Abba Krishna Teaches Love Not Repudiation Of Our Human Nature
If Barack will fall in love with Obama girl, Amber Lee Ettinger, and take her secretly to be the presidential mistress behind Michele’s back, he could get pilloried in Congress and even face an impeachment if found out. Looking at Amber, it appears all that trouble would be well worth it. Barack of course can go the way of Bill and weather the storm. After his term he can go the rounds of the lecture circuit and make loads of royalties giving talks. You’d be surprised that being a retired statesman with a scandal ridden past can rake in a seven digit taxable income annually from memoir books and speeches.
Loving a beautiful woman and falling into sin is human nature. It’s actually more normal than being ascetic and giving up physical relationship with women entirely. We have hormones and organs in our body that induce and propel us to romance with the opposite sex. In the case of gays by some quirk, their orientation is towards the same gender. Such dalliances in the natural plane can be lifted to the sublime when love is injected into the picture. The best example is the chivalry by which Bill always strove to protect Monica from the glare of the public eye. Nary did he utter one negative word against her or try to pass the blame to her. He took all the heat and the scorn unto himself and shielded Monica as best as he could.
In the matter of wealth, Warren Buffet has accumulated more than what he would need over a hundred lifetimes. However you will never see him flaunt it or live a profligate lifestyle. It is human nature to be enticed by earthly possessions. Greed is inculcated in us which leads to selfishness and hedonism as all part of our human weaknesses. There is so much undercurrent power in the hunger for opulence. It would be a big mistake to try to shed it by clinging to virtue while existing in the material world. The human body cannot behave like a spirit while alive and kicking. The main goal is to evolve to a higher spiritual form in the next life and not try to live it in this life.
The crowning success of being in earthly form would be to grow wealthy. All those living in poverty have not achieved the objective to lord it over the earthly domain as superior creatures. However, those who accumulate richness and fail to see their responsibility to uplift the rest of mankind through the use of that economic power are missing the steps in the evolution to a higher spiritual existence. Thus their feet remain wedged in the material world because they have not helped the whole of mankind advance together in unity under such a process called evolution. Death therefore is a bane for them which maroon them to return to cycles of existence in the material dimension.
Wine, women, and song are all good for the soul. They should not be abused in an excessive way but they should not be shunned as sinful either. Pleasure and ambition are powerful fuels that can move men to great achievement. The loftiness of men’s actions while living can be measured by love. The great transformation is to convert self-aggrandizement for the benefit of the whole. The main barometer is to treat your neighbor with justice. If you fall in love with a woman other than your wife, you have to make sure that both of them or one of either is not left woeful and desperate. If you have riches beyond belief you have to use it to invest in corporations that give jobs and advance the human genus to perfection.
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