UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

Here is a story
about lord Krishna that will tell us
what true love is about. Krishna, while
living in
Dwarka with his favourite wife Rukmani, would very
often softly
utter to himself, "O Radha O Radha."
Rukmani felt jealous and asked him why
he kept
remembering Radha so often. Krishna did not say
anything. He just
smiled.
A few days later, Krishna complained of stomach
ache. Rukmani gave
him medicines, but the pain did not
go away. He kept moaning in
pain.
Krishna told her that only a little charanamrita
(blessed water) of
a person who truly loved him would
put an end to his agony. He begged Rukmani
to give him
some of her charanamrita. A shocked Rukmani refused:
"how can
I commit such a terrible sin? You are the
lord of all that be, and if I gave
you my charanamrita
I would surely go to hell."
Krishna than asked Rukmani
to send an attendant to
Vrindavan and try and procure some charanamrita
from
someone there. Soon the attendant returned with a
cupful of
charanamrita and as Krishna sipped it, all
the pain disappeared.
He then
asked the attendant, "Who gave you this
charanamrita?" the attendant replied,
"no one in
Vrindavan was ready to give it on learning it was for
lord
Krishna. Then one young woman came running up to
me and gave me this cup. Her
companions cautioned her,
"you fool Radha, you are committing the greatest
sin.
But she did not care. She said, "I don't care about
what happens to
me but I cannot bear to see my beloved
Krishna in pain."
Krishna turned to
rukmani standing by his side and
said, "Radha is not afraid of going to hell
for me.
She only thinks about me. So if Radha loves me so
much, should I
also not long for her?"
This is what true love is about. It
is
unconditional.
Sacrifice is the most important characteristics
of
true love