Cheap, Quick, Shallow: "I love you!"

Kadamba Kanana Swami

In this material world everything is so gross and cheap. So here when there is a meeting between lovers and then within no time it’s the full embrace and that’s what it is all about...the works..Right?! Right down to the action! The main thing! Let’s not waste any time! Acceleration from zero to hundred in two seconds right?! That is the material experience. Very quick and very shallow and with strong exchanges.
But in the spiritual loving exchanges things are very different. In the spiritual loving exchanges everything is so meaningful that slight little exchanges are performed again and again and are giving so much satisfaction.


When Srimati Radharani is becoming aware that Krishna is now left, left her alone and that She is faced with separation now, then She faints. She doesn’t just think:
“Here he goes, oh that’s it.”

No , boom, She falls unconscious and as She hits the ground and just there on the ground there is flowers of which the scent reminds Her of Krishna. Krishna wears those flower on His garland. The scent enters Her nostrils and immediately She jumps off the ground in ecstasy!
So again inconceivable! Inconceivable intensity, the emotional experience for one who has waken up, for one whose senses are totally awake......instead of dull!

So here we have our dull loving exchanges in the material world:
“yes, yes I love you”
This is our level of material exchange. I love you today and tomorrow I love someone else, because how deep is the loving experience in this world?...Very shallow!

(Kadamba Kanana Swami 07/09/2003 Radhadesh)