Passage 1

In English

The word bhakthi is sometimes also known as prema or love. To this word prema, we attribute many different meanings. We are also inferring for ourselves many different meanings. Sometimes a meaning for the word prema is given by describing it as, synonymous with kama. This creates an impression in your minds that prema and kama, to some extent, mean the same thing. Although prema and kama may look synonymous, we have to recognise that the experience of the path, the ways and methods of prema on the one hand, and the experience of the path, the ways and methods of kama, on the other hand, are different from each other. Kama is tying you up in bondage. Prema is bestowing on you happiness. Prema is a pure quality whereas kama is an impure quality.