With Eve and the Apple of Temptation, once the fruit was tasted, this began man's downfall from God.
So, how do we, as modern men, interpret this?
This phenomenon is also described in the Bhagavad Gita:
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material mode of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring sinful enemy of this world."
Therefore, the Apple of Temptation was the passion of lust that brought about man's downfall. However, God was kind and offered the ability to continue to attain God through that same passion.
This can be done by turning that passion of lust instead into a yearning and love for God. This transformation thus becomes a divine quality and attribute rather than a sinful quality. The lust of passion is by far one of the strongest human emotions that can be experienced. When this is turned towards God, the human being has a strong desire to learn and know God. That yearning can subsequently be transformed into a form of ecstasy. Since the soul, mind and body are one in this state of ecstasy, the feeling resembles that of intense arousal as one may experience during sexual intercourse.
In fact, the mutual attraction that a man and woman feel towards each other in the emotion and passion of lust is simply a misdirected emotional love and yearning for God. Through the entanglement of Maya, a man and woman's vision is clouded into believing that this emotion is tied to this Earth. Through this delusion, the passion of lust becomes an act simply to experience pleasure while remaining bound to the material things on this Earth. Once a human understand the true nature of this emotion and passion, it can be used as a stepping stone to achieve the ecstasy associated with knowing God.
This concept can also be translated and leveraged to apply to a marital relationship. The husband and wife must look for the divinity within each other and apply that jointly as a yearning towards God. Once that Godliness is recognized in one's own partner, the sexual experience thus becomes removed from the sinful passion of lust and instead becomes divine. The sexual experience thus becomes much more enhanced through this mutual understanding and love of God. By understanding the divinity within each other, each partner can become a servant of the Lord. This thereby means that each partner in the relationship participates in an effort to make the other partner happy. Through this mutual love and understanding, both partners can experience intense pleasure since the relationship is no longer about satisfying one's own needs, but rather satisfying the needs of another. This ultimately makes the entire sexual experience divine and incapable of incurring sin.
Through this knowledge and transformation of lust into a passion towards God, one can come to once again know the divine ecstasy of Heaven while still remaining on this Earth.
So, how do we, as modern men, interpret this?
This phenomenon is also described in the Bhagavad Gita:
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material mode of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring sinful enemy of this world."
Therefore, the Apple of Temptation was the passion of lust that brought about man's downfall. However, God was kind and offered the ability to continue to attain God through that same passion.
This can be done by turning that passion of lust instead into a yearning and love for God. This transformation thus becomes a divine quality and attribute rather than a sinful quality. The lust of passion is by far one of the strongest human emotions that can be experienced. When this is turned towards God, the human being has a strong desire to learn and know God. That yearning can subsequently be transformed into a form of ecstasy. Since the soul, mind and body are one in this state of ecstasy, the feeling resembles that of intense arousal as one may experience during sexual intercourse.
In fact, the mutual attraction that a man and woman feel towards each other in the emotion and passion of lust is simply a misdirected emotional love and yearning for God. Through the entanglement of Maya, a man and woman's vision is clouded into believing that this emotion is tied to this Earth. Through this delusion, the passion of lust becomes an act simply to experience pleasure while remaining bound to the material things on this Earth. Once a human understand the true nature of this emotion and passion, it can be used as a stepping stone to achieve the ecstasy associated with knowing God.
This concept can also be translated and leveraged to apply to a marital relationship. The husband and wife must look for the divinity within each other and apply that jointly as a yearning towards God. Once that Godliness is recognized in one's own partner, the sexual experience thus becomes removed from the sinful passion of lust and instead becomes divine. The sexual experience thus becomes much more enhanced through this mutual understanding and love of God. By understanding the divinity within each other, each partner can become a servant of the Lord. This thereby means that each partner in the relationship participates in an effort to make the other partner happy. Through this mutual love and understanding, both partners can experience intense pleasure since the relationship is no longer about satisfying one's own needs, but rather satisfying the needs of another. This ultimately makes the entire sexual experience divine and incapable of incurring sin.
Through this knowledge and transformation of lust into a passion towards God, one can come to once again know the divine ecstasy of Heaven while still remaining on this Earth.
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