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The only remedy for all human suffering: A supreme divine Love is a creative Power and, even though it can exist in itself silent and unchangeable, yet rejoices in external form and expression and is not condemned to be a speechless and bodiless godhead. It has even been said that creation itself was an act of loveor at least the building up of a field in which Divine Love could devise its symbols and fulfil itself in act of mutuality and self-giving, and, if not the initial nature of creation, this may well be its ultimate object and motive.It does not so appear now because, even if a Divine Love is there in the world upholding all this evolution of creatures…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1423/sufferingthe-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p6p10</ref>

Love is a supreme force which the Eternal Consciousness sent down from itself into an obscure and darkened world that it might bring back that world and its beings to the Divine… The creation moves upward through love towards the Divine love is and in answer there leans downward to meet the creation the great remedyDivine Love and Grace.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1603/202-julyjune-1932-1#p9</ref><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine-love-and-human-love1929#p26p11</ref>

Love, Divine love, is of two kinds—the Divine love to my very dear child; all for the joy, all creation and the light, all souls that are part of itself and the peace love of the divine seeker and love for the Divine Beloved; it has both a personal and impersonal element, but the personal is free here from all lower elements or bondage to the vital and also my loving blessingsphysical instincts.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1629/20divine-love-psychic-love-and-augusthuman-1939love#p2p44</ref>

With ...Love at its origin is a self-existent force, an absolute, a transcendent (as I have put it), which does not depend upon the objects,—it depends only on itself or only on the Divine ,—for it is a self-existent power of the Divine. If it were not self-existent, it would hardly be independent of the nature or reaction of its object. It is partly what I mean when I speak of transcendent Love—though this is only one aspect of its transcendence. That self-existent transcendent Love spreading itself over all, turning everywhere to contain, embrace, unite, help, upraise towards love and bliss and oneness, becomes cosmic divine Love is ; intensely fixing itself on one or others to find itself, to achieve a dynamic unification or to reach here towards the supreme power union of Transformationthe soul with the Divine, it becomes the individual divine Love. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1528/transformationphilosophical-thought-and-yoga#p30</ref>

When one has found divine Love, it in its depths is a contact of the Divine Possibility or Reality in oneself with the Divine that one loves Possibility or Reality in all beings. There is no longer any divisionthe loved. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1428/divinephilosophical-lovethought-and-human-loveyoga#p47p31</ref>

Divine Love, true love, finds its delight and its satisfaction in itself; it has no need to be received is the essence of Truth and appreciated, nor to cannot be shared―it loves for the sake of loving, as a flower bloomsaffected by human confusions.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1417/divine-love-and7-humanjune-love1962#p65p3</ref>

"O Love, Divine Love, in a fecund silence I bow to Thee"<ref>http://incarnatewordits origin is divine love.Love in/cwm/16/28-july-1932#p1</ref><center>~</center>What is lasting, eternal, immortal and infiniteman, that indeed is worth having, worth conqueringlove grown human, worth possessing. It is divine Light, divine Lovedistorted, divine Life―it deformed; it is also Supreme Peace, Perfect Joy and All-Mastery upon earth with the Complete Manifestation as the crowning.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-true-aim-of-life#p65</ref><center>~</center>Let only divine love be your goal.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/9-september-1939#p1</ref><center>~</center>As for the recent happenings, fear nothing. Divine Love which is the essence of Truth and cannot be affected by human confusionspure.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1706/724-junemarch-19621954#p3p15</ref>

‘’’Divine Love’’’ Love:’’’ A flower reputed to bloom even in the desert. [[File:Flower - divine love.jpg]] 

[[File:Colour.png]] Deep red is Divine Love...<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/colours#p79</ref>

Divine Love has simultaneously a double play, an universal movementtrue love, deep, calm finds its delight and bottomless like the nether Ocean, which broods upon the whole world and each thing that is its satisfaction in itself; it as upon a level bed with an equal pressure, has no need to be received and a personal movementappreciated, forceful, intense and ecstatic like nor to be shared―it loves for the dancing surface sake of the same Oceanloving, which varies the height and force of its billows and chooses the objects it shall fall upon with the kiss of its foam and spray and the clasp of its engulfing watersas a flower blooms. [Aphorism 494]<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1014/aphorismdivine-love-and-493human-494love#p2p66</ref>

But as one tends quite naturally to become like what one loves, the bhakta, if he is sincere, begins to become like It [the Divine whom he adores, Love] exists in itself and thus his love becomes purer and purerdoes not depend on outer contact or outer expression. To adore Whether it shall express itself outwardly or how it will express itself outwardly depends on the Divine in the one whom one loves spiritual truth that has often been suggested as a solution, but unless one's heart and thought are very pure, it can lead to deplorable abasementsbe manifested.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1629/10divine-love-psychic-junelove-1964and-human-love#p2p6</ref>

One is outwardly alone only if one But the divine intensity of self-forgetfulness, the capacity of throwing oneself out entirely, making no restriction and no reservation, as a gift, asking nothing in exchange, this is closed little known to the divine lovehuman beings.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1403/divine2-love-and-humanjune-love1929#p27p5</ref>

When But when it comes in the psychic loves Divine Truth and Power, Divine Love descends first as something transcendent and universal and out of that transcendence and universality it loves with applies itself to persons according to the Divine Truth and Will, creating a vaster, greater, purer personal love than any the human mind or heart can now imagine. It is when one has felt this descent that one can be really an instrument for the birth and action of the Divine Lovein the world.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1429/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p56p1</ref>

The movement manifestation of the love is not limited to human beings and it is perhaps less distorted in other worlds than of the Divine in the human. Look at world was the great holocaust, the flowers and treessupreme self-giving. When his was the sun sets and all becomes silentsupreme love, sit down for a moment and put yourself into communion with Nature: you will feel rising from to accept the earth, from below loss of the roots perfect condition of the trees and mounting upward and coursing through their fibres up supreme divinity, its absolute consciousness, its infinite knowledge, to the highest outstretching branchesunite with unconsciousness, to dwell in the aspiration world with ignorance and darkness...This race of an intense all beings towards love and longing,—a longing for something that brings light this irresistible push and gives happiness, for seeking out in the light that is gone world's heart and they wish to have back again. There in all hearts, is the impulse given by a yearning so pure and intense that if you can feel Divine love behind the movement in the trees, your own being too will go up in an ardent prayer for the peace and light human longing and love that are unmanifested hereseeking.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p7p6</ref>

But the divine intensity of self-forgetfulness, the capacity of throwing oneself out entirely, making no restriction and no reservation, as a gift, asking nothing in exchange, this is little known to human beings. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p5</ref><center>~</center>The manifestation of the love of the Divine in the world was the great holocaust, the supreme self-giving. his was the supreme love, to accept the loss of the perfect condition of supreme divinity, its absolute consciousness, its infinite knowledge, to unite with unconsciousness, to dwell in the world with ignorance and darkness...This race of all beings towards love, this irresistible push and seeking out in the world's heart and in all hearts, is the impulse given by a Divine love behind the human longing and seeking…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p6</ref><center>~</center>Divine love plunges its manifestation upon earth down into the most material matter. It does not indeed find itself in the selfish distortions of the human consciousness…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p9</ref>One can feel it. There is a certain state of consciousness in which one perceives this divine Love wherever it is found, and one does not feel so great has simultaneously a difference between creatures as it appears physically. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/19-august-1953#p12</ref><center>~</center>The Divine love of which I speak is a Love that manifests here upon this physical earthdouble play, in matteran universal movement, but it must be pure of its human distortionsdeep, if it is to incarnate. The vital is an indispensable agent in this as in all manifestation. But as has happened always, the adverse powers have put their hold on this most precious thing. It is the energy of the vital that enters into dull and insensitive matter and makes it responsive and alive. But the adverse forces have distorted it; they have turned it into a field of violence calm and selfishness and desire and every kind of ugliness and prevented it from taking part in bottomless like the divine work.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p10</ref><center>~</center>Fornether Ocean, life is a battlefield in which broods upon the Divine succeeds in detail only when the lower nature is receptive to its impulsions instead of siding with the hostile forces. And even then the test is not so much external as internal: a divine movement cannot be measured by apparent signs— it is a certain kind of vibration that indicates its presence—external tests are of no avail, since even what is in appearance a failure may be in fact a divine achievement... What you have to do is to give yourself up to the Grace of the Divine; for, it is under the form of Grace, of Love, that it has consented to uplift the universe after the first involution was established. With the Divine Love is the supreme power of Transformation. It has this power because it is for the sake of Transformation that it has given itself to the whole world and manifested everywhere. Not only has it infused itself into man, but also into all the atoms of the most obscure Matter in order to bring the world back to the original Truth. It is this descent each thing that is called the supreme sacrifice in the Indian scriptures. But it is as upon a sacrifice only from the human point of view; the human mind thinks that if it had to do such a thing it would be a tremendous sacrifice. But the Divine cannot really be diminished, its infinite essence can never become less, no matter what "sacrifices" are made. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/knowledge-by-unity-level bed with-the-divine-the-divine-will-in-the-world#p6</ref><center>~</center>That is why the consciousness which is at work to transform mankind, unites Force with Lovean equal pressure, and the One who must realise this transformation will come on earth with the Power of Divine Love.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-170-171#p4</ref><center>~</center>All who aspire for divine perfection know that the blows which the Lord deals us in His infinite love and grace are the surest and quickest way to make us progress. And the harder the blows the more they feel the greatness of the divine Love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-33#p3</ref><center>~</center>The true Ananda of creation is not the pleasure of the ego in having personally done well and in being somebody, that is an extraneous element which attaches itself to the true joy of work and creation. The Ananda comes by the inrush of a larger Might and Delightpersonal movement, ''āveśa''; there is the thrill of being possessed and used by a superpersonal Powerforceful, the exultation intense and exaltation of ecstatic like the uplifting dancing surface of the consciousnesssame Ocean, which varies the joy height and force of its illumination billows and its greatened and heightened action and the joy of chooses the beauty, power or perfection that is being created. How far, how intensely one feels these things, depends on the condition of the consciousness at the time, the temperament, the activity of the vital, the mind's receptivity and response. The Yogi (or even certain strong and calm minds) is not carried away, as the mind and the vital often are, by the Ananda,—he holds and watches objects it and there is no mere excitement mixed shall fall upon with the divine flow kiss of it through the conscious instrument its foam and the body. There is a greater Ananda of samarpaṇa, of spiritual realisation or divine love, but in the spiritual consciousness spray and life the Ananda clasp of creation has its place. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-force-in-work#p15</ref><center>~</center>Love is authentic and justifies itself completely whether its cause be great or trivialengulfing waters.[Aphorism 494]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2810/philosophical-thought-and-yoga#p29</ref><center>~</center>But when it comes in the Divine Truth and Power, Divine Love descends first as something transcendent and universal and out of that transcendence and universality it applies itself to persons according to the Divine Truth and Will, creating a vaster, greater, purer personal love than any the human mind or heart can now imagine. It is when one has felt this descent that one can be really an instrument for the birth and action of the Divine Love in the world.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-andaphorism-human493-love494#p2</ref>

==What Is the Importance of Manifestation of Divine Love in Various Parts of the Being?==

…it is not possible for the tongue of human speech to tell all the utter unity and all the eternal variety of the ananda of divine love. Our higher and our lower members are both flooded with it, the mind and life no less than the soul: even the physical body takes its share of the joy, feels the touch, is filled in all its limbs, veins, nerves with the flowing of the wine of the ecstasy, ''amṛta''. Love and Ananda are the last word of being, the secret of secrets, the mystery of mysteries. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-mystery-of-love#p10</ref><center>~</center>Divine Love should normally lead to the perfect knowledge of the Beloved by perfect intimacy, thus becoming a path of Knowledge, and to divine service, thus becoming a path of Works. So also should perfect Knowledge lead to perfect Love and Joy and a full acceptance of the works of That which is known; dedicated Works to the entire love of the Master of the Sacrifice and the deepest knowledge of His ways and His being. It is in this triple path that we come most readily to the absolute knowledge, love and service of the One in all beings and in the entire cosmic manifestation.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-systems-of-yoga#p21</ref>

===Manifestation in PhysicalMental===

The true divine Ananda But when this power begins to awake and act, when the mind becomes by degrees conscious in the physical has what was to it superconscient, then there begins a different quality knowledge and movement and substance; self-existent experience of superior planes of existence. The experience is in its essence, its manifestation accord with that which is dependent only on an inner union with brought to us by the first opening of vision: the Divine. You have spoken mind rises into a higher plane of Divine Lovepure self, silent, tranquil, illimitable; but Divine Loveor it rises into regions of light or of felicity, when or into planes where it touches feels an infinite Power or a divine Presence or experiences the physical, does not awaken contact of a divine Love or Beauty or the gross lower vital propensities; indulgence atmosphere of them would only repel it a wider and greater and make it withdraw again to luminous Knowledge. In the return the spiritual impression abides; but the heights from which it mental record is already difficult enough to draw it down into often blurred and remains as a vague or a fragmentary memory; the coarseness of the material creation lower consciousness from which it alone can transform. Seek the Divine Love through the only gate through which ascent took place falls back to what it will consent to enterwas, with only the gate addition of the psychic being, and cast away the lower vital erroran unkept or a remembered but no longer dynamic experience. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3122/sexthe-triple-transformation#p62p24</ref>

In that fire all the emotions are compelled to cast off their grosser elements and those that are undivine perversions are burned away and the others discard their insufficiencies, till a spirit of largest love and a stainless divine delight arises out of the flame and smoke and frankincense. It is the divine love which so emerges that, extended in inward feeling to the Divine in man and all creatures in an active universal equality, will be more potent for the perfectibility of life and a more real instrument than the ineffective mental ideal of brotherhood can ever be. It is this poured out into acts that could alone create a harmony in the world and a true unity between all its creatures; all else strives in vain towards that end so long as Divine Love has not disclosed itself as the heart of the delivered manifestation in terrestrial Nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p12</ref><center>~</center>Where external worship changes into the inner adoration, real Bhakti begins; that deepens into the intensity of divine love; that love leads to the joy of closeness in our relations with the Divine; the joy of closeness passes into the bliss of union. Love too as well as knowledge brings us to the highest oneness and it gives to that oneness its greatest possible depth and intensity. It is true that love returns gladly upon a difference in oneness, by which the oneness itself becomes richer and sweeter. But here we may say that the heart is wiser than the thought, at least that thought which fixes upon opposite ideas of the Divine and concentrates on one to the exclusion of the other which seems its contrary, but is really its complement and a means of its greatest fulfilment…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/love-and-the-triple-path#p8</ref><center>~</center>For love is the one emotion in us which can be entirely motiveless and self-existent; love need have no other motive than love. For all our emotions arise either from the seeking after delight and the possession of it, or from the baffling of the search, or from the failure of the delight we have possessed or had thought to grasp; but love is that by which we can enter directly into possession of the self-existent delight of the divine Being. Divine love is indeed itself that possession and, as it were, the body of the Ananda.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-motives-of-devotion#p11</ref>

===Manifestation in Vital=Physical==

But when this power begins to awake The true divine Ananda in the physical has a different quality and movement and act, when the mind becomes by degrees conscious substance; self-existent in what was to it superconscientits essence, then there begins a knowledge and experience of superior planes of existence. The experience its manifestation is in accord dependent only on an inner union with that which is brought to us by the first opening Divine. You have spoken of vision: Divine Love; but Divine Love, when it touches the mind rises into a higher plane of pure selfphysical, silent, tranquil, illimitabledoes not awaken the gross lower vital propensities; or indulgence of them would only repel it and make it rises withdraw again to the heights from which it is already difficult enough to draw it down into regions of light or of felicity, or into planes where it feels an infinite Power or a divine Presence or experiences the contact coarseness of a divine Love or Beauty or the atmosphere of a wider and greater and luminous Knowledgematerial creation which it alone can transform. In Seek the return Divine Love through the spiritual impression abides; but the mental record is often blurred and remains as a vague or a fragmentary memory; the lower consciousness from only gate through which the ascent took place falls back it will consent to what it wasenter, with only the addition gate of an unkept or a remembered but no longer dynamic experiencethe psychic being, and cast away the lower vital error. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2231/the-triple-transformationsex#p24p59</ref>

If love is When the psychic in its nature, loves it always brings the sense of oneness or at least of an inner intimate closeness of being. The Divine Love is based upon oneness and the psychic derives from loves with the Divine Love. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2914/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p14p57</ref>

WellIf love is psychic in its nature, for you, in it always brings the state in which you are, as you are, if you had a contact with pure sense of oneness or at least of an inner intimate closeness of being. The Divine Love, it would seem to you colder than ice, or so far-off, so high that you would not be able to breathe; it would be like is based upon oneness and the mountain-top where you would feel frozen and find it difficult to breathe, so very far would it be psychic derives from what you normally feel. the Divine Love, if not clothed with a psychic or vital vibration, is difficult for a human being to perceive.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0429/24divine-love-psychic-marchlove-and-human-1951love#p23p12</ref>

But the most intimate character of the psychic is its pressure towards the Divine through a sacred love, joy and oneness. It is ..if you had a divine contact with pure Divine Love , it would seem to you colder than ice, or so far-off, so high that you would not be able to breathe; it would be like the mountain-top where you would feel frozen and find it seeks mostdifficult to breathe, so very far would it is the love of the be from what you normally feel. Divine that is its spurLove, its goalif not clothed with a psychic or vital vibration, its star of Truth shining over the luminous cave of the nascent or the still obscure cradle of the new-born godhead within usis difficult for a human being to perceive.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2304/the-ascent-of-the24-sacrificemarch-i1951#p23</ref>

It is To establish the inner offering of the heart's adoration, the soul of it in the symbol, the spirit of it in the act, that is the very life of the sacrifice. If this offering is to be complete latter [Divine Love and universal, then a turning of all our emotions Ananda] down to the Divine is imperative. This subconscient is a thing which would mean the intense way entire transformation of purification for the human heart, more powerful than any ethical or aesthetic catharsis could ever be by its half-power whole being and superficial pressure. A psychic fire within must it cannot be lit into which all is thrown with done except as the Divine Name upon it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-result of-the-sacrifice-ii#p12</ref> ==Divine Love Through Bhakti Yoga or Devotion== Indian bhakti has given to this divine love powerful forms, poetic symbols supramental change which are not in reality so much symbols is as intimate expressions of truth which can find no yet far away. The other expression. It uses human relations and sees a divine person, not as mere figuresmay be established even now in principle, but because there are divine relations of supreme Delight and Beauty with the human soul of which human relations are the imperfect but still the real type, and because that Delight and Beauty are not abstractions or qualities of a quite impalpable metaphysical entity, but the very body and form of the supreme Being. It is a to make it living Soul to which the soul of the bhakta yearns; for the source of all life is not an idea or a conception or a state of existence, but a real Being.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-way-of-devotion#p7</ref><center>~</center>He was speaking of human love manifesting as Bhakti, as a force of devotion for the Divine, and he says that at the beginning your love for the Divine is a very human love with all the characteristics of human love. <ref>http://incarnateword.complete in/cwm/06/16-june-1954#p61</ref><center>~</center>In its essence the nature of whole being would mean the change of consciousness which turns existence itself into a glorified field of a Divine Love and Ananda. In its essence it begins for the seeker when he passes from the ordinary to the spiritual level and looks psychic transformation completed with a new heart of luminous vision and feeling on the world and self and others. It reaches its height when the spiritual becomes also the supramental level and then also it is possible not only to feel it in essence but realise it dynamically as a Power for the transformation of the whole inner life and the whole outer existencewell under way already. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2329/thedivine-ascentlove-ofpsychic-thelove-sacrifice-ii#p6</ref><center>~</center>The Supramental is something in which the basis is absolute calm and however intense a Divine Love there is in it it does not disturb the calm but increases its depth. Chaitanya's experience was not that of Supermind, but of a Love and Ananda brought from above into the vital—the response of the vital is an extreme passion and exultation of Godward love and Ananda, the result of which is these ''vikāras''. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yogahuman-and-vaishnavismlove#p6p8</ref>

There is only one true love—it is the Divine Love; all other loves are diminutions, limitations and deformations of that Love. Even the love of the bhakta for his God is a diminution and often is tainted by egoism… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/10-june-1964#p2</ref>

It When one has become in human nature something low, brutal, selfish, violent, uglyfound divine Love, or else it is something weak and sentimental, made up of the pettiest feeling, brittle, superficial, exactingDivine that one loves in all beings. There is no longer any division. And this baseness and brutality or this self-regarding weakness they call love!<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0314/2divine-junelove-1929and-human-love#p7p48</ref>

This ...even if a Divine Love is there in the most charming criticism one can make world upholding all this evolution of jealousy creatures,yet the stuff of life and also the best way its action is made up of an egoistic formation, a division, a struggle of life and consciousness to cure it by overcoming the limits exist and survive in an apparently indifferent, inclement or even hostile world of inanimate and inconscient Matter. In the ego confusion and by uniting obscurity of this struggle all are thrown against each other with a will in each to assert its own existence first and foremost and only secondarily to assert itself in others and very partially for others; for even man's altruism remains essentially egoistic and must be so till the Divine Love which is eternal and universalsoul finds the secret of the divine Oneness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1023/aphorismthe-450ascent-451of-452-453the-454sacrifice-455ii#p7p10</ref>

It [human consciousness] does not want to fulfil the sadhana unless it can get by it the things it wanted...yet It wants the stuff satisfaction of life and its action is made up of an egoistic formationthe ego, "self-fulfilment", a divisionappreciation, a struggle the granting of life its desires. It measures the Divine Love by the outward favours showered upon it and consciousness looks jealously to exist and survive in an apparently indifferentsee who gets more of these favours than itself, inclement or even hostile world of inanimate and inconscient Matter. In then says that the confusion Divine has no love for it and obscurity of this struggle all assigns reasons which are thrown against each other with a will in each either derogatory to assert its own existence first and foremost and only secondarily to assert itself the Divine or, as in others your letter, self-depreciatory and very partially a cause for others; for even man's altruism remains essentially egoistic and must be so till the soul finds the secret of the divine Onenessdespair. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2331/the-ascentdifficulties-of-the-sacrificephysical-iinature#p10p97</ref>

Human love fails by its own ecstasyIt has become in human nature something low, brutal, selfish, violent, ugly, human strength or else it is exhausted by its own effortsomething weak and sentimental, human knowledge throws a shadow that conceals half made up of the globe of truth from its own sunlight; but divine knowledge embraces opposite truths pettiest feeling, brittle, superficial, exacting. And this baseness and reconciles them, divine strength grows by the prodigality of its brutality or this self-expenditure, divine regarding weakness they call love can squander itself utterly, yet never waste or diminish.[Aphorism 534] ! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1003/aphorism2-june-5341929#p1p7</ref>

Not truly liberative from ego-sense, they widen it at most and give it a higher and larger satisfaction; impotent in practice to change man's vital life and nature, they only modify and palliate its action and daub over its unchanged egoistic essence.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-i#p20</ref><center>~</center>But this kind of wish to gain by what one has or does is truly one of the ugliest things in the world. And it is one of the most widespread and it The Divine has become so widespread, that it is almost spontaneous in man. Nothing can turn its back on the divine an equal love more totally than that, that wish to calculate and profit. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/26-august-1953#p36</ref> ===Misconceptions Related to Divine Love=== Sometimes, very rarely, for a few seconds there is suddenly the feeling of "something". Then you say, "Oh, divine Love came to me!" What a joke! It is just that you were simply, for some reason or other, a wee bit open, so you felt it. But it is there, always, like the divine Consciousness. It is the same thing, it is there, all the timehuman beings, in its full intensity; but one is not even aware the obscurity of consciousness of it; or else in most men prevents them from perceiving this way, spasmodically: suddenly one is in a good state, so one feels something and says, "Oh, the divine Consciousness, divine Love have turned to me, have come to me!" It is not at all like thatlove. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0614/19divine-may-1954love#p12p30</ref>

...you are not told anything about love between human beings, in all its forms, the love of riches or the love parents for children, of power or the love children for parents, of knowledge. You are told about the divine Love; it is not altogether the same thing. Nothing is said about enjoying ambition or desire or even aspiration; what is spoken brothers and sisters, of friends and lovers, is all tainted with ignorance, selfishness and all the enjoying of the divine Presence. Thatother defects which are man's completely different; there is no similarityordinary drawbacks...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0708/1619-novemberseptember-19551956#p47p23</ref>

It is only when it is diluted, deformed, attenuated and obscured, so The attachment to parents belongs to say, that it becomes acceptable the ordinary physical nature—it has nothing to human naturedo with Divine Love. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0831/31human-relations-and-the-octoberspiritual-1956life#p10p34</ref>

...But there is another way of vital love between which is more usually the way of human beingsnature and that is a way of ego and desire. It is full of vital craving, in all desire and demand; its forms, continuance depends upon the love satisfaction of parents for childrenits demands; if it does not get what it craves, or even imagines that it is not being treated as it deserves—for it is full of children for parentsimaginations, misunderstandings, jealousies, misinterpretations—it at once turns to sorrow, wounded feeling, revolt, pride, anger, all kinds of brothers disorder, finally cessation and sisters, departure. A love of friends this kind is in its very nature ephemeral and loversunreliable and it cannot be made a foundation for divine love. There has been too much of this kind in the relations of the sadhaks with the Mother—approaching her, I suppose, is as a human mother with all tainted with ignorancethe reactions of the lower vital nature. For a long time it was perforce tolerated—and this was the concession made to human weakness—even accepted in the beginning as a thing too prominent in the human being not to be there to some extent but to be transformed by degrees; but too often, selfishness it has refused to transform itself and all the other defects which are man's ordinary drawbackshas made itself a source of confusion, disorder, asiddhi, sometimes complete disaster.It is for this reason that we discourage this lower vital way of human love and would like people to reject and eliminate these elements as soon as may be from their nature…<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0829/19divine-love-septemberpsychic-1956love-and-human-love#p23p33</ref>

In their major part the response is either a resistance or a qualified or temporising acquiescence; for even if they follow the callAltruism, philanthropy, they yet tend―when not consciouslyhumanitarianism, then by automatic habit―to bring into service are flowers of the spiritual action their own natural disabilities mental consciousness and errors. At every moment they are moved to take egoistic advantage at best the mind’s cold and pale imitation of the psychic and spiritual influences and can be detected using the power, joy or light these bring into us for a lower life-motive. Afterwards too, even when the seeker has opened to the flame of universal Divine Love transcendental.Not truly liberative from ego-sense, universal or immanent, yet if he tries they widen it at most and give it a higher and larger satisfaction; impotent in practice to pour it into change man's vital lifeand nature, he meets the power of obscuration they only modify and palliate its action and perversion of these lower Nature-forcesdaub over its unchanged egoistic essence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/15-august-1956#p1</ref><center>~</center>And I must say that this rapturous state of consciousness would be dangerous in the present condition of the world. Because it produces reactions that Or if they are almost absolute—I see that this state intensely followed with an entire sincerity of rapture has a formidable power. But I insist on the word formidablewill, in the sense that it is intolerant or intolerable—intolerable rather—to everything that is unlike it. It is the same thing or almost—not quite the same, but almost—as the supreme divine Love; the vibration by an exaggerated amplification of this ecstasy or rapture is a small beginning one side of the vibration of divine Love, and our nature; in that is absolutely—yes, exaggeration there is can be no other word clue for it—intolerant, in the sense that it will not permit full and perfect divine evolution of the presence many sides of anything that is contrary to itour individualised being towards the universal and transcendent Eternal.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1023/aphorismthe-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-94i#p11p20</ref>

...if divine love were to manifest in its essence upon earth, it would be like a bombshell; because the earth is neither supple nor receptive enough to be able to widen itself to the dimensions But this kind of this love. It not only needs wish to open, but to widen itself and to become more supple—Matter gain by what one has or does is still too rigid. And even the substance truly one of the physical consciousness—not only the most material Matter, but the substance of ugliest things in the physical consciousness—is too rigidworld.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-49#p16</ref><center>~</center>If the movement does not last, And it is because it is not conscious one of its own aim the most widespread and seeking; it has not the knowledge become so widespread, that it is not almost spontaneous in man. Nothing can turn its back on the union of one being with another divine love more totally than that, that it is seeking after but the union of all beings with the Divinewish to calculate and profit.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0305/226-juneaugust-19291953#p10p36</ref>

The division, love which is turned towards the distinction between Divine ought not to be the two usual vital feeling which men call by that you make in the beginning are name; for that is not love, but only a creation vital desire, an instinct of appropriation, the mind: once you rise impulse to a higher levelpossess and monopolise. Not only is this not divine Love, they disappearbut it ought not to be allowed to mix in the least degree in Yoga.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0329/2divine-love-psychic-love-and-junehuman-1929love#p4p29</ref>

It Human love fails by its own ecstasy, human strength is for this reason exhausted by its own effort, human knowledge throws a shadow that conceals half the Divine Love which is at the heart globe of all creation truth from its own sunlight; but divine knowledge embraces opposite truths and reconciles them, divine strength grows by the most powerful prodigality of all redeeming and creative forces has yet been the least frontally present in earthly life, the least successfully redemptive, the least creative. Human nature has been unable to bear it in its purity for the very reason that it is the most powerfulself-expenditure, pure, rare and intense of all the divine energies; what little could be seized has been corrupted at once into a vital pietistic ardourlove can squander itself utterly, a defenceless religious or ethical sentimentalism, a sensuous or even sensual erotic mysticism of the roseate coloured mind yet never waste or passionately turbid life-impulse and with these simulations compensated its inability to house the Mystic Flame that could rebuild the world with its tongues of sacrificediminish. [Aphorism 534]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0810/15-augustaphorism-1956534#p1</ref>

Among those who have come into this world seeking to reveal All the Divine here and transform earthly other members of our being, mind, life-force, there physical or body consciousness are some who have manifested too much under the control of the Divine love in Ignorance to be a sure instrumentation and much less can they be a guide or the source of an unerring impulse. Always the greater fullness. In some part of the purity motive and action of these powers clings to the manifestation is so great that old law, the deceiving tablets, the cherished inferior movements of Nature and they are misunderstood by meet with reluctance, alarm or revolt or obstructing inertia the voices and the whole of humanity forces that call and impel us to exceed and are even accused of transform ourselves into a greater being hard and unlovinga wider Nature. In their major part the response is either a resistance or a qualified or temporising acquiescence; for even if they follow the call, although they yet tend―when not consciously, then by automatic habit―to bring into the Divine love is there. But it is in them divine spiritual action their own natural disabilities and not human in its form as in its substanceerrors. For when man speaks At every moment they are moved to take egoistic advantage of lovethe psychic and spiritual influences and can be detected using the power, he associates it with an emotional and sentimental weakness.And yet none perhaps would call it love; joy or light these bring into us for it does not clothe itself in a superficial sentiment, it makes no demand in exchange for what it has done, no show of its sacrificelower life-motive.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0308/215-juneaugust-19291956#p6p1</ref>

The maximum it has reached is what seems to And let me say also that, as regards human beings love in its highest form, its purest and most disinterested kinddivine love, like I admitted the love of first as that from which we have to proceed and to arrive at the mother for the child. This human movement of love is secretly seeking for something else than what it has yet found; but it does not know where to find other, intensifying and transforming into it, it does not even know what it is.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p11</ref><center>~</center>The Divine has an equal love for all human beingseliminating, but the obscurity of consciousness of most men prevents them from perceiving this divine love.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine-love#p30</ref><center>~</center>...it is only the Divine Love which never disappoints.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine-love-and-human-love#p3</ref><center>~</center>Kali's force is necessary only for those who are not yet open to Divine Love. For one who is open to Divine Love, nothing more is needed.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/11-november-1967#p2</ref><center>~</center>The real soul emerges and takes the place left vacant by the desire-mind. The cleansed and emptied cup is filled with the wine my view of divine love and delight and no longer with the sweet and bitter poison of passion. The passions, even the passion for good, misrepresent the divine nature. The passion of pity with its impure elements of physical repulsion and emotional inability to bear the suffering of others has to be rejected and replaced by the higher divine compassion which seesit, understands, accepts the burden of others and is strong to help and heal, again not with self-will and revolt against the suffering in the world and with ignorant accusation of the law of things and their sourcesomething ethereal, but with light cold and knowledge and as an instrument of the Divine in its emergence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#p7</ref><center>~</center>Love cannot be cold—for there is no such thing as cold lovefar, but the a love of which the Mother speaks in that passage is something very pureabsolutely intense, fixed intimate and constant; it does not leap like fire and sink for want full of fuelunity, but is steady closeness and rapture using all-embracing and self-existent like the light of the sunnature for its expression. There is also a divine love that is personalCertainly, but it is not like without the ordinary personal human love dependent on any return from the person—it is personal but not egoistic,—it goes from the real being in the one to the real being in the other. But to find that, liberation from the ordinary human way confusions and disorders of approach is necessary.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p44</ref><center>~</center>In the first long stage of its growth and immature existence present lower vital nature which it has leaned on earthly lovewill change into something entirely warm, affection, tenderness, goodwill, compassion, benevolence, on all beauty and gentleness and fineness and light and strength deep and courage, on all that can help to refine and purify the grossness and commonness of human natureintense; but that is no reason for supposing that it knows how mixed are these human movements at their best and at their worst how fallen and stamped with the mark of ego and self-deceptive sentimental falsehood and the lower self profiting by the imitation of a soul-movement. It will lose anything that is not attracted or misled by mental imitations or any vital misuse of these great deep-seated Truths of existence; it exposes them with its detecting search-ray and calls down the entire truth of divine Love to heal these malformations, to deliver mental, vital, physical love from their insufficiencies or their perversions and reveal to them their true abounding share of the intimacy and the oneness, the ascending ecstasy and the descending rapture.<ref>http://incarnateword.happy in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-elements of-the-sacrifice-i#p23</ref><center>~</center>The love which is turned towards the Divine ought not to be the usual vital feeling which men call by that name; for that is not love, but only a vital desire, an instinct of appropriation, the impulse to possess and monopolise. Not only is this not divine Love, but it ought not to be allowed to mix in the least degree in Yoga.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p29p36</ref>

But there is another way And I must say that this rapturous state of vital love which is more usually consciousness would be dangerous in the way present condition of human nature and the world. Because it produces reactions that are almost absolute—I see that is this state of rapture has a way of ego and desire''formidable'' power. It is full of vital cravingBut I insist on the word formidable, desire and demand; its continuance depends upon in the satisfaction of its demands; if sense that it does not get what it craves, is intolerant or even imagines intolerable—intolerable rather—to everything that it is not being treated as unlike it deserves—for it is full of imaginations, misunderstandings, jealousies, misinterpretations—it at once turns to sorrow, wounded feeling, revolt, pride, anger, all kinds of disorder, finally cessation and departure. A love of this kind It is in its very nature ephemeral and unreliable and it cannot be made a foundation for divine love. There has been too much of this kind in the relations of same thing or almost—not quite the sadhaks with same, but almost—as the Mother—approaching her, I suppose, as a human mother with all supreme divine Love; the reactions vibration of the lower vital nature. For this ecstasy or rapture is a long time it was perforce tolerated—and this was the concession made to human weakness—even accepted in the small beginning as a thing too prominent in of the human being not to be there to some extent but to be transformed by degrees; but too oftenvibration of divine Love, it has refused to transform itself and has made itself a source of confusionthat is absolutely—yes, disorder, asiddhi, sometimes complete disaster. It there is no other word for this reason it—intolerant, in the sense that we discourage this lower vital way it will not permit the presence of human love and would like people anything that is contrary to reject and eliminate these elements as soon as may be from their nature…it.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2910/divine-love-psychic-love-and-humanaphorism-love94#p39p11</ref>

The action ...if divine love were to manifest in its essence upon earth, it would be like a bombshell; because the earth is neither supple nor receptive enough to be able to widen itself to the dimensions of the animal sex-energy in Nature this love. It not only needs to open, but to widen itself and to become more supple—Matter is a device for a particular purpose in still too rigid. And even the economy substance of the physical consciousness—not only the most material creation in Matter, but the substance of the Ignorancephysical consciousness—is too rigid. But [Based on Aphorism 49—To feel and love the vital excitement that accompanies it makes the most favourable opportunity God of beauty and vibration good in the atmosphere for ugly and the inrush of those very vital forces evil, and beings whose whole business is still yearn in utter love to prevent the descent heal it of the supramental Light. The pleasure attached to it its ugliness and its evil, this is a degradation real virtue and not a true form of the divine Anandamorality.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3110/sexaphorism-49#p62p16</ref>

without expecting any return It is for itselfthis [fall to the lower nature] reason that the Divine Love which is at the heart of all creation and the most powerful of all redeeming and creative forces has yet been the least frontally present in earthly life, the least successfully redemptive, the least creative. Human nature has been unable to bear it in its purity for the very reason that it is the most powerful, pure, rare and intense of all the divine energies; what little could be seized has been corrupted at once into a vital pietistic ardour, a defenceless religious or ethical sentimentalism, a sensuous or even sensual erotic mysticism of the roseate coloured mind or passionately turbid life-expenditure, any mutual unificationimpulse and with these simulations compensated its inability to house the Mystic Flame that could rebuild the world with its tongues of sacrifice.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2808/philosophical-thought15-andaugust-yoga1956#p29p1</ref>

The attachment to parents belongs Among those who have come into this world seeking to reveal the Divine here and transform earthly life, there are some who have manifested the Divine love in a greater fullness. In some the purity of the manifestation is so great that they are misunderstood by the whole of humanity and are even accused of being hard and unloving, although the ordinary physical nature—it Divine love is there. But it is in them divine and not human in its form as in its substance. For when man speaks of love, he associates it with an emotional and sentimental weakness.And yet none perhaps would call it love; for it does not clothe itself in a superficial sentiment, it makes no demand in exchange for what it has nothing to do with Divine Lovedone, no show of its sacrifice. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/human2-relationsjune-and-the-spiritual-life1929#p35p5</ref>

It is for this reason that Divine Love which cannot be cold—for there is at no such thing as cold love, but the heart love of all creation and which the most powerful of all redeeming and creative forces has yet been the least frontally present Mother speaks in earthly life, the least successfully redemptive, the least creative. Human nature has been unable to bear it in its purity for the very reason that it passage is the most powerful, something very pure, rare fixed and constant; it does not leap like fire and intense sink for want of fuel, but is steady and all the divine energies; what little could be seized has been corrupted at once into a vital pietistic ardour, a defenceless religious or ethical sentimentalism, a sensuous or even sensual erotic mysticism of the roseate coloured mind or passionately turbid life-impulse embracing and with these simulations compensated its inability to house self-existent like the Mystic Flame that could rebuild light of the world with its tongues of sacrificesun. It There is only the inmost psychic being unveiled and emerging in its full power also a divine love that can lead the pilgrim sacrifice unscathed through these ambushes and pitfalls; at each moment is personal, but it catches, exposes, repels is not like the mind's and ordinary personal human love dependent on any return from the life's falsehoodsperson—it is personal but not egoistic, seizes hold on the truth of the Divine Love and Ananda and separates it —it goes from the excitement of real being in the mind's ardours and one to the blind enthusiasms of real being in the misleading life-forceother. But all things to find that are true at their core in mind and life and , liberation from the physical being it extricates and takes with it in the journey till they stand on the heights, new in spirit and sublime in figureordinary human way of approach is necessary.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2329/thedivine-love-ascentpsychic-oflove-theand-sacrificehuman-iilove#p13p37</ref>

Even, he may come to us at first as an enemy, with the wrath of love, and our earliest relations with him may be those of battle and struggle. Where first there is love and attraction, the relations between the Divine and the soul may still for long be chequered with misunderstanding and offence, jealousy and wrath, strife and the quarrels of love, hope and despair and the pain of absence and separation. We throw up all the passions of the heart against him, till they are purified into a sole ecstasy of bliss and oneness. But that too is no monotony.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-mystery-of-love#p10</ref><center>~</center>That is not often ==What Is True Love for the Divine?== The true in human practice; love for there the destiny Divine is self-giving, free of demand, full of love submission and its justification depend very much as a rule (though not always) on the nature surrender; it makes no claim, imposes no condition, strikes no bargain, indulges in no violences of the cause jealousy or pride or objectanger—for these things are not in its composition. For if In return the object of love is trivial Divine Mother also gives herself, but freely—and this represents itself in the sense of his being an inadequate instrument for inner giving—her presence in your mind, your vital, your physical consciousness, her power re-creating you in the dynamic realisation of divine nature, taking up all the sense movements of oneness which McTaggart says is the essence of loveyour being and directing them towards perfection and fulfilment, then her love enveloping you and carrying you in its arms Godwards. It is likely this that you must aspire to be baulked of its fulfilment, But there are unhappily its diminutions feel and possess in all your parts down to the human mindvery material, human vitaland here there is no limitation either of time or of completeness. If one truly aspires and gets it, human physical; there the divine essence of Love may easily become mixed with counterfeitsought to be no room for any other claim or for any disappointed desire. And if one truly aspires, dimmedone does unfailingly get it, concealed or lost in more and more as the twisted movements born of division purification proceeds and ignorancenature undergoes its needed change.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2829/philosophicaldivine-love-psychic-thoughtlove-and-yogahuman-love#p29</ref>

Till then the touches Love should be a flowering of the Divine Love joy and union and confidence and Ananda are usually momentary or brief, they cannot remain. In an impure consciousness the Divine Love if it came in would create a perturbation self-giving and possibly be attacked by a mixture which would make it impossible for it to stay. It is therefore that touch only can come. Ananda… <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p5p33</ref>

The Mother did not tell you that love But as one tends quite naturally to become like what one loves, the bhakta, if he is not an emotionsincere, but that begins to become like the Divine whom he adores, and thus his love becomes purer and purer. To adore the Divine Love is not an emotionin the one whom one loves has often been suggested as a solution,—a but unless one's heart and thought are ''very different thing pure'', it can lead to saydeplorable abasements. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2916/divine-love-psychic-love-and10-humanjune-love1964#p46p2</ref>

==What Why Is True Divine Love for Important? What Are the DivineUnique Positive Effects and Qualities of this Manifestation?==

The moment you open to the Divine love Love, you also receive its power of Transformation. But it is not in terms of two kinds—the Divine love for the creation and the souls quantity that are part of itself and you can measure it; what is essential is the love of the seeker and love true contact; for , you will find that the Divine Beloved; true contact with it has both a personal and impersonal element, but the personal is free here from all lower elements or bondage sufficient to fill at once the vital and physical instinctswhole of your being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2903/knowledge-by-unity-with-the-divine-lovethe-psychicdivine-lovewill-andin-humanthe-loveworld#p51p6</ref>

The true love for the Divine is self-givingOnce one has found divine Love, free of demand, full of submission and surrender; it makes no claim, imposes no condition, strikes no bargainall other loves, indulges in no violences of jealousy or pride or anger—for these things which are not in its composition. In return the Divine Mother also gives herself, nothing but freely—and this represents itself in an inner giving—her presence in your mind, your vital, your physical consciousness, her power re-creating you in the divine naturedisguises, taking up all the movements of your being can lose their deformities and directing them towards perfection and fulfilment, her love enveloping you and carrying you in its arms Godwards. It become pure―then it is this the Divine that you must aspire to feel and possess one loves in all your parts down to the very material, and here there is no limitation either of time or of completeness. If one truly aspires and gets it, there ought to be no room for any other claim or for any disappointed desire. And if one truly aspires, one does unfailingly get it, more and more as the purification proceeds everyone and nature undergoes its needed changeeverything. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2914/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p29p50</ref>

=Why Is Divine Love Important? What Are =For Transcending the Unique Positive Effects and Qualities of this Manifestation?Ego==

"One single drop of Thy divine love can transform this suffering into an ocean of delight!"<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/20-july-1932-1#p1</ref><center>~</center>It [Divine Love should ] is there waiting to be a flowering of joy understood and accepted and union meanwhile giving all the help you can receive to raise and confidence widen you into the consciousness in which it will be no longer possible for these difficulties and self-giving these misunderstandings to recur—the state in which there is possible the full and Ananda… perfect union.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p39p6</ref><center>~</center>Once you have come in contact with this large, pure and true Divine love, if you have felt it even for a short time and in its smallest form, you will realise what an abject thing human desire has made of it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p7</ref>

There is only one A human being, awakened by this personal touch, with this personal intensity, to the consciousness of the Divine love, will find his work and change made more easy; the Divine Loveunion for which he seeks becomes more natural and close. And the union, the realisation will become for him, eternaltoo, universalmore full, equal more perfect; for everyone the wide uniformity of a universal and impersonal Love will be lit up and vivified with the colour and everythingbeauty of all possible relations with the Divine.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1603/62-septemberjune-19691929#p1p12</ref>

Divine Love can overcome The true Ananda of creation is not the pleasure of the evil ego in having personally done well and in being somebody, that is an extraneous element which attaches itself to the true joy of work and creation. The Ananda comes by the inrush of a larger Might and Delight, ''āveśa''; there is the thrill of being possessed and used by a superpersonal Power, the exultation and exaltation of the uplifting of the consciousness, the joy of its illumination and its greatened and heightened action and the joy of the beauty, power or perfection that is being created. How far, how intensely one feels these things, depends on the condition of the consciousness at the time, the temperament, the activity of the vital, the cruel―the tiger does mind's receptivity and response. The Yogi (or even certain strong and calm minds) is not attack carried away, as the yogimind and the vital often are, by the Ananda,—he holds and watches it and there is no mere excitement mixed with the divine flow of it through the conscious instrument and the body. There is a greater Ananda of ''samarpaṇa'', of spiritual realisation or divine love, but in the spiritual consciousness and life the Ananda of creation has its place.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1429/generalthe-divine-force-in-1work#p7p15</ref>

Love Adoration fulfilled in love, love in Ananda,—the surpassing love, the self-wrapped ecstasy of transcendent delight in the Transcendent which awaits us at the end of the path of Devotion,—has for its wider result a universal love for all beings, the Ananda of all that is ; we perceive behind every veil the Divine, spiritually embrace in all forms the All-Beautiful. A universal delight in his endless manifestation flows through us, taking in its surge every form and movement, but not bound or stationary in any and always reaching out to a supreme force which greater and more perfect expression. This universal love is liberative and dynamic or transformation; for the discord of forms and appearances ceases to affect the heart that has felt the one Truth behind them all and understood their perfect significance. The impartial equality of soul of the selfless worker and knower is transformed by the Eternal Consciousness sent down from itself magic touch of divine Love into an obscure all-embracing ecstasy and million-bodied beatitude. All things become bodies and all movements the playings of the divine Beloved in his infinite house of pleasure. Even pain is changed and darkened world that it might bring back that world in their reaction and even in their essence things painful alter; the forms of pain fall away, there are created in their place the forms of Ananda. In its beings to essence the nature of the change of consciousness which turns existence itself into a glorified field of a DivineLove and Ananda. The material world in In its darkness essence it begins for the seeker when he passes from the ordinary to the spiritual level and ignorance had forgotten looks with a new heart of luminous vision and feeling on the Divineworld and self and others. Love came into It reaches its height when the spiritual becomes also the darkness; supramental level and then also it is possible not only to feel it awakened all that lay there asleep; in essence but realise it whispereddynamically as a Power for the transformation of the whole inner life and the whole outer existence.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p5, opening p6</ref> ==For Divinsing Matter== For, life is a battlefield in which the Divine succeeds in detail only when the lower nature is receptive to its impulsions instead of siding with the hostile forces. And even then the ears test is not so much external as internal: a divine movement cannot be measured by apparent signs— it is a certain kind of vibration that were sealedindicates its presence—external tests are of no avail, "There since even what is something that in appearance a failure may be in fact a divine achievement... What you have to do is worth waking togive yourself up to the Grace of the Divine; for, worth living forit is under the form of Grace, of Love, and that it has consented to uplift the universe after the first involution was established. With the Divine Love is the supreme power of Transformation. It has this power because it is love!" And with for the awakening sake of Transformation that it has given itself to love there entered into the world and manifested everywhere. Not only has it infused itself into man, but also into all the possibility atoms of coming the most obscure Matter in order to bring the world back to the Divineoriginal Truth. It is this descent that is called the supreme sacrifice in the Indian scriptures. …This world was But it is a world sacrifice only from the human point of dead matter, till Divine love descended into view; the human mind thinks that if it and awakened had to do such a thing it to lifewould be a tremendous sacrifice. Ever since it has gone in search of this divine source of lifeBut the Divine cannot really be diminished, its infinite essence can never become less, no matter what "sacrifices" are made.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2knowledge-by-unity-with-the-divine-the-junedivine-1929will-in-the-world#p11p6</ref>

The force of love in the world is trying to find consciousnesses that are capable of receiving this divine movement in its purity and expressing it... It touches millions of instruments, trying always, always failing; but this constant touch prepares these instruments Divine's Love is at the base and suddenly one day there will awake in them the capacity core of self-givingall manifestation, the capacity of lovingeven where it seems most completely inconscient.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0314/2divine-june-1929love#p6p20</ref>

Once you have come Love is a supreme force which the Eternal Consciousness sent down from itself into an obscure and darkened world that it might bring back that world and its beings to the Divine. The material world in contact its darkness and ignorance had forgotten the Divine. Love came into the darkness; it awakened all that lay there asleep; it whispered, opening the ears that were sealed, "There is something that is worth waking to, worth living for, and it is love!" And with this largethe awakening to love there entered into the world the possibility of coming back to the Divine. …This world was a world of dead matter, pure and true till Divine love, if you have felt descended into it even for a short time and awakened it to life. Ever since it has gone in its smallest form, you will realise what an abject thing human desire has made search of this divine source of itlife. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p7p11</ref>

The true vital movement is ...through the action of the most beautiful forces of separation, Consciousness became inconscience and magnificent matter was created such as it is, on a basis of movements; but it has been twisted inconscience so total that no contact seemed possible between the Origin and turned into the most uglywhat was created. And this total inconscience made a direct descent necessary, without sing through the most distortedintermediate regions, a direct descent of the most repulsivedivine Consciousness in its form of Love. Wherever And it is this descent of Divine Love into matter, penetrating it and adding a human story of lovenew element to its position, there which has entered even made possible the ascent, slow for us, but an atom of pure love uninterrupted ascent, from inconscience to consciousness and it has been allowed from darkness to light. Therefore, one cannot say that Love can manifest without too much distortiononly when the creation becomes divine, we find a true and beautiful thingfor it is ''on the contrary'' because of its manifestation that creation can become divine once again.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0308/231-juneoctober-19291956#p10p8</ref>

A human beingI am sure that when the Divine Love descended into Matter, awakened by this personal touchMatter was quite unconscious, with this personal intensity, to it had absolutely no form; it may even be said that forms in general are the consciousness result of the Divine love, will find his work and change made more easy; the union for which he seeks becomes more natural and closeeffort of Love to bring consciousness into Matter. … And the union, coming out of the realisation will become for him, too, more full, more perfect; for Inconscient is due exclusively to the wide uniformity sacrifice of a universal and impersonal Love will be lit up and vivified with the colour and beauty Divine, to this descent of all possible relations with Divine Love into the Inconscient.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/24-march-1951#p2</ref> ==What Happens When DivineLove Is Not Present?== One is outwardly alone only if one is closed to the divine love. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0314/2divine-junelove-1929and-human-love#p12p28</ref>

For devotion by its embodiment in acts The reason for people to come and settle here is surely not only makes its own way broad to find comfort and full and dynamicluxury—this can be found anywhere if one is lucky enough. But what one can get here, but brings at once into the harder way of works in the world the divinely passionate element of joy and love which that is often absent not got in its beginning when any other place: it is only the austere spiritual will that follows in a struggling uplifting tension the steep ascentDivine Love, Grace and the heart Care. It is when ''this'' is still asleep forgotten or bound disregarded that people begin to silencefeel miserable here. If the spirit of divine love Indeed whenever somebody feels unhappy and discontented, it can enter, the hardness of the way diminishes, be taken as a sure sign that he is turning his back on what the tension is lightened, there Divine is a sweetness always giving and joy even that he has gone astray in the core pursuit of difficulty and struggleworldly satisfaction. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0813/8comfort-augustand-1956happiness#p10p8</ref>

One has just a tiny little openingOutside this state there are infinite grades of consciousness, very tinygoing right down to complete darkness, at times like the veritable inconscience which may be a pinhead, and naturally that force rushes domain yet untouched by the light of Thy divine Love (but this seems improbable in. For it is like an active atmosphere; as soon as there is a possibility of being receivedphysical substance), it is received. But this or which is so for all divine things. They are there, only one does not receive them, for one is closed up, blocked; one is busy with other things most some kind of the time. Most reason of the time one is full of oneself. Soignorance, as one is full outside our individual range of oneself, there is no place for anything else. One is very actively (laughing) busy with other things. One is filled with things; there is no place for the Divineperception. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0617/19comments-mayon-prayers-and-1954meditations#p12p76</ref>

What ...but this lower vital way is lastingonly a source of suffering, trouble, eternaldisappointment, immortal disillusion and infinitedisunion. Even a slight element of it shakes the foundations of peace and replaces the movement towards Ananda by a fall towards sorrow, that indeed is worth having, worth conquering, worth possessingdiscontent and Nirananda. <ref>https://incarnateword. It is divine Light, in/cwsa/29/divine -love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p33</ref> =How Can Divine Love Flourish?===What are the Prerequisites for Divine Love?== To bring the Divine Loveand Beauty and Ananda into the world is, divine Life―it is also Supreme Peaceindeed, Perfect Joy the whole crown and All-Mastery upon earth with essence of our Yoga. But it has always seemed to me impossible unless there comes as its support and foundation and guard the Complete Manifestation as Divine Truth—what I call the crowningSupramental—and its Divine Power.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1429/thedivine-love-psychic-truelove-aimand-ofhuman-lifelove#p65p2</ref>

Yesterday morning I distributed petals of "The human form is naturally unable to bear the Divine Love"or contain it, because it is itself a creation of the ignorance, weak and impure. It must be transformed in order to be capable of that; it must become strong and pure. The previous night was, hereFirst of all, it must have the darkest of strength to love the year Divine alone and turn away from all other ties. But besides that a new consciousness must be created in India it is it—first a great festivalconsciousness of pure and purifying Divine Peace from above which must take hold of all down to the most physical—then in that peace an increasing inner strength pure and unegoistic—then the Divine Light and Knowledge transforming all the consciousness and movements. Its true significance is that When this has been done, then the human form can contain the Divine's Love is at and Ananda. Till then the touches of the base Divine Love and core of all manifestationAnanda are usually momentary or brief, even where they cannot remain. In an impure consciousness the Divine Love if it seems most completely inconscientcame in would create a perturbation and possibly be attacked by a mixture which would make it impossible for it to stay. It is therefore that touch only can come.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1429/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p19p4</ref>

The moment you open to There is the Divine one divine Lovesecret in all things, you also receive its power but the manifestation [''of Transformation. But it is not in terms matter and in forms of quantity that you can measure it; what is essential is life ''] depends upon the true contact; for, you will find that the true contact with it is sufficient to fill at once the whole state of your beingconsciousness and its organisation. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0329/knowledge-by-unity-with-the-divine-thelove-divinepsychic-willlove-inand-thehuman-worldlove#p6p7</ref>

Great beings have taken birth in this world who came to bring down here something of the sovereign purity and power of Divine love. The Divine love has thrown itself into a personal form in them I was stating that its realisation upon earth may be at once more easy and more perfect. Divine love, when manifested in a personal human being, is easier unless he raises himself to realise; it the divine heights, is more difficult when it incapable of receiving, appreciating and knowing what divine Love is unmanifested or impersonal in its movement…. Love must cease to be divine to be accepted by man.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0308/231-juneoctober-19291956#p12p11</ref>

It alone can assureEach one of you should be able to get into touch with your own psychic being, even while the spiritual consciousness it is incomplete, the perennial freshness and sincerity and beauty of the symbol and prevent it from not an inaccessible thing. Your psychic being a dead form or a corrupted and corrupting magic; it alone can preserve for is there precisely to put you in contact with the act its power divine forces. And if you are in contact with its significance. All the other members of our your psychic being, mind, life-forceyou begin to feel, physical or body consciousness are too much under the control of the Ignorance to be have a sure instrumentation and much less kind of perception of what Divine Love can they be a guide or the source of an unerring impulse. Always the greater part of the motive and action of these powers clings to the old law, the deceiving tablets, the cherished inferior movements of Nature and they meet with reluctance, alarm or revolt or obstructing inertia the voices and the forces that call and impel us to exceed and transform ourselves into a greater being and a wider Nature… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0804/1524-augustmarch-19561951#p1p25</ref>

If you do that, you have taken a great stride forward and can, through this attitude, gradually advance farther It does not indeed find itself in the feeling selfish distortions of the human consciousness; but the vital in itselfis as important an element in Divine love as it is in the whole of the manifested universe. There is no possibility of movement and progress without the mediation of the vital; but because this Power of Nature has been so badly distorted, some prefer to believe that it has to be pulled out altogether and realise one day thrown away. But it is only through the vital that love matter can be touched by the transforming power of the Spirit. If the vital is not something personalthere to infuse its dynamism and living force, that love is a universal divine feeling which manifests through you more or less finelymatter will remain dead; for the higher parts of the being will not come into contact with earth, but which will not be concretised in its essence is something divine…life, and they will depart unsatisfied and disappear.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0803/192-septemberjune-19561929#p23p9</ref>

Perhaps Love cannot exist in its pure beauty, love cannot put on its native power and intense joy of fullness until there is this interchange, this fusion between the earth and the Supreme, this movement of Love from the different elements constituting Divine to the stone are coordinated by creation and from the creation to the spark of loveDivine. I am sure that when …The moment man's consciousness awakens to the Divine Love descended into Matterlove, pure, independent of all manifestation in human forms, this Matter was quite unconscioushe knows for what his heart has all the time been truly longing. That is the beginning of the Soul's aspiration, it had absolutely no form; it may even be said that brings the awakening of the consciousness and its yearning for union with the Divine. All the forms in general that are of the ignorance, all the result deformations it has imposed must from that moment fade and disappear and give place to one single movement of the effort of Love creation answering to the Divine love by its love for the Divine. Once the creation is conscious, awakened, opened to bring consciousness love for the Divine, the Divine love pours itself without limit back into the creation. The circle of the movement turns back upon itself and the ends meet; there is the joining of the extremes, supreme Spirit and manifesting Matter, and their divine union becomes constant and complete. <ref>http://incarnateword. … And the coming out in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p11</ref> ===Will=== To will it is a constant, sustained, concentrated aspiration, an almost exclusive occupation of the Inconscient consciousness. This is due exclusively to the sacrifice first step. There are many others: a very attentive observation, a very persistent analysis, a very keen discernment of what is pure in the Divine, movement and what is not... You must take up your search with a purity of aspiration and surrender which in themselves are already difficult to acquire. You must have worked much on yourself only to be ready to aspire to this descent of Divine Love into the Inconscient….<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/24-march-1951#p2p23</ref>

There …the will to pierce through this limited and human form of love and discover the principle of divine Love which is behind it. Then one is sure to get a result. This is much more aspiration better than drying up one would think in things we call inanimate's heart. Much It is perhaps a little more. In stones also there difficult but it is a kind better in every way, for like this, instead of spontaneous sense of what is higheregoistically making others suffer, more noblewell, more pureone may leave them quiet in their own movement and only make an effort to transform oneself without imposing one's will on others, which even in ordinary life is a step towards something higher and though they cannot express it a little more harmonious.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/19-september-1956#p30</ref> ===Receptivity=== Divine Love is there always in any wayall its intensity, a formidable power. But most people—ninety-nine per cent—do not feel anything at all! What they feel of itis exclusively in proportion to what they are, and this affects them differentlyto their capacity of receiving. Imagine, for instance, that you are bathing in an atmosphere all vibrant with divine Love—you are not at all aware of it.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0506/19-augustmay-19531954#p12</ref>

First of all, we are going to take the historical fact, if there is one. That is Truth alone can give to say, through the action of world the forces power of separation, Consciousness became inconscience receiving and matter was created such as it is, on a basis of inconscience so total that no contact seemed possible between the Origin and what was created. And this total inconscience made a direct descent necessary, without sing through the intermediate regions, a direct descent of manifesting the divine Consciousness in its form of Love. And it is this descent of Divine Love into matter, penetrating it and adding a new element to its position, which has made possible the ascent, slow for us, but an uninterrupted ascent, from inconscience to consciousness and from darkness to light. Therefore, one cannot say that Love can manifest only when the creation becomes divine, for it is on the contrary because of its manifestation that creation can become divine once again.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0815/31messages-for-the-supramental-manifestation-octoberupon-1956earth#p8p11</ref>

I was speaking not of To manifest the world in general but Divine love you must be capable of human consciousness in particular; and certainly, I was alluding to receiving the fact that this Divine Love which animates all things, penetrates all, upbears all love. For only those can manifest it who are by their nature open to its native movement. The wider and leads all towards progress and an ascent to clearer the Divineopening in them, the more they manifest love divine in its original purity; the more it is not felt, not perceived by mixed with the lower human consciousnessfeelings, and that even to the extent greater is the human being does perceive it, he finds it difficult deformation. One who is not open to bear—not only to contain it, but be able to tolerate it, I might say, for its power love in its purity, its intensity essence and in its purity, are of too strong a kind to be endured by human nature…truth cannot approach the Divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0803/312-octoberjune-19561929#p10p4</ref>

Adoration fulfilled in My loveis always with you; if then you do not feel it, it is because you are not capable of receiving it. It is your receptivity that is lacking and should be increased; for this you must open yourself, and one opens oneself only if one gives oneself. Surely you are trying more or less consciously to draw the forces and the divine love towards you. The method is bad. Give yourself without calculating and without expecting anything in Anandareturn, and then you will become capable of receiving.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/receptivity#p21</ref> ===Peace=== The higher consciousness in its descent takes several fundamental forms—peace, power and strength, light,—the surpassing loveknowledge, Ananda. Usually it is the self-wrapped ecstasy peace that descends first. This is not a mental, vital or physical peace of transcendent delight in the Transcendent which awaits us at ordinary kind, but something from above (spiritual), very firm, solid and concrete. It is its concreteness that makes you feel like a still massive block—a mass of the end higher consciousness in place of the path more tenuous substance of Devotion,—has the ordinary nature. As for its wider result a universal love for all beingsbeing worth having, you can see that it is—it is indeed the Ananda beginning of all that is; we perceive behind every veil the Divine, spiritually embrace in all forms real transformation—all the All-Beautiful. A universal delight in his endless manifestation flows through us, taking in its surge every form rest hitherto has been mainly preparation and movement, but not bound or stationary in any clearing of difficulties and always reaching out to a greater and more perfect expressionimpediments through all these years. This universal love is liberative serene peace and dynamic or transformation; for the discord of forms and appearances ceases massive stillness has to affect stabilise itself, fill the heart that has felt the one Truth behind them whole nature, widen itself until all existence internal and understood their perfect significanceexternal seems full of it. The impartial equality of soul of This may take time, but the selfless worker and knower beginning once there it is sure to take place, if one is transformed by the magic touch of divine Love into an all-embracing ecstasy steady and million-bodied beatitudeconstant. All things become bodies and It becomes besides the sure base on which all movements the playings of the divine Beloved in his infinite house of pleasure. Even pain is changed rest,—power and strength, light and in their reaction knowledge, Ananda and even in their essence things painful alter; the forms of pain fall awaydivine love, there are created can come in their place and securely fill the forms of Anandaconsciousness.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2330/the-ascentdescent-of-the-sacrificehigher-consciousness-and-iiforce#p16</ref> ==How to Experience Divine Love?=====By Transcending Human Love=== To become conscious of the Divine Love, all other love must be abandoned.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine-love#p5p35</ref>

A supreme ''Q: Sweet Mother, Sri Aurobindo has said that one can pass from human love to divine Love is a creative Power .'' ''A:'' Yet if you persist andmake the necessary effort, even though it can exist in itself silent and unchangeable, yet rejoices in external form and expression and is not condemned impossible for this human love to be a speechless and bodiless godheadtransformed into divine love through identification with what you love. It He has even been not said that creation itself was an act of the love between two persons can change into divine love or . It is not that at least all! He has always said the building up of a field in which Divine Love could devise its symbols and fulfil itself in act of mutuality and self-givingopposite. He spoke about someone who had asked him about devotion, andyou know, if not about the sadhak's love for the Divine. At the initial nature beginning your love is altogether human—and he speaks of creationit even as commercial barter. If you make progress, your love will change into divine love, this may well be its ultimate object and motiveinto true devotion. It does not so appear now because, even if a Divine Love is there in the world upholding all this evolution of creatures…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2306/the-ascent-of-the16-sacrificejune-ii1954#p10p61</ref>

For devotion by its embodiment in acts not It is only makes when it [Divine Love] moves away from its own way broad true nature and full essential quality that man accepts it, and dynamic, but brings at once into the harder way even (''smiling'') approves of works in the world the divinely passionate element of joy it and love which is often absent in its beginning when glorifies it is only the austere spiritual Will . This means that follows it must already be quite warped in a struggling uplifting tension the steep ascent, and the heart is still asleep or bound order to silence. If the spirit of divine love can enter, the hardness of the way diminishes, the tension is lightened, there is a sweetness and joy even in be accepted by the core of difficulty and strugglehuman consciousness. The indispensable surrender of all our will and works and activities And to the Supreme is indeed only perfect and perfectly effective when accept it is a surrender of love. All life turned into this cult, all actions done in the love of the Divine bear it and receive it in the love of the world and its creatures seen plenitude and felt as purity, the Divine manifested in many disguises human consciousness must become by that very fact part of an integral Yogadivine.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2308/the-ascent-of-the31-sacrificeoctober-ii1956#p11p10</ref>

This is I was speaking not of the ordinary movement by which what may be at first a vague adoration of some idea world in general but of human consciousness in particular; and certainly, I was alluding to the fact that this Divine takes on the hue and character and thenLove which animates all things, once entered into the path of Yogapenetrates all, the inner reality upbears all and intense experience of divine love. But there is the more intimate Yoga which from the first consists in this love leads all towards progress and attains only by an ascent to the intensity of its longing without other process or method. All the rest comesDivine, but it comes out of thisis not felt, as leaf and flower out of the seed; other things are not perceived by the means of developing human consciousness, and fulfilling love, but the radiations of love already growing in the soul. This is the way that even to the soul follows when, while occupied perhaps with extent the normal human life, being does perceive it has heard the flute of the Godhead behind the near screen of secret woodlands and no longer possesses itself, can have no satisfaction or rest till he finds it has pursued and seized and possessed the divine flute-player. This is in essence the power of love itself in the heart and soul turning from earthly objects difficult to bear—not only to the spiritual source of all beauty and delight. There live in this seeking all the sentiment and passioncontain it, all the moods and experiences of love concentrated on a supreme object of desire and intensified a hundredfold beyond the highest acme of intensity possible but be able to a human love. There is the disturbance of the whole lifetolerate it, the illumination by an unseized visionI might say, the unsatisfied yearning for a single object of the heart's desireits power in its purity, the intense impatience of all that distracts from the one preoccupation, the intense pain of the obstacles that stand its intensity in the way of possessionits purity, the perfect vision are of all beauty and delight in too strong a single formkind to be endured by human nature. And there are all the many moods of loveIt is only when it is diluted, the joy of musing and absorptiondeformed, the delight of the meeting attenuated and fulfilment and embraceobscured, the pain of separationso to say, the wrath of love, the tears of longing, the increased delight of reunion. The heart is the scene of this supreme idyll of the inner consciousness, but a heart which undergoes increasingly an intense spiritual change and that it becomes the radiantly unfolding lotus of the spirit. And as the intensity of its seeking is beyond the highest power of the normal human emotions, so also the delight and the final ecstasy are beyond the reach of the imagination and beyond expression by speech. For this is the delight of the Godhead that passes acceptable to human understandingnature.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2408/the31-way-ofoctober-devotion1956#p6p10</ref>

…extending The first step is to stop being selfish. For everyone it is the same thing, not only for those who want to a common feeling and mutual worship between the devotees themselves united do yoga but also in the same realisation of the supreme Love ordinary life: if one wants to know how to love, one must not love oneself first and Bliss. It provides a yet more general corrective in the realisation of above all selfishly; one must give oneself to the divine object of Love love without exacting anything in all beings return. This discipline is elementary in order to surmount oneself and lead a life which is not only human but animal, easily extended to all forms whatsoever..altogether gross.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2308/the19-systemsseptember-of-yoga1956#p19p29</ref>

The consciousness from There is the selfishness which these experiences come [such as the division of the mind into an active surface mind and a silent inner mind] is always there pressing to bring them in. The reason why they don't come in freely or stay is the activity of the mind and vital always rushing about, thinking this, wanting that, trying to perform mountaineering feats on all the hillocks of a part if not the lower nature instead whole of nourishing a strong and simple aspiration and opening to the higher consciousness that human love—and it may come in and do its own work. Rasa of poetry, painting or physical work is not the thing to go after. What gives the interest in Yoga is the rasa reaction of the Divine demand and of the divine consciousness which means the rasa of Peace, of Silence, of inner Light and Bliss, of growing inner Knowledge, of increasing inner Power, of the Divine Love, of all the infinite fields of experience desire it brings that open to one with the opening of creates the inner consciousnessopposite feeling. The true rasa of poetry, painting or any other activity It is truly found when these activities are part of the working of the Divine Force in you and you feel it as this selfish element is rejected that and you one can feel in it the joy of that workingtrue psychic or divine love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3031/human-relations-and-the-inwardspiritual-movementlife#p91p57</ref>

Still, the more varied The spiritual life will draw its sustenance not from desire but from a pure and most intimate experience selfless spiritual delight of divine love cannot come by essential existence. And not only the pursuit of vital nature in us whose stamp is desire, but the impersonal Infinite alone; for that the Godhead we adore mental being too must become near undergo a new birth and personal to usa transfiguring change. It is possible for the Impersonal to reveal within itself all the riches of personality when we get into its heartOur divided, egoistic, limited and ignorant thought and one who sought only to enter into or to embrace the infinite Presence alone, may discover intelligence must disappear; in its place there must stream in it things he had not dreamed of; the being catholic and faultless play of the Divine has surprises for us a shadowless divine illumination which confound the ideas of shall culminate in the limiting intellect. But ordinarily the way of devotion begins from the other end; it starts in a natural self-existent Truth-consciousness free from groping half-truth and it rises and widens to its issue by adoration of the divine Personalitystumbling error. The Divine is a Being Our confused and not an abstract existence or a status of pure timeless infinity; the original embarrassed ego-centred small-motived will and universal existence is He, but that existence is inseparable from consciousness action must cease and bliss make room for the total working of beinga swiftly powerful, lucidly automatic, divinely moved and an existence conscious of its own being guided unfallen Force. There must be implanted and its own bliss is what we may well call activised in all our doings a divine infinite Personsupreme, impersonal,—Purushaunfaltering and unstumbling will in spontaneous and untroubled unison with the will of the Divine. Moreover all consciousness implies power, Shakti; where there is infinite consciousness The unsatisfying surface play of being, our feeble egoistic emotions must be ousted and there is infinite power of being, must be revealed instead a secret deep and by vast psychic heart within that power waits behind them for its hour; all exists in the universe. All beings exist our feelings, impelled by this Being; all things are inner heart in which dwells the faces of God; all thought and action and feeling and love proceed from him and return to himDivine, all their results have him for source will be transmuted into calm and support intense movements of a twin passion of divine Love and secret goalmanifold Ananda. It This is to this Godhead, this Being that the Bhakti definition of an integral Yoga will be poured out and uplifteda divine humanity or a supramental race. TranscendentThis, it will seek him in the ecstasy of not an absolute union; universal, it will seek him in infinite quality and every aspect and in all beings with exaggerated or even a universal delight sublimated energy of human intellect and love; individualaction, it will enter into all human relations with him that love creates between person and personis the type of the superman whom we are called to evolve by our Yoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2423/self-surrender-in-works-the-mysteryway-of-lovethe-gita#p2p4</ref>

It This is there waiting to the ordinary movement by which what may be understood at first a vague adoration of some idea of the Divine takes on the hue and accepted character and meanwhile giving all the help you can receive to raise and widen you then, once entered into the consciousness in which it will be no longer possible for these difficulties and these misunderstandings to recur—the state in which there is possible path of Yoga, the full inner reality and perfect union.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/intense experience of divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p6</ref><center>~</center>There . But there is a psychic human love the more intimate Yoga which rises from deep within the first consists in this love and is attains only by the result of the meeting intensity of its longing without other process or method. All the inner being with that which calls it towards a divine joy and union; it isrest comes, once but it becomes aware comes out of itself, something lasting, self-existentthis, as leaf and flower out of the seed; other things are not dependent upon external satisfactionsthe means of developing and fulfilling love, not capable but the radiations of diminution by external causeslove already growing in the soul. This is the way that the soul follows when, not self-regardingwhile occupied perhaps with the normal human life, not prone to demand or bargain but giving it has heard the flute of the Godhead behind the near screen of secret woodlands and no longer possesses itself simply and spontaneously, not moved to can have no satisfaction or broken by misunderstandings, disappointments, strife rest till it has pursued and seized and anger, but pressing always straight towards possessed the inner uniondivine flute-player. It This is this psychic in essence the power of love that is closest itself in the heart and soul turning from earthly objects to the divine spiritual source of all beauty and delight. There live in this seeking all the sentiment and it is therefore passion, all the right moods and best way experiences of love concentrated on a supreme object of desire and bhaktiintensified a hundredfold beyond the highest acme of intensity possible to a human love. But that does not mean that There is the other parts disturbance of the beingwhole life, the vital and physical includedillumination by an unseized vision, are not to be used as means the unsatisfied yearning for a single object of expression or that they are not to share in the full play and heart's desire, the whole meaning intense impatience of loveall that distracts from the one preoccupation, even the intense pain of divine love. On the contrary, they are a means and can be a great part of obstacles that stand in the complete expression way of divine lovepossession,—provided they have the right perfect vision of all beauty and not the wrong movementdelight in a single form. There And there are in all the vital itself two kinds many moods of love,—one full the joy of joy musing and absorption, the delight of the meeting and confidence fulfilment and abandonembrace, the pain of separation, generousthe wrath of love, unbargainingthe tears of longing, ungrudging and very absolute in its dedication and the increased delight of reunion. The heart is the scene of this is akin to supreme idyll of the psychic inner consciousness, but a heart which undergoes increasingly an intense spiritual change and well-fitted to be its complement and a means of expression becomes the radiantly unfolding lotus of the divine lovespirit. And neither does as the psychic love or intensity of its seeking is beyond the divine love despise a physical means highest power of expression wherever that is pure the normal human emotions, so also the delight and right the final ecstasy are beyond the reach of the imagination and possible: it does not depend upon that, it does not diminish, revolt or go out like a snuffed candle when it beyond expression by speech. For this is deprived the delight of any such means; but when it can use it, it does so with joy and gratitudethe Godhead that passes human understanding.…<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2924/divinethe-loveway-psychic-love-and-humanof-lovedevotion#p38p5,p6</ref>

==What are the Prerequisites for Divine Love?=By Oneness===

It does not indeed find itself in the selfish distortions of the human consciousness; but the vital in itself I have said that if one wants to know what love is as important an element in Divine , one must love as it is in the whole of the manifested universeDivine. There Then there is no possibility a chance of movement and progress without knowing what love is. I have said that one grows into the mediation likeness of what one loves. So if one loves the vital; but because Divine, gradually, through this Power effort of Nature has been so badly distortedlove, some prefer to believe that it has to one grows more and more like the Divine, and then one can be pulled out altogether identified with the divine love and thrown away. But know what it is only through the vital that matter , otherwise one can be touched by the transforming power of the Spirit… 't.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0306/214-juneapril-19291954#p9p7</ref>

Each one of you should be able to get into touch As with your own psychic beingindividual, it is not an inaccessible thing. Your psychic being is there precisely to put you in contact so with universal Love; all that widening of the self through sympathy, goodwill, universal benevolence and beneficence, love of mankind, love of creatures, the divine forces. And if you are in contact with your psychic beingattraction of all the myriad forms and presences that surround us, you begin to feelby which mentally and emotionally man escapes from the first limits of his ego, has to have be taken up into a kind of perception of what unifying divine love for the universal Divine Love can be. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0423/24the-ascent-of-the-marchsacrifice-1951ii#p25p5</ref>

The spiritual life will draw its sustenance not from desire but from "It may be said that a pure complete act of divine love and selfless spiritual delight of essential existence. And not only the vital nature worship has in us whose stamp is desire, but it three parts that are the mental being too must undergo expressions of a new birth and a transfiguring change. Our dividedsingle whole, egoistic, limited and ignorant thought and intelligence must disappear; in its place there must stream in the catholic and faultless play ―a practical worship of a shadowless divine illumination which shall culminate in the end Divine in a natural self-existent Truth-consciousness free from groping half-truth and stumbling error. Our confused and embarrassed ego-centred small-motived will and action must cease and make room for the total working of a swiftly powerful, lucidly automaticact, divinely moved and guided unfallen Force. There must be implanted and activised in all our doings a supreme, impersonal, unfaltering and unstumbling will symbol of worship in spontaneous and untroubled unison with the will form of the Divine. The unsatisfying surface play of our feeble egoistic emotions must be ousted act expressing some vision and there must be revealed instead a secret deep and vast psychic heart within that waits behind them for its hour; all our feelings, impelled by this inner heart in which dwells seeking or some relation with the Divine, will be transmuted into calm an inner adoration and intense movements longing for oneness or feeling of a twin passion of divine Love oneness in the heart and manifold Ananda. This is the definition of a divine humanity or a supramental race. This, not an exaggerated or even a sublimated energy of human intellect soul and action, is the type of the superman whom we are called to evolve by our Yogaspirit. "<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2308/self25-surrender-in-works-the-way-of-thejuly-gita1956#p4p1</ref>

Altruism, philanthropy, humanitarianism, service The force of love in the world is trying to find consciousnesses that are flowers capable of receiving this divine movement in its purity and expressing it. This race of all beings towards love, this irresistible push and seeking out in the mental consciousness world’s heart and are at best in all hearts, is the impulse given by a Divine love behind the mind's cold human longing and pale imitation seeking. It touches millions of instruments, trying always, always failing; but this constant touch prepares these instruments and suddenly one day there will awake in them the spiritual flame capacity of universal Divine Loveself-giving, the capacity of loving. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2303/the-ascent-of-the2-sacrificejune-i1929#p20p6</ref>

We can see how this larger application ...the one thing essential is the intense devotion of the thought in the mind to the object of adoration...It is in its real nature not a still, but an ecstatic contemplation; it seeks not to pass into the being of the Divine, but to bring the Divine into ourselves and to lose ourselves in the deep ecstasy of his presence or of his possession; and its bliss is not the Yoga peace of Devotion unity, but the ecstasy of union. Here, too, there may be the separative self-consecration which ends in the giving up of all other thought of life for the possession of this ecstasy, eternal afterwards in planes beyond, or the comprehensive consecration in which all the thoughts are full of the Divine and even in the occupations of life every thought remembers him. As in the other Yogas, so used as in this, one comes to lead see the Divine everywhere and in all and to pour out the elevation realisation of the whole range Divine in all one's inner activities and outward actions. But all is supported here by the primary force of human emotion, sensation the emotional union: for it is by love that the entire self-consecration and aesthetic perception to the divine levelentire possession is accomplished, its spiritualisation and the justification thought and action become shapes and figures of the cosmic labour towards divine love which possesses the spirit and joy in our humanityits members. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2324/the-systemsway-of-yogadevotion#p19p5</ref>

And let me say also that, as regards human love ...the more varied and most intimate experience of divine love, I admitted cannot come by the pursuit of the first as impersonal Infinite alone; for that from which the Godhead we have adore must become near and personal to proceed and us. It is possible for the Impersonal to arrive at reveal within itself all the otherriches of personality when we get into its heart, intensifying and transforming one who sought only to enter into or to embrace the infinite Presence alone, may discover in it, things he had not eliminating, human lovedreamed of; the being of the Divine has surprises for us which confound the ideas of the limiting intellect. Divine Love, in my view But ordinarily the way of devotion begins from the other end; it, starts from and it rises and widens to its issue by adoration of the divine Personality. The Divine is again a Being and not something etherealan abstract existence or a status of pure timeless infinity; the original and universal existence is He, cold but that existence is inseparable from consciousness and farbliss of being, but and an existence conscious of its own being and its own bliss is what we may well call a love absolutely intensedivine infinite Person,—Purusha. Moreover all consciousness implies power, Shakti; where there is infinite consciousness of being, intimate and full there is infinite power of unitybeing, closeness and rapture using by that power all exists in the nature universe. All beings exist by this Being; all things are the faces of God; all thought and action and feeling and love proceed from him and return to him, all their results have him for its expressionsource and support and secret goal. It is to this Godhead, this Being that the Bhakti of an integral Yoga will be poured out and uplifted. CertainlyTranscendent, it is without will seek him in the confusions and disorders ecstasy of the present lower vital nature which an absolute union; universal, it will change into something entirely warm, deep seek him in infinite quality and every aspect and in all beings with a universal delight and intenselove; but that is no reason for supposing that individual, it will lose anything enter into all human relations with him that is true love creates between person and happy in the elements of loveperson.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2924/divinethe-lovemystery-psychic-love-and-humanof-love#p43p2</ref>

==What Happens When Divine Love Is Not Present?=By Surrender===

And The indispensable surrender of all our will and works and activities to the Supreme is indeed only perfect and perfectly effective when it is there unmixed with weak and sentimental emotionsa surrender of love. All life turned into this cult, they find it hard all actions done in the love of the Divine and cold; they cannot recognise in it the love of the world and its creatures seen and felt as the Divine manifested in many disguises become by that very highest and intensest power fact part of lovean integral Yoga.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0323/2the-ascent-of-the-junesacrifice-1929ii#p5p11</ref>

If It is to discover that at its [Divine Love] supreme source, to bring it from within and to radiate it out up to the extreme confines of life that falsification is permittedturned the effort of the Yoga. All action, all creation must be turned into a form, a symbol of the cult, the higher Light adoration, the sacrifice; it must carry something that makes it bear in it the stamp of a dedication, a reception and Power and Bliss withdrawtranslation of the Divine Consciousness, a service of the Beloved, a self-giving, there is a fall back surrender. This has to a lower status; or else be done wherever possible in the realisation remains tied to an insecure half-way outward body and mixture or is covered form of the act; it must be done always in its inward emotion and even submerged by an inferior exaltation intensity that is not shows it to be an outflow from the soul towards the true Ananda…Eternal. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0823/15the-ascent-of-the-augustsacrifice-1956ii#p1p10</ref>

The reason for people Divine Love, unlike the human, is deep and vast and silent; one must become quiet and wide to be aware of it and reply to it. ...make it his whole object to be surrendered so that he may become a vessel and instrument—leaving it to come the Divine Wisdom and settle here Love to fill him with what is surely needed. Let him also fix this in the mind not to find comfort insist that in a given time he must progress, develop, get realisation; whatever time it takes, he must be prepared to wait and persevere and make his whole life an aspiration and luxury—this can be found anywhere if an opening for the one thing only, the Divine. To give oneself is lucky enoughthe secret of sadhana, not to demand and acquire. But what The more one can get heregives oneself, the more the power to receive will grow. But for that all impatience and revolt must go; all suggestions of not getting, not being helped, not being loved, going away, of abandoning life or the spiritual endeavour must be rejected.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p38</ref> ==How Can Divine Love be Manifested?== The movement of love is not got limited to human beings and it is perhaps less distorted in any other placeworlds than in the human. Look at the flowers and trees. When the sun sets and all becomes silent, sit down for a moment and put yourself into communion with Nature: it is you will feel rising from the earth, from below the roots of the trees and mounting upward and coursing through their fibres up to the Divine Lovehighest outstretching branches, Grace the aspiration of an intense love and Care. It is when this is forgotten or disregarded longing,—a longing for something that people begin to feel miserable here. Indeed whenever somebody feels unhappy brings light and discontentedgives happiness, it can be taken as a sure sign for the light that he is turning his gone and they wish to have back on what the Divine again. There is always giving a yearning so pure and intense that he has gone astray if you can feel the movement in the trees, your own being too will go up in pursuit of worldly satisfactionan ardent prayer for the peace and light and love that are unmanifested here.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1303/comfort2-andjune-happiness1929#p8p7</ref>

Outside this state there are infinite grades of consciousnessOne has just a tiny little opening, very tiny, going right down to complete darknessat times like a pinhead, the veritable inconscience which may be and naturally that force rushes in. For it is like an active atmosphere; as soon as there is a domain yet untouched by the light possibility of Thy being received, it is received. But this is so for all divine Love (but this seems improbable in physical substance)things. They are there, only one does not receive them, or which for one isclosed up, for some kind blocked; one is busy with other things most of reason the time. Most of ignorancethe time one is full of oneself. So, outside our individual range as one is full of perceptiononeself, there is no place for anything else. One is very actively (''laughing'') busy with other things. One is filled with things; there is no place for the Divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1706/comments19-on-prayers-andmay-meditations1954#p76p12</ref>

The real soul emerges and takes the place left vacant by the desire-mind.The cleansed and emptied cup is filled with the wine of divine love and delight and no longer with the sweet and bitter poison of passion.The passions, even the passion for good, misrepresent the divine nature.but this lower vital way is only a source The passion of pity with its impure elements of physical repulsion and emotional inability to bear the sufferingof others has to be rejected and replaced by the higher divine compassion which sees, troubleunderstands, disappointmentaccepts the burden of others and is strong to help and heal, disillusion not with self-will and disunion. Even a slight element revolt against the suffering in the world and with ignorant accusation of it shakes the foundations law of peace things and replaces the movement towards Ananda by a fall towards sorrowtheir source, discontent but with light and knowledge and Niranandaas an instrument of the Divine in its emergence.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2923/divinethe-release-lovefrom-psychicthe-loveheart-and-humanthe-lovemind#p39p7</ref>

On the other hand when you insist too much on The soul's turning through love to the Divine must be through a love which exists by external cravingsthat is essentially divine, what comes but as the instrument of expression at first is a human nature, it takes the other movement—fits forms of despondency, sorrow, Niranandahuman love and bhakti. In stressing on the psychic basis, in wishing you to conquer this other movement, I am It is only pointing you to as the true way of your own nature—of which the psychic bhakticonsciousness deepens, the true vital heightens and changes that that greater eternal love are can grow in it and openly transform the real moving forces, and human into the other is only a superficial immixturedivine..<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-It is this psychic-love-that is closest to the divine and-human-love#p40</ref><center>~</center>Or if they are intensely followed with an entire sincerity of the will, it is by an exaggerated amplification therefore the right and best way of one side of our nature; in love and bhakti. But that does not mean that exaggeration there can be no clue for the full and perfect divine evolution other parts of the many sides of our individualised being towards , the universal vital and transcendent Eternal. Nor can the religio-ethical ideal physical included, are not to be a sufficient guide,—for this is a compromise used as means of expression or compact of mutual concessions for mutual support between a religious urge which seeks that they are not to get a closer hold on earth by taking into itself share in the higher turns of ordinary human nature full play and an ethical urge which hopes to elevate itself out the whole meaning of its own mental hardness and dryness by some touch love, even of a religious fervourdivine love. In making this compact religion lowers itself to On the mental level contrary, they are a means and inherits can be a great part of the inherent imperfections complete expression of mind and its inability to convert divine love,—provided they have the right and transform life. The mind is not the sphere of wrong movement… And neither does the dualities and, just as it is impossible for it to achieve any absolute Truth but only truths relative psychic love or mixed with error, so it the divine love despise a physical means of expression wherever that is impossible for it to achieve any absolute good; for moral good exists as a counterpart pure and corrective to evil right and has evil always for its shadowpossible: it does not depend upon that, complementit does not diminish, almost its reason for existence. But the spiritual consciousness belongs to revolt or go out like a higher than the mental plane and there the dualities cease; for there falsehood confronted with the truth by which snuffed candle when it profited through a usurping falsification is deprived of any such means; but when it and evil faced by the good of which can use it was a perversion or a lurid substitute, are obliged to perish for want of sustenance it does so with joy and to cease…gratitude…<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2329/thedivine-love-ascentpsychic-oflove-theand-sacrificehuman-ilove#p20p32</ref>

=How Can Divine Love Flourish?= To become conscious of the Divine Love, all other love must be abandoned.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine-love#p34</ref>  Once one has found divine Love, all other loves, which are nothing but disguises, can lose their deformities and become pure―then it is the Divine that one loves in everyone and everything. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine-love-and-human-love#p49</ref> It is only when it moves away from its true nature and essential quality that man accepts it, and even (''smiling'') approves of it and glorifies it. This means that it must already be quite warped in order to be accepted by the human consciousness. And to accept it, bear it and receive it in its plenitude and purity, the human consciousness must become divine.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/31-october-1956#p10</ref> It is only when it moves away from its true nature and essential quality that man accepts it, and even (smiling) approves of it and glorifies it. This means that it must already be quite warped in order to be accepted by the human consciousness. And to accept it, bear it and receive it in its plenitude and purity, the human consciousness must become divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/31-october-1956#p10</ref> Yet if you persist and make the necessary effort, it is not impossible for this human love to be transformed into divine love through identification with what you love. He has not said that the love between two persons can change into divine love. It is not that at all! He has always said the opposite. He spoke about someone who had asked him about devotion, you know, about the sadhak's love for the Divine. At the beginning your love is altogether human—and he speaks of it even as commercial barter. If you make progress, your love will change into divine love, into true devotion.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/16-june-1954#p61</ref>  This race of all beings towards love, this irresistible push and seeking out in the world's heart and in all hearts, is the impulse given by a Divine love behind the human longing and seeking. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p6</ref> The Divine Love, unlike the human, is deep and vast and silent; one must become quiet and wide to be aware of it and reply to it. X must make it his whole object to be surrendered so that he may become a vessel and instrument—leaving it to the Divine Wisdom and Love to fill him with what is needed. Let him also fix this in the mind not to insist that in a given time he must progress, develop, get realisation; whatever time it takes, he must be prepared to wait and persevere and make his whole life an aspiration and an opening for the one thing only, the Divine. To give oneself is the secret of sadhana, not to demand and acquire. The more one gives oneself, the more the power to receive will grow. But for that all impatience and revolt must go; all suggestions of not getting, not being helped, not being loved, going away, of abandoning life or the spiritual endeavour must be rejected.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p45</ref> =In Physical=How Can Divine Love be Manifested in Various Parts of the Being?==

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<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p40</ref><center>~</center>It is true that the removal of the sex-impulse in all its forms and, generally, of the vital woman-complex is a great liberation which opens up to the Divine considerable regions of the being which otherwise tend to remain shut up. These things are a degradation of the source in the being from which bhakti, divine love and adoration arise... <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p44p91</ref><center>~</center>In that fire all the emotions are compelled to cast off their grosser elements and those that are undivine perversions are burned away and the others discard their insufficiencies, till a spirit of largest love and a stainless divine delight arises out of the flame and smoke and frankincense. It is the divine love which so emerges that, extended in inward feeling to the Divine in man and all creatures in an active universal equality, will be more potent for the perfectibility of life and a more real instrument than the ineffective mental ideal of brotherhood can ever be. It is this poured out into acts that could alone create a harmony in the world and a true unity between all its creatures; all else strives in vain towards that end so long as Divine Love has not disclosed itself as the heart of the delivered manifestation in terrestrial Nature.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p12</ref>

It is true that the removal of the sex-impulse in all its forms and, generally, of the vital woman-complex is a great liberation which opens up to the Divine considerable regions of the being which otherwise tend to remain shut up. These things are a degradation of the source in the being from which bhakti, divine love and adoration arise...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p94</ref> If the vital is not there to infuse its dynamism and living force, matter will remain dead; for the higher parts of the being will not come into contact with earth, will not be concretised in life, and they will depart unsatisfied and disappear.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p9</ref> As with individual, so with universal Love; all that widening of the self through sympathy, goodwill, universal benevolence and beneficence, love of mankind, love of creatures, the attraction of all the myriad forms and presences that surround us, by which mentally and emotionally man escapes from the first limits of his ego, has to be taken up into a unifying divine love for the universal Divine…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p5</ref> ‘’’Bhakti’’’ Where external worship changes into the inner adoration, real Bhakti begins; that deepens into the intensity of divine love; that love leads to the joy of closeness in our relations with the Divine; the joy of closeness passes into the bliss of union. Love too as well as knowledge brings us to a highest oneness and it gives to that oneness its greatest possible depth and intensity. It is true that love returns gladly upon a difference in oneness, by which the oneness itself becomes richer and sweeter. But here we may say that the heart is wiser than the thought, at least than that thought which fixes upon opposite ideas of the Divine and concentrates on one to the exclusion of the other which seems its contrary, but is really its complement and a means of its greatest fulfilment... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/love-and-the-triple-path#p8</ref>  The principle of Yoga is to turn God-ward all or any of the powers of the human consciousness so that through that activity of the being there may be contact, relation, union. In the Yoga of Bhakti it is the emotional nature that is made the instrument. Its main principle is to adopt some human relation between man and the Divine Being by which through the ever intenser flowing of the heart's emotions towards him the human soul may at last be wedded to and grow one with him in a passion of divine Love. It is not ultimately the pure peace of oneness or the power and desireless will of oneness, but the ecstatic joy of union which the devotee seeks by his Yoga. Every feeling that can make the heart ready for this ecstasy the Yoga admits; everything that detracts from it must increasingly drop away as the strong union of love becomes closer and more perfect. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-godward-emotions#p1</ref> ===In Mind===

<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p10</ref> It is the thoughts of the outer mind that have to be refused, the suggestions and ideas that end by disturbing the sadhana. There are also a number of thoughts of all kinds that have no interest, but which the mind is accustomed to allow to come as a habit, mechanically,—these sometimes come up when one tries to be quiet. They must be allowed to pass away without attending to them until they run down and the mind becomes still; to struggle with them and try to stop them is no use, there must be only a quiet rejection…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-mind-and-other-levels-of-being#p20p9</ref>

…But our aim It is to go beyond mental ideas into only the light of inmost psychic being unveiled and emerging in its full power that can lead the supramental Truthpilgrim sacrifice unscathed through these ambushes and pitfalls; at each moment it catches, exposes, which exists not by ideative thought but by direct vision repels the mind's and identity. In the same way our aim is to go beyond emotion to life's falsehoods, seizes hold on the height and depth and intensity truth of the Divine Love and there feel through Ananda and separates it from the inner psychic heart an inexhaustible oneness with excitement of the Divine which mind's ardours and the spasmodic leapings blind enthusiasms of the vital emotions cannot reach or experiencemisleading life-force. But all things that are true at their core in mind and life and the physical being it extricates and takes with it in the journey till they stand on the heights, new in spirit and sublime in figure.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2923/divinethe-loveascent-psychicof-lovethe-and-humansacrifice-loveii#p46p13</ref><center>~</center>You must make an effort to come into touch with your psychic being, The love that belongs to become aware and free in the consciousness spiritual planes is of your a different kind—the psychic being, and thenhas its own more personal love, quite naturallybhakti, spontaneously, you will know what Divine surrender. Love in the higher or spiritual mind ismore universal and impersonal. The two must join together to make the highest divine love.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0429/24divine-love-psychic-marchlove-1951and-human-love#p28p18</ref><center>~</center>Live in the consciousness of the psychic centre; thus your will will express the Divine's Will alone and your transformed being will then be able to receive and manifest the Divine Love.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-soul-the-psychic#p33</ref><center>~</center>

<center>~</center>To establish But the latter down to most intimate character of the subconscient psychic is its pressure towards the Divine through a thing which would mean the entire transformation of the whole being sacred love, joy and oneness. It is a divine Love that it seeks most, it cannot be done except as is the result love of the supramental change which Divine that is as yet far away. The other may be established even now in principleits spur, its goal, but to make it living and complete in its star of Truth shining over the luminous cave of the whole being would mean nascent or the psychic transformation completed with still obscure cradle of the spiritual also well under way alreadynew-born godhead within us.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p9</ref>  The love that belongs to In the spiritual planes is first long stage of a different kind—the psychic its growth and immature existence it has its own more personal leaned on earthly love, bhaktiaffection, tenderness, goodwill, surrender. Love in the higher or spiritual mind is more universal compassion, benevolence, on all beauty and gentleness and fineness and light and strength and impersonal. The two must join together courage, on all that can help to make refine and purify the highest divine love.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-grossness and-commonness of human nature; but it knows how mixed are these humanmovements at their best and at their worst how fallen and stamped with the mark of ego and self-love#p21</ref> On deceptive sentimental falsehood and the lower self profiting by the other hand if thoughts come up from withinimitation of a soul-movement… It opens to a universal Divine Love, a vast compassion, from an intense and immense will for the psychicgood of all, thoughts for the embrace of the World-Motherenveloping or gathering to her her children, of the divine love and joy, perceptions Passion that has plunged into the night for the redemption of truth etcthe world from the universal Inconscience., It is not attracted or misled by mental imitations or any vital misuse of these great deep-seated Truths of course must be permittedexistence; it exposes them with its detecting search-ray and calls down the entire truth of divine Love to heal these malformations, as they help to make deliver mental, vital, physical love from their insufficiencies or their perversions and reveal to them their true abounding share of the intimacy and the oneness, the ascending ecstasy and the psychic activedescending rapture.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3123/the-mindascent-andof-otherthe-levels-ofsacrifice-beingi#p20p23</ref>

…the integral Yoga founds itself on a conception of the spiritual being as an omnipresent existence, the fullness of which comes not essentially by a transference to other worlds or a cosmic self-extinction, but by a growth out of what we now are phenomenally into the consciousness of the omnipresent reality which we always are in the essence of our being. It substitutes for the form of religious piety its completer spiritual seeking of a divine union. It proceeds by a personal effort to a conversion through a divine influence and possession; but this divine grace, if we may so call it, is not simply a mysterious flow or touch coming from above, but the all-pervading act of a divine presence which we come to know within as the power of the highest Self and Master of our being entering into the soul and so possessing it that we not only feel it close to us and pressing upon our mortal nature, but live in its law, know that law, possess it as the whole power of our spiritualised nature. The conversion its action will effect is an integral conversion of our ethical being into the Truth and Right of the divine nature, of our intellectual into the illumination of divine knowledge, our emotional into the divine love and unity, our dynamic and volitional into a working of the divine power, our aesthetic into a plenary reception and a creative enjoyment of divine beauty, not excluding even in the end a divine conversion of the vital and physical being...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-integral-perfection#p12</ref><center>~</center>If the rift in the lid of mind is made, what happens is an opening of vision to something above us or a rising up towards it or a descent of its powers into our being. What we see by the opening of vision is an Infinity above us, an eternal Presence or an infinite Existence, an infinity of consciousness, an infinity of bliss,—a boundless Self, a boundless Light, a boundless Power, a boundless Ecstasy. It may be that for a long time all that is obtained is the occasional or frequent or constant vision of it and a longing and aspiration, but without anything further, because, although something in the mind, heart or other part of the being has opened to this experience, the lower nature as a whole is too heavy and obscure as yet for more. But there may be, instead of this first wide awareness from below or subsequently to it, an ascension of the mind to heights above: the nature of these heights we may not know or clearly discern, but some consequence of the ascent is felt; there is often too an awareness of infinite ascension and return but no record or translation of that higher state. This is because it has been superconscient to mind and therefore mind, when it rises into it, is unable at first to retain there its power of conscious discernment and defining experience…experience. But when this power begins to awake and act, when mind becomes by degrees conscious in what was to it superconscient, then there begins a knowledge and experience of superior planes of existence. The experience is in accord with that which is brought to us by the first opening of vision: the mind rises into a higher plane of pure self, silent, tranquil, illimitable; or it rises into regions of light or of felicity, or into planes where it feels an infinite Power or a divine Presence or experiences the contact of a divine Love or Beauty or the atmosphere of a wider and greater and luminous Knowledge.

==What are the Prerequisites for Manifestation of Divine Love?Through Bhakti Yoga or Devotion==Truth alone can give to the world the power of receiving and manifesting the Divine Love.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/messages-for-the-supramental-manifestation-upon-earth#p11</ref>

 "It may be said that a complete act The principle of divine love and worship has in it three parts that are Bhakti Yoga is to utilise all the expressions normal relations of a single wholehuman life into which emotion enters and apply them no longer to transient worldly relations,―a practical worship but to the joy of the Divine in the actAll-Loving, a symbol of worship in the form of the act expressing some vision All-Beautiful and seeking or some relation with the Divine, an inner adoration All-Blissful. Worship and longing meditation are used only for oneness or feeling of oneness in the heart preparation and soul and spirit."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/25-july-1956#p1</ref>  To manifest the Divine love you must be capable increase of intensity of receiving the Divine love. For only those can manifest it who are by their nature open to its native movement. The wider and clearer the opening in them, the more they manifest love divine in its original purity; the more it is mixed with the lower human feelings, the greater is the deformationrelationship. One who And this Yoga is not open to love catholic in its essence use of all emotional relations, so that even enmity and in its truth cannot approach the Divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p4</ref> Love cannot exist in its pure beautyopposition to God, considered as an intense, love cannot put on its native power impatient and intense joy perverse form of fullness until there Love, is this interchangeconceived as a possible means of realisation and salvation. This path, too, as ordinarily practised, this fusion between the earth and the Supremeleads away from world-existence to an absorption, this movement of Love from another kind than the Divine to Monist’s, in the creation Transcendent and from the creation to the DivineSupra-cosmic. …The moment man's consciousness awakens to the Divine loveBut, purehere too, independent of all manifestation in human forms, he knows for what his heart has all the time been truly longingexclusive result is not inevitable. That is The Yoga itself provides a first corrective by not confining the beginning play of divine love to the relation between the supreme Soul's aspirationand the individual, that brings but extending it to a common feeling and mutual worship between the devotees themselves united in the awakening same realisation of the consciousness supreme Love and its yearning for union with the DivineBliss. All It provides a yet more general corrective in the forms that are realisation of the ignorancedivine object of Love in all beings not only human but animal, easily extended to all forms whatsoever. We can see how this larger application of the deformations it has imposed must from that moment fade and disappear and give place Yoga of Devotion may be so used as to one single movement of the creation answering lead to the Divine love by its love for elevation of the Divine. Once the creation is consciouswhole range of human emotion, awakened, opened sensation and aesthetic perception to love for the Divinedivine level, the Divine love pours itself without limit back into the creation. The circle of the movement turns back upon itself its spiritualisation and the ends meet; there is the joining justification of the extremes, supreme Spirit cosmic labour towards love and manifesting Matter, and their divine union becomes constant and completejoy in our humanity.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0323/2the-systems-juneof-1929yoga#p11p18,p19</ref><center>~</center> I have said that if one wants The principle of Yoga is to know what love is, one must love the Divine. Then there is a chance turn God-ward all or any of knowing what love is. I have said that one grows into the likeness powers of what one loves. So if one loves the Divine, gradually, human consciousness so that through this effort that activity of lovethe being there may be contact, one grows more and more like the Divinerelation, and then one can be identified with union. In the divine love and know what Yoga of Bhakti it is, otherwise one can't.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/14-april-1954#p7</ref> It is only the inmost psychic being unveiled and emerging in its full power emotional nature that can lead is made the pilgrim sacrifice unscathed through these ambushes instrument. Its main principle is to adopt some human relation between man and pitfalls; at each moment it catches, exposes, repels the mind's and the life's falsehoods, seizes hold on the truth of the Divine Love and Ananda and separates it from Being by which through the excitement ever intenser flowing of the mindheart's ardours and emotions towards him the blind enthusiasm of the misleading life-force. But all things that are true human soul may at their core in mind last be wedded to and life and the physical being it extricates and takes grow one with it him in the journey till they stand on the heights, new in spirit and sublime in figurea passion of divine Love."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/15-august-1956#p1</ref> The first step is to stop being selfish. For everyone it It is the same thing, not only for those who want to do yoga but also in ordinary life: if one wants to know how to love, one must not love oneself first and above all selfishly; one must give oneself to ultimately the object pure peace of love without exacting anything in return. This discipline is elementary in order to surmount oneself oneness or the power and lead a life which is not altogether gross.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/19-september-1956#p23</ref> To desireless will it is a constant, sustained, concentrated aspiration, an almost exclusive occupation of the consciousness. This is the first step. There are many others: a very attentive observationoneness, a very persistent analysis, a very keen discernment of what is pure in but the movement and what is not... You must take up your search with a purity ecstatic joy of aspiration and surrender union which in themselves are already difficult to acquirethe devotee seeks by his Yoga. You must have worked much on yourself only to be Every feeling that can make the heart ready to aspire to for this Love.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/24-march-1951#p23</ref>  My love is always with youecstasy the Yoga admits; if then you do not feel it, it is because you are not capable of receiving everything that detracts from it. It is your receptivity that is lacking and should be increased; for this you must open yourself, and one opens oneself only if one gives oneself. Surely you are trying more or less consciously to draw increasingly drop away as the forces and the divine strong union of love towards you. The method is bad. Give yourself without calculating becomes closer and without expecting anything in return, and then you will become capable of receivingmore perfect.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/14/receptivity#p21<24/ref> I was stating that a human being, unless he raises himself to the divine heights, is incapable of receiving, appreciating and knowing what divine Love is. Love must cease to be divine to be accepted by man.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/31-octobergodward-1956emotions#p11p1</ref>  …the will to pierce through this limited and human form of love and discover the principle of divine Love which is behind it. Then one is sure to get a result. This is better than drying up one's heart. It is perhaps a little more difficult but it is better in every way, for like this, instead of egoistically making others suffer, well, one may leave them quiet in their own movement and only make an effort to transform oneself without imposing one's will on others, which even in ordinary life is a step towards something higher and a little more harmonious.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/19-september-1956#p30~</refcenter>To go through, to see what is behind it, not to stop at the appearance, not to be satisfied with the outer form, Indian bhakti has given to look for the principle which is behind this divine lovepowerful forms, and poetic symbols which are not be content until one has found the origin of the feeling in oneself. Then the outer form will crumble reality so much symbols as intimate expressions of itself and you will be in contact with the divine Love truth which is behind all thingscan find no other expression.That is the best way…Therefore, the best way when love comes, in whatever form it may be, is to try It uses human relations and pierce through its outer appearance and find the sees a divine principle which is behind and which gives it existence. Naturallyperson, it is full of snares and difficultiesnot as mere figures, but it is more effective. That is to say, instead because there are divine relations of ceasing to love because one loves wrongly, one must cease to love wrongly supreme Delight and want to love well…one must learn how to love better: to love Beauty with devotion, with self-giving, self-abnegation, and to struggle, not against love itself, but against its distorted forms: against all forms the human soul of monopolising, of attachment, possessiveness, jealousy, and all which human relations are the feelings which accompany these main movements. Not to want to possess, to dominate; and not to want to impose one's will, one's whims, one's desires; not to want to take, to receive, imperfect but to give; not to insist on still the other's responsereal type, but be content with one's own love; not to seek one's personal interest and joy because that Delight and the fulfilment Beauty are not abstractions or qualities of one's personal desirea quite impalpable metaphysical entity, but to be satisfied with the giving very body and form of one's love and affection; and not to ask for any response. Simply to be happy to love, nothing more…<ref>http://incarnatewordthe supreme Being.in/cwm/08/19-september-1956#p23</ref> It is here that a living Soul to which the emergence soul of the secret psychic being in us as the leader of the sacrifice is of the utmost importancebhakta yearns; for this inmost being alone can bring with it the full power source of the spirit in the act, the soul in the symbol...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/15-august-1956#p1</ref> So too the love that desires and grasps and is troubled with joy and shaken with grief must be rejected for the equal, all-embracing love that is free from these things and has no dependence upon circumstances and life is not modified by response an idea or a conception or absence a state of response. So we shall deal with all the movements of the soul; existence, but of these things we shall speak farther when we consider the Yoga of self-perfectiona real Being.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2324/the-releaseway-fromof-the-heart-and-the-minddevotion#p7</ref> In itself the adoration in the act is a great and complete and powerful sacrifice that tends by its self-multiplication to reach the discovery of the One and make the radiation of the Divine possible…<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p11~</refcenter> To bring the Divine Love and Beauty and Ananda Where external worship changes into the world is, indeedinner adoration, real Bhakti begins; that deepens into the whole crown and essence intensity of our Yoga. But it has always seemed to me impossible unless there comes as its support and foundation and guard the Divine Truth—what I call the Supramental—and its Divine Power...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-; that love#p2</ref> The integral Yoga, refusing leads to rely upon the fragile stuff joy of mental and moral ideals, puts its whole emphasis closeness in this field on three central dynamic processes—the development of our relations with the true soul or psychic being to take Divine; the place joy of the false soul of desire, the sublimation of human closeness passes into divine love, the elevation bliss of consciousness from its mental union. Love too as well as knowledge brings us to its spiritual and Supramental plane by whose power alone both the soul highest oneness and the life-force can be utterly delivered from the veils and prevarications of the Ignorance.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-i#p20</ref> The human form is naturally unable it gives to bear the Divine Love or contain it, because it is itself a creation of the ignorance, weak that oneness its greatest possible depth and impureintensity. It must be transformed in order to be capable of is true that; it must become strong and pure. First of all, it must have the strength to love the Divine alone and turn away from all other ties. But besides that returns gladly upon a new consciousness must be created difference in it—first a consciousness of pure and purifying Divine Peace from above oneness, by which must take hold of all down to the most physical—then in that peace an increasing inner strength pure and unegoistic—then the Divine Light and Knowledge transforming all the consciousness oneness itself becomes richer and movementssweeter. When this has been done, then the human form can contain the Divine Love and Ananda. …<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p5</ref>  The Divine Love But here we may not be able yet to manifest on say that the physical plane, humanity being what it heart is, as fully and freely as it would otherwise do, but that does not make it less close or intense wiser than the human…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p6</ref>  There is the one divine Love secret in all thingsthought, but the manifestation [of it in matter and in forms of life] depends at least that thought which fixes upon the state opposite ideas of consciousness and its organisation.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p8</ref>  You ask how you can repair the wrong you seem to have done. Admitting that it is as you say, it seems to me that the reparation lies precisely in this, in making yourself a vessel for the Divine Truth and the Divine Love. And the first steps towards that are a complete self-consecration and self-purification, a complete opening of oneself concentrates on one to the Divine, rejecting all in oneself that can stand in the way exclusion of the fulfilment. In the spiritual life there is no other reparation for any mistakewhich seems its contrary, none that but is wholly effective. At the beginning one should not ask for any other fruit or results than this internal growth really its complement and change—for otherwise one lays oneself open to severe disappointments. Only when one is free, can one free others and in Yoga it is out a means of the inner victory that there comes the outer conquest.its greatest fulfilment…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3124/timelove-and-change-ofthe-thetriple-naturepath#p22p8</ref>  There is the selfishness which is always a part if not the whole of human love—and it is the reaction of the demand and desire it brings that creates the opposite feeling. It is when this selfish element is rejected that one can feel the true psychic or divine love.<refcenter>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/human-relations-and-the-spiritual-life#p57~</refcenter>  …Thus Thus the motives of devotion have first to direct themselves engrossingly and predominantly towards the Divine, then to transform themselves so that they are rid of their more earthy elements and finally to take their stand in pure and perfect love. All those that cannot coexist with the perfect union of love, must eventually fall away, while only those that can form themselves into expressions of divine love and into means of enjoying divine love, can remain. For love is the one emotion in us which can be entirely motiveless and self-existent; love need have no other motive than love.

The higher consciousness in its descent takes several fundamental forms—peace, power and strength, light, knowledge, Ananda. Usually it is the peace that descends first. This is not a mental, vital or physical peace of the ordinary kind, but something from above (spiritual), very firm, solid and concrete. It is its concreteness that makes you feel like a still massive block—a mass of the higher consciousness in place of the more tenuous substance of the ordinary nature. As for its being worth having, you can see that it is—it is indeed the beginning of the real transformation—all the rest hitherto has been mainly preparation and clearing of difficulties and impediments through all these years. This serene peace and massive stillness has to stabilise itself, fill the whole nature, widen itself until all existence internal and external seems full of it. This may take time, but the beginning once there it is sure to take place, if one is steady and constant. It becomes besides the sure base =More on which all the rest,—power and strength, light and knowledge, Ananda and divine love, can come in and securely fill the consciousness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-descent-of-the-higher-consciousness-and-force#p19</ref>  The soul's turning through love to the Divine must be through a love that is essentially divine, but as the instrument of expression at first is a human nature, it takes the forms of human love and bhakti. It is only as the consciousness deepens, heightens and changes that that greater eternal love can grow in it and openly transform the human into the divine... It is this psychic love that is closest to the divine and it is therefore the right and best way of love and bhakti. But that does not mean that the other parts of the being, the vital and physical included, are not to be used as means of expression or that they are not to share in the full play and the whole meaning of love, even of divine love. On the contrary, they are a means and can be a great part of the complete expression of divine love,—provided they have the right and not the wrong movement… And neither does the psychic love or the divine love despise a physical means of expression wherever that is pure and right and possible: it does not depend upon that, it does not diminish, revolt or go out like a snuffed candle when it is deprived of any such means; but when it can use it, it does so with joy and gratitude…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p38</ref> ...It is in its real nature not a still, but an ecstatic contemplation; it seeks not to pass into the being of the Divine, but to bring the Divine into ourselves and to lose ourselves in the deep ecstasy of his presence or of his possession; and its bliss is not the peace of unity, but the ecstasy of union. Here, too, there may be the separative self-consecration which ends in the giving up of all other thought of life for the possession of this ecstasy, eternal afterwards in planes beyond, or the comprehensive consecration in which all the thoughts are full of the Divine and even in the occupations of life every thought remembers him. As in the other Yogas, so in this, one comes to see the Divine everywhere and in all and to pour out the realisation of the Divine in all one's inner activities and outward actions. But all is supported here by the primary force of the emotional union: for it is by love that the entire self-consecration and the entire possession is accomplished, and thought and action become shapes and figures of the divine love which possesses the spirit and its members.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-way-of-devotion#p5</ref> ==Common Misconceptions Related to Development of Divine Love== Always they draw away towards pitfalls, pour into that higher intensity their diminishing elements, seek to capture the descending Power for themselves and their interests and degrade it into an aggrandised mental, vital or physical instrumentation for desire and ego…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/15-august-1956#p1</ref> The one thing to be done is to change it, not to suppress its movement or destroy it. For without it no intensity is possible anywhere. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p10</ref> To want to get rid of the one in order to find the other is very difficult. It is almost impossible. For human nature is so limited, so full of contradictions and so exclusive in its movements that if one wants to reject love in its lower form, that is to say, human love as human beings experience it, if one makes an inner effort to reject it, one usually rejects the entire capacity of feeling love and becomes like a stone. And then sometimes one has to wait for years or centuries before there is a reawakening in oneself of the capacity to receive and manifest love…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/19-september-1956#p23</ref>

<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/relations-with-persons-outside-the-ashram#p33</ref> It is this consciousness that has expressed itself in your letter—or the obscure part of it which clings to its old attitude. It does not want to fulfil the sadhana unless it can get by it the things it wanted. It wants the satisfaction of the ego, "self-fulfilment", appreciation, the granting of its desires. It measures the Divine Love by the outward favours showered upon it and looks jealously to see who gets more of these favours than itself, then says that the Divine has no love for it and assigns reasons which are either derogatory to the Divine or, as in your letter, self-depreciatory and a cause for despair. It is not in you alone that this part feels and acts like that, it is in almost everybody. If that were the only thing in you or the others, then indeed there would be no possibility of Yoga...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p105</ref> It is the inability to affirm or keep this character that makes human love either transient or baulked of its full significance or condemned to sink into a less exalted movement diminished to the capacity of the human receptacle…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/philosophical-thought-and-yoga#p31</ref> Love itself blinded by the confusions of this present consciousness may stumble in its human receptacles and, even otherwise, may find itself unrecognised, rejected or rapidly degenerating and lost in the frailty of man's inferior nature…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p2</ref> Its other signs are doubt; tamasic depression; an exaggerated sense of impurity and unfitness; the idea that the Mother is remote, does not care for one, is not giving what she ought to give, is not divine, with other similar suggestions accompanied by an inability to feel her presence or her help; a feeling that the Yoga is not possible or is not going to be done in this life; the desire to go away and do something in the ordinary world—the thing itself suggested varying according to the personal mind. If it were not this one invariable hostile force acting, there would not be this exact similarity in all the cases. In each case it is the same obscurities thrown on the intelligence, the same subconscious movements of the vital brought to the surface, the same irrational impulses pushing to the same action,—departure, renunciation of the soul's truth, refusal of the Divine Love and the Divine Call.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/dealing-with-hostile-attacks#p16</ref> <center>"One single drop of Thy divine love can transform this suffering into an ocean of delight!"<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/20-july-1932-1#p1</ref></center>

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