LUST

Lust, the moment you hear this word a series of images come across your mind, certain notions start resurfacing. Lust today is expressed and understood mostly in negative sense

Now a-days its meaning and imagery has been well distorted via media of course. We fail to understand its aesthetics. Irony is our ancestors from so many years back wrote volumes over it. They grasped the substance in it.

Lust is real beauty. It is the essence of beauty, the way you feel the beauty in anything that way is lustrous. I have often heard them saying love should not be confused with lust, and to be honest for quite a long time I too believed in that. It is only now that I gave it a serious thought and here I am expressing.

The feminine and masculine aspects of nature are its only essence. ‘Purush’ and ‘Prakriti’ as the ‘Sankhya philosophy’ describes form this nature. It is the interplay of these two elements or energies or powers whatever way you want to term them.  When you observe the way these two elements of nature involve with each other, you see beautiful things manifesting from this union. And this world we live in is one such thing. Just like in certain chemical reactions effervescence is produced and through it you know that the reaction has taken place. Same way what we call ‘beauty’ is the effervescence of this reaction between “purush and prakriti”, feminine and masculine. Now lust is the base of this beauty. Lust is the seed. Just as a tree lies in the seed un-manifested, similarly beauty lies inside the womb of lust and manifests itself when given certain condition for it.

You look around beautiful valleys and praise the vibrancy, the fragrance in the air, you look at certain flowers and you just want to keep looking at it, why? Is it the red or yellow color that keeps your gaze stuck there? Or is it the stimulus on your olfactory sensors, which seems quite a dead explanation of how your praise for the smell. You feel beauty of anything from inside. You get attracted to opposite gender when you look at them, and yeah I have heard this one a lot: “It is not love at first sight but lust”. I think this is a wrong assumption because they fail to understand the true meaning of lust. Lust is that seed inside you that forms a part of your existence. The reproduction instincts are the attributes of this seed. You can’t define these instincts by lust. It is lust that lies as both effect and cause and Advaita school of thought establishes that cause and effect are indifferent. All the emotions arise out of lust or you may say that all of it can be resolved into lust. At first look it may seem impossible but that’s the way it is. It is the interplay between nature’s two elements that forms this world so it’s safe to say so that lust is at the base of every emotion you can experience.

When I look at the landscapes I feel an urge to get lost into those lands, into that beautiful blue sky, I want to become a part of those lovely flowers, I want to flow around with that fragrance, it is love that I feel for it. It was lust that formed the basis of this love because I am composed of those two elements of nature as the landscapes and other things are. I am bound to get attracted towards it.

Lust is not just physical intimacy as many believe. That intimacy is feels so pure and sacred. In the act of doing it they forget their independent existence and become united. The love between two souls is so beautiful. It’s the purest form of lust. The expression of this love when felt within makes me realize the unity in two souls. They seem two but are one. When they involve with each other, they experience something beyond expression, it is so mystic and I guess this is why we are drawn towards it because we know it is there.

The same way when you look at beauty of nature, don’t you feel at one with it? Then isn't that too lust? Well, lust is the seed of this unified consciousness. Limited are the minds that deny it. Maybe they haven’t yet felt the unity.

Lust is what we feel every time.  It is a way of life, it is our emotion our intelligence. It is like that ever pervading force field through which we live and act. Lust is in our talks, in our love food, in our favorite song or movie.

Lust is the quintessence of our feelings.