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Obstacles on the path of love

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Sunday Lecture 21-jan-2018 Topic „Obstacles on the path of love (for God and all His parts & parcels) Speaker:HG Bhakti Prabhava Swami Maharaja Location: VCC Govinda …based on from BG 3:34 (1) Lecture notes: In order to receive love, you must be able to give love. In order to be give love, your heart is to be soft(ened). But your heart has become hard by the sense of (mutual) exploitation (of the body, not your real self) that your relationships are based upon. …which gets reflected in your mind in the form of lust, anger, greed. I.e. -the madness that you think "I am this body", and  -the illusion that „giving pleasure to the body will make me happy”, and -envy all have made your heart hard, which prevents you from giving (and receiving) love. . Love means "giving _without_ asking something in return”. The main obstacle to "only giving and not exploiting” is false ego, false identification (with the body). . The form of t