Lust is part of love. Where there is love, there can be lust. If there is only lust, love will not manifest easily. Lust is not very settling and it will leave you craving for more. It is a never ending cycle of need and fulfilment. Love is settling, and it makes you see things in a different and equal perspective. Lust is a feeling and we are the ones who can give it a positive or negative direction or outburst depending on our conscience. It is alright for lust to arise in an individual till they do not pose harm to themselves or others.
Inference: Lust is a never ending cycle of need and fulfilment. It is we who can channelise this feeling into something positive or negative.
Sonakshi Agarwal
Lust is a psychological force producing intense wanting or longing for an object, or circumstance fulfilling the emotion. In this context, Lust is being physically and sexually attracted to someone, and it usually happens when you're in love, barring some cases. It is not negative as long as it's not the only thing you're always thinking about. Lust is not negative. But it becomes negative when it happens without love.
Inference: Lust is a psychological force and usually arises when you love someone. Without love, lust is negative.
Medhavi Thakur
Lust is when one has sexual desires for another person. I think lust and love are two separate concepts. Because when you make love with someone you love, it's not lust then. Lust can be both-- positive and negative. Having sexual desires for someone is okay but then morality comes in between depending on one's relationship with that person. For example you can't have sexual desires for a family member because it is immoral but having those feelings for a friend or someone you know can be alright.
Inference: Lust is sexually oriented desire. Lust in extreme cases is the cause of immoral actions.
Avni Misra
Imagine that you are in palladium, you pass through Zara, you see a dress and you love it. You actually don’t love it rather you find it appealing which gives rise to desire to have it. But you cannot afford to buy it. This generates frustration and your mind becomes the slave of the desire for the dress. This short term spark of desire or liking is what I call lust. It is superficial but we tend to realise the superficiality of it only when we have the object or the person of our lustful desire and it fails to give us as much satisfaction as we thought it could have. But now imagine, it’s an intense winter morning and it so happens that you run out of firewood, and someone gets you a blanket and a cup of tea, you feel warm, you feel cared. That is love. It is almost like you are treated more important than you actually have ever been. You don’t have to care about the 6 inch heels or the perfect red lipstick to wear, you are good in your pyjamas and do not have to worry about how you look. I am not saying that lust is completely wrong, but it more of a beastly feeling. Love has its own human worth. It takes a lot to love someone. Well there’s no denying in it that lust is the first step towards love, but it plays no major role according to me. It’s not that love is cheap or you can’t afford anything, but love is adjusting, love is finding happiness in the smallest of things, because your happiness lies in being with that person and not in the extravagant dessert you ordered for.
Inference: Lust is a superficial liking for something and is more beastly feeling.
Devika Chawla
Lust is a sexual feeling towards a said person. It's just a feeling. There is nothing wrong in lust. Actually there is nothing wrong with anything. Quantity matters. Too much of anything isn't good. Depends how you see lust as. Can be positive and be negative. It depends on your thoughts.
Inference: Too much of anything is bad, This is also true for lust. Your thought defines whether lust is positive or negative.
Sourabh Krishna Rajkumar
Lust is the sexual desire upon the opposite sex. Love is a feeling of affection that you have for other people. Similarly, lust is also a feeling but a sexual one, thanks to hormones in our human body. Lust is a negative feeling because the intentions are not good behind lust.
Inference: Lust is a negative feeling for simple reason that the intention behind it is negative.
Parth Sharma
Lust in our daily usage refers to physical attraction for someone. The relation between love and lust, I can define both of them in biochemical terms but common difference is quite hard because a lot of people confuse lust for love. Lust is mainly dopamine and a bit of oxytocin. Whereas, love is composed of oxytocin, dopamine, estrogen, testosterone and vasopressin. I think lust is a positive feeling given that it’s moderate. You cannot have love without lust. At least not the romantic kind. It’s necessary for you to be physically attracted to someone if you love them (romantically, again)
Inference:Lust is a positive feeling when its moderate. Love without lust is not possible.
Ria Shukla
Compiled by Aditya Shukla
Lust is an energy. Like all other energies, Lust can be channelized in a positive or a negative manner depending upon the intellect and mind of a person. Its suppression and over exaggeration, both, will have negative consequences for a person. As an emotion, Lust is a selfish emotion while Love is selfless. Lust quenches the thirst of the “Self” while Love majorly leads to the “Self” (Ego)and its needs becoming less and less important. The reason why Lust is viewed negatively in many religious texts and contexts is because it often acts as a hurdle in the path of a person realizing the immense potential of selfless relationships with other human beings.