According to a premier annual International Survey, the trend of break-ups among young couples is drastically soaring. The statistics showed that maximum percentage of these break-ups have been between 1-8 months of the lifespan of the relationship. This revelation shows the predominance of the effect of Kaliyuga where the values, culture, morality and mentality of the conditioned souls is rapidly degrading, owing to the greatest enemy of mankind called 'lust'.
When a living entity comes in contact with the material creation, his eternal love for God or Krishna is transformed into lust, in association with the mode of passion. Or, in other words, the sense of love of God becomes transformed into lust, as milk in contact with sour tamarind is transformed into yogurt. Then again, when lust is unsatisfied, it turns into wrath; wrath is transformed into illusion, and illusion continues the material existence. Therefore, lust is the greatest enemy of the living entity, and it is lust only which induces the pure living entity to remain entangled in the material world.
Wrath is the manifestation of the mode of ignorance; these modes exhibit themselves as wrath and other corollaries. If, therefore, the modes of passion, instead of being degraded into the modes of ignorance, are elevated to the modes of goodness by the prescribed method of Iiving and acting, then one can be saved from the degradation of wrath by spiritual attachment.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead expanded Himself into many for His ever-increasing spiritual bliss, and the living entities are parts and parcels of this spiritual bliss. They also have partial independence, but by misuse of their independence, when the service attitude is transformed into the propensity for sense enjoyment, they come under the sway of lust. This material creation is created by the Lord to give a facility to the conditioned souls to fulfill these lustful propensities, and when they are completely baffled by prolonged lustful activities, the living entities begin to inquire about their real position. This is the need of the hour. In order to break free from the chains of lust, one has to give higher engagements to the mind and senses, one has to purify his consciousness from the dust of material contaminations. This can solely be achieved by spiritual activities and engaging in devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
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