5 Love Lessons To Learn From Bhagavad Gita

The epic of Mahabharata aids to emancipate people from various difficulties in life. The knowledge imparted to Arjuna through Krishna’s words still remains applicable in our daily lives. Bhagavad Gita communicates knowledge on a wide range of subjects like truth, love, marriage, karma, life, death, and so forth. The eternal love of thousands of Gopinis and followers alike, Krishna has imparted crucial knowledge about love in Bhagavad Gita.

* Love Wins All

Good souls have been preaching for ages, “love is key to all doors”. Even Krishna has adhered to this belief in Bhagavad Gita; he quotes, “The only way you can conquer me is through Love and there I am gladly conquered”. We make enemies from emotions like hate, anger, vengeance, and such feelings. We can win people to our sides by spreading love and losing such emotion. The need to be loved is omnipresent in every sentiment being and to gain their trust we need to love them.

* Love Yourself and Love Everyone

The key to inner peace is self-awareness, it starts to arise in a person after he compassionately loves himself and everyone around him. The purest form of love has a quality of liberation, it helps one liberate from materialistic and emotional needs. Krishna desired to make people around himself conscious, he called upon people to love him with the aim of turning them self-aware, and void of emotional as well as materialistic need. Various epics and teachings also claim roots to unhappiness stem from worldly emotional and materialistic. In epic Mahabharata, Krishna with his divine love said, “What ineffable joy does one find through Love of me, the blissful Atman. Once that joy is realized, all earthly pleasures fade into nothingness.”

* Focus on Love, Compassion, and Devotion

In Mahabharata, Lord Krishna says, “Do everything you have to do, but not with greed, not with ego, not with lust, not with envy but with Love, compassion, humility, and devotion”. Greed, ego, lust, and envy are a negative emotion, it leads to arousal of dismay from people. However, if we focus on greed while performing an act, we will devoid ourselves from the original purpose of our work and hamper whole work. Ego makes one feel superior and it closes the mind to brilliant strategies or ideas of coworkers and restricts social bond. While compassion brings you close to people, helps you listen to others soul. Lust and envy arouse strong emotions leading to loss of senses. Instead, a person should carry humility and be humble to coworkers, friends, and family, for inner peace and good. Devotion is required in any activity because one needs to be devoted wholeheartedly to succeed. Aforementioned, positive qualities only blossom when learns to love.

* Be Generous

Giving is a quality, we all need to possess, and the act of giving enables us to have a broader prospect towards life. It allows us to see beyond our lives, wishes, difficulties and increases a need to help others. Through giving, we give love and receive love from others. However, one should give without expecting a return and to display superiority. Krishna conveys the same in Bhagavad Gita through this line, “I regard as great even the smallest gift offered by my devotees in pure love, but even great offerings presented by non-devotees do not please me”.

* Love Without Expectations

It is quoted, “Love should set another person in love with us free”. Love isn’t a contractual relationship of compromise, one should not involve in giving and take relationship because it is destined to fail. True love is free from expectation, anger, and any other emotion, it involves an only act of giving, void of any expectation or null feeling. Krishna taught us the same in Mahabharata, he quoted, “He who has no attachments can really love others, for his love is pure and divine.”