Kama, Bhakti and Prema Love

Question 1

kama

Answer 1

• Desire and the pursuit of pleasure – both physical and emotional
• God of desire (later interpretations = pleasure)
• Passion and desire – sexual and passionate relationships, following one’s hearts, evoking passion

Question 2

64 arts of love

Answer 2

practices to be a good lover

Question 3

Prema Love

Answer 3

• Union with the decline – Prema bhakti
• Dance of divine
• A tale of “becoming” (ontological)
• Krishna dances with each gopis “alone”
• Human beings – are always in a state of becoming

Question 4

Kama turns Prema Love

Answer 4

• Tale of the lord
• The soul’s journey through love to Krishna and gopis
• Bhakti love comes into fruition throughout South Asia – through devotion to Krishan that leads to the devotion love, there is an ascent

Question 5

Thich Nhat Hanh

- metta

Answer 5

• Loving-kindness – can only love others once you love yourself
• To expand our love it must start with ourselves

Question 6

metta meditian

- what is it

Answer 6

• breaks down dualisms - no more good person and bad person, look at the actual actions themselves

Question 7

Metta/ Maitri counters ill-will

Answer 7

2 sides and we can make a choice in how we act or react, we can be ill-will or act in kindness

Question 8

Karuna counters cruelty

Answer 8

Comparison, sometimes has caused someone to lash out and compassion should be the first course of action

Question 9

Mutida counters jealousy

Answer 9

Not being jealous, aspiring to offer joy, and sympathetic joy

Question 10

Upekka /Upeksa

Answer 10

counters clinigng and aversion

Question 11

the meditative order

Answer 11

• People that we love – that we are the closest to – significant others, parents, family members, picturing people that we bring compassion to
• Those that we like
• Those whom we feel neutral about (strangers)
• Those whom we feel animosity toward
  People you hate, people in history that have done bad things, separate people from their actions
• All sentient beings in all realms of existence

Question 12

sentient

Answer 12

• having consciousness

- The extent of love to all beings, beyond our university, becomes all-encompassing

Question 13

midfulness

Answer 13

• Interact with other people in the world, see how you can assist them
• Mindfulness in all actions (Karma)
  Actions, speech, intentions
• Importance for activists
  Want to bring healthy karma, do not want to bring bad karma, want to apply loving actions to all three

Question 14

Guru Nanak

Answer 14

Takes his life in a spiritual way, goes on retreats to pray, tells people that he has had an encounter with God

• Union with the divine

Question 15

10 Gurus + Guru Granth

Answer 15

• 9 other Gurus that follow in his footsteps

- The last one

Question 16

The Langar

Answer 16

Seva to Waheguru

Question 17

Gurdwara

Answer 17

• residing within the holy scared space

Question 18

Kirtan

Answer 18

done together, recited together in unison

Question 19

seva

Answer 19

service

Question 20

Day of Seva

Answer 20

acting in service, preparing food together, clean up day, distributing food together, all forms of service where people come together

Question 21

Langar in Amristar

Answer 21

an ultimate place where service is done