Somebody to Love

Hear Srila Prabhupada give a purport on the Jefferson Airplane song: Somebody to love.

Hear 'Somebody to Love.'

Prabhupada: We are searching after a lover. That day the boys were singing, what is that singing? You said?

Devotee: Yes. "You better find somebody to love." [laughter]

Prabhupada: Jaya. Better find out somebody to love. That is the problem. That is the problem of this life. Everyone is there... Now, after disappointment they say that "I had tried to find out somebody, girl or boy, to love, but I was, I mean to say, frustrated, disappointed. Now I find the dog is the best friend." Yes. Actually, they say like that: "We find the dog is the best friend." Is it not? Yes. Why?

Everyone is searching after to love somebody. That's a fact. Because we are lover. Our constitutional position is lover. Prahlada Maharaja says that Visnu..., your loving object is Visnu. So try to love Visnu, then your life will be successful. You'll feel satisfaction. Yayatma suprasidati. You'll feel, "Oh, I have got something now. Now I have got this loving object." In another place Prahlada Maharaja said, na te viduh svartha gatim hi visnu [SB 7.5.31].

[Persons who are strongly entrapped by the consciousness of enjoying material life, and who have therefore accepted as their leader or guru a similar blind man attached to external sense objects, cannot understand that the goal of life is to return home, back to Godhead, and engage in the service of Lord Visnu. As blind men guided by another blind man miss the right path and fall into a ditch, materially attached men led by another materially attached man are bound by the ropes of fruitive labor, which are made of very strong cords, and they continue again and again in materialistic life, suffering the threefold miseries.]

They do not know what is their actual loving object. That is Visnu. And in the Vedic mantra, Rg mantra, it is said, tad visnoh paramam padam sada pasyanti surayah [Rg-veda 1.22.20].

[The lotus feet of Lord Visnu are the supreme objective of all the demigods. These lotus feet of the Lord are as enlightening as the sun in the sky.]

Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.6.1 – May 8, 1968, Boston