There is very subtle but huge difference between love and lust. Feeling of strong physical attraction has been misconstrued as love since centuries.
The whole literature has been replete with such poems where a poet has expressed his emotion by glorifying the physical beauty of his lady love.
Often the poet kept on making comparison of his woman’s eye with stars, hairs with moving snake, lips with apple etc.
But what kind of idea is flowing behind such poetic expression? The emotion which is responsible behind such expression , what is this all about?
Normally it is understood as love. The woman also accept such kind of physical glorification of her body as a symbol of love.
But the strong force underlying is actually physicall attraction towards the opposite sex and this is actually lust.
Difference in love and lust is very fine and very huge. Once some body is in the trap of lust, he is going to be addicted.
Lust is a process of self hyptonyzation. The natural consequence would be jealousy, frustrated, fear, suspicion etc.
But love is rather greater possibility. Lust enslave you but love sets you free. Just see the relationship of mother and son. Love of mother does always has soothing effect.
Love is always protective. The emotion of a brother towards his sister, relation ship of a friend is all about love. They love them so they are always willing to protect.
Teacher always have desire to see his student grow both in wisdom and in wealth. You will never find a teacher who gets envious of his students growth. These are few of examples of human to human relation. There may me possibility of another form of true love.
Just observe , when a rainbow appears in sky , how a child feels? When birds fly in the sky freely ,just observe beauty of this. When frogs sings in rainy seasons, what happens?
In rainy seasons when the whole earth is covered greenly plants , how does one feel? Of course these emotions expands your heart. It is love for nature. There can not be any possibility of lust here.
Even with your pet animals, the kind of emotion some one enjoys , is purely based on love. This frees the heart of both the recipient and the giver both
Like wise it is very important for some one to be aware of this fact, whether he is falling in love or getting entrapped in the viscious circle of lust.
One you are clear about your emotion, you can be ready to face challenges to be posed by the relationship. It is also important as it also gives you an option to choose the relation.
One must understand that in love , the heart of a man blossoms, but in lust the soul of a man gets entrapped. Love equip a man to give and give while lust always forces a man to take and take. Love sets the heart of a man free, while lust enslaves the soul. Choice is yours what you choose, lust or love?
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