“Active love is labor and perseverance, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky,The Brothers Karamazov
The more you succeed in loving, the more you’ll be convinced of the existence of God and the immortality of the soul” — Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Desire ( that does not contradict the spiritual but helps enrich it. धर्माविरुद्धो कामोस्मि भरतर्षभः ) is the constituting activity of becoming imperceptible. There is no deference in Kama and Love. When Desire becomes metaphysical it establishes a relation with the “Other” that turns into need, transcend exteriority of the other, of the beloved. The Other suddenly becomes the face of the beloved. Such individuation in togetherness one escapes limitations of body and plunges into imperceptible zone of Gods.
In Bhakti Sutra Narada says that God is not objective of devotion rather Devotion is end in itself (” फलरूपत्वात ) it simply means that when the subject and object vanishes ( rather the triad of gyata, gyan and gyeya falls apart) the plane of immanence is taken as a universal subject. It is ultimate power and bliss. God is Passion itself. Devotion is Love and love is the end in itself.
Those who live on this plane, manes are delighted in them, gods dance with joy and earth finds a caring man.(नृत्यन्ते देवताः सनाथ चेयंभूर्भवती )..such an immanent life carries with it the events and singularities with its own ethics that disavow judgments of good and evil, right and wrong. It demands an immanent evaluation (ethics) and immanent experimentation (creativity).
Narada is propagator of Panchratra Tantra hence to him desire itself is an end. Becoming intense .. erect.. urdhva penis, not one Penis but many? Why tis not possible? if four hand is possible, four penis is also possible.. desire can make it possible. Hence the objective of devotion is not God, but making desire more and more intense. It is the way to become imperceptible.
