{"id":29150,"date":"2021-05-22T21:46:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T02:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=29150"},"modified":"2022-01-07T18:31:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T23:31:59","slug":"srila-prabhupada-says-love-is-reciprocal-voluntary-good-exchange-of-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/srila-prabhupada-says-love-is-reciprocal-voluntary-good-exchange-of-feeling\/","title":{"rendered":"Srila Prabhupada says &#8211; &#8220;Love is reciprocal, voluntary, good exchange of feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Srila Prabhupada says &#8211; &#8220;Love is reciprocal, voluntary, good exchange of feeling. Then there is love. Not by force. Krishna does not want to become a lover like that, \u2018You love me, otherwise I shall kill you!&#8221; (July 8, 1976)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Srila Prabhupada explains in &#8220;Nectar of Devotion&#8221; that just like the Sun is meaningless without the Sun-rays similarly, Krishna is meaningless &#8220;without&#8221; His loving devotees.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">That relationship between Krishna and the jiva-tattva (soul) is NEVER one-sided, it is ALWAYS reciprocal, Prabhupada explained this to his disciples, \u201cif you love me, then I will love you\u201d as an example.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srila Prabhupada says &#8211; &#8220;Love is reciprocal, voluntary, good exchange of feeling. Then there is love. Not by force. Krishna does not want to become a lover like that, \u2018You love me, otherwise I shall kill &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/srila-prabhupada-says-love-is-reciprocal-voluntary-good-exchange-of-feeling\/\" aria-label=\"Srila Prabhupada says &#8211; &#8220;Love is reciprocal, voluntary, good exchange of feeling\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-area2"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 02:30:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}