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=Why What Is Divine Love Important? What Are the Unique Positive Effects and Qualities of this Manifestation?=
A supreme divine Love should 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 flowering speechless and bodiless godhead. It has even been said that creation itself was an act of love or at least the building up of joy a field in which Divine Love could devise its symbols and union and confidence 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 Ananda… 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/cwsa/2923/divinethe-loveascent-psychic-loveof-andthe-humansacrifice-loveii#p39p10</ref>
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There Love is only one 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 and in answer there leans downward to meet the creation the Divine Love, eternal, universal, equal for everyone and everythingGrace.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1603/62-septemberjune-19691929#p1p11</ref>
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It lifts Divine love is of two kinds—the Divine love for the creation and the being towards a transcendent Ecstasy souls that are part of itself and is ready to shed all the downward pull love of the world from its wings in its uprising to reach seeker and love for the One HighestDivine Beloved; but it calls down also this transcendent Love has both a personal and Beatitude impersonal element, but the personal is free here from all lower elements or bondage to deliver the vital and transform this world of hatred and strife and division and darkness and jarring Ignorance…physical instincts.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2329/thedivine-love-ascentpsychic-oflove-theand-sacrificehuman-ilove#p23p44</ref>
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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 can overcome ; intensely fixing itself on one or others to find itself, to achieve a dynamic unification or to reach here towards the union of the evil and soul with the cruel―the tiger does not attack Divine, it becomes the yogiindividual divine Love.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1428/generalphilosophical-thought-and-1yoga#p7p30</ref>
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Love in its depths 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 contact of the Divine. The material world Possibility or Reality in its darkness and ignorance had forgotten the Divine. Love came into the darkness; it awakened all that lay there asleep; it whispered, opening the ears that were sealed, "There is something that is worth waking to, worth living for, and it is love!" And oneself with 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 and awakened it to life. Ever since it has gone Possibility or Reality in search of this divine source of lifethe loved. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0328/2philosophical-thought-juneand-1929yoga#p11p31</ref>
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The force of love in Divine Love is the world is trying to find consciousnesses that are capable of receiving this divine movement in its purity and expressing it... It touches millions essence of instruments, trying always, always failing; but this constant touch prepares these instruments Truth and suddenly one day there will awake in them the capacity of self-giving, the capacity of lovingcannot be affected by human confusions.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0317/27-june-19291962#p6p3</ref>
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Once you have come Love in contact with this largeits origin is divine love. Love in man, that is, pure and true Divine lovegrown human, if you have felt it even for a short time and in its smallest formis distorted, you will realise what an abject thing human desire has made of deformed; itis only divine love which is pure. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0306/224-junemarch-19291954#p7p15</ref>
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The true vital movement is Unmanifest Divine Love: the most beautiful and magnificent splendour of movements; but it has been twisted and turned into the most ugly, marvellous love which the most distorted, Divine keeps for 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 thingheart.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0314/2general-1#p8</ref> ==Symbols Associated with Divine Love== ===Flower=== ‘’’Divine Love:’’’ A flower reputed to bloom even in the desert. [[File:Flower -junedivine love.jpg]] <ref>https://toptropicals.com/cgi-1929#p10bin/garden_catalog/cat.cgi</ref>
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A human An Old Chaldean LegendLong ago, very long ago, in the desert land that is now Arabia, a divine beingincarnated on earth to awaken it to the Supreme Love. As one would expect, awakened he was persecuted by this personal touchmen, misunderstood, suspected, with this personal intensityhunted 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 consciousness 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 Divine lovebush expanded miraculously, increased itself, widened, will find his work became deep and change made more easy; luxuriant in such a way that when the pursuers passed by they did not even suspect that the union for which he seeks becomes more natural One whom they were chasing was hidden there, and closethey continued on their way. And While, drop by drop, the sacred blood fell, fertilising the unionsoil, the realisation will become for himbush covered itself with marvellous flowers, tooscarlet, more fullenormous―clusters of petals, more perfect; for the wide uniformity innumerable drops of a universal and impersonal Love will be lit up and vivified with blood…These are the colour flowers that, for us, express and beauty of all possible relations with hold the DivineLove. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0314/2divine-june-1929love#p12p14,p15,p16,p17</ref>
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For devotion by its embodiment Punica granatumPomegranateMedium-sized double orange red flower with innumerable tightly held crinkled petals; borne singly or in acts not only makes its own way broad small clusters. A spiny shrub or small tree with many stems and full and dynamicglossy leaves."Divine Love Spreading Over the World:" Innumerable, succulent, but brings at once into the harder way of works in the world the divinely passionate element of joy it gives strength and love which life untiringly. [[File:Pomegranate.jpg]] Punica granatumPomegranateMedium to large nearly round thick-skinned fruit that is often absent in its beginning yellow tinged with red when it is only the austere spiritual will that follows ripe and contains many seeds enclosed in a struggling uplifting tension juicy reddish edible pulp; A shrub or small tree. "Love for the steep ascent, and Divine:" The vegetal kingdom gathers together its most beautiful possibilities to offer them to the heart is still asleep or bound to silenceDivine. If [[File:Love for the spirit divine.jpg]] RosaRoseAll forms and sizes of divine love can enterroses, single and double, usually fragrant, the hardness in a great variety of colours; includes both shrubs and climbers. "Integral Love for the way diminishesDivine:" Pure, the tension is lightenedcomplete and irrevocable, there it is a sweetness love that gives itself for ever.[[File:Integral love.jpg]] RosaRoseMedium to large solitary pure white flower. A large shrub. ===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, true love, finds its delight and joy even its satisfaction in itself; it has no need to be received and appreciated, nor to be shared―it loves for the core sake of difficulty and struggleloving, as a flower blooms. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0814/8divine-augustlove-1956and-human-love#p10p66</ref>
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One has just a tiny little opening, very tiny, at times like a pinhead, It [the Divine Love] exists in itself and naturally that force rushes indoes not depend on outer contact or outer expression. For Whether it is like an active atmosphere; as soon as there is a possibility of being received, shall express itself outwardly or how 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, blocked; one is busy with other things most of will express itself outwardly depends on the time. Most of the time one is full of oneself. So, as 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 Divinespiritual truth that has to be manifested. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0629/19divine-love-psychic-love-and-mayhuman-1954love#p12p6</ref>
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What is lastingBut the divine intensity of self-forgetfulness, eternalthe capacity of throwing oneself out entirely, immortal making no restriction and infiniteno reservation, that indeed is worth havingas a gift, worth conqueringasking nothing in exchange, worth possessing. It this is divine Light, divine Love, divine Life―it is also Supreme Peace, Perfect Joy and All-Mastery upon earth with the Complete Manifestation as the crowninglittle known to human beings.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1403/the-true2-aim-ofjune-life1929#p65p5</ref>
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Yesterday morning I distributed petals of "But when it comes in the Divine Truth and Power, Divine Love". The previous night was, here, the darkest descends first as something transcendent and universal and out of that transcendence and universality it applies itself to persons according to the year Divine Truth and in India it is Will, creating a great festivalvaster, greater, purer personal love than any the human mind or heart can now imagine. Its true significance It is when one has felt this descent that one can be really an instrument for the birth and action of the Divine's Love is at in the base and core of all manifestation, even where it seems most completely inconscientworld.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1429/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p19p1</ref>
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The moment you open to manifestation of the love of the Divine Lovein the world was the great holocaust, you also receive its power of Transformationthe supreme self-giving. But it is not in terms his was the supreme love, to accept the loss of quantity that you can measure it; what is essential is the true contact; forperfect condition of supreme divinity, its absolute consciousness, its infinite knowledge, to unite with unconsciousness, you will find that to dwell in the true contact world with it 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 sufficient to fill at once the whole of your beingimpulse given by a Divine love behind the human longing and seeking. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/knowledge-by-unity-with-the-divine-the-divine-will-in2-thejune-world1929#p6</ref>
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Great beings have taken birth Divine Love has simultaneously a double play, an universal movement, deep, calm and bottomless like the nether Ocean, which broods upon the whole world and each thing that is in this world who came to bring down here something it as upon a level bed with an equal pressure, and a personal movement, forceful, intense and ecstatic like the dancing surface of the sovereign purity same Ocean, which varies the height and power force of Divine love. The Divine love has thrown itself into a personal form in them that its realisation billows and chooses the objects it shall fall upon earth may be at once more easy with the kiss of its foam and spray and more perfectthe clasp of its engulfing waters. [Aphorism 494]<ref>http://incarnateword. in/cwm/10/aphorism-493-494#p2</ref> ==What Is the Importance of Manifestation of Divine love, when manifested Love in a personal being, Various Parts of the Being?== …it is easier not possible for the tongue of human speech to realise; it is more difficult when 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 unmanifested or impersonal filled in all its movement…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/cwmcwsa/0324/2the-mystery-juneof-1929love#p12p10</ref>
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It alone can assureDivine Love should normally lead to the perfect knowledge of the Beloved by perfect intimacy, thus becoming a path of Knowledge, and to divine service, even while thus becoming a path of Works. So also should perfect Knowledge lead to perfect Love and Joy and a full acceptance of the spiritual consciousness works of That which is incomplete, known; dedicated Works to the entire love of the Master of the perennial freshness Sacrifice and sincerity 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 beauty service of the symbol One in all beings and prevent in the entire cosmic manifestation.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-systems-of-yoga#p21</ref> ===Manifestation in Mental=== But when this power begins to awake and act, when the mind becomes by degrees conscious in what was to it from being superconscient, then there begins a dead form or a corrupted knowledge and corrupting magic; it alone can preserve for experience of superior planes of existence. The experience is in accord with that which is brought to us by the act its power with its significance. All first opening of vision: the other members mind rises into a higher plane of our beingpure self, silent, mindtranquil, life-forceillimitable; or it rises into regions of light or of felicity, physical or body consciousness are too much under into planes where it feels an infinite Power or a divine Presence or experiences the control contact of the Ignorance to be a sure instrumentation and much less can they be a guide divine Love or Beauty or the source atmosphere of an unerring impulsea wider and greater and luminous Knowledge. Always In the return the greater part of spiritual impression abides; but the motive mental record is often blurred and action of these powers clings to remains as a vague or a fragmentary memory; the old law, lower consciousness from which the deceiving tabletsascent took place falls back to what it was, with only the cherished inferior movements addition of Nature and they meet with reluctance, alarm an unkept or revolt or obstructing inertia a remembered but no longer dynamic experience. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-triple-transformation#p24</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 voices impulse and the forces strength to take, it is also that call and impel us which is capable of giving itself to the utmost; because it knows how to possess, it knows also how to exceed and transform ourselves into a greater being and a wider Nature… abandon itself without reserve. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0803/152-augustjune-19561929#p1p10</ref>
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If you do thatFor 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, you or from the failure of the delight we have taken a great stride forward 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 can, through this attitudeas it were, gradually advance farther the body of the Ananda.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-motives-of-devotion#p11</ref> ===Manifestation in Physical== The true divine Ananda in the feeling itselfphysical has a different quality and movement and substance; self-existent in its essence, and realise one day that love its manifestation is dependent only on an inner union with the Divine. You have spoken of Divine Love; but Divine Love, when it touches the physical, does not something personal, that love awaken the gross lower vital propensities; indulgence of them would only repel it and make it withdraw again to the heights from which it is a universal divine feeling already difficult enough to draw it down into the coarseness of the material creation which manifests it alone can transform. Seek the Divine Love through you more or less finelythe only gate through which it will consent to enter, the gate of the psychic being, but which and cast away the lower vital error.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p59</ref> ===Manifestation in its essence is something divine…Psychic=== When the psychic loves it loves with the Divine Love.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0814/19divine-septemberlove-1956and-human-love#p23p57</ref>
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Perhaps the different elements constituting the stone are coordinated by the spark of If love. I am sure that when the Divine Love descended into Matter, this Matter was quite unconsciousis psychic in its nature, it had absolutely no form; it may even be said that forms in general are always brings the result sense of oneness or at least of the effort an inner intimate closeness of being. The Divine Love to bring consciousness into Matter. … And the coming out of the Inconscient is due exclusively to based upon oneness and the sacrifice of psychic derives from the Divine, to this descent of Divine Love into the Inconscient….<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0429/24divine-love-psychic-love-and-marchhuman-1951love#p2p12</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 is .if you had a kind of spontaneous sense of what is highercontact with pure Divine Love, more nobleit would seem to you colder than ice, more pureor 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 though they cannot express find it in any waydifficult to breathe, they so very far would it be from what you normally feel it. Divine Love, if not clothed with a psychic or vital vibration, and this affects them differentlyis difficult for a human being to perceive.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0504/1924-augustmarch-19531951#p12p23</ref>
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First of all, we are going To establish the latter [Divine Love and Ananda] down to take the historical fact, if there subconscient is one. That is to say, through a thing which would mean the action entire transformation of the forces of separation, Consciousness became inconscience whole being and matter was created such it cannot be done except as it is, on a basis the result of inconscience so total that no contact seemed possible between the Origin and what was createdsupramental change which is as yet far away. And this total inconscience made a direct descent necessaryThe other may be established even now in principle, without sing through but to make it living and complete in the whole being would mean the intermediate regions, a direct descent of psychic transformation completed with the spiritual also well under way already. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine Consciousness in its form -love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p8</ref> ==Misconceptions Associated with Divine Love== ===How Is Human Love Different from Divine Love? What Is the Role of Love. And it Ego?=== There is only one true love—it is this descent of the Divine Love into matter; all other loves are diminutions, penetrating it limitations and adding a new element to its position, which has made possible the ascent, slow for us, but an uninterrupted ascent, from inconscience to consciousness and from darkness to light. Therefore, one cannot say deformations of that Love can manifest only when . Even the love of the creation becomes divine, bhakta for it his God is a diminution and often is on the contrary because of its manifestation that creation can become divine once again.tainted by egoism…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0816/3110-octoberjune-19561964#p8p2</ref>
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I was speaking not of the world in general but of human consciousness in particular; and certainly, I was alluding to the fact that this Divine When one has found divine Love which animates all things, penetrates all, upbears all and leads all towards progress and an ascent to it is the Divine, is not felt, not perceived by the human 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 one loves in its purity, its intensity in its purity, are of too strong a kind to be endured by human nature…all beings. There is no longer any division.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0814/31divine-love-and-octoberhuman-1956love#p10p48</ref>
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Adoration fulfilled in love, love ...even if a Divine Love is there in Ananda,—the surpassing love, the self-wrapped ecstasy world upholding all this evolution of transcendent delight in creatures,yet the Transcendent which awaits us at the end stuff of the path life and its action is made up of Devotionan egoistic formation,—has for its wider result a universal love for all beingsdivision, the Ananda a struggle of all that is; we perceive behind every veil the Divine, spiritually embrace in all forms the All-Beautiful. A universal delight in his endless manifestation flows through us, taking in its surge every form life and movement, but not bound or stationary in any and always reaching out consciousness to a greater exist and more perfect expression. This universal love is liberative and dynamic survive in an apparently indifferent, inclement or transformation; for the discord even hostile world of forms inanimate and appearances ceases to affect the heart that has felt the one Truth behind them all and understood their perfect significanceinconscient Matter. The impartial equality of soul of In the selfless worker confusion and knower is transformed by the magic touch obscurity of divine Love into an this struggle all-embracing ecstasy and million-bodied beatitude. All things become bodies are thrown against each other with a will in each to assert its own existence first and all movements the playings of the divine Beloved in his infinite house of pleasure. Even pain is changed foremost and only secondarily to assert itself in their reaction others and very partially for others; for even in their essence things painful alter; man's altruism remains essentially egoistic and must be so till the soul finds the forms secret of pain fall away, there are created in their place the forms of Anandadivine Oneness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p5p10</ref>
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A supreme divine Love is a creative Power and, even though It [human consciousness] does not want to fulfil the sadhana unless 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 godheadget by it the things it wanted. It has even been said that creation itself was an act wants the satisfaction of love or at least the building up of a field in which Divine Love could devise its symbols and fulfil itself in act of mutuality and ego, "self-givingfulfilment", andappreciation, if not the initial nature granting of creation, this may well be its ultimate object and motivedesires. It does not so appear now because, even if a measures the Divine Love is there in by the world upholding all this evolution outward favours showered upon it and looks jealously to see who gets more of creatures…these favours than itself, then says that the Divine has no love for it and assigns reasons which are either derogatory to the Divine or, as in your letter, self-depreciatory and a cause for despair. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2331/the-ascentdifficulties-of-the-sacrificephysical-iinature#p10p97</ref>
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For devotion by its embodiment It has become in acts not only makes its own way broad and full and dynamichuman nature something low, brutal, selfish, violent, ugly, but brings at once into the harder way of works in the world the divinely passionate element of joy and love which is often absent in its beginning when or else it is only the austere spiritual Will that follows in a struggling uplifting tension the steep ascent, something weak and the heart is still asleep or bound to silence. If the spirit of divine love can entersentimental, the hardness made up of the way diminishespettiest feeling, the tension is lightenedbrittle, superficial, there is a sweetness and joy even in the core of difficulty and struggleexacting. The indispensable surrender of all our will And this baseness and works and activities to the Supreme is indeed only perfect and perfectly effective when it is a surrender of love. All life turned into brutality or this cult, all actions done in the love of the Divine and in the self-regarding weakness they call 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/cwsacwm/2303/the-ascent-of-the2-sacrificejune-ii1929#p11p7</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 The Divine takes on the hue and character and then, once entered into the path of Yoga, the inner reality and intense experience of divine love. But there is the more intimate Yoga which from the first consists in this love and attains only by the intensity of its longing without other process or method. All the rest comes, but it comes out of this, as leaf and flower out of the seed; other things are not the means of developing and fulfilling love, but the radiations of love already growing in the soul. This 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 essence the power of an equal love 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, for 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 the disturbance of the whole life, the illumination by an unseized visionbeings, but the unsatisfied yearning for a single object obscurity of the heart's desire, the intense impatience consciousness of all that distracts most men prevents them from the one preoccupation, the intense pain of the obstacles that stand in the way of possession, the perfect vision of all beauty and delight in a single form. And there are all the many moods of love, the joy of musing and absorption, the delight of the meeting and fulfilment and embrace, the pain of separation, the wrath of perceiving this divine love, the tears of longing, the increased delight of reunion. The heart is the scene of this supreme idyll of the inner consciousness, but a heart which undergoes increasingly an intense spiritual change and becomes the radiantly unfolding lotus of the spirit. And as the intensity of its seeking is beyond the highest power of the normal human emotions, so also the delight and the final ecstasy are beyond the reach of the imagination and beyond expression by speech. For this is the delight of the Godhead that passes human understanding.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2414/thedivine-way-of-devotionlove#p6p30</ref>
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…extending it to a common feeling and mutual worship ...love between the devotees themselves united human beings, in all its forms, the same realisation love of parents for children, of children for parents, of the supreme Love brothers and Bliss. It provides a yet more general corrective in the realisation sisters, of the divine object of Love in friends and lovers, is all beings not only human but animaltainted with ignorance, easily extended to selfishness and all forms whatsoeverthe other defects which are man's ordinary drawbacks...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2308/the-systems19-ofseptember-yoga1956#p19p23</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 attachment 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 parents belongs to perform mountaineering feats on all the hillocks of the lower nature instead of nourishing a strong and simple aspiration and opening ordinary physical nature—it has nothing 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 to go after. What gives the interest in Yoga is the rasa of the Divine and of the divine consciousness which means the rasa of Peace, of Silence, of inner Light and Bliss, of growing inner Knowledge, of increasing inner Power, of the with 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>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3031/human-relations-and-the-inwardspiritual-movementlife#p91p34</ref>
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Still, the more varied and most intimate experience But there is another way of divine vital love cannot come by which is more usually the pursuit way of the impersonal Infinite alone; for human nature and that the Godhead we adore must become near is a way of ego and personal to usdesire. It is possible for the Impersonal to reveal within itself all full of vital craving, desire and demand; its continuance depends upon the riches satisfaction of personality when we its demands; if it does not get into its heartwhat it craves, and one who sought only to enter into or to embrace the infinite Presence alone, may discover in even imagines that it things he had is not dreamed of; the being of the Divine has surprises for us which confound the ideas of the limiting intellect. But ordinarily the way of devotion begins from the other end; treated as it starts from and deserves—for it rises and widens to its issue by adoration of the divine Personality. The Divine is a Being and not an abstract existence or a status full of pure timeless infinity; the original and universal existence is Heimaginations, misunderstandings, jealousies, misinterpretations—it at once turns to sorrow, wounded feeling, revolt, pride, anger, but that existence is inseparable from consciousness and bliss all kinds of beingdisorder, finally cessation and an existence conscious departure. A love of this kind is in its own being very nature ephemeral and unreliable and its own bliss is what we may well call it cannot be made a foundation for divine infinite Person,—Purushalove. Moreover all consciousness implies power, Shakti; where there is infinite consciousness There has been too much of this kind in the relations of beingthe sadhaks with the Mother—approaching her, there is infinite power of beingI suppose, and by that power as a human mother with all exists in the universereactions of the lower vital nature. All beings exist by For a long time it was perforce tolerated—and this Being; all things are was the faces of God; all thought and action and feeling and love proceed from him and return concession made to him, all their results have him for source and support and secret goal. It is to this Godhead, this Being that human weakness—even accepted in the Bhakti of an integral Yoga will be poured out and uplifted. Transcendent, it will seek him beginning as a thing too prominent in the ecstasy of an absolute unionhuman being not to be there to some extent but to be transformed by degrees; universalbut too often, it will seek him in infinite quality has refused to transform itself and every aspect and in all beings with has made itself a universal delight and love; individualsource of confusion, disorder, asiddhi, it will enter into all sometimes complete disaster. It is for this reason that we discourage this lower vital way of human relations with him that love creates between person and person. would like people to reject and eliminate these elements as soon as may be from their nature…<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2429/thedivine-love-psychic-mysterylove-ofand-human-love#p2p33</ref>
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It is there waiting to be understood Altruism, philanthropy, humanitarianism, service are flowers of the mental consciousness and accepted are at best the mind’s cold and meanwhile giving all pale imitation of the help you can receive spiritual flame of universal Divine Love.Not truly liberative from ego-sense, they widen it at most and give it a higher and larger satisfaction; impotent in practice to raise change man's vital life and nature, they only modify and widen you into palliate its action and daub over its unchanged egoistic essence. Or if they are intensely followed with an entire sincerity of the consciousness will, it is by an exaggerated amplification of one side of our nature; in which it will that exaggeration there can be no longer possible clue for these difficulties and these misunderstandings to recur—the state in which there is possible the full and perfect uniondivine evolution of the many sides of our individualised being towards the universal and transcendent Eternal.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2923/divinethe-loveascent-psychicof-love-andthe-humansacrifice-lovei#p6p20</ref>
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There But this kind of wish to gain by what one has or does is a psychic human love which rises from deep within and is the result truly one of the meeting of ugliest things in the inner being with that which calls it towards a divine joy and union; world. And it is, once it becomes aware one 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 the most widespread and spontaneouslyit has become so widespread, 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 be used as means of expression or that they are not to share almost spontaneous in the full play and the whole meaning of love, even of divine loveman. On the contrary, they are a means and Nothing 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 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 turn its complement and a means of expression of the divine love. And neither does the psychic love or back on the divine love despise a physical means of expression wherever more totally than 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 the Prerequisites for Divine Love?== It does not indeed find itself in the selfish distortions of the human consciousness; but the vital in itself is as important an element in Divine love as it is in the whole of the manifested universe. There is no possibility of movement and progress without the mediation of the vital; but because this Power of Nature has been so badly distorted, some prefer to believe that it has wish to be pulled out altogether calculate and thrown awayprofit. But it is only through the vital that matter can be touched by the transforming power of the Spirit… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0305/226-juneaugust-19291953#p9p36</ref>
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Each one of If you look at yourself very sincerely, very straight, you will see that as soon as you should be able begin to get into touch with your own psychic being, think of Love it is not an inaccessible thingalways your little inner tumult which starts whirling. Your psychic being is there precisely to put All that aspires in you in contact with the divine forceswants certain vibrations. And if you are in contact with your psychic It is almost impossible, without beingfar advanced on the yogic path, you begin to feelseparate the vital essence, to have a kind of perception the vital vibration from your conception of what Divine Love can be. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/24-march-1951#p25p23</ref>
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The spiritual life will draw its sustenance love which is turned towards the Divine ought not from desire but from a pure and selfless spiritual delight of essential existence. And not only to be the usual vital nature in us whose stamp feeling which men call by that name; for that is desirenot love, but the mental being too must undergo only a new birth and a transfiguring change. Our dividedvital desire, egoistican instinct of appropriation, limited and ignorant thought and intelligence must disappear; in its place there must stream in the catholic impulse to possess 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 errormonopolise. 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 in all our doings a supreme, impersonal, unfaltering and unstumbling will in spontaneous 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 a secret deep and vast psychic heart within that waits behind them for its hour; all our feelings, impelled by Not only is this inner heart in which dwells the Divine, will be transmuted into calm and intense movements of a twin passion of not divine Love and manifold Ananda. This is the definition of a divine humanity or a supramental race. This, but it ought not an exaggerated or even a sublimated energy of human intellect and action, is to be allowed to mix in the type of the superman whom we are called to evolve by our least degree in Yoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2329/selfdivine-surrenderlove-inpsychic-workslove-theand-way-of-thehuman-gitalove#p4p29</ref>
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AltruismHuman love fails by its own ecstasy, philanthropyhuman strength is exhausted by its own effort, humanitarianism, service are flowers human knowledge throws a shadow that conceals half the globe of the mental consciousness truth from its own sunlight; but divine knowledge embraces opposite truths and are at best reconciles them, divine strength grows by the mind's cold and pale imitation prodigality of the spiritual flame of universal Divine Loveits self-expenditure, divine love can squander itself utterly, yet never waste or diminish. [Aphorism 534]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2310/the-ascent-of-the-sacrificeaphorism-i534#p20p1</ref>
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We can see how this larger application All the other members of our being, mind, life-force, physical or body consciousness are too much under the Yoga control of Devotion may the Ignorance to be a sure instrumentation and much less can they be so used as to lead to a guide or the source of an unerring impulse. Always the elevation greater part of the whole range motive and action of human emotionthese powers clings to the old law, the deceiving tablets, sensation the cherished inferior movements of Nature and aesthetic perception they meet with reluctance, alarm or revolt or obstructing inertia the voices and the forces that call and impel us to exceed and transform ourselves into a greater being and a wider Nature. In their major part the divine levelresponse is either a resistance or a qualified or temporising acquiescence; for even if they follow the call, they yet tend―when not consciously, its spiritualisation then by automatic habit―to bring into the spiritual action their own natural disabilities and the justification errors. At every moment they are moved to take egoistic advantage of the cosmic labour towards love psychic and spiritual influences and can be detected using the power, joy in our humanityor light these bring into us for a lower life-motive. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2308/the15-systems-ofaugust-yoga1956#p19p1</ref>
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And let me say also that, as regards human love and divine love, I admitted the first as that from which we have to proceed and to arrive at the other, intensifying and transforming into it, not eliminating, human love. Divine Love, in my view of it, is again not something ethereal, cold and far, but a love absolutely intense, intimate and full of unity, closeness and rapture using all the nature for its expression. Certainly, it is without the confusions and disorders of the present lower vital nature which it will change into something entirely warm, deep and intense; but that is no reason for supposing that it will lose anything that is true and happy in the elements of love.
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==What Happens When =Misconceptions Related to Divine Love Is Not Present?===
...Divine Love is not an emotion…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p46</ref><center>~</center>Sometimes, very rarely, for a few seconds there is suddenly the feeling of "something". Then you say, "Oh, divine Love came to me!" What a joke! It is just that you were simply, for some reason or other, a wee bit open, so you felt it. But it is there, always, like the divine Consciousness. It is the same thing, it is there, all the time, 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 and says, "Oh, the divine Consciousness, divine Love have turned to me, have come to me!" It is not at all like that. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/19-may-1954#p12</ref><center>~</center>And when I must say that this rapturous state of consciousness would be dangerous in the present condition of the world. Because it produces reactions that are almost absolute—I see that this state of rapture has a ''formidable'' power. But I insist on the word formidable, 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 of this ecstasy or rapture is a small beginning of the vibration of divine Love, and that is absolutely—yes, there unmixed with weak is no other word for it—intolerant, in the sense that it will not permit the presence of anything that is contrary to it.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-94#p11</ref><center>~</center>...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 this love. It not only needs to open, but to widen itself and to become more supple—Matter is still too rigid. And even the substance of the physical consciousness—not only the most material Matter, but the substance of the physical consciousness—is too rigid. [Based on Aphorism 49—To feel and love the God of beauty and good in the ugly and sentimental emotionsthe evil, they find and still yearn in utter love to heal it hard of its ugliness and its evil, this is real virtue and cold; they cannot recognise morality.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-49#p16</ref><center>~</center>It is for this [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 highest 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-impulse and intensest power with these simulations compensated its inability to house the Mystic Flame that could rebuild the world with its tongues of lovesacrifice.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0308/215-juneaugust-19291956#p5p1</ref>
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If that falsification is permitted, Among those who have come into this world seeking to reveal the higher Light Divine here and Power and Bliss withdrawtransform earthly life, there are some who have manifested the Divine love in a greater fullness. In some the purity of the manifestation is a fall back to a lower status; or else so great that they are misunderstood by the realisation remains tied to an insecure half-way whole of humanity and are even accused of being hard and mixture or unloving, although the Divine love is covered there. But it is in them divine and even submerged by not human in its form as in its substance. For when man speaks of love, he associates it with an inferior exaltation that is emotional and sentimental weakness.And yet none perhaps would call it love; for it does not the true Ananda…clothe itself in a superficial sentiment, it makes no demand in exchange for what it has done, no show of its sacrifice.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0803/152-augustjune-19561929#p1p5</ref>
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The reason Although it is a divine love for people to come the supreme and settle here is surely not to find comfort and luxury—this can universal Divine that must be found anywhere if one is lucky enough. But what one can get here, that is not got in any other place: it is the Divine Loverule of our spiritual existence, Grace and Care. It is when this is forgotten does not exclude altogether all forms of individual love or disregarded the ties that people begin draw soul to feel miserable here. Indeed whenever somebody feels unhappy and discontented, it can be taken as a sure sign that he is turning his back on what the Divine is always giving and that he has gone astray soul in pursuit of worldly satisfactionmanifested existence.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1323/comfortthe-ascent-of-the-andsacrifice-happinessii#p8p2</ref>
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Outside this state Love cannot be cold—for there are infinite grades is no such thing as cold love, but the love of consciousnesswhich the Mother speaks in that passage is something very pure, going right down to complete darknessfixed and constant; it does not leap like fire and sink for want of fuel, the veritable inconscience which may be a domain yet untouched by but is steady and all-embracing and self-existent like the light of Thy the sun. There is also a divine Love (love that is personal, but this seems improbable in physical substance), or which it is not like the ordinary personal human love dependent on any return from the person—it ispersonal but not egoistic, for some kind of reason of ignorance—it goes from the real being in the one to the real being in the other. But to find that, outside our individual range liberation from the ordinary human way of perceptionapproach is necessary. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1729/commentsdivine-onlove-psychic-prayerslove-and-meditationshuman-love#p76p37</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.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-mystery-of-love#p10</ref> ==What Is True Love for the Divine?== The true love for the Divine is self-giving, 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 the Divine Mother also gives herself, but freely—and this lower represents itself in an inner giving—her presence in your mind, your vital way is only a source of suffering, troubleyour physical consciousness, disappointmenther power re-creating you in the divine nature, disillusion taking up all the movements of your being and directing them towards perfection and fulfilment, her love enveloping you and disunioncarrying you in its arms Godwards. Even a slight element It is this that you must aspire to feel and possess in all your parts down to the very material, and here there is no limitation either of time or of completeness. If one truly aspires and gets it, there ought to be no room for any other claim or for any disappointed desire. And if one truly aspires, one does unfailingly get it shakes the foundations of peace , more and replaces more as the movement towards Ananda by a fall towards sorrow, discontent purification proceeds and Niranandanature undergoes its needed change.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p39p29</ref>
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On the other hand when you insist too much on the love which exists by external cravings, what comes is the other movement—fits Love should be a flowering of despondency, sorrow, Nirananda. In stressing on the psychic basis, in wishing you to conquer this other movement, I am only pointing you to the true way of your own nature—of which the psychic bhakti, the true vital love are the real moving forces, joy and union and confidence and self-giving and the other is only a superficial immixture.Ananda… <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p40p33</ref>
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Or if they are intensely followed with an entire sincerity of But as one tends quite naturally to become like what one loves, the willbhakta, it if he is by an exaggerated amplification of one side of our nature; in that exaggeration there can be no clue for sincere, begins to become like the full Divine whom he adores, and perfect divine evolution of the many sides of our individualised being towards the universal thus his love becomes purer and transcendent Eternalpurer. Nor can To adore the Divine in the religio-ethical ideal be one whom one loves has often been suggested as a sufficient guidesolution, but unless one's heart and thought are ''very pure'',—for this is a compromise or compact of mutual concessions for mutual support between a religious urge which seeks it can lead to get a closer hold on earth by taking into itself deplorable abasements. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/10-june-1964#p2</ref> =Why Is Divine Love Important? What Are the higher turns of ordinary human nature Unique Positive Effects and an ethical urge which hopes to elevate itself out Qualities of its own mental hardness and dryness by some touch of a religious fervour. In making this compact religion lowers itself Manifestation?= The moment you open to the mental level and inherits the inherent imperfections Divine Love, you also receive its power of mind and its inability to convert and transform lifeTransformation. The mind But it is the sphere not in terms of the dualities and, just as quantity that you can measure it ; what is essential is impossible the true contact; for it to achieve any absolute Truth but only truths relative or mixed , you will find that the true contact with error, so it is impossible for it sufficient to achieve any absolute good; for moral good exists as a counterpart and corrective to evil and has evil always for its shadow, complement, almost its reason for existencefill at once the whole of your being. <ref>http://incarnateword. But in/cwm/03/knowledge-by-unity-with-the spiritual consciousness belongs to a higher than -divine-the mental plane and there -divine-will-in-the dualities cease; for there falsehood confronted with the truth by -world#p6</ref><center>~</center>Once one has found divine Love, all other loves, which are nothing but disguises, can lose their deformities and become pure―then it profited through a usurping falsification of it and evil faced by is the good of which it was a perversion or a lurid substitute, are obliged to perish for want of sustenance Divine that one loves in everyone and to cease…everything. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2314/thedivine-ascentlove-ofand-the-sacrificehuman-ilove#p20p50</ref>
=How Can Divine Love Flourish?=For Transcending the Ego==
To become conscious "One single drop of Thy divine love can transform this suffering into an ocean of the delight!"<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/20-july-1932-1#p1</ref><center>~</center>It [Divine Love, ] is there waiting to be understood and accepted and meanwhile giving all other love must the help you can receive to raise and widen you into the consciousness in which it will be abandonedno longer possible for these difficulties and these misunderstandings to recur—the state in which there is possible the full and perfect union.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p6</ref><center>~</center>Once you have come in contact with this large, pure and true Divine love, if you have felt it even for a short time and in its smallest form, you will realise what an abject thing human desire has made of it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1403/divine2-june-1929#p7</ref><center>~</center>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><center>~</center>It lifts the being towards a transcendent Ecstasy and 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 to deliver and transform this world of hatred and strife and division and darkness and jarring Ignorance…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-i#p34p23</ref>
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Once 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 Delight, ''āveśa''; there is the thrill of being possessed and used by a superpersonal Power, the exultation and exaltation of the uplifting of the consciousness, the joy of its illumination and its greatened and heightened action and the joy of the beauty, power or perfection that is being created. How far, how intensely one has found divine Lovefeels these things, depends on the condition of the consciousness at the time, the temperament, all other lovesthe activity of the vital, which 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 nothing but disguises, can lose their deformities by the Ananda,—he holds and become pure―then watches it and there is no mere excitement mixed with the divine flow of it through the conscious instrument and the Divine that one loves body. There is a greater Ananda of ''samarpaṇa'', of spiritual realisation or divine love, but in everyone the spiritual consciousness and everythinglife the Ananda of creation has its place. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1429/the-divine-loveforce-andin-human-lovework#p49p15</ref>
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It Adoration fulfilled in love, love in Ananda,—the surpassing love, the self-wrapped ecstasy of transcendent delight in the Transcendent which awaits us at the end of the path of Devotion,—has for its wider result a universal love for all beings, the Ananda of all that is; we perceive behind every veil the Divine, spiritually embrace in all forms the All-Beautiful. A universal delight in his endless manifestation flows through us, taking in its surge every form and movement, but not bound or stationary in any and always reaching out to a 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 infinite house of pleasure. Even pain is only when it moves changed and in their reaction and even in their essence things painful alter; the forms of pain fall away from , there are created in their place the forms of Ananda. In its true essence the nature of the change of consciousness which turns existence itself into a glorified field of a Divine Love and essential quality that man accepts Ananda. In its essence it, begins for the seeker when he passes from the ordinary to the spiritual level and even (''smiling'') approves 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 possible not only to feel it in essence but realise it dynamically as a Power for the transformation of the whole inner life and glorifies itthe whole outer existence.<ref>http://incarnateword. This means that it must already be quite warped in order /cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p5,p6</ref> ==For Divinsing Matter== For, life is a battlefield in which the Divine succeeds in detail only when the lower nature is receptive to its impulsions instead of siding with the hostile forces. And even then the test is not so much external as internal: a divine movement cannot be accepted measured by the human consciousnessapparent 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... And What you have to do is to give yourself up to accept the Grace of the Divine; for, itis under the form of Grace, bear 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 world and receive 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 that is called the supreme sacrifice in its plenitude and purity, the Indian scriptures. But it is a sacrifice only from the human point of view; the human consciousness must 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 divineless, no matter what "sacrifices" are made.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0803/31knowledge-by-unity-with-the-divine-octoberthe-divine-will-in-the-1956world#p10p6</ref>
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It ...Divine's Love is only when it moves away from its true nature at the base and essential quality that man accepts itcore of all manifestation, and even (smiling) approves of it and glorifies it. This means that it must already be quite warped in order to be accepted by the human consciousness. And to accept it, bear it and receive where it in its plenitude and purity, the human consciousness must become divineseems most completely inconscient. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0814/31-octoberdivine-1956love#p10p20</ref>
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Yet if you persist Love is a supreme force which the Eternal Consciousness sent down from itself into an obscure and make darkened world that it might bring back that world and its beings to the necessary effortDivine. The material world in its darkness and ignorance had forgotten the Divine. Love came into the darkness; it awakened all that lay there asleep; it whispered, opening the ears that were sealed, "There is something that is worth waking to, worth living for, and it is not impossible for this human love to be transformed into divine love through identification !" And with what you love. He has not said that the awakening to love between two persons can change there entered into divine love. It is not that at all! He has always said the opposite. He spoke about someone who had asked him about devotion, you know, about world the sadhak's love for possibility of coming back to the Divine. At the beginning your love is altogether human—and he speaks …This world was a world of it even as commercial barter. If you make progressdead matter, your till Divine love will change descended into it and awakened it to life. Ever since it has gone in search of this divine love, into true devotionsource of life. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0603/162-june-19541929#p61p11</ref>
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This race ...through the action of the forces of all beings towards loveseparation, this irresistible push Consciousness became inconscience and seeking out in matter was created such as it is, on a basis of inconscience so total that no contact seemed possible between the world's heart Origin and in all heartswhat was created. And this total inconscience made a direct descent necessary, is without sing through the impulse given by intermediate regions, a direct descent of the divine Consciousness in its form of Love. And it is this descent of Divine love behind Love into matter, penetrating it and adding a new element to its position, which has made possible the human longing ascent, slow for us, but an uninterrupted ascent, from inconscience to consciousness and seekingfrom darkness to light. Therefore, one cannot say that Love can manifest only when the creation becomes divine, for it is ''on the contrary'' because of its manifestation that creation can become divine once again. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0308/231-juneoctober-19291956#p6p8</ref>
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The I am sure that when the Divine Lovedescended into Matter, unlike the humanthis Matter was quite unconscious, is deep and vast and silentit had absolutely no form; one must become quiet and wide to be aware of it and reply to it. X must make it his whole object to may even be surrendered so said that he may become a vessel and instrument—leaving it to forms in general are the result of the Divine Wisdom and effort of Love to fill him with what is neededbring consciousness into Matter. Let him also fix this in … And the coming out of the mind not Inconscient is due exclusively to insist that in a given time he must progress, develop, get realisation; whatever time it takes, he must be prepared to wait and persevere and make his whole life an aspiration and an opening for the one thing only, sacrifice of the Divine. To give oneself is the secret of sadhana, not to demand and acquire. The more one gives oneself, the more the power to receive will grow. But for that all impatience and revolt must go; all suggestions this descent of not getting, not being helped, not being loved, going away, of abandoning life or Divine Love into the spiritual endeavour must be rejectedInconscient.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2904/divine-love-psychic-love-and24-humanmarch-love1951#p45p2</ref>
==How Can What Happens When Divine Love be Manifested in Various Parts of the BeingIs Not Present?==
===In Physical===One is outwardly alone only if one is closed to the divine love.That <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine-love-and-human-love#p28</ref><center>~</center>The reason for people to come and settle here is why no effort surely not to find comfort and luxury—this can be found anywhere if one is too arduouslucky enough. But what one can get here, no austerity too rigorous if that is not got in any other place: it can illumineis the Divine Love, purify, perfect Grace and transform the physical substance so Care. It is when ''this'' is forgotten or disregarded that people begin to feel miserable here. Indeed whenever somebody feels unhappy and discontented, it may no longer conceal can be taken as a sure sign that he is turning his back on what the Divine when is always giving and that he takes on an outer form has gone astray in Matterpursuit of worldly satisfaction. For then <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/comfort-and-happiness#p8</ref><center>~</center>Outside this marvellous tenderness will be able state there are infinite grades of consciousness, going right down to express itself freely in complete darkness, the world, veritable inconscience which may be a domain yet untouched by the light of Thy divine love Love (but this seems improbable in physical substance), or which has the power is, for some kind of reason of changing life into a paradise ignorance, outside our individual range of sweet joyperception. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1217/thecomments-fouron-austeritiesprayers-and-the-four-liberationsmeditations#p87p76</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 ...but this lower vital way there is no place for such things. On the contrary they are one means only a source of approaching the Divine and receiving the Light and materialising the psychic contactsuffering, trouble, disappointment, disillusion and so long as disunion. Even a slight element of it is done in shakes the right spirit foundations of peace and they are used for replaces the true purpose they have their place. It is only if they are misused or the approach is not right because tainted movement towards Ananda by indifference and inertiaa fall towards sorrow, or revolt or hostility, or some gross desire, that they are out of place discontent and can have a contrary effectNirananda.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p38p33</ref>
=How Can Divine Love Flourish?==In Vital=What are the Prerequisites for Divine Love?==
They [sex impulsions] persist only because something still wants to reserve a place for them. So To bring the best answer to the question about Divine Love and Beauty and Ananda into the sadhana (What world is , indeed, the place whole crown and essence of sex in our sadhana?) is "No place"Yoga. One must give up But it has always seemed to me impossible unless there comes as its support and foundation and guard the sex-satisfaction and be satisfied with Divine Truth—what I call the Supramental—and its Divine Love and AnandaPower. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3129/sexdivine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p44p2</ref>
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It The human form is true that naturally unable to bear the removal Divine Love or contain it, because it is itself a creation of the sex-impulse ignorance, weak and impure. It must be transformed in order to be capable of that; it must become strong and pure. First of all its forms and, generally, of it must have the strength to love the vital woman-complex is Divine alone and turn away from all other ties. But besides that a new consciousness must be created in it—first a great liberation consciousness of pure and purifying Divine Peace from above which opens up must take hold of all down to the most physical—then in that peace an increasing inner strength pure and unegoistic—then the Divine considerable regions 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. Till then the touches of the being which otherwise tend to Divine Love and Ananda are usually momentary or brief, they cannot remain shut up. These things are a degradation of In an impure consciousness the source Divine Love if it came in the being from would create a perturbation and possibly be attacked by a mixture which bhakti, divine love and adoration arise.would make it impossible for it to stay.It is therefore that touch only can come.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3129/sexdivine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p94p4</ref>
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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>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p7</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>Each one of you should be able to get into touch with your own psychic being, it 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 contact with your psychic being, you begin to feel, to have a kind of perception of what Divine Love can be.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/24-march-1951#p25</ref><center>~</center>It does not indeed find itself in the selfish distortions of the human consciousness; but the vital in itself is as important an element in Divine love as it is in the whole of the manifested universe. There is no possibility of movement and progress without the mediation of the vital; but because this Power of Nature has been so badly distorted, some prefer to believe that it has to be pulled out altogether and thrown away. But it is only through the vital that matter can be touched by the transforming power of the Spirit. If the vital is not there to infuse its dynamism and living force, matter will remain dead; for the higher parts of the being will not come into contact with earth, will not be concretised in life, and they will depart unsatisfied and disappear.
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As with individualLove cannot exist in its pure beauty, so with universal Love; all that widening love cannot put on its native power and intense joy of fullness until there is this interchange, this fusion between the self through sympathyearth and the Supreme, goodwillthis movement of Love from the Divine to the creation and from the creation to the Divine. …The moment man's consciousness awakens to the Divine love, universal benevolence and beneficencepure, love independent of mankindall manifestation in human forms, love he knows for what his heart has all the time been truly longing. That is the beginning of creaturesthe Soul's aspiration, that brings the attraction awakening of all the myriad consciousness and its yearning for union with the Divine. All the forms and presences that surround usare of the ignorance, all the deformations it has imposed must from that moment fade and disappear and give place to one single movement of the creation answering to the Divine love by which mentally and emotionally man escapes from its love for the Divine. Once the first limits of his egocreation is conscious, awakened, has opened to be taken up into a unifying divine love for the universal Divine…Divine, the Divine love pours itself without limit back into the creation. The circle of the movement turns back upon itself and the ends meet; there is the joining of the extremes, supreme Spirit and manifesting Matter, and their divine union becomes constant and complete. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2303/the-ascent-of-the2-sacrificejune-ii1929#p5p11</ref>
‘’’Bhakti’’’===Will===
Where external worship changes into the inner adoration, real Bhakti begins; that deepens into the intensity of divine love; that love leads to the joy of closeness in our relations with the Divine; the joy of closeness passes into the bliss of union. Love too as well as knowledge brings us to a highest oneness and To will it gives to that oneness its greatest possible depth and intensity. It is true that love returns gladly upon a difference in onenessconstant, sustained, concentrated aspiration, by which an almost exclusive occupation of the oneness itself becomes richer and sweeterconsciousness. But here we may say that the heart This is wiser than the thoughtfirst step. There are many others: a very attentive observation, a very persistent analysis, at least than that thought which fixes upon opposite ideas a very keen discernment of what is pure in the Divine movement and concentrates on one to the exclusion of the other which seems its contrary, but what is really its complement and not... You must take up your search with a means purity of its greatest fulfilment.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 Love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/04/24/love-and-the-triplemarch-path1951#p8p23</ref>
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The principle of Yoga is …the will to turn God-ward all or any of the powers of the pierce through this limited and human consciousness so that through that activity form of love and discover the being there may be contact, relation, union. In the Yoga principle of Bhakti divine Love which is behind it . Then one is the emotional nature that is made the instrumentsure to get a result. Its main principle This is to adopt some human relation between man and the Divine Being by which through the ever intenser flowing of the heartbetter than drying up one's emotions towards him the human soul may at last be wedded to and grow one with him in a passion of divine Loveheart. It is not ultimately the pure peace perhaps a little more difficult but it is better in every way, for like this, instead of oneness or the power egoistically making others suffer, well, one may leave them quiet in their own movement and desireless only make an effort to transform oneself without imposing one's will of onenesson others, 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 even in ordinary life is a step towards something higher and a little more perfectharmonious. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2408/the19-godwardseptember-emotions1956#p1p30</ref>
==In Mind=Receptivity===
This Divine Love is the weakness 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 the mind that it limits itself by its thoughtsis exclusively in proportion to what they are, to their capacity of receiving. Imagine, its positive and negative ideasfor 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><center>~</center>Truth alone can give to the world the aspects power of receiving and manifesting the Divine Reality that it sees, and tends too much to pit one against the otherLove.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2415/lovemessages-andfor-the-triplesupramental-manifestation-upon-pathearth#p8p11</ref>
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The Intuitive or Overmind are more open to To manifest the truth of Divine Love and more love you must be capable of universalising receiving the Divine love than . For only those can manifest it who are by their nature open to its native movement. The wider and clearer the opening in them, the mind ordinarily is—love there is also more calm they manifest love divine in its intensity, less ego-bound than in original purity; the mental parts. But more it is mixed with the mind can also approach their quality of lovelower human feelings, if the greater is the deformation. One who is not open to love in it grows psychic its essence and spiritualin its truth cannot approach the Divine.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2903/divine-love-psychic-love-and2-humanjune-love1929#p10p4</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 thoughts 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.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 outer mind peace that have to be refuseddescends first. This is not a mental, vital or physical peace of the suggestions ordinary kind, but something from above (spiritual), very firm, solid and ideas concrete. It is its concreteness that end by disturbing makes you feel like a still massive block—a mass of the sadhanahigher consciousness in place of the more tenuous substance of the ordinary nature. There are also a number As for its being worth having, you can see that it is—it is indeed the beginning of thoughts the real transformation—all the rest hitherto has been mainly preparation and clearing of difficulties and impediments through all kinds that have no interestthese years. This serene peace and massive stillness has to stabilise itself, fill the whole nature, widen itself until all existence internal and external seems full of it. This may take time, but which the mind beginning once there it is accustomed sure to allow to come as a habittake place, mechanically,—these sometimes come up when if one tries to be quietis steady and constant. They must be allowed to pass away without attending to them until they run down It becomes besides the sure base on which all the rest,—power and strength, light and the mind becomes still; to struggle with them knowledge, Ananda and try to stop them is no usedivine love, there must be only a quiet rejection…can come in and securely fill the consciousness. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3130/the-minddescent-of-andthe-otherhigher-levelsconsciousness-ofand-beingforce#p20p16</ref>
==How to Experience Divine Love?=In Psychic====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#p35</ref><center>~</center>''Q: Sweet Mother, Sri Aurobindo has said that one can pass from human love to divine Love.''
…But our aim ''A:'' Yet if you persist and make the necessary effort, it is not impossible for this human love to go beyond mental ideas be transformed into divine love through identification with what you love. He has not said that the light of the supramental Truth, which exists not by ideative thought but by direct vision and identitylove between two persons can change into divine love. In the same way our aim It is to go beyond emotion to not that at all! He has always said the height and depth and intensity of opposite. He spoke about someone who had asked him about devotion, you know, about the Divine Love and there feel through the inner psychic heart an inexhaustible oneness with sadhak's love for the Divine which . At the spasmodic leapings beginning your love is altogether human—and he speaks of the vital emotions cannot reach or experienceit even as commercial barter. If you make progress, your love will change into divine love, into true devotion.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2906/divine-love16-psychicjune-love-and-human-love1954#p46p61</ref>
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You must make an effort to come into touch with your psychic beingIt is only when it [Divine Love] moves away from its true nature and essential quality that man accepts it, to become aware and free even (''smiling'') approves of it and glorifies it. This means that it must already be quite warped in order to be accepted by the human consciousness of your psychic being. And to accept it, bear it and receive it in its plenitude and thenpurity, quite naturally, spontaneously, you will know what Divine Love isthe human consciousness must become divine.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0408/2431-marchoctober-19511956#p28p10</ref>
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Live I was speaking not of the world in the general but of human consciousness of in particular; and certainly, I was alluding to the psychic centre; thus your will will express fact that this Divine Love which animates all things, penetrates all, upbears all and leads all towards progress and an ascent to the Divine's Will alone , is not felt, not perceived by the human consciousness, and your transformed that even to the extent the human being will then does perceive it, he finds it difficult to bear—not only to contain it, but be able to receive 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. It is only when it is diluted, deformed, attenuated and manifest the Divine Loveobscured, so to say, that it becomes acceptable to human nature.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1408/the-soul31-theoctober-psychic1956#p33p10</ref>
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If, through a sustained effort, a deep concentration, a great forgetfulness of self, you succeed in coming into touch with your psychic The first step is to stop beingselfish. For everyone it is the same thing, you will never dream of thinking, "Oh! I would like not only for those who want to be do yoga but also in contact with Divine Love"—you are in a state in which everything appears ordinary life: if one wants to you know how to be this Divine Love love, one must not love oneself first and nothing elseabove all selfishly; one must give oneself to the object of love without exacting anything in return. And yet it This discipline is only elementary in order to surmount oneself and lead a covering, but a covering of a beautiful texturelife which is not altogether gross. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0408/2419-marchseptember-19511956#p25p29</ref>
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A 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 change or divine love.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/human-relations-and-the-spiritual-life#p57</ref><center>~</center>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 demandeddesire, but the mental being too must undergo a divestiture 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 masks 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 total working of the Ignorancea swiftly powerful, lucidly automatic, divinely moved and guided unfallen Force. There must be implanted and activised in all our doings a purification supreme, impersonal, unfaltering and unstumbling will in spontaneous and untroubled unison with the will of the Divine. The unsatisfying surface play of our feeble egoistic mentalemotions 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, vital will be transmuted into calm and physical intense movements that prolong 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 Yoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/self-surrender-in-works-the-way-of-the-gita#p4</ref><center>~</center>This 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, the inner reality and intense experience of divine love. But there is the more intimate Yoga which from the first consists in this love and attains only by the intensity of its longing without other process or method. All the rest comes, but it comes out of this, as leaf and flower out of the old inferior consciousnessseed; each movement other things are not the means of developing and fulfilling love, but the radiations of lovealready growing in the soul. This is the way that the soul follows when, spiritualisedwhile occupied perhaps with the normal human life, must depend it has heard the flute of the Godhead behind the near screen of secret woodlands and no longer on mental preferencepossesses itself, vital can have no satisfaction or rest till it has pursued and seized and possessed the divine flute-player. This is in essence the power of love itself in the heart and soul turning from earthly objects to the spiritual source of all beauty and delight. There live in this seeking all the sentiment and passion or physical craving, but all the moods and experiences of love concentrated on a supreme object of desire and intensified a hundredfold beyond the recognition highest acme of soul intensity possible to a human love. There is the disturbance of the whole life, the illumination by soulan unseized vision, the unsatisfied yearning for a single object of the heart's desire, the intense impatience of all that distracts from the one preoccupation, the intense pain of the obstacles that stand in the way of possession, the perfect vision of all beauty and delight in a single form. And there are all the many moods of love, the joy of musing and absorption,—love restored to its fundamental spiritual the delight of the meeting and fulfilment and psychic essence with embrace, the pain of separation, the wrath of love, the mindtears of longing, the vitalincreased delight of reunion. The heart is the scene of this supreme idyll of the inner consciousness, but a heart which undergoes increasingly an intense spiritual change and becomes the physical radiantly unfolding lotus of the spirit. And as manifesting instruments the intensity of its seeking is beyond the highest power of the normal human emotions, so also the delight and the final ecstasy are beyond the reach of the imagination and elements beyond expression by speech. For this is the delight of the Godhead that greater onenesspasses human understanding.<ref>https://incarnateword. In this change in/cwsa/24/the individual -way-of-devotion#p5,p6</ref> ===By Oneness=== I have said that if one wants to know what love is, one must love also the Divine. Then there is converted by a natural heightening chance of knowing what love is. I have said that one grows into a divine the likeness of what one loves. So if one loves the Divine, gradually, through this effort of love for , one grows more and more like the Divine Inhabitant immanent , and then one can be identified with the divine love and know what it is, otherwise one can't.<ref>http://incarnateword.in a mind /cwm/06/14-april-1954#p7</ref><center>~</center>As with individual, so with universal Love; all that widening of the self through sympathy, goodwill, universal benevolence and soul beneficence, love of mankind, love of creatures, the attraction of all the myriad forms and body occupied presences that surround us, by which mentally and emotionally man escapes from the One in all creaturesfirst limits of his ego, has to be taken up into a unifying divine love for the universal Divine.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p2p5</ref><center>~</center>"It may be said that a complete act of divine love and worship has in it three parts that are the expressions of a single whole,―a practical worship of the Divine in the act, a symbol of worship in the form of the act expressing some vision and seeking or some relation with the Divine, an inner adoration and longing for oneness or feeling of oneness in the heart and soul and spirit."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/25-july-1956#p1</ref>
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To establish The force of love in the latter down world is trying to the subconscient is a thing which would mean the entire transformation find consciousnesses that are capable of the whole being receiving this divine movement in its purity and expressing it cannot be done except as the result . This race of all beings towards love, this irresistible push and seeking out in the supramental change which world’s heart and in all hearts, is as yet far awaythe impulse given by a Divine love behind the human longing and seeking. The other may be established even now in principle It touches millions of instruments, trying always, always failing; but to make it living this constant touch prepares these instruments and complete suddenly one day there will awake in them the whole being would mean capacity of self-giving, the psychic transformation completed with the spiritual also well under way alreadycapacity of loving.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2903/divine-love-psychic-love-and2-humanjune-love1929#p9p6</ref>
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The love that belongs ...the one thing essential is the intense devotion of the thought in the mind to the spiritual planes object of adoration...It is in its real nature not a still, but an ecstatic contemplation; it seeks not to pass into the being of a different kind—the psychic has 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 own more personal lovebliss is not the peace of unity, but the ecstasy of union. Here, bhaktitoo, surrender. Love there may be the separative self-consecration which ends in the higher giving up of all other thought of life for the possession of this ecstasy, eternal afterwards in planes beyond, or spiritual mind is more universal the comprehensive consecration in which all the thoughts are full of the Divine and impersonaleven in the occupations of life every thought remembers him. The two must join together As in the other Yogas, so in this, one comes to make see the Divine everywhere and in all and to pour out the realisation of the Divine in all one's inner activities and outward actions. But all is supported here by the primary force of the emotional union: for it is by love that the entire self-consecration and the entire possession is accomplished, and thought and action become shapes and figures of the highest divine lovewhich possesses the spirit and its members.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2924/divine-lovethe-psychicway-loveof-and-human-lovedevotion#p21p5</ref>
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On ...the other hand if thoughts more varied and most intimate experience of divine love cannot come up from by the pursuit of the impersonal Infinite alone; for that the Godhead we adore must become near and personal to us. It is possible for the Impersonal to reveal withinitself 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 of the Divine has surprises for us which confound the ideas of the limiting intellect. But ordinarily the way of devotion begins from the other end; it starts from and it rises and widens to its issue by adoration of the psychicdivine Personality. The Divine is a Being and not an abstract existence or a status of pure timeless infinity; the original and universal existence is He, thoughts but that existence is inseparable from consciousness and bliss of the Motherbeing, and an existence conscious of its own 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 by that power all exists in the universe. All beings exist by this Being; all things are the faces of God; all thought and action and feeling and love proceed from him and joyreturn to him, perceptions of truth etcall their results have him for source and support and secret goal.It is to this Godhead, these this Being that the Bhakti of course must an integral Yoga will be permittedpoured out and uplifted. Transcendent, as they help to make it will seek him in the psychic activeecstasy 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 person. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3124/the-mind-and-other-levelsmystery-of-beinglove#p20p2</ref>
===In SpiritualBy Surrender===
…the integral Yoga founds itself on a conception The indispensable surrender of all our will and works and activities to 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 Supreme is indeed only perfect and perfectly effective when it is a growth out surrender of what we now are phenomenally love. All life turned into this cult, all actions done in the consciousness love of the omnipresent reality which we always are Divine and in the essence love of our being. It substitutes for the form of religious piety world and its completer spiritual seeking creatures seen and felt as the Divine manifested in many disguises become by that very fact part of a divine unionan integral Yoga.<ref>http://incarnateword. in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p11</ref><center>~</center>It proceeds by a personal effort is to a conversion through a divine influence and possession; but this divine gracediscover that at its [Divine Love] supreme source, if we may so call to bring it, is not simply a mysterious flow or touch coming from above, but within and to radiate it out up to the all-pervading act extreme confines of a divine presence which we come to know within as life that is turned the power effort of the highest Self and Master Yoga. All action, all creation must be turned into a form, a symbol of our being entering into the soul and so possessing cult, the adoration, the sacrifice; it must carry something that we not only feel makes it close to us and pressing upon our mortal nature, but live bear in its law, know that law, possess it as the whole power stamp of our spiritualised nature. The conversion its action will effect is an integral conversion of our ethical being into the Truth a dedication, a reception and Right translation of the divine natureDivine Consciousness, a service of our intellectual into the illumination of divine knowledgeBeloved, our emotional into the divine love and unitya self-giving, our dynamic and volitional into a working of surrender. This has to be done wherever possible in the divine power, our aesthetic into a plenary reception outward body and a creative enjoyment form of divine beauty, not excluding even the act; it must be done always in its inward emotion and an intensity that shows it to be an outflow from the end a divine conversion of soul towards the vital and physical beingEternal...<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2423/the-integralascent-of-the-sacrifice-perfectionii#p12p10</ref>
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If the rift in The Divine Love, unlike the lid of mind is madehuman, what happens is an opening deep and vast and silent; one must become quiet and wide to be aware of vision it and reply 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 ..make it his whole object to be surrendered so that for he may become a long time all that is obtained is vessel and instrument—leaving it to the occasional or frequent or constant vision of it Divine Wisdom and a longing and aspiration, but without anything further, because, although something Love to fill him with what is needed. Let him also fix this in the mind, heart or other part of the being has opened not to this experienceinsist that in a given time he must progress, the lower nature as a whole is too heavy and obscure as yet for more. But there may bedevelop, instead of this first wide awareness from below or subsequently to get realisation; whatever time ittakes, he must be prepared to wait and persevere and make his whole life an ascension of aspiration and an opening for the mind to heights above: the nature of these heights we may not know or clearly discernone thing only, but some consequence of the ascent Divine. To give oneself is felt; there is often too an awareness the secret of infinite ascension sadhana, not to demand and return but no record or translation of that higher stateacquire. This is because it has been superconscient The more one gives oneself, the more the power to mind receive will grow. But for that all impatience and therefore mindrevolt must go; all suggestions of not getting, not being helped, not being loved, when it rises into itgoing away, is unable at first to retain there its power of conscious discernment and defining experience…abandoning life or the spiritual endeavour must be rejected.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2229/thedivine-love-psychic-love-and-triplehuman-transformationlove#p24p38</ref>
==What are the Prerequisites for Manifestation of How Can Divine Lovebe Manifested?==
Truth alone can give The movement of love is not limited to human beings and it is perhaps less distorted in other worlds than in the human. Look at the flowers and trees. When the sun sets and all becomes silent, sit down for a moment and put yourself into communion with Nature: you will feel rising from the earth, from below the roots of the trees and mounting upward and coursing through their fibres up to the world highest outstretching branches, the power aspiration of receiving an intense love and longing,—a longing for something that brings light and gives happiness, for the light that is gone and they wish to have back again. There is a yearning so pure and manifesting intense that if you can feel the movement in the Divine Lovetrees, your own being too will go up in an ardent prayer for the peace and light and love that are unmanifested here.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1503/messages2-june-1929#p7</ref><center>~</center>One has just a tiny little opening, very tiny, at times like a pinhead, and naturally that force rushes in. For it is 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, blocked; one is busy with other things most of the time. Most of the time one is full of oneself. So, as 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-theDivine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/19-supramentalmay-manifestation-upon-earth1954#p11p12</ref>
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"It may be said that a complete act The real soul emerges and takes the place left vacant by the desire-mind. The cleansed and emptied cup is filled with the wine of divine love and worship has in it three parts that are delight and no longer with the expressions sweet and bitter poison of a single wholepassion. The passions,―a practical worship 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 Divine in suffering of others has to be rejected and replaced by the acthigher divine compassion which sees, understands, a symbol accepts the burden of worship others and is strong to help and heal, not with self-will and revolt against the suffering in the form world and with ignorant accusation of the act expressing some vision law of things and seeking or some relation their source, but with light and knowledge and as an instrument of the Divine, an inner adoration and longing for oneness or feeling of oneness in the heart and soul and spiritits emergence." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0823/25the-julyrelease-from-the-heart-and-the-1956mind#p1p7</ref>
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To manifest The soul's turning through love to the Divine love you must be capable through a love that is essentially divine, but as the instrument of receiving expression at first is a human nature, it takes the Divine forms of human loveand bhakti. For It is only those as the consciousness deepens, heightens and changes that that greater eternal love can manifest grow in it who 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 by their nature open not to be used as means of expression or that they are not to its native movementshare in the full play and the whole meaning of love, even of divine love. The wider On the contrary, they are a means and clearer can be a great part of the opening in themcomplete expression of divine love, —provided they have the more they manifest right and not the wrong movement… And neither does the psychic love or the divine in its original puritylove 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; the more but when it can use it, it is mixed does so with the lower joy and gratitude…<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human feelings-love#p32</ref> ===In Physical=== That is why no effort is too arduous, no austerity too rigorous if it can illumine, purify, perfect and transform the greater is physical substance so that it may no longer conceal the deformationDivine when he takes on an outer form in Matter. One who is not open For then this marvellous tenderness will be able to express itself freely in the world, the divine love in its essence and in its truth cannot approach which has the Divinepower of changing life into a paradise of sweet joy. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0312/2the-four-austerities-and-the-junefour-1929liberations#p4p84</ref>
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Love cannot exist Physical means can be and are used in its pure beauty, the approach to divine love cannot put on its native power and intense joy of fullness until 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 this interchange, this fusion between no place for such things. On the earth and the Supreme, this movement contrary they are one means of Love from approaching the Divine to and receiving the creation Light and from the creation to materialising the Divine. …The moment man's consciousness awakens to the Divine lovepsychic contact, pure, independent of all manifestation and so long as it is done in human forms, he knows the right spirit and they are used for what his heart has all the time been truly longingtrue purpose they have their place. That It is only if they are misused or the beginning of the Soul's aspirationapproach is not right because tainted by indifference and inertia, or revolt or hostility, or some gross desire, that brings the awakening they are out of the consciousness place and its yearning for union with the Divinecan have a contrary effect.<ref>https://incarnateword. All in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p32</ref> ===In Vital=== The true vital movement is the forms that are most beautiful and magnificent of the ignorance, all the deformations movements; but it has imposed must from that moment fade been twisted and disappear and give place to one single movement of turned into the creation answering to most ugly, the Divine love by its love for most distorted, the Divinemost repulsive. Once the creation is conscious, awakened, opened to Wherever into a human story of love for the Divine, the Divine there has entered even an atom of pure love pours itself and it has been allowed to manifest without limit back into the creationtoo much distortion, we find a true and beautiful thing. The circle of If the movement turns back upon itself does not last, it is because it is not conscious of its own aim and seeking; it has not the ends meet; there knowledge that it is not the joining union of one being with another that it is seeking after but the extremes, supreme Spirit and manifesting Matter, and their divine union becomes constant and completeof all beings with the Divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p11p10</ref>
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I have said 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 if one wants to know what love is, one must love the Divinevery life of the sacrifice. Then there If this offering is to be complete and universal, then a chance turning of knowing what love all our emotions to the Divine isimperative. I have said that one grows into This is the likeness intense way of what one loves. So if one loves purification for the Divine, gradually, through this effort of lovehuman heart, one grows more powerful than any ethical or aesthetic catharsis could ever be by its half-power and more like the Divine, and then one can superficial pressure. A psychic fire within must be identified lit into which all is thrown with the divine love and know what Divine Name upon it is, otherwise one can't. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0623/14the-ascent-of-the-aprilsacrifice-1954ii#p7p12</ref>
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It is They [sex impulsions] persist only because something still wants to reserve a place for them. So the inmost psychic being unveiled and emerging in its full power that can lead the pilgrim sacrifice unscathed through these ambushes and pitfalls; at each moment it catches, exposes, repels best answer to the mind's and question about the life's falsehoods, seizes hold on sadhana (What is the truth of the Divine Love and Ananda and separates it from the excitement of the mind's ardours and the blind enthusiasm place of sex in our sadhana?) is "No place". One must give up the misleading lifesex-force. But all things that are true at their core in mind and life and the physical being it extricates satisfaction and takes be satisfied with it in the journey till they stand on the heights, new in spirit Divine Love and sublime in figureAnanda."<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0831/15-august-1956sex#p1p40</ref>
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The first step It is true that the removal of the sex-impulse in all its forms and, generally, of the vital woman-complex is a great liberation which opens up to stop the Divine considerable regions of the being selfishwhich otherwise tend to remain shut up. For everyone it is These things are a degradation of the same thing, not only for those who want to do yoga but also source in ordinary life: if one wants to know how to lovethe being from which bhakti, one must not divine love oneself first and above all selfishly; one must give oneself to the object of love without exacting anything in returnadoration arise.. This discipline is elementary in order to surmount oneself and lead a life which is not altogether gross.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0831/19-september-1956sex#p23p91</ref>
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To will it is 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 constant, sustained, concentrated aspiration, an almost exclusive occupation stainless divine delight arises out of the consciousnessflame and smoke and frankincense. This It is the first step. There are many others: a very attentive observationdivine love which so emerges that, a very persistent analysisextended 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 very keen discernment more real instrument than the ineffective mental ideal of what brotherhood can ever be. It is pure this poured out into acts that could alone create a harmony in the movement world and what is a true unity between all its creatures; all else strives in vain towards that end so long as Divine Love has notdisclosed 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> ===In Mind=== It is the thoughts of the outer mind that have to be refused, the suggestions and ideas that end by disturbing the sadhana. You must take up your search with There are also a purity number of thoughts of aspiration and surrender all kinds that have no interest, but which in themselves are already difficult the mind is accustomed to allow to come as a habit, mechanically,—these sometimes come up when one tries to acquirebe quiet. You They must have worked much on yourself only be allowed to pass away without attending to be ready them until they run down and the mind becomes still; to aspire struggle with them and try to this Love. stop them is no use, there must be only a quiet rejection… <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0431/24the-mind-and-other-levels-marchof-1951being#p23p15</ref>
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My love This is always with you; if then you do not feel the weakness of the mind that itlimits itself by its thoughts, it is because you are not capable its positive and negative ideas, the aspects of receiving the Divine Reality that it. It is your receptivity that is lacking and should be increased; for this you must open yourselfsees, and tends too much to pit one opens oneself only if one gives oneself. Surely you are trying more or less consciously to draw against 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 receivingother. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1424/receptivitylove-and-the-triple-path#p21p8</ref>
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I was stating that a human being...if thoughts come up from within, unless he raises himself to from the divine heightspsychic, is incapable thoughts of receivingthe Mother, appreciating of divine love and knowing what divine Love isjoy, perceptions of truth etc. Love , these of course must cease to be divine permitted, as they help to be accepted by manmake the psychic active. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0831/31the-mind-and-other-levels-octoberof-1956being#p11p15</ref>
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…the will The Intuitive or Overmind are more open to pierce through this limited the truth of Divine Love and human form more capable of universalising love and discover than the mind ordinarily is—love there is also more calm in its intensity, less ego-bound than in the mental parts. But the principle mind can also approach their quality of divine Love which is behind love, if the love in itgrows psychic and spiritual. Then one is sure to get a result. This is better than drying up one's heart<ref>https://incarnateword. in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p9</ref> ===In Psychic=== It is perhaps a little more difficult but only the inmost psychic being unveiled and emerging in its full power that can lead the pilgrim sacrifice unscathed through these ambushes and pitfalls; at each moment it is better in every waycatches, for like thisexposes, instead repels the mind's and the life's falsehoods, seizes hold on the truth of egoistically making others suffer, well, one may leave them quiet in their own movement the Divine Love and Ananda and only make an effort to transform oneself without imposing oneseparates it from the excitement of the mind's will ardours and the blind enthusiasms of the misleading life-force. But all things that are true at their core in mind and life and the physical being it extricates and takes with it in the journey till they stand on othersthe heights, which even new in ordinary life is a step towards something higher spirit and a little more harmonioussublime in figure.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0823/19the-ascent-of-the-septembersacrifice-1956ii#p30p13</ref>
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To go through, to see what is behind it, not to stop at the appearance, not to be satisfied with the outer form, The love that belongs to look for the principle which spiritual planes is behind this of a different kind—the psychic has its own more personal love, and not be content until one has found the origin of the feeling in oneselfbhakti, surrender. Then the outer form will crumble of itself 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 higher or spiritual mind is behind more universal and which gives it existenceimpersonal. Naturally, it is full of snares and difficulties, but it is more effective. That is to say, instead of ceasing to love because one loves wrongly, one The two must cease join together 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 love itself, but against its distorted forms: against all forms of monopolising, of attachment, possessiveness, jealousy, and all make 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 highest divine love and affection; and not to ask for any response. Simply to be happy to love, nothing more… <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0829/19divine-septemberlove-psychic-love-and-human-1956love#p23p18</ref>
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It is here that Live in the emergence consciousness of the secret psychic being in us as centre; thus your will will express the leader of the sacrifice is of the utmost importance; for this inmost Divine's Will alone and your transformed being alone can bring with it the full power of the spirit in the act, will then be able to receive and manifest the soul in the symbolDivine Love...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0814/15the-soul-augustthe-1956psychic#p1p33</ref>
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So too the love that desires and grasps and is troubled If, through a sustained effort, a deep concentration, a great forgetfulness of self, you succeed in coming into touch with joy and shaken your psychic being, you will never dream of thinking, "Oh! I would like to be in contact with grief must Divine Love"—you are in a state in which everything appears to you to be rejected for the equal, all-embracing love that is free from these things and has no dependence upon circumstances this Divine Love and nothing else. And yet it is not modified by response or absence of response. So we shall deal with all the movements of the soul; only a covering, but a covering of these things we shall speak farther when we consider the Yoga of self-perfectiona beautiful texture. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2304/the-release-from-the-heart-and24-themarch-mind1951#p7p25</ref>
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In 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, but pressing always straight towards the adoration 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 be used as means of expression or that they are not to share in the act is 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 complete not the wrong movement. There are in the vital itself two kinds of love,—one full of joy and confidence and abandon, generous, unbargaining, ungrudging and powerful sacrifice that tends by very absolute in its selfdedication and this is akin to the psychic and well-multiplication fitted to reach be its complement and a means of expression of the divine love. And neither does the psychic love or the discovery divine love despise a physical means of the One expression wherever that is pure and right and make the radiation possible: it does not depend upon that, it does not diminish, revolt or go out like a snuffed candle when it is deprived of the Divine possible… any such means; but when it can use it, it does so with joy and gratitude.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2329/thedivine-love-ascentpsychic-oflove-theand-sacrificehuman-iilove#p11p32</ref>
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To bring …our aim is to go beyond mental ideas into the Divine Love and Beauty and Ananda into light of the world is, indeedsupramental Truth, which exists not by ideative thought but by direct vision and identity. In the whole crown and essence of same way our Yoga. But it has always seemed aim is to go beyond emotion to me impossible unless there comes as its support the height and foundation depth and guard intensity of the Divine Truth—what I call Love and there feel through the inner psychic heart an inexhaustible oneness with the Supramental—and its Divine Power..which the spasmodic leapings of the vital emotions cannot reach or experience.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p2p39</ref>
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The integral YogaIt is only the inmost psychic being unveiled and emerging in its full power that can lead the pilgrim sacrifice unscathed through these ambushes and pitfalls; at each moment it catches, refusing to rely upon exposes, repels the fragile stuff of mental mind's and moral idealsthe life's falsehoods, puts its whole emphasis in this field seizes hold on three central dynamic processes—the development of the true soul or psychic being to take the place truth of the false soul of desire, Divine Love and Ananda and separates it from the sublimation excitement of human into divine love, the elevation of consciousness from its mental to its spiritual mind's ardours and Supramental plane by whose power alone both the soul and blind enthusiasm of the misleading life-force can be utterly delivered from . But all things that are true at their core in mind and life and the veils physical being it extricates and prevarications of takes with it in the journey till they stand on the Ignoranceheights, new in spirit and sublime in figure.<ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2308/the-ascent-of15-the-sacrificeaugust-i1956#p20p1</ref>
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The human form A psychic change is naturally unable to bear demanded, a divestiture of the masks of the Divine Love or contain itIgnorance, because it is itself a creation purification of the ignoranceegoistic mental, weak vital and impure. It must be transformed in order to be capable of physical movements thatprolong the old inferior consciousness; it must become strong and pure. First each movement of alllove, spiritualised, it must have depend no longer on mental preference, vital passion or physical craving, but on the strength recognition of soul by soul,—love restored to love the Divine alone its fundamental spiritual 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 psychic essence with the most physical—then in that peace an increasing inner strength pure and unegoistic—then mind, the Divine Light and Knowledge transforming all vital, the consciousness physical as manifesting instruments and movementselements of that greater oneness. When In this has been done, then change the human form can contain individual love also is converted by a natural heightening into a divine love for the Divine Love Inhabitant immanent in a mind and Anandasoul and body occupied by the One in all creatures. …<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2923/divinethe-loveascent-psychicof-lovethe-andsacrifice-human-loveii#p5p2</ref>
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The But the most intimate character of the psychic is its pressure towards the Divine through a sacred love, joy and oneness. It is a divine Love may not be able yet to manifest on the physical planethat it seeks most, humanity being what it isthe love of the Divine that is its spur, as fully its goal, its star of Truth shining over the luminous cave of the nascent or the still obscure cradle of the new-born godhead within us. In the first long stage of its growth and freely as immature existence it would otherwise dohas leaned on earthly love, affection, tenderness, goodwill, compassion, benevolence, on all beauty and gentleness and fineness and light and strength and courage, on all that can help to refine and purify the grossness and commonness of human nature; but 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 opens to 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 does has plunged into the night for the redemption of the world from the universal Inconscience. It is not make attracted or misled by mental imitations or any vital misuse of these great deep-seated Truths of existence; it less close 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 intense than their perversions and reveal to them their true abounding share of the intimacy and the oneness, the ascending ecstasy and the human… descending rapture.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2923/divinethe-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-lovei#p23</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-psychicextinction, 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-andunity, 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-humanintegral-loveperfection#p6p12</ref>
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There 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 one divine Love secret in 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 thingsthat 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 manifestation [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. But when this power begins to awake and act, when mind becomes by degrees conscious in matter what was to it superconscient, then there begins a knowledge and experience of superior planes of existence. The experience is in forms 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 life] depends upon a divine Love or Beauty or the state atmosphere of consciousness a wider and greater and its organisationluminous Knowledge.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2922/the-triple-transformation#p24</divineref> ==Divine Love Through Bhakti Yoga or Devotion== 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-loveLoving, the All-psychicBeautiful and the All-loveBlissful. 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 andSupra-cosmic.But, here too, the exclusive result is not inevitable. The Yoga itself provides a first corrective by not confining the play of divine love to the relation between the supreme Soul and the individual, but extending it to a common feeling and mutual worship between the devotees themselves united in the same realisation of the supreme Love and 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 humanemotion, 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>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-systems-of-loveyoga#p8p18,p19</ref>
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You ask how you can repair 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 wrong you seem to have donebeing there may be contact, relation, union. Admitting that In the Yoga of Bhakti it is as you say, it seems to me the emotional nature that is made the reparation lies precisely in this, in making yourself a vessel for instrument. Its main principle is to adopt some human relation between man and the Divine Truth and Being by which through the Divine Love. And ever intenser flowing of the first steps heart's emotions towards that are a complete self-consecration him the human soul may at last be wedded to and self-purification, grow one with him in a complete opening passion of divine Love. It is not ultimately the pure peace of oneself to oneness or the Divinepower and desireless will of oneness, rejecting all in oneself that can stand in but the way ecstatic joy of union which the fulfilmentdevotee seeks by his Yoga. In the spiritual life there is no other reparation for any mistake, none Every feeling that is wholly effective. At can make the beginning one should not ask heart ready for any other fruit 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 in ecstasy the Yoga admits; everything that detracts from it is out must increasingly drop away as the strong union of the inner victory that there comes the outer conquestlove becomes closer and more perfect.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3124/time-and-changethe-ofgodward-the-natureemotions#p22p1</ref>
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There is the selfishness Indian bhakti has given to this divine love powerful forms, poetic symbols which are not in reality so much symbols as intimate expressions of truth which is always can find no other expression. It uses human relations and sees a part if divine person, not as mere figures, but because there are divine relations of supreme Delight and Beauty with the whole human soul of which human love—and it is relations are the imperfect but still the reaction real type, and because that Delight and Beauty are not abstractions or qualities of a quite impalpable metaphysical entity, but the demand very body and desire it brings that creates form of the opposite feelingsupreme Being. It is when this selfish element a living Soul to which the soul of the bhakta yearns; for the source of all life is rejected that one can feel the true psychic not an idea or a conception or divine lovea state of existence, but a real Being.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3124/humanthe-relationsway-andof-the-spiritual-lifedevotion#p57p7</ref>
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Thus Where external worship changes into the inner adoration, real Bhakti begins; that deepens into the motives intensity of devotion have first divine love; that love leads to direct themselves engrossingly and predominantly towards the joy of closeness in our relations with the Divine, then ; 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 transform themselves so that they are rid of their more earthy elements oneness its greatest possible depth and finally to take their stand intensity. It is true that love returns gladly upon a difference in pure oneness, by which the oneness itself becomes richer and perfect lovesweeter. All those But here we may say that cannot coexist with the perfect union of love, must eventually fall awayheart is wiser than the thought, while only those at least that can form themselves into expressions thought which fixes upon opposite ideas of divine love the Divine and into means concentrates on one to the exclusion of enjoying divine lovethe other which seems its contrary, can remain. For love but is the one emotion in us which can be entirely motiveless really its complement and self-existent; love need have no other motive than love. a means of its greatest fulfilment…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/love-and-the-motives-oftriple-devotionpath#p11p8</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 Thus the peace that descends motives of devotion have first. This is not a mental, vital or physical peace of to direct themselves engrossingly and predominantly towards the ordinary kindDivine, but something from above (spiritual), very firm, solid and concrete. It is its concreteness then to transform themselves so that makes you feel like a still massive block—a mass of the higher consciousness in place they are rid of the their more tenuous substance of the ordinary nature. As for its being worth having, you can see that it is—it is indeed the beginning of the real transformation—all the rest hitherto has been mainly preparation and clearing of difficulties and impediments through all these years. This serene peace and massive stillness has to stabilise itself, fill the whole nature, widen itself until all existence internal earthy elements and external seems full of it. This may take time, but the beginning once there it is sure finally to take place, if one is steady their stand in pure and constantperfect love. It becomes besides All those that cannot coexist with the sure base on which all the restperfect union of love,—power and strengthmust eventually fall away, light and knowledge, Ananda while only those that can form themselves into expressions of divine love and into means of enjoying divine love, can come remain. For love is the one emotion in us which can be entirely motiveless and securely fill the consciousnessself-existent; love need have no other motive than love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3024/the-descentmotives-of-the-higher-consciousness-and-forcedevotion#p19p11</ref>
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The soul's turning through love to the Divine must be through a love that is essentially divineFor devotion by its embodiment in acts not only makes its own way broad and full and dynamic, but as the instrument of expression brings at first is a human nature, it takes once into the forms harder way of human love and bhakti. It is only as the consciousness deepens, heightens and changes that that greater eternal love can grow works in it and openly transform the human into world the divine... It is this psychic divinely passionate element of joy and love that which is closest to the divine and often absent in its beginning when it is therefore only the right and best way of love and bhakti. But austere spiritual will that does not mean that the other parts of follows in a struggling uplifting tension the beingsteep ascent, and the vital and physical included, are not to be used as means of expression heart is still asleep or that they are not bound to share in silence. If the full play and the whole meaning spirit of divine lovecan enter, even of divine love. On the contrary, they are a means and can be a great part hardness of the complete expression of divine loveway diminishes,—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 tension is pure and right and possible: it does not depend upon thatlightened, it does not diminish, revolt or go out like there is a snuffed candle when it is deprived sweetness and joy even in the core of any such means; but when it can use it, it does so with joy difficulty and gratitude…struggle.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2908/divine8-loveaugust-psychic-love-and-human-love1956#p38p10</ref>
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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 We can see how this larger application of his presence or of his possession; and its bliss is not the peace Yoga of unity, but the ecstasy of union. Here, too, there Devotion 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 used as to see the Divine everywhere and in all and lead to pour out the realisation elevation of the Divine in all one's inner activities and outward actions. But all is supported here by the primary force whole range of the emotional union: for it is by love that the entire self-consecration human emotion, sensation and aesthetic perception to the entire possession is accomplisheddivine level, its spiritualisation and thought and action become shapes and figures the justification of the divine cosmic labour towards love which possesses the spirit and its membersjoy in our humanity.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2423/the-waysystems-of-devotionyoga#p5p19</ref>
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Always they draw away towards pitfalls, pour into Bitterness is an illusion that higher intensity their diminishing elements, seek to capture melts in the descending Power for themselves Sun of Divine Love.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/general-1#p12</ref><center>~</center>And with Grace and their interests and degrade it into an aggrandised mental, vital or physical instrumentation for desire and ego…divine love nothing is impossible.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0814/15-august-1956endurance#p1p13</ref>
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Great beings have taken birth in this world who came to bring down here something of the sovereign purity and power of Divine love. The one thing to Divine love has thrown itself into a personal form in them that its realisation upon earth may be done at once more easy and more perfect. Divine love, when manifested in a personal being, is easier to change realise; it is more difficult when it, not to suppress is unmanifested or impersonal in its movement or destroy it. For without it no intensity is possible anywhere. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p10p12</ref>
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To want to get rid of the one in order to find the other is very difficult. It is almost impossible. For human nature is so limited, so full of contradictions and so exclusive in its movements that if one wants to reject love in its lower form, that .the consciousness which is at work to saytransform mankind, human love as human beings experience itunites Force with Love, if one makes an inner effort to reject it, one usually rejects and the One who must realise this transformation will come on earth with the entire capacity Power of feeling love and becomes like a stoneDivine Love. 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/0810/19aphorism-september170-1956171#p23p4</ref>
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It ''Q. Which is not that love swifter for all transformation: Divine Love or Mahakali’s force?'' ''A: Kali's force is not part of the sadhana, but it has not to translate itself at once into a mixing with all―it can necessary only express itself in a general and when need be dynamic universal good-will, but for the rest it must find vent in this labour of bringing down the higher consciousness with all its effect for the earth. As for accepting the working of the Divine in all things that is necessary here too in the sense of seeing it even behind our struggles and difficulties, but those who are not accepting the nature of man and the world as it is―our aim is yet open to move towards a by a greater and happier manifestationDivine Love. That too For one who is a labour of divine open to Divine Love, nothing more is needed. ''<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1316/relations-with-persons-outside11-thenovember-ashram1967#p33p2</ref>
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It The Supramental is this consciousness that has expressed itself something in your letter—or the obscure part of it which clings to its old attitude. It does not want to fulfil the sadhana unless it can get by it the things it wanted. It wants the satisfaction of the ego, "self-fulfilment", appreciation, the granting of its desires. It measures the basis is absolute calm and however intense a Divine Love by the outward favours showered upon there is in it and looks jealously to see who gets more of these favours than itself, then says that the Divine has no love for it and assigns reasons which are either derogatory to the Divine or, as in your letter, self-depreciatory and a cause for despair. It is does not in you alone that this part feels and acts like that, it is in almost everybody. If that were disturb the only thing in you or the others, then indeed there would be no possibility of Yoga..calm but increases its depth.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3129/difficultiesbhakti-ofyoga-the-physicaland-naturevaishnavism#p105p6</ref>
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What is lasting, eternal, immortal and infinite, that indeed is worth having, worth conquering, worth possessing. It is divine Light, divine Love, divine Life―it is also Supreme Peace, Perfect Joy and All-Mastery upon earth with 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 Complete Manifestation as the capacity of the human receptacle…crowning.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2814/philosophicalthe-true-thoughtaim-andof-yogalife#p31p65</ref>
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Love itself blinded by What gives the interest in Yoga is the rasa of the confusions Divine and of this present the divine consciousness may stumble in its human receptacles which means the rasa of Peace, of Silence, of inner Light andBliss, even otherwiseof growing inner Knowledge, may find itself unrecognisedof increasing inner Power, rejected of 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 rapidly degenerating 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 lost you feel in it the frailty joy of man's inferior nature…that working.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2930/divine-love-psychic-love-andthe-humaninward-lovemovement#p2p80</ref>
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Its other signs are doubt; tamasic depression; an exaggerated sense of impurity and unfitness; the idea that the Mother It is remote, does not care that love for one, all is not giving what she ought to givepart of the sadhana, is but it has not divine, with other similar suggestions accompanied by an inability to feel her presence or her help; translate itself at once into a feeling that the Yoga is not possible or is not going to be done mixing with all―it can only express itself in this life; the desire to go away a general and do something in when need be dynamic universal good-will, but for the ordinary world—the thing itself suggested varying according to the personal mind. If rest it were not must find vent in this one invariable hostile force acting, there would not be this exact similarity in labour of bringing down the higher consciousness with all its effect for the casesearth. In each case it is As for accepting the same obscurities thrown on working of the intelligence, Divine in all things that is necessary here too in the same subconscious movements sense of the vital brought to the surfaceseeing it even behind our struggles and difficulties, but not accepting the same irrational impulses pushing to the same action,—departure, renunciation nature of man and the soul's truth, refusal world as it is―our aim is to move towards a by a greater and happier manifestation. That too is a labour 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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