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=What Is Divine Love?=
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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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"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>
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Unmanifest Divine Love: the splendour of the marvellous love which the Divine keeps for the pure heart.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/general-1#p8</ref>
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Bitterness is an illusion that melts in the Sun of Divine Love.
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And with Grace and divine love nothing is impossible.
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Divine Love is the essence of Truth and cannot be affected by human confusions.
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While, drop by drop, the sacred blood fell, fertilising the soil, the bush covered itself with marvellous flowers, scarlet, enormous―clusters of petals, innumerable drops of blood.These are the flowers that, for us, express and hold the Divine Love.
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With all my will I want to save you, but you must allow me to do so. To revolt is to reject the Divine Love and only the Divine Love has the power to save.
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Love in its origin is divine love. Love in man, that is, love grown human, is distorted, deformed; it is only divine love which is pure. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/24-march-1954#p15</ref>
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...a universal Divine Love, a vast compassion, an intense and immense will for the good of all, for the embrace of the World-Mother enveloping or gathering to her her children, the divine Passion that has plunged into the night for the redemption of the world from the universal Inconscience.
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Love in its depths is a contact of the Divine Possibility or Reality in oneself with the Divine Possibility or Reality in the loved
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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; intensely fixing itself on one or others to find itself, to achieve a dynamic unification or to reach here towards the union of the soul with the Divine, it becomes the individual divine Love
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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.
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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.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p11</ref>
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It [the Divine Love] exists in itself and does not depend on outer contact or outer expression. Whether it shall express itself outwardly or how it will express itself outwardly depends on the spiritual truth that has to be manifested.
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Divine Love is there always in all its intensity, a formidable power. But most people—ninety-nine per cent—do not feel anything at all! What they feel of it is exclusively in proportion to what they are, to 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/06/19-may-1954#p12</ref>
==Symbols Associated with Divine Love==
===Flower===
‘’’Divine Love’’’ Love:’’’ A flower reputed to bloom even in the desert. [[File:Flower - divine love.jpg]] 
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<center>~</center>An Old Chaldean LegendLong ago, very long ago, in the desert land that is now Arabia, a divine being incarnated on earth to awaken it to the Supreme Love. As one would expect, he was persecuted by men, misunderstood, suspected, hunted after. Mortally wounded by his assailants, he wished to die alone, quietly, so that his work might be accomplished; and, pursued by them, he fled. Suddenly in the broad barren plain, a tiny bush of pomegranate appeared. The Saviour stole under its low branches in order to give up his body in peace; and at once the bush expanded miraculously, increased itself, widened, became deep and luxuriant in such a way that when the pursuers passed by they did not even suspect that the One whom they were chasing was hidden there, and they continued on their way.While, drop by drop, the sacred blood fell, fertilising the soil, the bush covered itself with marvellous flowers, scarlet, enormous―clusters of petals, innumerable drops of blood…These are the flowers that, for us, express and hold the Divine Love. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine-love#p14,p15,p16,p17</ref><center>~</center>
Punica granatum
Pomegranate
Medium-sized double orange red flower with innumerable tightly held crinkled petals; borne singly or in small clusters. A spiny shrub or small tree with many stems and glossy leaves.
"Divine Love Spreading Over the World:" Innumerable, succulent, it gives strength and life untiringly.
 
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Punica granatum
Pomegranate
Medium to large nearly round thick-skinned fruit that is yellow tinged with red when ripe and contains many seeds enclosed in a juicy reddish edible pulp; A shrub or small tree.
 
"Love for the Divine:" The vegetal kingdom gathers together its most beautiful possibilities to offer them to the Divine.
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Rosa
Rose
All forms and sizes of roses, single and double, usually fragrant, in a great variety of colours; includes both shrubs and climbers.
 
"Integral Love for the Divine:" Pure, complete and irrevocable, it is a love that gives itself for ever.
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Rosa
===Colour===
[[File:Colour.png]] Deep red is Divine Love...<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/colours#p79</ref>
==What are the Powerful Qualities Associated with Divine Love?==
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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
===Manifestation in Vital===
The vital is in its very nature that in us which can give itself away. Just because it is that which has always the impulse and the strength to take, it is also that which is capable of giving itself to the utmost; because it knows how to possess, it knows also how to abandon itself without reserve. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p10</ref>
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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>
===Manifestation in Psychic===
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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
==Misconceptions Associated with Divine Love==
===How Is Human Love Different from Divine Love? What Is the Role of Ego?===
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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Not truly liberative from ego-senseThe Divine has an equal love for all human beings, they widen it at but the obscurity of consciousness of 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 essencemen prevents them from perceiving this divine love.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2314/the-ascent-of-the-sacrificedivine-ilove#p20p30</ref>
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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 has become so widespread, that it is almost spontaneous in man. Nothing can turn its back on the divine .love more totally than thatbetween human beings, that wish to calculate and profit. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/26-august-1953#p36</ref> ===Misconceptions Related to Divine Love=== Sometimesall its forms, very rarely, for a few seconds there is suddenly the feeling love of "something". Then you say, "Oh, divine Love came to me!" What a joke! It is just that you were simplyparents for children, of children for some reason or otherparents, a wee bit openof brothers and sisters, so you felt it. But it is there, alwaysof friends and lovers, like the divine Consciousness. It is the same thing, it is there, all the timetainted with ignorance, in its full intensity; but one is not even aware of it; or else in this way, spasmodically: suddenly one is in a good state, so one feels something selfishness and says, "Oh, all the divine Consciousness, divine Love have turned to me, have come to me!" It is not at all like thatother defects which are man's ordinary drawbacks... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0608/19-mayseptember-19541956#p12p23</ref>
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...you are not told anything about the love of riches or the love of power or the love of knowledge. You are told about The attachment to parents belongs to the divine ordinary physical nature—it has nothing to do with Divine Love; it is not altogether the same thing. Nothing is said about enjoying ambition or desire or even aspiration; what is spoken of is the enjoying of the divine Presence. That's completely different; there is no similarity.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0731/16human-relations-and-the-novemberspiritual-1955life#p47p34</ref>
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But there is another way of vital love which is more usually the way of human nature and that is a way of ego and desire. It is only when full of vital craving, desire and demand; its continuance depends upon the satisfaction of its demands; if it does not get what it craves, or even imagines that it is not being treated as it deserves—for it is dilutedfull of imaginations, deformedmisunderstandings, attenuated jealousies, misinterpretations—it at once turns to sorrow, wounded feeling, revolt, pride, anger, all kinds of disorder, finally cessation and obscureddeparture. A love of this kind 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 the sadhaks with the Mother—approaching her, so I suppose, as a human mother with all the reactions of the lower vital nature. For a long time it was perforce tolerated—and this was the concession made to sayhuman 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, that it becomes acceptable has refused to transform itself and has 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 nature. love and would like people to reject and eliminate these elements as soon as may be from their nature…<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0829/31divine-love-psychic-love-and-octoberhuman-1956love#p10p33</ref>
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...love between human beingsAltruism, in all its forms, the love of parents for childrenphilanthropy, of children for parentshumanitarianism, service are flowers of brothers and sisters, of friends and lovers, is all tainted with ignorance, selfishness the mental consciousness and all the other defects which are man's ordinary drawbacks.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/19-september-1956#p23</ref><center>~</center>In their major part the response is either a resistance or a qualified or temporising acquiescence; for even if they follow at best the call, they yet tend―when not consciously, then by automatic habit―to bring into the spiritual action their own natural disabilities mind’s cold and errors. At every moment they are moved to take egoistic advantage 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>
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...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>
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If you look at yourself very sincerely, very straight, you will see that as soon as you begin to think of Love it is always your little inner tumult which starts whirling. All that aspires in you wants certain vibrations. It is almost impossible, without being far advanced on the yogic path, to separate the vital essence, the vital vibration from your conception of Love.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/24-march-1951#p23</ref>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Afterwards too, even when the seeker has opened to the Divine Love transcendental, universal or immanent, yet if he tries to pour it into life, he meets the power of obscuration and perversion of these lower Nature-forces. 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. Instead of a Divine Love creator of a new heaven and a new earth of Truth and Light, they would hold it here prisoner as a tremendous sanction and glorifying force of sublimation to gild the mud of the old earth and colour with its rose and sapphire the old turbid unreal skies of sentimentalising vital imagination and mental idealised chimera.
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===Misconceptions Related to Divine Love===
 
...Divine Love is not an emotion…
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But Sometimes, very rarely, for a few seconds there is another way suddenly the feeling of vital love which "something". Then you say, "Oh, divine Love came to me!" What a joke! It is more usually the way of human nature and just that you were simply, for some reason or other, a wee bit open, so you felt it. But it is a way of ego and desirethere, always, like the divine Consciousness. It is full of vital cravingthe same thing, it is there, desire and demand; its continuance depends upon all the satisfaction of time, in its demandsfull intensity; if it does but one is not get what even aware of it craves; or else in this way, or even imagines that it spasmodically: suddenly one is not being treated as it deserves—for it is full of imaginationsin a good state, so one feels something and says, misunderstandings"Oh, jealousiesthe divine Consciousness, misinterpretations—it at once turns divine Love have turned to sorrow, wounded feeling, revolt, pride, angerme, have come to me!" It is not at all kinds of disorder, finally cessation and departurelike that. <ref>http://incarnateword. A love in/cwm/06/19-may-1954#p12</ref><center>~</center>And I must say that this rapturous state of this kind is in its very nature ephemeral and unreliable and it cannot consciousness would be made a foundation for divine love. There has been too much of this kind dangerous in the relations present condition of the sadhaks with the Mother—approaching her, I suppose, as a human mother with all the world. Because it produces reactions that are almost absolute—I see that this state of the lower vital naturerapture has a ''formidable'' power. For a long time it was perforce tolerated—and this was But I insist on the concession made to human weakness—even accepted word formidable, in the beginning as a sense that it is intolerant or intolerable—intolerable rather—to everything that is unlike it. It is the same thing too prominent in or almost—not quite the human being not to be there to some extent same, but to be transformed by degreesalmost—as the supreme divine Love; but too often, it has refused to transform itself and has made itself the vibration of this ecstasy or rapture is a source small beginning of confusionthe vibration of divine Love, disorderand that is absolutely—yes, 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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Although it is a divine love for the supreme and universal Divine that must be the rule of our spiritual existence, this does not exclude altogether all forms of individual love or the ties that draw soul to soul in manifested existence.
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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>
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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 true in human practice; for there the destiny of love and its justification depend very much as a rule (though not always) on the nature of the cause or object. For if the object of love is trivial in the sense of his being an inadequate instrument for the dynamic realisation of the sense of oneness which McTaggart says is the essence of love, then love is likely to be baulked of its fulfilment, But there are unhappily its diminutions in the human mind, human vital, human physical; there the divine essence of Love may easily become mixed with counterfeits, dimmed, concealed or lost in the twisted movements born of division and ignorance.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/philosophical-thought-and-yoga#p29</ref><center>~</center>Till then the touches of the Divine Love 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 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>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p5</ref><center>~</center>The Mother did not tell you that love is not an emotion, but that Divine Love is not an emotion,—a very different thing to say. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p46</ref>
==What Is True Love for the Divine?==
The true love for the Divine love is self-giving, free of demand, full of two kinds—the submission and surrender; it makes no claim, imposes no condition, strikes no bargain, indulges in no violences of jealousy or pride or anger—for these things are not in its composition. In return the Divine love for Mother also gives herself, 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 creation and divine nature, taking up all the souls that are part movements of itself your being and directing them towards perfection and the fulfilment, her love of the seeker enveloping you and carrying you in its arms Godwards. It is this that you must aspire to feel and love for possess in all your parts down to the Divine Beloved; it has both a personal very material, and impersonal element, but the personal here there is free here from all lower elements no limitation either of time or bondage 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 vital purification proceeds and physical instinctsnature undergoes its needed change. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p51p29</ref><center>~</center>Love should be a flowering of joy and union and confidence and self-giving and Ananda… <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p33</ref>
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The true love for But as one tends quite naturally to become like what one loves, the Divine bhakta, if he is self-givingsincere, free of demand, full of submission and surrender; it makes no claim, imposes no condition, strikes no bargain, indulges in no violences of jealousy or pride or anger—for these things are not in its composition. In return begins to become like the Divine Mother also gives herself, but freely—and this represents itself in an inner giving—her presence in your mind, your vital, your physical consciousnesswhom he adores, her power re-creating you in the divine nature, taking up all the movements of your being and directing them towards perfection and fulfilment, her thus his love enveloping you becomes purer and carrying you in its arms Godwardspurer. It is this that you must aspire to feel and possess To adore the Divine in all your parts down to the very materialone whom one loves has often been suggested as a solution, and here there is no limitation either of time or of completeness. If but unless one truly aspires 's heart and gets thought are ''very pure'', it, there ought can lead 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 and nature undergoes its needed changedeplorable abasements. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2916/divine10-lovejune-psychic-love-and-human-love1964#p29p2</ref>
=Why Is Divine Love Important? What Are the Unique Positive Effects and Qualities of this Manifestation?=
The moment you open to the Divine Love should be a flowering , you also receive its power of joy and union and confidence and self-giving and Ananda… Transformation. But it is not in terms of quantity that you can measure it; what is essential is the true contact; for, you will find that the true contact with it is sufficient to fill at once the whole of your being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2903/knowledge-by-unity-with-the-divine-lovethe-psychicdivine-lovewill-andin-humanthe-loveworld#p39p6</ref>
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There is only Once one love, the Divine has found divine Love, eternalall other loves, universalwhich are nothing but disguises, equal for can lose their deformities and become pure―then it is the Divine that one loves in everyone and everything.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine-love-and-human-love#p50</ref> ==For Transcending the Ego== "One single drop of Thy divine love can transform this suffering into an ocean of delight!"<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/620-july-september1932-19691#p1</ref>
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It lifts the being towards a transcendent Ecstasy and [Divine Love] is ready to shed all the downward pull of the world from its wings in its uprising to reach the One Highest; but it calls down also this transcendent Love and Beatitude there waiting to deliver be understood and transform this world of hatred accepted and strife and division and darkness and jarring Ignorance…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/meanwhile giving all the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-i#p23</ref><center>~</center>Divine Love help you can overcome the evil receive to raise and widen you into the cruel―the tiger does not attack the yogi.<ref>http://incarnateword.consciousness in/cwm/14/general-1#p7</ref><center>~</center>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 will be no longer possible for these difficulties and its beings these misunderstandings to the Divine. The material world recur—the state in its darkness and ignorance had forgotten the Divine. Love came into the darkness; it awakened all that lay which 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 possible the awakening to love there entered into the world the possibility of coming back to the Divine. …This world was a world of dead matter, till Divine love descended into it full and awakened it to life. Ever since it has gone in search of this divine source of lifeperfect union.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0329/2divine-junelove-psychic-1929#p11</ref><center>~</center>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 -and suddenly one day there will awake in them the capacity of self-giving, the capacity of loving.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2human-june-1929love#p6</ref>
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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>
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The true vital movement is the most beautiful and magnificent of movements; but it has been twisted and turned into the most ugly, the most distorted, the most repulsive. Wherever into a human story of love, there has entered even an atom of pure love and it has been allowed to manifest without too much distortion, we find a true and beautiful thing.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p10</ref>
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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 union for which he seeks becomes more natural and close. And the union, the realisation will become for him, too, more full, more perfect; for the wide uniformity of a universal and impersonal Love will be lit up and vivified with the colour and beauty of all possible relations with the Divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p12</ref>
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For devotion by its embodiment in acts not only makes its own way broad It lifts the being towards a transcendent Ecstasy and full and dynamic, but brings at once into is ready to shed all the harder way downward pull of works in the world the divinely passionate element of joy and love which is often absent from its wings in its beginning when uprising to reach the One Highest; but it is only the austere spiritual will that follows in a struggling uplifting tension the steep ascent, calls down also this transcendent Love and the heart is still asleep or bound Beatitude to silence. If the spirit deliver and transform this world of divine love can enter, the hardness of the way diminishes, the tension is lightened, there is a sweetness hatred and strife and division and joy even in the core of difficulty darkness and struggle. jarring Ignorance…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0823/8the-ascent-of-the-augustsacrifice-1956i#p10p23</ref>
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One has just a tiny little openingThe true Ananda of creation is not the pleasure of the ego in having personally done well and in being somebody, very tiny, at times like a pinhead, and naturally that force rushes in. For it is like an active atmosphereextraneous 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''; as soon as there is a possibility the thrill of being receivedpossessed and used by a superpersonal Power, it is received. But this is so for all divine things. They are therethe exultation and exaltation of the uplifting of the consciousness, only one does not receive themthe joy of its illumination and its greatened and heightened action and the joy of the beauty, for one power or perfection that is closed upbeing created. How far, blocked; how intensely one is busy with other feels these things most , depends on the condition of the consciousness at the time. Most , the temperament, the activity of the time one vital, the mind's receptivity and response. The Yogi (or even certain strong and calm minds) is full of oneself. Sonot carried away, as one is full of oneselfthe mind and the vital often are, by the Ananda, —he holds and watches it and there is no place for anything else. One is very actively (laughing) busy mere excitement mixed with other thingsthe divine flow of it through the conscious instrument and the body. One There is filled with things; there is no 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 for the Divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0629/19the-divine-force-mayin-1954work#p12p15</ref>
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What 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 lasting; we perceive behind every veil the Divine, eternalspiritually embrace in all forms the All-Beautiful. A universal delight in his endless manifestation flows through us, immortal taking in its surge every form and movement, but not bound or stationary in any and always reaching out to a 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 magic touch of divine Love into an all-embracing ecstasy and million-bodied beatitude. All things become bodies and all movements the playings of the divine Beloved in his infinitehouse of pleasure. Even pain is changed and in their reaction and even in their essence things painful alter; the forms of pain fall away, that indeed there are created in their place the forms of Ananda. In its essence the nature of 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 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 worth havingpossible 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 existence.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p5, worth conqueringp6</ref> ==For Divinsing Matter== For, worth possessinglife 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. It And even then the test is not so much external as internal: a divine Lightmovement 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, divine Life―it 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 world and manifested everywhere. Not only has it infused itself into man, but also Supreme Peace, Perfect Joy and All-Mastery upon earth with into all the atoms of the most obscure Matter in order to bring the world back to the original Truth. It is this descent that is called the supreme sacrifice in the Indian scriptures. But it is a sacrifice only from the human point of view; the Complete Manifestation as human mind thinks that if it had to do such a thing it would be a tremendous sacrifice. But the crowningDivine cannot really be diminished, its infinite essence can never become less, no matter what "sacrifices" are made.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1403/knowledge-by-unity-with-the-truedivine-aimthe-ofdivine-will-in-the-lifeworld#p65p6</ref>
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Yesterday morning I distributed petals of "Divine Love". The previous night was, here, the darkest of the year and in India it is a great festival. Its true significance is that the .Divine's Love is at the base and core of all manifestation, even where it seems most completely inconscient.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine-love#p19p20</ref>
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The moment you open 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 Love, you also receive . The material world in its power of Transformationdarkness and ignorance had forgotten the Divine. But Love came into the darkness; it is not in terms of quantity awakened all that you can measure lay there asleep; it; what whispered, opening the ears that were sealed, "There is essential something that is the true contact; worth waking to, worth living for, you will find that the true contact with and it is sufficient love!" And with the awakening to love there entered into the world the possibility of coming back to fill at once the whole Divine. …This world was a world of your beingdead matter, till Divine love descended into it and awakened it to life. Ever since it has gone in search of this divine source of life. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/knowledge-by-unity-with2-thejune-divine-the-divine-will-in-the-world1929#p6p11</ref>
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Great beings have taken birth in this world who came to bring down here something ...through the action of the sovereign purity forces of separation, Consciousness became inconscience and power matter was created such as it is, on a basis of Divine loveinconscience so total that no contact seemed possible between the Origin and what was created. The Divine love has thrown itself into And this total inconscience made a direct descent necessary, without sing through the intermediate regions, a personal form direct descent of the divine Consciousness in them that its realisation upon earth may be at once more easy and more perfectform of Love. And it is this descent of Divine loveLove into matter, when manifested in penetrating it and adding a personal beingnew element to its position, which has made possible the ascent, slow for us, but an uninterrupted ascent, is easier from inconscience to consciousness and from darkness to realise; it is more difficult light. Therefore, one cannot say that Love can manifest only when the creation becomes divine, for it is unmanifested or impersonal in ''on the contrary'' because of its movement…manifestation that creation can become divine once again.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0308/231-juneoctober-19291956#p12p8</ref>
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It alone can assureI am sure that when the Divine Love descended into Matter, even while the spiritual consciousness is incompletethis Matter was quite unconscious, the perennial freshness and sincerity and beauty of the symbol and prevent it from being a dead had absolutely no form or a corrupted and corrupting magic; it alone can preserve for the act its power with its significance. All may even be said that forms in general are the other members result of our being, mind, life-force, physical or body consciousness are too much under the control effort of the Ignorance Love to be a sure instrumentation and much less can they be a guide or the source of an unerring impulsebring consciousness into Matter. Always … And the greater part coming out of the motive and action of these powers clings Inconscient is due exclusively to the old law, sacrifice of the deceiving tabletsDivine, the cherished inferior movements to this descent of Nature and they meet with reluctance, alarm or revolt or obstructing inertia Divine Love into the voices and Inconscient.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/24-march-1951#p2</ref> ==What Happens When Divine Love Is Not Present?== One is outwardly alone only if one is closed to the forces that call and impel us to exceed and transform ourselves into a greater being and a wider Nature… divine love.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0814/15divine-love-and-augusthuman-1956love#p1p28</ref>
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If you do that, you have taken a great stride forward The reason for people to come and settle here is surely not to find comfort and luxury—this canbe found anywhere if one is lucky enough. But what one can get here, through this attitude, gradually advance farther that is not got in any other place: it is the feeling itselfDivine Love, Grace and realise one day Care. It is when ''this'' is forgotten or disregarded that love is not something personalpeople begin to feel miserable here. Indeed whenever somebody feels unhappy and discontented, it can be taken as a sure sign that love he is a universal divine feeling which manifests through you more or less finely, but which turning his back on what the Divine is always giving and that he has gone astray in its essence is something divine…pursuit of worldly satisfaction. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0813/19comfort-septemberand-1956happiness#p23p8</ref>
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Perhaps the different elements constituting the stone Outside this state there are coordinated by the spark infinite grades of love. I am sure that when the Divine Love descended into Matterconsciousness, this Matter was quite unconsciousgoing right down to complete darkness, it had absolutely no form; it the veritable inconscience which may even be said that forms in general are a domain yet untouched by the result of the effort light of Thy divine Love to bring consciousness into Matter. … And the coming out (but this seems improbable in physical substance), or which is, for some kind of the Inconscient is due exclusively to the sacrifice reason of the Divineignorance, to this descent outside our individual range of Divine Love into the Inconscient…perception. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0417/24comments-on-prayers-marchand-1951meditations#p2p76</ref>
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There is much more aspiration than one would think in things we call inanimate. Much more. In stones also there .but this lower vital way is only a kind of spontaneous sense source of what is highersuffering, more nobletrouble, more puredisappointment, disillusion and though they cannot express disunion. Even a slight element of it shakes the foundations of peace and replaces the movement towards Ananda by a fall towards sorrow, discontent and Nirananda. <ref>https://incarnateword.in any way/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 Love and Beauty and Ananda into the world is, indeed, they feel the whole crown and essence of our Yoga. But it, has always seemed to me impossible unless there comes as its support and foundation and this affects them differentlyguard the Divine Truth—what I call the Supramental—and its Divine Power.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0529/19divine-love-psychic-love-and-augusthuman-1953love#p12p2</ref>
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First of all, we are going The human form is naturally unable to take bear the historical factDivine Love or contain it, if there because it is oneitself a creation of the ignorance, weak and impure. That is It must be transformed in order to saybe capable of that; it must become strong and pure. First of all, through it must have the action of strength to love the forces of separation, Consciousness became inconscience Divine alone and matter was turn away from all other ties. But besides that a new consciousness must be created such as it is, on in it—first a basis consciousness of pure and purifying Divine Peace from above which must take hold of inconscience so total all down to the most physical—then in that no contact seemed possible between peace an increasing inner strength pure and unegoistic—then the Origin Divine Light and Knowledge transforming all the consciousness and what was createdmovements. And When this total inconscience made a direct descent necessaryhas been done, without sing through then the intermediate regions, a direct descent of human form can contain the divine Consciousness in its form of Divine Loveand Ananda. And it is this descent Till then the touches of the Divine Love into matterand Ananda are usually momentary or brief, penetrating they cannot remain. In an impure consciousness the Divine Love if it came in would create a perturbation and adding possibly be attacked by a new element to its position, mixture which has made possible the ascent, slow would make it impossible for us, but an uninterrupted ascent, from inconscience it to consciousness and from darkness to lightstay. Therefore, one cannot say It is therefore that Love can manifest touch only when the creation becomes divine, for it is on the contrary because of its manifestation that creation can become divine once againcome.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0829/31divine-love-psychic-love-and-octoberhuman-1956love#p8p4</ref>
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I was speaking not of There is the world one divine Love secret in general all things, but the manifestation [''of human consciousness it in particular; matter and certainly, I was alluding to in forms of life ''] depends upon the fact that this Divine Love which animates all things, penetrates all, upbears all and leads all towards progress and an ascent to the Divine, is not felt, not perceived by the human state of consciousness, and that even to the extent the human being does perceive it, he finds it difficult to bear—not only to contain it, but be able to tolerate it, I might say, for its power in its purity, its intensity in its purity, are of too strong a kind to be endured by human nature…organisation. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0829/31divine-love-psychic-octoberlove-and-human-1956love#p10p7</ref>
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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 I was stating that a universal love for all beingshuman being, unless he raises himself to the Ananda of all that is; we perceive behind every veil the Divinedivine heights, 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 greater and more perfect expression. This universal love is liberative and dynamic or transformation; for the discord incapable of forms and appearances ceases to affect the heart that has felt the one Truth behind them all receiving, appreciating and understood their perfect significance. The impartial equality of soul of the selfless worker and knower is transformed by the magic touch of knowing what divine Love into an all-embracing ecstasy and million-bodied beatitudeis. All things become bodies and all movements the playings of the Love must cease to be divine Beloved in his infinite house of pleasure. Even pain is changed and 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 Anandato be accepted by man.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2308/the-ascent-of-the31-sacrificeoctober-ii1956#p5p11</ref>
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A supreme divine Love is a creative Power andEach one of you should be able to get into touch with your own psychic being, even though it can exist is not an inaccessible thing. Your psychic being is there precisely to put you in contact with the divine forces. And if you are in itself silent and unchangeablecontact with your psychic being, you begin to feel, yet rejoices in external form and expression and is not condemned to be have a speechless and bodiless godhead. It has even been said that creation itself was an act kind of love or at least the building up perception of a field in which what 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 can 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/cwsacwm/2304/the-ascent-of-the24-sacrificemarch-ii1951#p10p25</ref>
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For devotion by its embodiment It does not indeed find itself in acts not only makes its own way broad and full and dynamic, but brings at once into the harder way selfish distortions of works in the world human consciousness; but the divinely passionate vital in itself is as important an element of joy and in Divine love which as it is often absent in its beginning when it the whole of the manifested universe. There is only no possibility of movement and progress without the austere spiritual Will that follows in a struggling uplifting tension mediation of the steep ascentvital; but because this Power of Nature has been so badly distorted, some prefer to believe that it has to be pulled out altogether and the heart thrown away. But it is still asleep or bound to silence. If only through the spirit of divine love vital that matter can enter, be touched by the hardness transforming power of the way diminishes, Spirit. If the tension vital is lightened, not there is a sweetness to infuse its dynamism and joy even in living force, matter will remain dead; for the core higher parts of difficulty and struggle. The indispensable surrender of all our the being will and works and activities to the Supreme is indeed only perfect and perfectly effective when it is a surrender of love. All life turned not come into this cultcontact with earth, all actions done will not be concretised in the love of the Divine life, and in the love of the world they will depart unsatisfied and its creatures seen and felt as the Divine manifested in many disguises become by that very fact part of an integral Yogadisappear.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2303/the-ascent-of-the2-sacrificejune-ii1929#p11p9</ref>
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This is the ordinary movement by which what may be at first a vague adoration of some idea of the Divine takes Love cannot exist in its pure beauty, love cannot put on the hue and character and then, once entered into the path of Yoga, the inner reality its native power and intense experience joy of divine love. But fullness until there is this interchange, this fusion between the more intimate Yoga which from the first consists in this love earth and attains only by the intensity of its longing without other process or method. All the rest comesSupreme, but it comes out of this, as leaf and flower out movement of Love from the seed; other things are not Divine to the means of developing creation and fulfilling love, but from the radiations of love already growing in creation to the soulDivine. This is …The moment man's consciousness awakens to the way that the soul follows whenDivine love, while occupied perhaps with the normal human lifepure, it has heard the flute independent of the Godhead behind the near screen of secret woodlands and no longer possesses itselfall manifestation in human forms, can have no satisfaction or rest till it he knows for what his heart has pursued and seized and possessed all the divine flute-playertime been truly longing. This That is in essence the power beginning of love itself in the heart and soul turning from earthly objects to Soul's aspiration, that brings the spiritual source awakening of all beauty the consciousness and delightits yearning for union with the Divine. There live in this seeking all All the forms that are of the sentiment and passionignorance, all the moods deformations it has imposed must from that moment fade and disappear and experiences of love concentrated on a supreme object give place to one single movement of desire and intensified a hundredfold beyond the highest acme of intensity possible creation answering to a human the Divine love by its lovefor the Divine. There Once the creation is the disturbance of the whole lifeconscious, the illumination by an unseized visionawakened, the unsatisfied yearning opened to love for a single object of the heart's desireDivine, the intense impatience of all that distracts from Divine love pours itself without limit back into the one preoccupation, the intense pain creation. The circle of the obstacles that stand in movement turns back upon itself and the way of possession, ends meet; there is the perfect vision joining of all beauty and delight in a single form. And there are all the many moods of loveextremes, the joy of musing supreme Spirit and absorptionmanifesting Matter, the delight of the meeting and fulfilment their divine union becomes constant and embracecomplete. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p11</ref> ===Will=== To will it is a constant, the pain of separationsustained, the wrath of loveconcentrated aspiration, the tears an almost exclusive occupation of longing, the increased delight of reunionconsciousness. The heart This is the scene of this supreme idyll of the inner consciousnessfirst step. There are many others: a very attentive observation, a very persistent analysis, but a heart which undergoes increasingly an intense spiritual change and becomes the radiantly unfolding lotus very keen discernment of what is pure in the spiritmovement and what is not... And as the intensity of its seeking is beyond the highest power You must take up your search with a purity of the normal human emotions, so also the delight aspiration and the final ecstasy surrender which in themselves are beyond the reach of the imagination and beyond expression by speechalready difficult to acquire. For You must have worked much on yourself only to be ready to aspire to this is the delight of the Godhead that passes human understandingLove.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/04/24/the-way-ofmarch-devotion1951#p6p23</ref>
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…extending it …the will to a common feeling pierce through this limited and human form of love and mutual worship between the devotees themselves united in discover the same realisation principle of the supreme divine Love and Blisswhich is behind it. Then one is sure to get a result. This is better than drying up one's heart. It provides is perhaps a yet little more general corrective difficult but it is better in the realisation of the divine object 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.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/19-september-1956#p30</ref> ===Receptivity=== Divine Love is there always in all beings its intensity, a formidable power. But most people—ninety-nine per cent—do not only human but animalfeel anything at all! What they feel of it is exclusively in proportion to what they are, easily extended to their capacity of receiving. Imagine, for instance, that you are bathing in an atmosphere all vibrant with divine Love—you are not at all forms whatsoeveraware of it...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2306/the19-systems-ofmay-yoga1954#p19p12</ref>
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The consciousness from 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 the lower nature instead of nourishing a strong and simple aspiration and opening to the higher consciousness that it may come in and do its own work. Rasa of poetry, painting or physical work is not the thing Truth alone can give to go after. What gives the interest in Yoga is the rasa of the Divine and of the divine consciousness which means world the rasa of Peace, of Silence, power of inner Light receiving and Bliss, of growing inner Knowledge, of increasing inner Power, of manifesting the Divine Love, of all the infinite fields of experience that open to one with the opening of the inner consciousness. The true rasa of poetry, painting or any other activity is truly found when these activities are part of the working of the Divine Force in you and you feel it as that and you feel in it the joy of that working. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3015/messages-for-the-inwardsupramental-manifestation-upon-movementearth#p91p11</ref>
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Still, To manifest the more varied and most intimate experience of divine Divine love cannot come by the pursuit of the impersonal Infinite alone; for that the Godhead we adore you must become near and personal to us. It is possible for the Impersonal to reveal within itself all the riches of personality when we get into its heart, and one who sought only to enter into or to embrace the infinite Presence alone, may discover in it things he had not dreamed of; the being be capable of receiving the Divine has surprises for us which confound the ideas of the limiting intellectlove. But ordinarily the way of devotion begins from the other end; For only those can manifest it starts from and it rises and widens who are by their nature open to its issue by adoration of the divine Personalitynative movement. The Divine is a Being wider and not an abstract existence or a status of pure timeless infinity; clearer the original and universal existence is Heopening in them, but that existence is inseparable from consciousness and bliss of being, and an existence conscious of the more they manifest love divine in its own being and its own bliss is what we may well call a divine infinite Person,—Purusha. Moreover all consciousness implies power, Shaktioriginal purity; where there the more it is infinite consciousness of beingmixed with the lower human feelings, there the greater is infinite power of being, and by that power all exists in the universedeformation. 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 source and support and secret goal. It One who is not open to this Godhead, this Being that the Bhakti of an integral Yoga will be poured out love in its essence and uplifted. Transcendent, it will seek him in its truth cannot approach the ecstasy of an absolute union; universal, it will seek him in infinite quality and every aspect and in all beings with a universal delight and love; individual, it will enter into all human relations with him that love creates between person and personDivine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2403/the-mystery2-ofjune-love1929#p2p4</ref>
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My love is always with you; if then you do not feel it, it is because you are not capable of receiving it. It is there waiting to your receptivity that is lacking and should be understood increased; for this you must open yourself, and accepted one opens oneself only if one gives oneself. Surely you are trying more or less consciously to draw the forces and meanwhile giving all the help divine love towards you. The method is bad. Give yourself without calculating and without expecting anything in return, and then you can receive to raise 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, 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 widen concrete. It is its concreteness that makes you into feel like a still massive block—a mass of the higher consciousness in which place of the more tenuous substance of the ordinary nature. As for its being worth having, you can see that it will be no longer possible for these 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 misunderstandings years. This serene peace and massive stillness has to recur—the state in which 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 possible sure to take place, if one is steady and constant. It becomes besides the full sure base on which all the rest,—power and strength, light and knowledge, Ananda and divine love, can come in and perfect unionsecurely fill the consciousness.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2930/divinethe-descent-of-lovethe-psychichigher-loveconsciousness-and-humanforce#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#p6p35</ref>
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There is a psychic human love which rises from deep within and is the result of the meeting of the inner being with that which calls it towards a divine joy and union; it is, once it becomes aware of itself, something lasting, self-existent, not dependent upon external satisfactions, not capable of diminution by external causes, not self-regarding, not prone to demand or bargain but giving itself simply and spontaneously, not moved to or broken by misunderstandings, disappointments, strife and anger''Q: Sweet Mother, but pressing always straight towards the inner union. It is this psychic love Sri Aurobindo has said 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 one can be a great part of the complete expression of divine love,—provided they have the right and not the wrong movement. There are in the vital itself two kinds of pass from human love,—one full of joy and confidence and abandon, generous, unbargaining, ungrudging and very absolute in its dedication and this is akin to the psychic and well-fitted to be its complement and a means of expression of the divine loveLove. 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>''
==What are ''A:'' Yet if you persist and make the Prerequisites necessary effort, it is not impossible for Divine Love?== 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 does is not indeed find itself in that at all! He has always said the selfish distortions of opposite. He spoke about someone who had asked him about devotion, you know, about the human consciousness; but sadhak's love for the vital in itself is as important an element in Divine . At the beginning your love as it is in the whole altogether human—and he speaks of the manifested universeit even as commercial barter. If you make progress, your love will change into divine love, into true devotion.<ref>http://incarnateword. There in/cwm/06/16-june-1954#p61</ref><center>~</center>It is no possibility of movement only when it [Divine Love] moves away from its true nature and essential quality that man accepts it, and progress without the mediation even (''smiling'') approves 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 thrown awayglorifies it. But This means that it is only through the vital that matter can must already be quite warped in order to be touched accepted by the transforming power of human consciousness. And to accept it, bear it and receive it in its plenitude and purity, the Spirit… human consciousness must become divine.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0308/231-juneoctober-19291956#p9p10</ref>
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Each one I was speaking not of the world in general but of you should be able human consciousness in particular; and certainly, I was alluding to the fact that this Divine Love which animates all things, penetrates all, upbears all and leads all towards progress and an ascent to get into touch with your own psychic beingthe Divine, it is not an inaccessible thing. Your psychic being is there precisely felt, not perceived by the human consciousness, and that even to put you in contact with the divine forces. And if you are in contact with your psychic extent the human beingdoes perceive it, you begin he finds it difficult to bear—not only to feelcontain it, but be able to have tolerate it, I might say, for its power in its purity, its intensity in its purity, are of too strong a kind of perception of what Divine Love can to beendured by human nature. It is only when it is diluted, deformed, attenuated and obscured, so to say, that it becomes acceptable to human nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0408/2431-marchoctober-19511956#p25p10</ref>
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The spiritual life will draw its sustenance not from desire but from a pure and selfless spiritual delight of essential existencefirst step is to stop being selfish. And For everyone it is the same thing, not only the vital nature for those who want to do yoga but also in us whose stamp is desireordinary life: if one wants to know how to love, but the mental being too one must undergo a new birth not love oneself first and a transfiguring change. Our divided, egoistic, limited and ignorant thought and intelligence must disappearabove all selfishly; in its place there one must stream in give oneself to the catholic and faultless play object of a shadowless divine illumination which shall culminate in the end love without exacting anything in a natural self-existent Truth-consciousness free from groping half-truth and stumbling errorreturn. 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 automatic, divinely moved and guided unfallen Force. There must be implanted and activised This discipline is elementary in all our doings a supreme, impersonal, unfaltering and unstumbling will in spontaneous order to surmount oneself and untroubled unison with the will of the Divine. The unsatisfying surface play of our feeble egoistic emotions must be ousted and there must be revealed instead lead a secret deep and vast psychic heart within that waits behind them for its hour; all our feelings, impelled by this inner heart in life which dwells the Divine, will be transmuted into calm and intense movements of a twin passion of divine Love 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 and action, is the type of the superman whom we are called to evolve by our Yogaaltogether gross. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2308/self-surrender-in19-works-the-way-of-theseptember-gita1956#p4p29</ref>
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Altruism, philanthropy, humanitarianism, service are flowers There is the selfishness which is always a part if not the whole of human love—and it is the reaction of the mental consciousness demand and are at best desire it brings that creates the mind's cold and pale imitation of opposite feeling. It is when this selfish element is rejected that one can feel the spiritual flame of universal Divine Lovetrue psychic or divine love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2331/thehuman-ascentrelations-ofand-the-sacrificespiritual-ilife#p20p57</ref>
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We can see how this larger application The spiritual life will draw its sustenance not from desire but from a pure and selfless spiritual delight of essential existence. And not only the vital nature in us whose stamp is desire, but the mental being too must undergo a new birth and a transfiguring change. Our divided, egoistic, limited and ignorant thought and intelligence must disappear; in its place there must stream in the catholic and faultless play of a shadowless divine illumination which shall culminate in the end 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 Yoga total working of Devotion may a swiftly powerful, lucidly automatic, divinely moved and guided unfallen Force. There must be so used as to lead to implanted and activised in all our doings a supreme, impersonal, unfaltering and unstumbling will in spontaneous and untroubled unison with the elevation will of the whole range Divine. The unsatisfying surface play of human emotionour feeble egoistic emotions must be ousted 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 the Divine, sensation will be transmuted into calm and intense movements of a twin passion of divine Love and aesthetic perception to manifold Ananda. This is the definition of a divine levelhumanity or a supramental race. This, its spiritualisation not an exaggerated or even a sublimated energy of human intellect and action, is the justification type of the cosmic labour towards love and joy in superman whom we are called to evolve by our humanityYoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/self-surrender-in-works-the-systemsway-of-yogathe-gita#p19p4</ref>
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And let me say also thatThis is the ordinary movement by which what may be at first a vague adoration of some idea of the Divine takes on the hue and character and then, once entered into the path of Yoga, as regards human love the inner reality and intense experience of divine love, I admitted . But there is the more intimate Yoga which from the first as that from which we have to proceed consists in this love and to arrive at attains only by the intensity of its longing without otherprocess or method. All the rest comes, intensifying and transforming into but itcomes out of this, as leaf and flower out of the seed; other things are not eliminatingthe means of developing and fulfilling love, human but the radiations of lovealready growing in the soul. Divine LoveThis is the way that the soul follows when, while occupied perhaps with the normal human life, 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 it has pursued and seized and possessed the divine flute-player. This is in my view essence the power of itlove itself in the heart and soul turning from earthly objects to the spiritual source of all beauty and delight. There live in this seeking all the sentiment and passion, 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 to a human love. There is again not something etherealthe disturbance of the whole life, cold and farthe illumination by an unseized vision, but the unsatisfied yearning for a love absolutely single object of the heart's desire, the intense impatience of all that distracts from the one preoccupation, the intensepain of the obstacles that stand in the way of possession, intimate the perfect vision of all beauty and full delight in a single form. And there are all the many moods of love, the joy of unitymusing and absorption, closeness the delight of the meeting and fulfilment and rapture using all embrace, the pain of separation, the wrath of love, the tears of longing, the nature for its expressionincreased delight of reunion. Certainly, it The heart is without the confusions and disorders scene of this supreme idyll of the present lower vital nature inner consciousness, but a heart which it will undergoes increasingly an intense spiritual change into something entirely warmand 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, deep so also the delight and intense; but that is no reason for supposing that it will lose anything that the final ecstasy are beyond the reach of the imagination and beyond expression by speech. For this is true and happy in the elements delight of lovethe Godhead that passes human understanding.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2924/divinethe-loveway-psychicof-love-and-human-lovedevotion#p43p5,p6</ref>
==What Happens When Divine Love Is Not Present?=By Oneness===
And when it I have said that if one wants to know what love is , one must love the Divine. Then there unmixed with weak is a chance of knowing what love is. I have said that one grows into the likeness of what one loves. So if one loves the Divine, gradually, through this effort of love, one grows more and sentimental emotionsmore like the Divine, they find it hard and cold; they cannot recognise in it then one can be identified with the very highest divine love and intensest power of loveknow what it is, otherwise one can't.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0306/214-juneapril-19291954#p5p7</ref>
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If As with individual, so with universal Love; all that falsification is permittedwidening of the self through sympathy, goodwill, the higher Light universal benevolence and Power and Bliss withdrawbeneficence, love of mankind, love of creatures, there is a fall back to a lower status; or else the realisation remains tied to an insecure half-way attraction of all the myriad forms and mixture or is covered and even submerged presences that surround us, by an inferior exaltation that is not the true Ananda…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/15-august-1956#p1</ref><center>~</center>The reason for people to come and settle here is surely not to find comfort which mentally and luxury—this can be found anywhere if one is lucky enough. But what one can get here, that is not got in any other place: it is emotionally man escapes from the Divine Lovefirst limits of his ego, Grace and Care. It is when this is forgotten or disregarded that people begin has to feel miserable here. Indeed whenever somebody feels unhappy and discontented, it can be taken as up into a sure sign that he is turning his back on what unifying divine love for the universal Divine is always giving and that he has gone astray in pursuit of worldly satisfaction.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1323/comfortthe-andascent-of-the-sacrifice-happinessii#p8p5</ref>
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Outside this state there are infinite grades of consciousness, going right down to complete darkness, the veritable inconscience which "It may be said that a domain yet untouched by the light complete act of Thy divine Love (but this seems improbable love and worship has in physical substance)it three parts that are the expressions of a single whole, or which is―a practical worship of the Divine in the act, for some kind a symbol of reason worship in the form of ignorancethe act expressing some vision and seeking or some relation with the Divine, outside our individual range an inner adoration and longing for oneness or feeling of perceptiononeness in the heart and soul and spirit. "<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1708/comments-on-prayers25-andjuly-meditations1956#p76p1</ref>
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...but this lower vital way The force of love in the world is only a source trying to find consciousnesses that are capable of suffering, trouble, disappointment, disillusion receiving this divine movement in its purity and disunionexpressing it. Even a slight element This race of it shakes all beings towards love, this irresistible push and seeking out in the foundations of peace world’s heart and replaces in all hearts, is the movement towards Ananda impulse given by a fall towards sorrowDivine love behind the human longing and seeking. It touches millions of instruments, trying always, discontent always failing; but this constant touch prepares these instruments and Niranandasuddenly one day there will awake in them the capacity of self-giving, the capacity of loving.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2903/divine-love-psychic-love2-andjune-human-love1929#p39p6</ref>
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On ...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 other hand when you insist 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 much on , there may be the love separative self-consecration which exists by external cravings, what comes is ends in the giving up of all other movement—fits thought of life for the possession of despondencythis ecstasy, sorroweternal afterwards in planes beyond, Niranandaor the comprehensive consecration in which all the thoughts are full of the Divine and even in the occupations of life every thought remembers him. In stressing on As in the psychic basisother Yogas, so in wishing you to conquer this other movement, I am only pointing you one comes to see the Divine everywhere and in all and to pour out the true way realisation of your own nature—of which the psychic bhakti, Divine in all one's inner activities and outward actions. But all is supported here by the primary force of the true vital emotional union: for it is by love are that the entire self-consecration and the real moving forcesentire possession is accomplished, and thought and action become shapes and figures of the other is only a superficial immixturedivine love which possesses the spirit and its members.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2924/divinethe-loveway-psychic-loveof-and-human-lovedevotion#p40p5</ref>
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Or if they are intensely followed with an entire sincerity ...the more varied and most intimate experience of divine love cannot come by the pursuit of the will, it impersonal Infinite alone; for that the Godhead we adore must become near and personal to us. It is by an exaggerated amplification possible for the Impersonal to reveal within itself all the riches of personality when we get into its heart, and one side who sought only to enter into or to embrace the infinite Presence alone, may discover in it things he had not dreamed of our nature; in that exaggeration there can be no clue the being of the Divine has surprises for us which confound the full and perfect divine evolution ideas of the many sides limiting intellect. But ordinarily the way of our individualised being towards devotion begins from the universal other end; it starts from and it rises and transcendent Eternalwidens to its issue by adoration of the divine Personality. Nor can the religio-ethical ideal be a sufficient guide,—for this The Divine is a compromise Being and not an abstract existence or compact a status of mutual concessions for mutual support between a religious urge which seeks to get a closer hold on earth by taking into itself pure timeless infinity; the higher turns original and universal existence is He, but that existence is inseparable from consciousness and bliss of ordinary human nature being, and an ethical urge which hopes to elevate itself out existence conscious of its own mental hardness being and its own bliss is what we may well call a divine infinite Person,—Purusha. Moreover all consciousness implies power, Shakti; where there is infinite consciousness of being, there is infinite power of being, and dryness by some touch of a religious fervourthat power all exists in the universe. In making All beings exist by this compact religion lowers itself to Being; all things are the mental level faces of God; all thought and action and feeling and inherits the inherent imperfections of mind love proceed from him and its inability return to convert him, all their results have him for source and support and transform lifesecret goal. The mind It is to this Godhead, this Being that the sphere Bhakti of the dualities an integral Yoga will be poured out anduplifted. Transcendent, just as it is impossible for it to achieve any will seek him in the ecstasy of an absolute Truth but only truths relative or mixed with errorunion; universal, so it is impossible for it to achieve any absolute good; for moral good exists as a counterpart will seek him in infinite quality and corrective to evil every aspect and has evil always for its shadow, complement, almost its reason for existence. But the spiritual consciousness belongs to in all beings with a higher than the mental plane universal delight and there the dualities ceaselove; for there falsehood confronted individual, it will enter into all human relations with the truth by which it profited through a usurping falsification of it him that love creates between person and evil faced by the good of which it was a perversion or a lurid substitute, are obliged to perish for want of sustenance and to cease…person.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2324/the-ascentmystery-of-the-sacrifice-ilove#p20p2</ref>
=How Can Divine Love Flourish?==By Surrender===
To become conscious The indispensable surrender of all our will and works and activities to the Divine LoveSupreme is indeed only perfect and perfectly effective when it is a surrender of love. All life turned into this cult, all other actions done in the love must be abandonedof the Divine and in the love of the world and its creatures seen and felt as the Divine manifested in many disguises become by that very fact part of an integral Yoga.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1423/divinethe-ascent-of-lovethe-sacrifice-ii#p34p11</ref>
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Once one has found divine 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 is turned the effort of the Yoga. All action, all other lovescreation must be turned into a form, a symbol of the cult, the adoration, which are nothing but disguisesthe sacrifice; it must carry something that makes it bear in it the stamp of a dedication, can lose their deformities a reception and become pure―then it is translation of the Divine that one loves Consciousness, a service of the Beloved, a self-giving, a surrender. This has to be done wherever possible in the outward body and form of the act; it must be done always in everyone its inward emotion and everythingan intensity that shows it to be an outflow from the soul towards the Eternal. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1423/divinethe-ascent-loveof-andthe-humansacrifice-loveii#p49p10</ref>
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It The Divine Love, unlike the human, is only when 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 moves away from its true nature to the Divine Wisdom and essential quality Love to fill him with what is needed. Let him also fix this in the mind not to insist that man accepts in a given time he must progress, develop, get realisation; whatever time ittakes, he must be prepared to wait and persevere and even (''smiling'') approves make his whole life an aspiration and an opening for the one thing only, the Divine. To give oneself is the secret of it sadhana, not to demand and glorifies itacquire. The more one gives oneself, the more the power to receive will grow. This means But for that it 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 already be quite warped rejected.<ref>https://incarnateword.in order /cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p38</ref> ==How Can Divine Love be Manifested?== The movement of love is not limited to be accepted by human beings and it is perhaps less distorted in other worlds than in the human consciousness. And 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: you will feel rising from the earth, from below the roots of the trees and mounting upward and coursing through their fibres up to accept itthe highest outstretching branches, the aspiration of an intense love and longing,—a longing for something that brings light and gives happiness, bear it for the light that is gone and they wish to have back again. There is a yearning so pure and receive it intense that if you can feel the movement in its plenitude and puritythe trees, your own being too will go up in an ardent prayer for the human consciousness must become divinepeace and light and love that are unmanifested here.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0803/312-octoberjune-19561929#p10p7</ref>
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It is only when it moves away from its true nature One has just a tiny little opening, very tiny, at times like a pinhead, and essential quality naturally that man accepts force rushes in. For itis like an active atmosphere; as soon as there is a possibility of being received, it is received. But this is so for all divine things. They are there, only one does not receive them, for one is closed up, and even (smiling) approves blocked; one is busy with other things most of it and glorifies itthe time. This means that it must already be quite warped in order to be accepted by Most of the human consciousnesstime one is full of oneself. And to accept itSo, bear it and receive it in its plenitude and purityas one is full 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 human consciousness must become divineDivine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0806/3119-octobermay-19561954#p10p12</ref>
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Yet if you persist The real soul emerges and make takes the necessary effort, it place left vacant by the desire-mind. The cleansed and emptied cup is not impossible for this human love to be transformed into filled with the wine of divine love through identification and delight and no longer with what you lovethe sweet and bitter poison of passion. He has not said that The passions, even the passion for good, misrepresent the love between two persons can change into divine lovenature. It is not that at all! He The passion of pity with its impure elements of physical repulsion and emotional inability to bear the suffering of others has always said to be rejected and replaced by the opposite. He spoke about someone who had asked him about devotionhigher divine compassion which sees, understands, you knowaccepts the burden of others and is strong to help and heal, about not with self-will and revolt against the sadhak's love for suffering in the Divine. At world and with ignorant accusation of the beginning your love is altogether human—and he speaks law of it even things and their source, but with light and knowledge and as commercial barter. If you make progress, your love will change into divine love, into true devotionan instrument of the Divine in its emergence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0623/16the-release-junefrom-the-heart-and-the-1954mind#p61p7</ref>
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This race of all beings towards The soul's turning through love to the Divine must be through a lovethat is essentially divine, this irresistible push and seeking out in but as the world's heart and in all hearts, instrument of expression at first is the impulse given by a Divine love behind human nature, it takes the forms of human longing love and seekingbhakti. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p6</ref><center>~</center>The Divine Love, unlike It is only as the humanconsciousness deepens, is deep heightens and vast and silent; one must become quiet and wide to be aware of changes that that greater eternal love can grow in it and reply to itopenly transform the human into the divine... X must make it his whole object It is this psychic love that is closest to be surrendered so that he may become a vessel the divine and instrument—leaving it to is therefore the Divine Wisdom right and best way of love and Love to fill him with what is neededbhakti. Let him also fix this in the mind But that does not to insist mean that in a given time he must progressthe other parts of the being, developthe vital and physical included, get realisation; whatever time it takes, he must are not to be prepared used as means of expression or that they are not to wait share in the full play and persevere and make his the whole life an aspiration and an opening for meaning of love, even of divine love. On the one thing onlycontrary, they are a means and can be a great part of the Divine. To give oneself is the secret complete expression of sadhanadivine love, —provided they have the right and not to demand and acquire. The more one gives oneself, the more wrong movement… And neither does the psychic love or the power to receive will grow. But for divine love despise a physical means of expression wherever that all impatience is pure and revolt must go; all suggestions of right and possible: it does not gettingdepend upon that, it does not being helpeddiminish, not being lovedrevolt or go out like a snuffed candle when it is deprived of any such means; but when it can use it, going away, of abandoning life or the spiritual endeavour must be rejected.it does so with joy and gratitude…<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p45p32</ref>
==How Can Divine Love be Manifested in Various Parts of the Being?=In Physical===
===In Physical===That is why no effort is too arduous, no austerity too rigorous if it can illumine, purify, perfect and transform the physical substance so that it may no longer conceal the Divine when he takes on an outer form in Matter. For then this marvellous tenderness will be able to express itself freely in the world, the divine love which has the power of changing life into a paradise of sweet joy. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-four-austerities-and-the-four-liberations#p87p84</ref>
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Physical means can be and are used in the approach to divine love and worship; they have not been allowed merely as a concession to human weakness, nor is it the fact that in the psychic way there is no place for such things. On the contrary they are one means of approaching the Divine and receiving the Light and materialising the psychic contact, and so long as it is done in the right spirit and they are used for the true purpose they have their place. It is only if they are misused or the approach is not right because tainted by indifference and inertia, or revolt or hostility, or some gross desire, that they are out of place and can have a contrary effect.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p38p32</ref>
===In Vital===
They [sex impulsions] persist only because something still wants The true vital movement is the most beautiful and magnificent of movements; but it has been twisted and turned into the most ugly, the most distorted, the most repulsive. Wherever into a human story of love, there has entered even an atom of pure love and it has been allowed to reserve manifest without too much distortion, we find a place for themtrue and beautiful thing. So If the best answer to movement does not last, it is because it is not conscious of its own aim and seeking; it has not the question about knowledge that it is not the sadhana (What union of one being with another that it is seeking after but the place union of sex all beings with the Divine.<ref>http://incarnateword.in /cwm/03/2-june-1929#p10</ref><center>~</center>It is 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 and universal, then a turning of all our sadhana?) emotions to the Divine is "No place"imperative. One must give up This is the intense way of purification for the sexhuman heart, more powerful than any ethical or aesthetic catharsis could ever be by its half-satisfaction power and superficial pressure. A psychic fire within must be satisfied lit into which all is thrown with the Divine Love and AnandaName upon it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3123/sexthe-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p44p12</ref>
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It They [sex impulsions] persist only because something still wants to reserve a place for them. So the best answer to the question about the sadhana (What is true that the removal place of sex in our sadhana?) is "No place". One must give up the sex-impulse in all its forms satisfaction and, generally, of the vital woman-complex is a great liberation which opens up to be satisfied with 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 Love and adoration arise..Ananda.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p94p40</ref>
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If It is true that the removal of the sex-impulse in all its forms and, generally, of the vital woman-complex is not there a great liberation which opens up to infuse its dynamism and living force, matter will remain dead; for the higher parts Divine considerable regions of the being will not come into contact with earth, will not be concretised which otherwise tend to remain shut up. These things are a degradation of the source in lifethe being from which bhakti, divine love and they will depart unsatisfied and disappearadoration arise...<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0331/2-june-1929sex#p9p91</ref>
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As with individual, so with universal Love; In that fire all the emotions are compelled to cast off their grosser elements and those that widening 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 self through sympathy, goodwill, universal benevolence flame and smoke and beneficence, frankincense. It is the divine love of mankindwhich so emerges that, love of extended in inward feeling to the Divine in man and all creaturesin an active universal equality, will be more potent for the attraction perfectibility of all the myriad forms life and presences that surround us, by which mentally and emotionally man escapes from a more real instrument than the first limits ineffective mental ideal of his ego, has to brotherhood can ever be taken up . It is this poured out into acts that could alone create a harmony in the world and a unifying divine love for 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 universal Divine…delivered manifestation in terrestrial Nature.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p5p12</ref>
‘’’Bhakti’’’===In Mind===
Where external worship changes into It is the inner adoration, real Bhakti begins; that deepens into thoughts of the intensity of divine love; outer mind that love leads have to be refused, the joy of closeness in our relations with suggestions and ideas that end by disturbing the Divine; the joy sadhana. There are also a number of closeness passes into the bliss thoughts 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 all kinds that love returns gladly upon a difference in onenesshave no interest, by but which the oneness itself becomes richer and sweeter. But here we may say that the heart mind is wiser than the thoughtaccustomed to allow to come as a habit, mechanically, at least than that thought which fixes upon opposite ideas of —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 Divine mind becomes still; to struggle with them and concentrates on one try to the exclusion of the other which seems its contrarystop them is no use, but is really its complement and there must be only a means of its greatest fulfilment... quiet rejection… <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2431/lovethe-mind-and-theother-levels-tripleof-pathbeing#p8p15</ref>
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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==
 
This is the weakness of the mind that it limits itself by its thoughts, its positive and negative ideas, the aspects of the Divine Reality that it sees, and tends too much to pit one against the other.
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...if thoughts come up from within, from the psychic, thoughts of the Mother, of divine love and joy, perceptions of truth etc., these of course must be permitted, as they help to make the psychic active.
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The Intuitive or Overmind are more open to the truth of Divine Love and more capable of universalising love than the mind ordinarily is—love there is also more calm in its intensity, less ego-bound than in the mental parts. But the mind can also approach their quality of love, if the love in it grows psychic and spiritual.
<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p10</ref><center>~</center>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>
===In Psychic===
…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, which exists not by ideative thought but by direct vision exposes, 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 truth of the height Divine Love and depth Ananda and separates it from the excitement of the mind's ardours and intensity the blind enthusiasms of the Divine Love misleading life-force. But all things that are true at their core in mind and life and there feel through the inner psychic heart an inexhaustible oneness physical being it extricates and takes with it in the journey till they stand on the Divine which heights, new in spirit and sublime in figure.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p13</ref><center>~</center>The love that belongs to the spasmodic leapings spiritual planes is of a different kind—the psychic has its own more personal love, bhakti, surrender. Love in the vital emotions cannot reach higher or experiencespiritual mind is more universal and impersonal. The two must join together to make the highest divine love.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p46p18</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>If, through a sustained effort, a deep concentration, a great forgetfulness of self, you succeed in coming into touch with your psychic being, you will never dream of thinking, "Oh! I would like to be in contact with Divine Love"—you are in a state in which everything appears to you to be this Divine Love and nothing else. And yet it is only a covering, but a covering of a beautiful texture.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/24-march-1951#p25</ref>
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You must make an effort There is a psychic human love which rises from deep within and is the result of the meeting of the inner being with that which calls it towards a divine joy and union; it is, once it becomes aware of itself, something lasting, self-existent, not dependent upon external satisfactions, not capable of diminution by external causes, not self-regarding, not prone to come into touch with your demand or bargain but giving itself simply and spontaneously, not moved to or broken by misunderstandings, disappointments, strife and anger, but pressing always straight towards the inner union. 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 become aware 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 free not the wrong movement. There are in the consciousness vital itself two kinds of your psychic beinglove, —one full of joy and thenconfidence and abandon, generous, quite naturallyunbargaining, spontaneouslyungrudging and very absolute in its dedication and this is akin to the psychic and well-fitted to be its complement and a means of expression of the divine love. 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, you will know what Divine Love revolt or go out like a snuffed candle when it isdeprived of any such means; but when it can use it, it does so with joy and gratitude.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0429/24divine-love-psychic-love-and-marchhuman-1951love#p28p32</ref>
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Live in …our aim is to go beyond mental ideas into the consciousness light of the psychic centre; thus your will will express supramental Truth, which exists not by ideative thought but by direct vision and identity. In the same way our aim is to go beyond emotion to the Divine's Will alone height and your transformed being will then be able to receive depth and manifest intensity of the Divine Loveand there feel through the inner psychic heart an inexhaustible oneness with the Divine which the spasmodic leapings of the vital emotions cannot reach or experience.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1429/thedivine-love-psychic-love-souland-thehuman-psychiclove#p33p39</ref>
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If, It is only the inmost psychic being unveiled and emerging in its full power that can lead the pilgrim sacrifice unscathed through a sustained effortthese ambushes and pitfalls; at each moment it catches, a deep concentrationexposes, a great forgetfulness of self, you succeed in coming into touch with your psychic beingrepels the mind's and the life's falsehoods, you will never dream seizes hold on the truth of thinking, "Oh! I would like to be in contact with the Divine Love"—you and Ananda and separates it from the excitement of the mind's ardours and the blind enthusiasm of the misleading life-force. But all things that are true at their core in a state in which everything appears to you to be this Divine Love mind and life and the physical being it extricates and nothing else. And yet takes with it is only a coveringin the journey till they stand on the heights, but a covering of a beautiful texturenew in spirit and sublime in figure. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0408/2415-marchaugust-19511956#p25p1</ref>
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A psychic change is demanded, a divestiture of the masks of the Ignorance, a purification of the egoistic mental, vital and physical movements that prolong the old inferior consciousness; each movement of love, spiritualised, must depend no longer on mental preference, vital passion or physical craving, but on the recognition of soul by soul,—love restored to its fundamental spiritual and psychic essence with the mind, the vital, the physical as manifesting instruments and elements of that greater oneness. In this change the individual love also is converted by a natural heightening into a divine love for the Divine Inhabitant immanent in a mind and soul and body occupied by the One in all creatures.
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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 already.<ref>http://incarnatewordnew-born godhead within us.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p9</ref><center>~</center>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, compassion, benevolence, surrender. Love in the higher or spiritual mind is more universal 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><center>~</center>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 existence; it exposes them with its detecting search-ray and calls down the entire truth of course must be permitteddivine 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>
===In Spiritual===
…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>
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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.
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==What are the Prerequisites for Manifestation of Divine Love?Through Bhakti Yoga or Devotion==
Truth alone can give The principle of Bhakti Yoga is to utilise all the normal relations of human life into which emotion enters and apply them no longer to transient worldly relations, but to the joy of the All-Loving, the All-Beautiful and the All-Blissful. Worship and meditation are used only for the preparation and increase of intensity of the divine relationship. And this Yoga is catholic in its use of all emotional relations, so that even enmity and opposition to God, considered as an intense, impatient and perverse form of Love, is conceived as a possible means of realisation and salvation. This path, too, as ordinarily practised, leads away from world -existence to an absorption, of another kind than the Monist’s, in the Transcendent and Supra-cosmic.But, here too, the exclusive result is not inevitable. The Yoga itself provides a first corrective by not confining the power play of receiving divine love to the relation between the supreme Soul and the individual, but extending it to a common feeling and manifesting mutual worship between the devotees themselves united in the same realisation of the Divine supreme Loveand Bliss. It provides a yet more general corrective in the realisation of the divine 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 Yoga of Devotion may be so used as to lead to the elevation of the whole range of human emotion, sensation and aesthetic perception to the divine level, its spiritualisation and the justification of the cosmic labour towards love and joy in our humanity.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1523/messages-for-the-supramentalsystems-manifestation-uponof-earthyoga#p11p18,p19</ref>
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"It 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 said that a complete act contact, relation, union. In the Yoga of divine love and worship has in Bhakti it three parts is the emotional nature that are is made the expressions of a single whole,―a practical worship of instrument. Its main principle is to adopt some human relation between man and the Divine in Being by which through the act, a symbol ever intenser flowing of worship in the form of heart's emotions towards him the act expressing some vision human soul may at last be wedded to and seeking or some relation grow one with him in a passion of divine Love. It is not ultimately the Divine, an inner adoration and longing for pure peace of oneness or feeling the power and desireless will of oneness in , 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 soul and spiritmore perfect." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0824/25the-julygodward-1956emotions#p1</ref>
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To manifest the Divine Indian bhakti has given to this divine love you must be capable powerful forms, poetic symbols which are not in reality so much symbols as intimate expressions of receiving the Divine love. For only those truth which can manifest it who are by their nature open to its native movementfind no other expression. The wider It uses human relations and clearer the opening in themsees a divine person, not as mere figures, the more they manifest love but because there are divine in its original purity; the more it is mixed relations of supreme Delight and Beauty with the lower human feelingssoul 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 greater is very body and form of the deformationsupreme Being. One who It is not open a living Soul to love in its essence and in its truth cannot approach which the soul of the bhakta yearns; for the Divinesource of all life is not an idea or a conception or a state of existence, but a real Being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0324/2the-juneway-of-1929devotion#p4p7</ref>
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Love cannot exist in its pure beautyWhere external worship changes into the inner adoration, love cannot put on its native power and intense joy of fullness until there is this interchange, this fusion between real Bhakti begins; that deepens into the earth and the Supreme, this movement intensity of Love from the Divine divine love; that love leads to the creation and from the creation to the Divine. …The moment man's consciousness awakens to the Divine love, pure, independent joy of all manifestation closeness in human forms, he knows for what his heart has all our relations with the time been truly longing. That is Divine; the beginning joy of closeness passes into the Soul's aspiration, that brings the awakening bliss of the consciousness and its yearning for union with the Divine. All Love too as well as knowledge brings us to the forms that are of the ignorance, all the deformations highest oneness and it has imposed must from gives to that moment fade oneness its greatest possible depth and disappear and give place to one single movement of the creation answering to the Divine intensity. It is true that love returns gladly upon a difference in oneness, by its love for which the Divineoneness itself becomes richer and sweeter. Once But here we may say that the creation heart is conscious, awakened, opened to love for wiser than the Divinethought, at least that thought which fixes upon opposite ideas of the Divine love pours itself without limit back into the creation. The circle of the movement turns back upon itself and concentrates on one to the ends meet; there is the joining exclusion of the extremesother which seems its contrary, supreme Spirit but is really its complement and manifesting Matter, and their divine union becomes constant and complete. a means of its greatest fulfilment…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0324/2love-and-the-junetriple-1929path#p11p8</ref>
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I Thus the motives of devotion have said that if one wants first to know what love is, one must love direct themselves engrossingly and predominantly towards the Divine. Then there is a chance , then to transform themselves so that they are rid of knowing what their more earthy elements and finally to take their stand in pure and perfect love is. I have said All those that one grows into cannot coexist with the likeness perfect union of what one loves. So if one loves the Divinelove, graduallymust eventually fall away, through this effort while only those that can form themselves into expressions of divine love, one grows more and more like the Divineinto means of enjoying divine love, and then one can be identified with the divine remain. For love and know what it is, otherwise the one emotion in us which can'tbe entirely motiveless and self-existent; love need have no other motive than love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0624/14the-motives-aprilof-1954devotion#p7p11</ref>
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It is For devotion by its embodiment in acts not only the inmost psychic being unveiled makes its own way broad and emerging in its full power that can lead the pilgrim sacrifice unscathed through these ambushes and pitfalls; dynamic, but brings at each moment it catches, exposes, repels once into the mind's and harder way of works in the life's falsehoods, seizes hold on world the truth divinely passionate element of the Divine Love joy and Ananda and separates love which is often absent in its beginning when it from is only the excitement of austere spiritual will that follows in a struggling uplifting tension the mind's ardours steep ascent, and the blind enthusiasm heart is still asleep or bound to silence. If the spirit of divine love can enter, the hardness of the misleading life-force. But all things that are true at their core in mind and life and way diminishes, the physical being it extricates tension is lightened, there is a sweetness and takes with it joy even in the journey till they stand on the heights, new in spirit core of difficulty and sublime in figurestruggle."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/158-august-1956#p1p10</ref>
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The first step is We can see how this larger application of the Yoga of Devotion may be so used as to lead to stop being selfish. For everyone it is the same thingelevation of the whole range of human emotion, not only for those who want sensation and aesthetic perception to do yoga but also in ordinary life: if one wants to know how to lovethe divine level, one must not love oneself first its spiritualisation and above all selfishly; one must give oneself to the object justification of the cosmic labour towards love without exacting anything and joy in returnour humanity. This discipline <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-systems-of-yoga#p19</ref> =More on Divine Love= Bitterness is elementary an illusion that melts in order to surmount oneself and lead a life which is not altogether grossthe Sun of Divine Love.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0814/19-septembergeneral-19561#p23p12</ref>
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To 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 observation, a very persistent analysis, a very keen discernment of what is pure in the movement And with Grace and what divine love nothing 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 Loveimpossible. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0414/24-march-1951endurance#p23p13</ref>
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My love is 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 return, and then you will become capable of receiving. <ref>http://incarnateword.Great beings have taken birth in/cwm/14/receptivity#p21</ref><center>~</center>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-october-1956#p11</ref><center>~</center>…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 world who came 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 bring down here something higher and a little more harmonious.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/19-september-1956#p30</ref><center>~</center>To go through, to see what is behind it, not to stop at the appearance, not to be satisfied with the outer form, to look for the principle which is behind this love, and not be content until one has found the origin of the feeling in oneself. Then the outer form will crumble of itself sovereign purity and you will be in contact with the divine Love which is behind all things.That is the best way…Therefore, the best way when love comes, in whatever form it may be, is to try and pierce through its outer appearance and find the divine principle which is behind and which gives it existence. Naturally, it is full power of snares and difficulties, but it is more effective. That is to say, instead of ceasing to love because one loves wrongly, one must cease to love wrongly and want to love well…one must learn how to love better: to love with devotion, with self-giving, self-abnegation, and to struggle, not against Divine love itself, but against its distorted forms: against all forms of monopolising, of attachment, possessiveness, jealousy, and all 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, but to give; not to insist on the other's response, but be content with one's own love; not to seek one's personal interest and joy and the fulfilment of one's personal desire, but to be satisfied with the giving of one's The Divine love and affection; and not to ask for any response. Simply to be happy to love, nothing more… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/19-september-1956#p23</ref><center>~</center>It is here that the emergence of the secret psychic being in us as the leader of the sacrifice is of the utmost importance; for this inmost being alone can bring with it the full power of the spirit in the act, the soul in the symbol...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/15-august-1956#p1</ref><center>~</center>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 is not modified by response or absence of response. So we shall deal with all the movements of the soul; but of these things we shall speak farther when we consider the Yoga of self-perfection. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#p7</ref><center>~</center>In thrown itself the adoration into a personal form in the act is a great and complete and powerful sacrifice them that tends by its self-multiplication to reach the discovery of the One and make the radiation of the Divine possible… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p11</ref><center>~</center>To bring the Divine Love and Beauty and Ananda into the world is, indeed, the whole crown and essence 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-love#p2</ref><center>~</center>The integral Yoga, refusing to rely realisation upon the fragile stuff of mental and moral ideals, puts its whole emphasis in this field on three central dynamic processes—the development of the true soul or psychic being to take the place of the false soul of desire, the sublimation of human into divine love, the elevation of consciousness from its mental to its spiritual and Supramental plane by whose power alone both the soul and the life-force can earth may be utterly delivered from the veils at once more easy and prevarications of the Ignorancemore perfect.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-i#p20</ref><center>~</center>The human form is naturally unable to bear the Divine Love or contain itlove, because it is itself a creation of the ignorance, weak and impure. It must be transformed when manifested in order to be capable of 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 a new consciousness must be created in it—first a consciousness 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. 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><center>~</center>The Divine Love may not be able yet to manifest on the physical plane, humanity personal being what it is, as fully and freely as it would otherwise do, but that does not make it less close or intense than the human… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p6</ref><center>~</center>There is the one divine Love secret in all things, but the manifestation [of it in matter and in forms of life] depends upon the state of consciousness and its organisation.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p8</ref><center>~</center>You ask how you can repair the wrong you seem easier to have done. Admitting that realise; it is as you say, more difficult when 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 to the Divine, rejecting all in oneself that can stand in the way of the fulfilment. In the spiritual life there is no other reparation for any mistake, none that is wholly effective. At the beginning one should not ask for any other fruit unmanifested or results than this internal growth and change—for otherwise one lays oneself open to severe disappointments. Only when one is free, can one free others and impersonal in Yoga it is out of the inner victory that there comes the outer conquestits movement.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/time-and-change-of2-the-nature#p22</ref><center>~</center>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.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/human-relations-and-the-spiritual-life#p57</ref><center>~</center>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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-motives-ofjune-devotion1929#p11p12</ref>
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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 which 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 at work to stabilise itselftransform mankind, fill the whole natureunites Force with Love, 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 One who must realise this transformation will come on which all earth with the rest,—power and strength, light and knowledge, Ananda and divine love, can come in and securely fill the consciousnessPower of Divine Love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3010/the-descentaphorism-of-the-higher-consciousness-and170-force171#p19p4</ref>
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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'Q. It Which 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 possibleswifter for transformation: 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><center>~</center>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 Love 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 oneMahakali’s force?''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 ''A: Kali's force is necessary only for those who are not yet open to Development of Divine Love== Always they draw away towards pitfalls, pour into that higher intensity their diminishing elements, seek . For one who is open to capture the descending Power for themselves and their interests and degrade it into an aggrandised mentalDivine Love, vital or physical instrumentation for desire and ego…nothing more is needed. ''<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0816/1511-augustnovember-19561967#p1p2</ref>
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The one thing to be done Supramental is to change something in which the basis is absolute calm and however intense a Divine Love there is in it it, does not to suppress disturb the calm but increases its movement or destroy it. For without it no intensity is possible anywheredepth. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0329/2bhakti-yoga-juneand-1929vaishnavism#p10p6</ref>
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To want to get rid of the one in order to find the other What is lasting, eternal, immortal and infinite, that indeed is very difficultworth having, worth conquering, worth possessing. It is almost impossible. For human nature is so limiteddivine Light, so full of contradictions and so exclusive in its movements that if one wants to reject love in its lower formdivine Love, that divine Life―it is to sayalso Supreme Peace, human love Perfect Joy and All-Mastery upon earth with the Complete Manifestation 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 stonecrowning. 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/0814/19the-true-aim-septemberof-1956life#p23p65</ref>
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It What gives the interest in Yoga is not that love for all is not part the rasa of the Divine and of the sadhanadivine consciousness which means the rasa of Peace, of Silence, but it has not to translate itself at once into a mixing with all―it can only express itself in a general of inner Light and when need be dynamic universal good-willBliss, of growing inner Knowledge, of increasing inner Power, but for of the rest it must find vent in this labour Divine Love, of bringing down all the higher consciousness infinite fields of experience that open to one with all its effect for the earthopening of the inner consciousness. As for accepting The true rasa of poetry, painting or any other activity is truly found when these activities are part of the working of the Divine Force in all things you and you feel it as that is necessary here too and you feel in the sense of seeing it even behind our struggles and difficulties, but not accepting the nature joy of man and the world as it is―our aim is to move towards a by a greater and happier manifestation. That too is a labour of divine Lovethat working. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1330/relationsthe-with-persons-outside-theinward-ashrammovement#p33p80</ref>
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It is this consciousness not that has expressed itself in your letter—or the obscure love for all is not 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 but it and looks jealously has not to see who gets more of these favours than translate itself at once into a mixing with all―it can only express 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 general and acts like thatwhen need be dynamic universal good-will, but for the rest it is must find vent in almost everybody. If that were this labour of bringing down the only thing in you or higher consciousness with all its effect for the others, then indeed there would be no possibility of Yogaearth...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-As for accepting the working of-the-physical-nature#p105</ref><center>~</center>It Divine in all things that 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.necessary here too in/cwsa/28/philosophical-thought-and-yoga#p31</ref><center>~</center>Love itself blinded by the confusions sense of this present consciousness may stumble in its human receptacles seeing it even behind our struggles anddifficulties, even otherwise, may find itself unrecognised, rejected or rapidly degenerating and lost in but not accepting the frailty nature of man's inferior nature…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p2</ref><center>~</center>Its other signs are doubt; tamasic depression; an exaggerated sense of impurity and unfitness; the idea that the Mother world as it is―our aim is remote, does not care for one, is not giving what she ought to give, is not divine, with other similar suggestions accompanied move towards a 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 greater and do something in the ordinary world—the thing itself suggested varying according to the personal mindhappier manifestation. 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 That too is the same obscurities thrown on the intelligence, the same subconscious movements a labour 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 divine Love and the Divine Call.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3113/dealingrelations-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/16/20persons-julyoutside-1932the-1ashram#p1p33</ref></center>
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