Love and Peace… what is it?

There are those who love to speak about love and who advocate peace in a global universal oneness of humankind.

Such noble ideas always find an enthusiastic audience, as such preachers impose upon their sentimental followers the idea that there is a possibility of lovingly sharing indiscriminate… sense gratification.

Cheaters come that way, knowing the language of their customers, collecting money and admiration from their stupefied audience.

But it is already here where their hypocrisy becomes revealed for those who want to see, as such lovers of mankind will discriminate between those who agree with them and those who don’t.

As noble as they sound, their actions are different, as their ideals can never be met without proper SPIRITUAL knowledge. Ironically, such preachers of loving oneness die suddenly at the hands of their murderers or simply become insane. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Kennedy, and finally John Lennon (“Let it be, all you need is love!”) were shot mercilessly, making us wonder: how is that possible?

Even in the name of Kṛṣṇa Consciousness we find prominent gurus joining this sentimental crew of universal lovers, followed by a vast number of stupefied disciples. For them, the Bhagavad-gītā ends already in the First Chapter, and Arjuna, forgiving all those who came to fight him, goes home or sits in some forest where he practises a peaceful “retreat”.

The real Bhagavad-gītā, as we know it, doesn’t end there. Kṛṣṇa explains from all points of view that it is Arjuna’s duty to fight without any selfish interest.

Arjuna was a soldier by profession, and many may wonder how this relates to us. Even without being military men, the principle is the same.

As a matter of fact, the war a real devotee of the Lord is fighting is far more profound than killing some bodies. To remove somebody from his body is simple. But to remove his ignorance and change his consciousness is a most difficult task, as most residents of this world insist on being cheated and stupefied by a sentimental concept of love and oneness which is like a coat of paint and can be washed away at any time… by a good dose of alcohol.

There is real love and real oneness, but it can be achieved only in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness, where one is expected to cultivate proper understanding of not being the material body while becoming increasingly engaged exclusively in service to God, the Origin of everything. Once we satisfy God, we—His minute parts—also become satisfied. That was the basic core of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s preaching, and he showed us how to do it.

Nobody could love us more than he could, and nobody could unite so many humans of different races and nations as he did.

He strongly opposed the preachers of materially conceived sama-darśina dogma (“sama”, English “the same”, illustrating Sanskrit as the origin of all languages) and advocated love and unity in knowledge, full awareness of our non-bodily identity and constitutional position as eternal servants of God. When asked when peace would finally return to this planet Earth, his answer was instant: “Never.”

Indeed, there is no peace to be found in a world dominated by dualities. Where there is love in this world, there will be hatred; where there is peace, it will soon be interrupted by some violent conflict. Where equal rights are advocated, it will soon be visible that some may be “equal” more and some less.

But Śrīla Prabhupāda showed us how to change our consciousness through proper spiritual knowledge to such a degree that we become tolerant of all material dualities and focus on the real solution to our unwanted pain and confusion by dedicating ourselves to devotional service to the Lord. God can install peace and unite us. We cannot do that.

In their arrogant assumption to replace God, the altruists help the strong to become stronger—to kill others. Humanists advocate assistance to those who act worse than animals, all of them finally becoming frustrated and defeated by the powerful material energy of the Lord.

In despair, those who have not yet been mutilated in their vain search for love and peace finally collect themselves in a very quiet and peaceful place… the graveyard. Being removed, leaving their dreams behind, in an uncompromising way, the preachers of oneness find themselves as eternally individual parts of God, caught by the law of karma, placed into various animalistic forms of life where one species eats another.

Without proper spiritual knowledge we will never unite and never be peaceful. As the hand can be pleased only by serving food to the stomach, in similar ways we can never find what we are looking for unless we serve the Supreme Lover and the Supreme Peacemaker—God.

How do we recognise Him?
By following the example of the one who did recognise Him—His intimate servant Śrīla Prabhupāda.

The teachings of God that he brought to us go far beyond any materially conceived religiosity; they describe spiritual reality in a scientific way, ignoring the pseudo-scientific dogmas we were taught to accept.

Peace and love can be experienced only in reality. In darkness, only illusion and confusion prevail.

Śrīla Prabhupāda showed us how to fight and oppose illusion in a loving, united way. Those who follow him in uncompromising fashion are the real lovers of everybody, including all who dwell in any kind of body created by God. Only by living in harmony with God can we become harmonious, and only by loving God can we truly love each other.

Any other concept of love and unity is doomed to be frustrated, as its propagators may die miserably, removed by time. We should be alert and avoid those who come in the name of spiritual life and want to impose upon us that we are one and the same. Often they advocate the oneness of our money with their money.
We should avoid such cheaters.