I read a article recently by His Holiness Radhanath Swami. An excerpt from the same I have copied below.
Love is not to want peace but service. To want service is a selfless motivation. Our nature is to love and serve eternally. The need of the soul is love not peace. Peace is a neutral state where there are no problems. It is not positive. Just like when two countries are fighting and they want peace. Peace means they are just not fighting anymore. But the soul is dynamic and part of God. The soul’s nature is to love. So when they say om shanti shanti shanti they want peace but a devotee understands the real peace is love. That is dynamic.
So people who want peace are those who strive for mukti (liberation), and according to Srimad Bhagavatam’s philosophy the desire for mukti is still a selfish desire because you are still thinking in terms of your own happiness and liberation. But the pure nature of the soul is to think what will satisfy God – that is devotional service.
Radhanath Swami
