-05-20 10:35:38 · answer #7 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lust is all that we do in this world with the soul aim of satisfying our sensual gratifications, sex being one among those. Every thing that we do in this world is lust only.
What we do to please Krishn is love. In short Bhukti is lust, Bhakti is love.
Thanks for putting the question, because I know for sure that you have the answer already!
2007-05-22 20:06:42 · answer #8 · answered by Vijay D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is the difference between LOVE AND LUST?
Lust involves the selfishness of serving one's own senses, while love involves selfless service to God's transcendental senses. Lust is that selfish desire that passes as love for as long as, and to the extent that, God is not present in the human equation. Krishna represents the transcendental senses of the Godhead. He is the incarnation of the act of love devoid of any selfish desire. He is also known as kama (cupid), but he is kamadeva, the God of amorous desire. Thus he conquers all desire, not by extinguishing it, but by redirecting it to himself. The canvass on which his love play is drawn is the Vedanta of Srimad Bhagavatam. The love play of his lila itself is thus the fullest expression of Vedanta, revealing the most secret esoteric implications of the sober utterances of the Upanisads. -
2007-05-22 19:35:40 · answer #9 · answered by Jayaraman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Love can be felt by heart
where lust can be enjoyed by brain
2007-05-22 19:25:26 · answer #10 · answered by rakesh s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋