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=How Can What Is Divine Love Flourish?=
To become conscious A supreme divine Love is a creative Power and, even though it can exist in itself silent and unchangeable, yet rejoices in external form and expression and is not condemned to be a speechless and bodiless godhead. It has even been said that creation itself was an act of love or at least the building up of a field in which Divine Lovecould devise its symbols and fulfil itself in act of mutuality and self-giving, and, if not the initial nature of creation, this may well be its ultimate object and motive. It does not so appear now because, even if a Divine Love is there in the world upholding all other this evolution of creatures…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p10</ref><center>~</center>Love is a supreme force which the Eternal Consciousness sent down from itself into an obscure and darkened world that it might bring back that world and its beings to the Divine… The creation moves upward through love must be abandonedtowards the Divine and in answer there leans downward to meet the creation the Divine Love and Grace.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1403/divine2-june-love1929#p34p11</ref>
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Once one Divine love is of two kinds—the Divine love for the creation and the souls that are part of itself and the love of the seeker and love for the Divine Beloved; it has found divine Loveboth a personal and impersonal element, all other loves, which are nothing but disguises, can lose their deformities and become pure―then it the personal is free here from all lower elements or bondage to the Divine that one loves in everyone vital and everythingphysical instincts. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1429/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p49p44</ref>
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It ...Love at its origin is only when it moves away from its true nature and essential quality that man accepts ita self-existent force, an absolute, and even a transcendent (''smiling''as I have put it) approves , 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 and glorifies were not self-existent, it. This means that it must already would hardly be quite warped in order to be accepted by independent of the human consciousnessnature 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. And That self-existent transcendent Love spreading itself over all, turning everywhere to accept itcontain, embrace, unite, help, bear it upraise towards love and receive it in its plenitude bliss and purityoneness, becomes cosmic divine Love; intensely fixing itself on one or others to find itself, to achieve a dynamic unification or to reach here towards the union of the soul with the Divine, it becomes the human consciousness must become individual divineLove.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0828/31philosophical-thought-octoberand-1956yoga#p10p30</ref>
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It Love in its depths is only when it moves away from its true nature and essential quality that man accepts it, and even (smiling) approves a contact of it and glorifies it. This means that it must already be quite warped the Divine Possibility or Reality in order to be accepted by oneself with the human consciousness. And to accept it, bear it and receive it Divine Possibility or Reality in its plenitude and purity, the human consciousness must become divineloved. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0828/31philosophical-octoberthought-and-1956yoga#p10p31</ref>
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Yet if you persist and make the necessary effort, it is not impossible for this human love to be transformed into divine love through identification with what you love. He has not said that the love between two persons can change into divine love. It Divine Love is not that at all! He has always said the opposite. He spoke about someone who had asked him about devotion, you know, about the sadhak's love for the Divine. At the beginning your love is altogether human—and he speaks essence of it even as commercial barter. If you make progress, your love will change into divine love, into true devotionTruth and cannot be affected by human confusions. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0617/167-june-19541962#p61p3</ref>
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This race of all beings towards Love in its origin is divine love, this irresistible push and seeking out . Love in the world's heart and in all heartsman, that is the impulse given by a Divine , love behind the grown human longing and seeking, is distorted, deformed; it is only divine love which is pure. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0306/224-junemarch-19291954#p6p15</ref>
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The Unmanifest Divine Love, unlike : the human, is deep and vast and silent; one must become quiet and wide to be aware splendour of it and reply to it. X must make it his whole object to be surrendered so that he may become a vessel and instrument—leaving it to the Divine Wisdom and Love to fill him with what is needed. Let him also fix this in the mind not to insist that in a given time he must progress, develop, get realisation; whatever time it takes, he must be prepared to wait and persevere and make his whole life an aspiration and an opening for the one thing only, marvellous love which 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 keeps for that all impatience and revolt must go; all suggestions of not getting, not being helped, not being loved, going away, of abandoning life or the spiritual endeavour must be rejectedpure heart.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2914/divine-love-psychic-lovegeneral-and-human-love1#p45p8</ref>
==How Can Symbols Associated with Divine Love be Manifested in Various Parts of the Being?==
===In PhysicalFlower===That is why no effort ‘’’Divine Love:’’’ A flower reputed to bloom even in the desert. [[File:Flower - divine love.jpg]] <ref>https://toptropicals.com/cgi-bin/garden_catalog/cat.cgi</ref><center>~</center>An Old Chaldean LegendLong ago, very long ago, in the desert land that is too arduousnow Arabia, no austerity too rigorous if a divine being incarnated on earth to awaken it can illumineto the Supreme Love. As one would expect, he was persecuted by men, misunderstood, suspected, hunted after. Mortally wounded by his assailants, he wished to die alone, purifyquietly, perfect and transform the physical substance so that it may no longer conceal the Divine when his work might be accomplished; and, pursued by them, he takes on an outer form fled. Suddenly in Matterthe broad barren plain, a tiny bush of pomegranate appeared. For then this marvellous tenderness will be able The Saviour stole under its low branches in order to express give up his body in peace; and at once the bush expanded miraculously, increased itself freely , widened, became deep and luxuriant in such a way that when the pursuers passed by they did not even suspect that the One whom they were chasing was hidden there, and they continued on their way.While, drop by drop, the worldsacred blood fell, fertilising the divine love which has soil, the power bush covered itself with marvellous flowers, scarlet, enormous―clusters of changing life into a paradise petals, innumerable drops of sweet joyblood…These are the flowers that, for us, express and hold the Divine Love. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1214/thedivine-four-austerities-and-the-four-liberationslove#p87p14,p15,p16,p17</ref>
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Physical means can be Punica granatumPomegranateMedium-sized double orange red flower with innumerable tightly held crinkled petals; borne singly or in small clusters. A spiny shrub or small tree with many stems and are used in glossy leaves."Divine Love Spreading Over the approach to divine love World:" Innumerable, succulent, it gives strength and worship; they have not been allowed merely as a concession life untiringly. [[File:Pomegranate.jpg]] Punica granatumPomegranateMedium to human weakness, nor large nearly round thick-skinned fruit that is it the fact that yellow tinged with red when ripe and contains many seeds enclosed in the psychic way there is no place a juicy reddish edible pulp; A shrub or small tree. "Love for such things. On the contrary they are one means of approaching Divine:" The vegetal kingdom gathers together its most beautiful possibilities to offer them to the Divine and receiving .[[File:Love for the Light divine.jpg]] RosaRoseAll forms and materialising the psychic contactsizes of roses, single and so long as it is done double, usually fragrant, in the right spirit a great variety of colours; includes both shrubs and they are used climbers. "Integral Love for the true purpose they have their place. It is only if they are misused or the approach is not right because tainted by indifference Divine:" Pure, complete and inertia, or revolt or hostility, or some gross desireirrevocable, it is a love that they are out of place and can have a contrary effectgives itself for ever.<ref>http[[File://incarnatewordIntegral love.jpg]] RosaRoseMedium to large solitary pure white flower. A large shrub.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p38</ref>
===In VitalColour=== [[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?==
They Divine Love, true love, finds its delight and its satisfaction in itself; it has no need to be received and appreciated, nor to be shared―it loves for the sake of loving, as a flower blooms.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine-love-and-human-love#p66</ref><center>~</center>It [sex impulsionsthe Divine Love] persist only because something still wants exists in itself and does not depend on outer contact or outer expression. Whether it shall express itself outwardly or how it will express itself outwardly depends on the spiritual truth that has to reserve be manifested. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p6</ref><center>~</center>But the divine intensity of self-forgetfulness, the capacity of throwing oneself out entirely, making no restriction and no reservation, as a place for themgift, asking nothing in exchange, this is little known to human beings. <ref>http://incarnateword. So in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p5</ref><center>~</center>But when it comes in the best answer Divine Truth and Power, Divine Love descends first as something transcendent and universal and out of that transcendence and universality it applies itself to persons according to the question about Divine Truth and Will, creating a vaster, greater, purer personal love than any the sadhana (What human mind or heart can now imagine. It is when one has felt this descent that one can be really an instrument for the place birth and action of sex the Divine Love in our sadhana?) is "No place"the world.<ref>https://incarnateword. One must give up in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p1</ref><center>~</center>The manifestation of the love of the sexDivine in the world was the great holocaust, the supreme self-satisfaction giving. his was the supreme love, to accept the loss of the perfect condition of supreme divinity, its absolute consciousness, its infinite knowledge, to unite with unconsciousness, to dwell in the world with ignorance and darkness...This race of all beings towards love, this irresistible push and seeking out in the world's heart and be satisfied with in all hearts, is the impulse given by a Divine Love love behind the human longing and Anandaseeking. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/sex2-june-1929#p44p6</ref>
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It 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 true that in it as upon a level bed with an equal pressure, and a personal movement, forceful, intense and ecstatic like the removal dancing surface of the sex-impulse in all same Ocean, which varies the height and force of its forms billows and, generally, chooses the objects it shall fall upon with the kiss of its foam and spray and the vital womanclasp of its engulfing waters. [Aphorism 494]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-493-complex 494#p2</ref> ==What Is the Importance of Manifestation of Divine Love in Various Parts of the Being?== …it is a great liberation which opens up not possible for the tongue of human speech to tell all the utter unity and all the Divine considerable regions eternal variety of the being which otherwise tend to remain shut upananda of divine love. These things Our higher and our lower members are a degradation both flooded with it, the mind and life no less than the soul: even the physical body takes its share of the source joy, feels the touch, is filled in all its limbs, veins, nerves with the flowing of the wine of the ecstasy, ''amṛta''. Love and Ananda are the last word of being from which bhakti, divine love and adoration arise..the secret of secrets, the mystery of mysteries.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3124/sexthe-mystery-of-love#p94p10</ref>
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If Divine Love should normally lead to the perfect knowledge of the vital is not there Beloved by perfect intimacy, thus becoming a path of Knowledge, and to divine service, thus becoming a path of Works. So also should perfect Knowledge lead to infuse its dynamism perfect Love and Joy and living force, matter will remain deada full acceptance of the works of That which is known; for dedicated Works to the higher parts entire love of the Master of the Sacrifice and the deepest knowledge of His ways and His being will not . It is in this triple path that we come most readily to the absolute knowledge, love and service of the One in all beings and in the entire cosmic manifestation.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-systems-of-yoga#p21</ref> ===Manifestation in Mental=== But when this power begins to awake and act, when the mind becomes by degrees conscious in what was to it superconscient, then there begins a knowledge and experience of superior planes of existence. The experience is in accord with that which is brought to us by the first opening of vision: the mind rises into contact with eartha higher plane of pure self, silent, tranquil, will not be concretised in lifeillimitable; or it rises into regions of light or of felicity, or into planes where it feels an infinite Power or a divine Presence or experiences the contact of a divine Love or Beauty or the atmosphere of a wider and they will depart unsatisfied greater and disappearluminous Knowledge. In the return the spiritual impression abides; but the mental record is often blurred and remains as a vague or a fragmentary memory; the lower consciousness from which the ascent took place falls back to what it was, with only the addition of an unkept or 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 impulse and the strength to take, it is also that which is capable of giving itself to the utmost; because it knows how to possess, it knows also how to abandon itself without reserve. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p9p10</ref>
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As with individual, so with universal LoveFor 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 that widening of our emotions arise either from the self through sympathy, goodwill, universal benevolence seeking after delight and beneficence, love the possession of mankindit, love or from the baffling of creaturesthe search, or from the attraction failure of all the myriad forms and presences delight we have possessed or had thought to grasp; but love is that surround us, by which mentally and emotionally man escapes from we can enter directly into possession of the first limits self-existent delight of his ego, has to be taken up into a unifying the divine Being. Divine love for is indeed itself that possession and, as it were, the body of the universal Divine…Ananda.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2324/the-ascentmotives-of-devotion#p11</ref> ===Manifestation in Physical== The true divine Ananda in thephysical has a different quality and movement and substance; self-sacrifice-iiexistent in its essence, 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 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 already difficult enough to draw it down into the coarseness of the material creation which it alone can transform. Seek the Divine Love through the only gate through which it will consent to enter, the gate of the psychic being, and cast away the lower vital error.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p5p59</ref>
‘’’Bhakti’’’===Manifestation in Psychic===
Where external worship changes into When the inner adoration, real Bhakti begins; that deepens into psychic loves it loves with the intensity of Divine Love.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine -love; that -and-human-love#p57</ref><center>~</center>If love leads to is psychic in its nature, it always brings the joy sense of closeness in our relations with the Divine; the joy oneness or at least of an inner intimate closeness passes into the bliss of unionbeing. The Divine Love too as well as knowledge brings us to a highest is based upon oneness and it gives to that oneness its greatest possible depth the psychic derives from the Divine Love.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and intensity-human-love#p12</ref><center>~</center>. It is true that love returns gladly upon ..if you had a difference in onenesscontact with pure Divine Love, by which the oneness itself becomes richer and sweeter. But here we may say that the heart is wiser it would seem to you colder than the thoughtice, or so far-off, at least than so high that thought which fixes upon opposite ideas of you would not be able to breathe; it would be like the Divine mountain-top where you would feel frozen and concentrates on one find it difficult to the exclusion of the other which seems its contrarybreathe, so very far would it be from what you normally feel. Divine Love, if not clothed with a psychic or vital vibration, but is really its complement and difficult for a means of its greatest fulfilment..human being to perceive. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/04/24/love-and-the-triplemarch-path1951#p8p23</ref>
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The principle of Yoga is To establish the latter [Divine Love and Ananda] down to turn God-ward all or any of the powers of subconscient is a thing which would mean the human consciousness so that through that activity entire transformation of the whole being there may and it cannot be contact, relation, union. In done except as the Yoga result of Bhakti it is the emotional nature that supramental change which is made the instrumentas yet far away. Its main principle is to adopt some human relation between man and the Divine Being by which through the ever intenser flowing of the heart's emotions towards him the human soul The other may at last be wedded to and grow one with him established even now in a passion of divine Love. It is not ultimately the pure peace of oneness or the power and desireless will of onenessprinciple, but the ecstatic joy of union which the devotee seeks by his Yoga. Every feeling that can to make it living and complete in the heart ready for this ecstasy whole being would mean the Yoga admits; everything that detracts from it must increasingly drop away as psychic transformation completed with the strong union of love becomes closer and more perfectspiritual also well under way already. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2429/thedivine-love-psychic-love-godwardand-emotionshuman-love#p1p8</ref> ==Misconceptions Associated with Divine Love==
==In Mind=How Is Human Love Different from Divine Love? What Is the Role of Ego?===
This There is only one true love—it is the weakness Divine Love; all other loves are diminutions, limitations and deformations of that Love. Even the love of the mind bhakta for his God is a diminution and often is tainted by egoism…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/10-june-1964#p2</ref><center>~</center>When one has found divine Love, it is the Divine that one loves in all beings. There is no longer any division.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine-love-and-human-love#p48</ref><center>~</center>...even if a Divine Love is there in the world upholding all this evolution of creatures,yet the stuff of life and its action is made up of an egoistic formation, a division, a struggle of life and consciousness to exist and survive in an apparently indifferent, inclement or even hostile world of inanimate and inconscient Matter. In the confusion and obscurity of this struggle all are thrown against each other with a will in each to assert its own existence first and foremost and only secondarily to assert itself in others and very partially for others; for even man's altruism remains essentially egoistic and must be so till the soul finds the secret of the divine Oneness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p10</ref><center>~</center>It [human consciousness] does not want to fulfil the sadhana unless it limits itself can get by it the things it wanted. It wants the satisfaction of the ego, "self-fulfilment", appreciation, the granting of its thoughtsdesires. It measures the Divine Love by the outward favours showered upon it and looks jealously to see who gets more of these favours than itself, then says that the Divine has no love for it and assigns reasons which are either derogatory to the Divine or, as in your letter, self-depreciatory and a cause for despair. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p97</ref><center>~</center>It has become in human nature something low, brutal, selfish, violent, ugly, or else it is something weak and sentimental, made up of the pettiest feeling, brittle, superficial, exacting. And this baseness and brutality or this self-regarding weakness they call love! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p7</ref><center>~</center>The Divine has an equal love for all human beings, but the obscurity of consciousness of most men prevents them from perceiving this divine love.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine-love#p30</ref><center>~</center>...love between human beings, in all its positive forms, the love of parents for children, of children for parents, of brothers and negative ideassisters, of friends and lovers, is all tainted with ignorance, selfishness and all the other defects which are man's ordinary drawbacks...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/19-september-1956#p23</ref><center>~</center>The attachment to parents belongs to the ordinary physical nature—it has nothing to do with Divine Love. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/human-relations-and-the-spiritual-life#p34</ref><center>~</center>But there is another way of vital love which is more usually the aspects way of human nature and that is a way of ego and desire. It is full of vital craving, desire and demand; its continuance depends upon the Divine Reality satisfaction of its demands; if it does not get what it craves, or even imagines that it seesis not being treated as it deserves—for it is full of imaginations, misunderstandings, jealousies, misinterpretations—it at once turns to sorrow, wounded feeling, revolt, pride, anger, all kinds of disorder, finally cessation and tends departure. A love of this kind is in its very nature ephemeral and unreliable and it cannot be made a foundation for divine love. There has been too much of this kind in the relations of the sadhaks with the Mother—approaching her, I suppose, as a human mother with all the reactions of the lower vital nature. For a long time it was perforce tolerated—and this was the concession made to pit human weakness—even accepted in the beginning as a thing too prominent in the human being not to be there to some extent but to be transformed by degrees; but too often, it has refused to transform itself and has made itself a source of confusion, disorder, asiddhi, sometimes complete disaster. It is for this reason that we discourage this lower vital way of human love and would like people to reject and eliminate these elements as soon as may be from their nature…<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p33</ref><center>~</center>Altruism, philanthropy, humanitarianism, service are flowers of the mental consciousness and are at best the mind’s cold and pale imitation of the 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 change man's vital life and nature, they only modify and palliate its action and daub over its unchanged egoistic essence. Or if they are intensely followed with an entire sincerity of the will, it is by an exaggerated amplification of one against side of our nature; in that exaggeration there can be no clue for the full and perfect divine evolution of the many sides of our individualised being towards the otheruniversal and transcendent Eternal.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-i#p20</ref><center>~</center>But this kind of wish to gain by what one has or does is truly one of the ugliest things in the world. And it is one of the most widespread and it has become so widespread, that it is almost spontaneous in man. Nothing can turn its back on the divine love more totally than that, that wish to calculate and profit.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/26-august-1953#p36</ref><center>~</center>If you look at yourself very sincerely, very straight, you will see that as soon as you begin to think of Love it is always your little inner tumult which starts whirling. All that aspires in you wants certain vibrations. It is almost impossible, without being far advanced on the yogic path, to separate the vital essence, the vital vibration from your conception of Love.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/24-march-1951#p23</ref><center>~</center>The love which is turned towards the Divine ought not to be the usual vital feeling which men call by that name; for that is not love, but only a vital desire, an instinct of appropriation, the impulse to possess and monopolise. Not only is this not divine Love, but it ought not to be allowed to mix in the least degree in Yoga.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p29</ref><center>~</center>Human love fails by its own ecstasy, human strength is exhausted by its own effort, human knowledge throws a shadow that conceals half the globe of truth from its own sunlight; but divine knowledge embraces opposite truths and reconciles them, divine strength grows by the prodigality of its self-expenditure, divine love can squander itself utterly, yet never waste or diminish. [Aphorism 534]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-534#p1</ref><center>~</center>All the other members of our being, mind, life-force, physical or body consciousness are too much under the control of the Ignorance to be a sure instrumentation and much less can they be a guide or the source of an unerring impulse. Always the greater part of the motive and action of these powers clings to the old law, the deceiving tablets, the cherished inferior movements of Nature and they meet with reluctance, alarm or revolt or obstructing inertia the voices and the forces that call and impel us to exceed and transform ourselves into a greater being and a wider Nature. In their major part the response is either a resistance or a qualified or temporising acquiescence; for even if they follow the call, they yet tend―when not consciously, then by automatic habit―to bring into the spiritual action their own natural disabilities and errors. At every moment they are moved to take egoistic advantage of the psychic and spiritual influences and can be detected using thepower, joy or light these bring into us for a lower life-motive. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/15-tripleaugust-path1956#p8p1</ref>
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The Intuitive or Overmind are more open 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 truth of 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 more capable full of universalising love than unity, closeness and rapture using all the mind ordinarily is—love there is also more calm in nature for its intensityexpression. Certainly, less ego-bound than in it is without the mental parts. But confusions and disorders of the mind can also approach their quality of lovepresent lower vital nature which it will change into something entirely warm, if 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 in it grows psychic and spiritual.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p10p36</ref>
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It is Afterwards too, even when the thoughts of seeker has opened to the outer mind that have Divine Love transcendental, universal or immanent, yet if he tries to be refusedpour it into life, he meets the suggestions power of obscuration and ideas perversion of these lower Nature-forces. Always they draw away towards pitfalls, pour into that end by disturbing higher intensity their diminishing elements, seek to capture the sadhanadescending Power for themselves and their interests and degrade it into an aggrandised mental, vital or physical instrumentation for desire and ego. There are also Instead of a number Divine Love creator of thoughts a new heaven and a new earth of all kinds that have no interestTruth and Light, but which the mind is accustomed to allow to come they would hold it here prisoner as a habit, mechanically,—these sometimes come up when one tries tremendous sanction and glorifying force of sublimation to be quiet. They must be allowed to pass away without attending to them until they run down gild the mud of the old earth and colour with its rose and sapphire the mind becomes still; to struggle with them old turbid unreal skies of sentimentalising vital imagination and try to stop them is no use, there must be only a quiet rejection…mental idealised chimera.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3123/the-mindascent-andof-otherthe-levels-ofsacrifice-beingii#p20p13</ref>
===In PsychicMisconceptions Related to Divine Love===
…But our aim is to go beyond mental ideas into the light of the supramental Truth, which exists not by ideative thought but by direct vision and identity. In the same way our aim is to go beyond emotion to the height and depth and intensity of the ..Divine Love and there feel through the inner psychic heart is not an inexhaustible oneness with the Divine which the spasmodic leapings of the vital emotions cannot reach or experience.emotion…
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You must make an effort 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 into touch with your psychic beingto me!" It is not at all like that. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/19-may-1954#p12</ref><center>~</center>And I must say that this rapturous state of consciousness would be dangerous in the present condition of the world. Because it produces reactions that 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 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 become aware and free manifest in its essence upon earth, it would be like a bombshell; because the consciousness earth is neither supple nor receptive enough to be able to widen itself to the dimensions of your psychic beingthis love. It not only needs to open, but to widen itself and thento become more supple—Matter is still too rigid. And even the substance of the physical consciousness—not only the most material Matter, quite naturallybut 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 the evil, spontaneouslyand still yearn in utter love to heal it of its ugliness and its evil, you will know what Divine Love this isreal virtue and morality.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0410/24-marchaphorism-195149#p28p16</ref>
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Live 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 reason that it is the consciousness most powerful, pure, rare and intense of all the psychic centredivine energies; thus your will will express 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 Divine's Will alone roseate coloured mind or passionately turbid life-impulse and your transformed being will then be able with these simulations compensated its inability to receive and manifest house the Mystic Flame that could rebuild the Divine Loveworld with its tongues of sacrifice.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1408/the-soul15-theaugust-psychic1956#p33p1</ref>
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If, through a sustained effort, a deep concentrationAmong those who have come into this world seeking to reveal the Divine here and transform earthly life, there are some who have manifested the Divine love in a greater fullness. In some the purity of the manifestation is so great forgetfulness that they are misunderstood by the whole of humanity and are even accused of selfbeing hard and unloving, you succeed although the Divine love is there. But it is in coming into touch with your psychic being, you will never dream them divine and not human in its form as in its substance. For when man speaks of thinkinglove, "Oh! I would like to be in contact he associates it with Divine Love"—you are in a state in which everything appears to you to be this Divine Love an emotional and nothing elsesentimental weakness. And yet none perhaps would call it is only love; for it does not clothe itself in a coveringsuperficial sentiment, but a covering it makes no demand in exchange for what it has done, no show of a beautiful textureits sacrifice. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0403/242-marchjune-19511929#p25p5</ref>
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A psychic change Although it is demanded, a divestiture of the masks of the Ignorance, a purification of divine love for the egoistic mental, vital supreme and physical movements universal Divine that prolong the old inferior consciousness; each movement of love, spiritualised, must depend no longer on mental preference, vital passion or physical craving, but on be the recognition rule of soul by soul,—love restored to its fundamental our spiritual and psychic essence with the mindexistence, the vital, the physical as manifesting instruments and elements this does not exclude altogether all forms of that greater oneness. In this change the individual love also is converted by a natural heightening into a divine love for or the Divine Inhabitant immanent in a mind and ties that draw soul to soul and body occupied by the One in all creaturesmanifested existence.
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Love cannot be cold—for there is no such thing as cold love, but the love of which the Mother speaks in that passage is something very pure, fixed and constant; it does not leap like fire and sink for want of fuel, but is steady and all-embracing and self-existent like the light of the sun. There is also a divine love that is personal, but it is not like the ordinary personal human love dependent on any return from the person—it is personal but not egoistic,—it goes from the real being in the one to the real being in the other. But to find that, liberation from the ordinary human way of approach is necessary. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p37</ref><center>~</center>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 represents itself in an inner giving—her presence in your mind, your vital, your physical consciousness, her power re-creating you in the divine nature, taking up all the movements of your being and directing them towards perfection and fulfilment, her love enveloping you and carrying you in its arms Godwards. 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, more and more as the purification proceeds and nature undergoes its needed change. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p29</ref><center>~</center>Love should be a flowering of joy and union and confidence and self-giving and Ananda… <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p33</ref><center>~</center>But as one tends quite naturally to become like what one loves, the bhakta, if he is sincere, begins to become like the Divine whom he adores, and thus his love becomes purer and purer. To establish adore the Divine in the one whom one loves has often been suggested as a solution, but unless one's heart and thought are ''very pure'', it can lead to deplorable abasements. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/10-june-1964#p2</ref> =Why Is Divine Love Important? What Are the Unique Positive Effects and Qualities of this Manifestation?= The moment you open to the Divine Love, you also receive its power of Transformation. But it is not in terms of quantity that you can measure it; what is essential is the true contact; for, you will find that the true contact with it is sufficient to fill at once the whole of your being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/knowledge-by-unity-with-the-divine-the-divine-will-in-the-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 is the Divine that one loves in everyone and everything. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine-love-and-human-love#p50</ref> ==For Transcending the Ego== "One single drop of Thy divine love can transform this suffering into an ocean of delight!"<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/20-july-1932-1#p1</ref><center>~</center>It [Divine Love] is there waiting to be understood and accepted and meanwhile giving all the latter down help you can receive to raise and widen you into the subconscient consciousness in which it will be no 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/03/2-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 would mean 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 entire transformation 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 whole 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 cannot be 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#p23</ref><center>~</center>The true Ananda of creation is not the pleasure of the ego in having personally done except well and in being somebody, that is an extraneous element which attaches itself to the true joy of work and creation. The Ananda comes by the inrush of a larger Might and Delight, ''āveśa''; there is the thrill of being possessed and used by a superpersonal Power, the exultation and exaltation of the uplifting of the consciousness, the joy of its illumination and its greatened and heightened action and the joy of the beauty, power or perfection that is being created. How far, how intensely one feels these things, depends on the condition of the consciousness at the time, the temperament, the activity of the vital, the mind's receptivity and response. The Yogi (or even certain strong and calm minds) is not carried away, as the mind and the vital often are, by the Ananda,—he holds and watches it and there is no mere excitement mixed with the divine flow of it through the conscious instrument and the body. There is a greater Ananda of ''samarpaṇa'', of spiritual realisation or divine love, but in the spiritual consciousness and life the Ananda of creation has its place.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-force-in-work#p15</ref><center>~</center>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 changed and in their reaction and even in their essence things painful alter; the forms of pain fall away, there are created in their place the forms of Ananda. In its essence the nature of the supramental change of consciousness which turns existence itself into a glorified field of a Divine Love and Ananda. In its essence it begins for the seeker when he passes from the ordinary to the spiritual level and looks with a new heart of luminous vision and feeling on the world and self and others. It reaches its height when the spiritual becomes also the supramental level and then also it is possible not only to feel it in essence but realise it dynamically as yet far awaya Power for the transformation of the whole inner life and the whole outer existence.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p5,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. The other And even then the test is not so much external as internal: a divine movement cannot be measured by apparent signs— it is a certain kind of vibration that indicates its presence—external tests are of no avail, since even what is in appearance a failure may be in fact a divine achievement... What you have to do is to give yourself up to the Grace of the Divine; for, it is under the form of Grace, of Love, that it has consented to uplift the universe after the first involution was established . With the Divine Love is the supreme power of Transformation. It has this power because it is for the sake of Transformation that it has given itself to the world and manifested everywhere. Not only has it infused itself into man, but also into all the atoms of the most obscure Matter in order to bring the world back to the original Truth. It is this descent that is called the supreme sacrifice in the Indian scriptures. But it is a sacrifice only from the human point of view; the human mind thinks that if it had to do such a thing it would be a tremendous sacrifice. But the Divine cannot really be diminished, its infinite essence can never become less, no matter what "sacrifices" are made.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/knowledge-by-unity-with-the-divine-the-divine-will-in-the-world#p6</ref><center>~</center>...Divine's Love is at the base and core of all manifestation, even now where it seems most completely inconscient.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine-love#p20</ref><center>~</center>Love is a supreme force which the Eternal Consciousness sent down from itself into an obscure and darkened world that it might bring back that world and its beings to the Divine. The material world in principleits darkness and ignorance had forgotten the Divine. Love came into the darkness; it awakened all that lay there asleep; it whispered, opening the ears that were sealed, "There is something that is worth waking to, worth living for, and it is love!" And with 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 in search of this divine source of life.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p11</ref><center>~</center>...through the action of the forces of separation, Consciousness became inconscience and matter was created such as it is, on a basis of inconscience so total that no contact seemed possible between the Origin and what was created. And this total inconscience made a direct descent necessary, without sing through the intermediate regions, a direct descent of the divine Consciousness in its form of Love. And it is this descent of Divine Love into matter, penetrating it and adding a new element to its position, which has made possible the ascent, slow for us, but an uninterrupted ascent, from inconscience to make consciousness and from darkness to light. Therefore, one cannot say that Love can manifest only when the creation becomes divine, for it is ''on the contrary'' because of its manifestation that creation can become divine once again.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/31-october-1956#p8</ref><center>~</center>I am sure that when the Divine Love descended into Matter, this Matter was quite unconscious, it had absolutely no form; it may even be said that forms in general are the result of the effort of Love to bring consciousness into Matter. … And the coming out of the Inconscient is due exclusively to the sacrifice of the Divine, to this descent of Divine Love into the Inconscient.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/24-march-1951#p2</ref> ==What Happens When Divine Love Is Not Present?== One is outwardly alone only if one is closed to the divine love.<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 surely not to find comfort and luxury—this can be found anywhere if one is lucky enough. But what one can get here, that is not got in any other place: it is the Divine Love, Grace and Care. It is when ''this'' is forgotten or disregarded that people begin to feel miserable here. Indeed whenever somebody feels unhappy and discontented, it living 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 in pursuit of worldly satisfaction. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/comfort-and -happiness#p8</ref><center>~</center>Outside this state there are infinite grades of consciousness, going right down to complete darkness, the veritable inconscience which may be a domain yet untouched by the light of Thy divine Love (but this seems improbable in physical substance), or which is, for some kind of reason of ignorance, outside our individual range of perception. <ref>http://incarnateword.in /cwm/17/comments-on-prayers-and-meditations#p76</ref><center>~</center>...but this lower vital way is only a source of suffering, trouble, disappointment, disillusion and disunion. Even a slight element of it shakes the foundations of peace and replaces the movement towards Ananda by a fall towards sorrow, discontent and Nirananda. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p33</ref> =How Can Divine Love Flourish?===What are the Prerequisites for Divine Love?== To bring the Divine Love and Beauty and Ananda into the world is, indeed, the whole being would mean crown and essence of our Yoga. But it has always seemed to me impossible unless there comes as its support and foundation and guard the Divine Truth—what I call the Supramental—and its Divine Power. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic transformation completed with -love-and-human-love#p2</ref><center>~</center>The human form is naturally unable to bear the Divine Love or contain it, because it is itself a creation of the ignorance, weak and impure. It must be transformed in order to be capable of that; it must become strong and pure. First of all, it must have the strength to love the Divine alone and turn away from all other ties. But besides that a new consciousness must be created in it—first a consciousness of pure and purifying Divine Peace from above which must take hold of all down to the most physical—then in that peace an increasing inner strength pure and unegoistic—then the Divine Light and Knowledge transforming all the consciousness and movements. When this has been done, then the human form can contain the Divine Love and Ananda. Till then the touches of the Divine Love and Ananda are usually momentary or brief, they cannot remain. In an impure consciousness the spiritual also well under way alreadyDivine Love if it came in would create a perturbation and possibly be attacked by a mixture which would make it impossible for it to stay. It is therefore that touch only can come.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p9p4</ref>
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The 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 belongs a human being, unless he raises himself to the spiritual planes divine heights, is incapable of a different kind—the psychic has its own more personal lovereceiving, bhakti, surrenderappreciating and knowing what divine Love is. Love must cease to be divine to be accepted by man.<ref>http://incarnateword.in the higher or spiritual mind /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 more universal and impersonalnot an inaccessible thing. The two must join together Your psychic being is there precisely to make put you in contact with the highest divine loveforces. 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/cwsacwm/2904/divine24-love-psychicmarch-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 anddisappear.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-humanjune-love1929#p21p9</ref>
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On Love cannot exist in its pure beauty, love cannot put on its native power and intense joy of fullness until there is this interchange, this fusion between the other hand if thoughts come up earth and the Supreme, this movement of Love from within, the Divine to the creation and from the psychiccreation to the Divine. …The moment man's consciousness awakens to the Divine love, pure, independent of all manifestation in human forms, thoughts he knows for what his heart has all the time been truly longing. That is the beginning of the MotherSoul's aspiration, that brings the awakening of divine love the consciousness and joyits yearning for union with the Divine. All the forms that are of the ignorance, perceptions all the deformations it has imposed must from that moment fade and disappear and give place to one single movement of truth etcthe creation answering to the Divine love by its love for the Divine.Once the creation is conscious, these of course must be permittedawakened, as they help opened to make love for the Divine, the Divine love pours itself without limit back into the creation. The circle of the movement turns back upon itself and the ends meet; there is the joining of the psychic activeextremes, supreme Spirit and manifesting Matter, and their divine union becomes constant and complete. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/the-mind-and2-other-levels-ofjune-being1929#p20p11</ref>
===In SpiritualWill===
…the integral Yoga founds itself on To will it is a conception of the spiritual being as an omnipresent existenceconstant, sustained, the fullness of which comes not essentially by a transference to other worlds or a cosmic self-extinctionconcentrated aspiration, but by a growth out an almost exclusive occupation 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 This is the form of religious piety its completer spiritual seeking of a divine unionfirst step. It proceeds by a personal effort to a conversion through There are many others: a divine influence and possession; but this divine gracevery attentive observation, if we may so call it, is not simply a mysterious flow or touch coming from abovevery persistent analysis, but the all-pervading act of a divine presence which we come to know within as the power very keen discernment of what is pure in the highest Self movement and Master of our being entering into the soul and so possessing it that we what is not only feel it close to us and pressing upon our mortal nature, but live in its law, know that law, possess it as the whole power of our spiritualised nature. The conversion its action will effect is an integral conversion of our ethical being into the Truth and Right of the divine nature, of our intellectual into the illumination of divine knowledge, our emotional into the divine love and unity, our dynamic and volitional into .. You must take up your search with a working purity of the divine power, our aesthetic into a plenary reception aspiration and a creative enjoyment of divine beauty, not excluding even surrender which in the end a divine conversion of the vital and physical being.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/the-integralmarch-perfection1951#p12p23</ref>
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If the rift in …the will to pierce through this limited and human form of love and discover the lid principle of mind divine Love which is made, what happens behind it. Then one is an opening of vision sure to something above us or get a rising up towards it or a descent of its powers into our beingresult. What we see by the opening of vision This 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 Ecstasybetter than drying up one's heart. It may be that for a long time all that is obtained is the occasional or frequent or constant vision of it and perhaps a longing and aspiration, little more difficult but without anything further, because, although something it is better in the mindevery way, heart or other part of the being has opened to for like this experience, the lower nature as a whole is too heavy and obscure as yet for more. But there may be, instead of this first wide awareness from below or subsequently to itegoistically making others suffer, well, one may leave them quiet in their own movement and only make an ascension of the mind effort to heights above: the nature of these heights we may not know or clearly discerntransform oneself without imposing one's will on others, but some consequence of the ascent which even in ordinary life is felt; there is often too an awareness of infinite ascension a step towards something higher and return but no record or translation of that higher statea little more harmonious. 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…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2208/the19-tripleseptember-transformation1956#p24p30</ref>
==What are the Prerequisites for Manifestation of Divine Love?=Receptivity===
Truth alone can give Divine Love is there always in all its intensity, a formidable power. But most people—ninety-nine per cent—do not feel anything at all! What they feel of it is exclusively in proportion to the world the power what they are, to their capacity of receiving and manifesting the Divine Love.Imagine, for instance, that you are bathing in an atmosphere all vibrant with divine Love—you are not at all aware of it.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1506/messages-for-the-supramental-manifestation19-uponmay-earth1954#p11p12</ref>
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"It may be said that a complete act of divine love and worship has in it three parts that are Truth alone can give to the expressions of a single whole,―a practical worship of world the Divine in the act, a symbol of worship in the form power of the act expressing some vision receiving and seeking or some relation with manifesting the Divine, an inner adoration and longing for oneness or feeling of oneness in the heart and soul and spiritLove." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0815/25messages-for-the-supramental-manifestation-julyupon-1956earth#p1p11</ref>
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To manifest the Divine love you must be capable of receiving the Divine love. For only those can manifest it who are by their nature open to its native movement. The wider and clearer the opening in them, the more they manifest love divine in its original purity; the more it is mixed with the lower human feelings, the greater is the deformation. One who is not open to love in its essence and in its truth cannot approach the Divine.
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Love cannot exist in its pure beautyMy love is always with you; if then you do not feel it, love cannot put on its native power and intense joy it is because you are not capable of fullness until there receiving it. It is your receptivity that is lacking and should be increased; for this interchangeyou must open yourself, this fusion between and one opens oneself only if one gives oneself. Surely you are trying more or less consciously to draw the earth forces and the Supremedivine love towards you. The method is bad. Give yourself without calculating and without expecting anything in return, this movement and then you will become capable of Love from the Divine to the creation receiving.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/receptivity#p21</ref> ===Peace=== The higher consciousness in its descent takes several fundamental forms—peace, power and from strength, light, knowledge, Ananda. Usually it is the creation to the Divinepeace that descends first. …The moment man's consciousness awakens to This is not a mental, vital or physical peace of the Divine loveordinary kind, but something from above (spiritual), purevery firm, independent solid and concrete. It is its concreteness that makes you feel like a still massive block—a mass of all manifestation the higher consciousness in human forms, he knows for what his heart has all place of the more tenuous substance of the time been truly longingordinary nature. That As for its being worth having, you can see that it is—it is indeed the beginning of the Soul's aspiration, that brings real transformation—all the awakening rest hitherto has been mainly preparation and clearing of the consciousness difficulties and its yearning for union with the Divineimpediments through all these years. All This serene peace and massive stillness has to stabilise itself, fill the forms that are whole nature, widen itself until all existence internal and external seems full of it. This may take time, but the ignorancebeginning once there it is sure to take place, if one is steady and constant. It becomes besides the sure base on which all the deformations it has imposed must from that moment fade rest,—power and strength, light and knowledge, Ananda and disappear divine love, can come in and give place to one single movement securely fill the consciousness. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-descent-of -the creation answering -higher-consciousness-and-force#p16</ref> ==How to Experience Divine Love?=====By Transcending Human Love=== To become conscious of the Divine Love, all other love by its 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.'' ''A:'' Yet if you persist and make the necessary effort, it is not impossible for this human love to be transformed into divine love through identification with what you love. He has not said that the Divinelove between two persons can change into divine love. Once It is not that at all! He has always said the creation is consciousopposite. He spoke about someone who had asked him about devotion, awakenedyou know, opened to about the sadhak's love for the Divine, . At the Divine beginning your 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 altogether human—and he speaks of the extremesit even as commercial barter. If you make progress, supreme Spirit and manifesting Matteryour love will change into divine love, and their divine union becomes constant and completeinto true devotion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0306/216-june-19291954#p11p61</ref>
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I have said It is only when it [Divine Love] moves away from its true nature and essential quality that if one wants to know what love isman accepts it, one must love the Divine. Then there is a chance and even (''smiling'') approves of knowing what love isit and glorifies it. I have said This means that one grows into it must already be quite warped in order to be accepted by the likeness of what one loveshuman consciousness. So if one loves the DivineAnd to accept it, gradually, through this effort of love, one grows more bear it and receive it in its plenitude and more like the Divinepurity, and then one can be identified with the human consciousness must become divine love and know what it is, otherwise one can't. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0608/1431-apriloctober-19541956#p7p10</ref>
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It is only I was speaking not of the inmost psychic being unveiled and emerging world in general but of human consciousness in its full power that can lead the pilgrim sacrifice unscathed through these ambushes and pitfallsparticular; at each moment it catches, exposes, repels the mind's and the life's falsehoodscertainly, seizes hold on the truth of I was alluding to the fact that this Divine Love which animates all things, penetrates all, upbears all and Ananda leads all towards progress and separates it from an ascent to the excitement of Divine, is not felt, not perceived by the mind's ardours human consciousness, and that even to the blind enthusiasm of the misleading life-force. But all things that are true at their core in mind and life and extent the physical human being does perceive it, he finds it difficult to bear—not only to contain it extricates and takes with , but be able to tolerate it , I might say, for its power in the journey till they stand on the heightsits purity, new its intensity in spirit its purity, are of too strong a kind to be endured by human nature. It is only when it is diluted, deformed, attenuated and sublime in figureobscured, so to say, that it becomes acceptable to human nature."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/1531-augustoctober-1956#p1p10</ref>
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The first step is to stop being selfish. For everyone it is the same thing, not only for those who want to do yoga but also in ordinary life: if one wants to know how to love, one must not love oneself first and above all selfishly; one must give oneself to the object of love without exacting anything in return. This discipline is elementary in order to surmount oneself and lead a life which is not altogether gross.
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To will it There is a constant, sustained, concentrated aspiration, an almost exclusive occupation of the consciousness. This selfishness which is always a part if not the first step. There are many others: a very attentive observation, a very persistent analysis, a very keen discernment whole of what human love—and it is pure in the movement and what is not... You must take up your search with a purity reaction of aspiration the demand and surrender which in themselves are already difficult to acquiredesire it brings that creates the opposite feeling. You must have worked much on yourself only to be ready to aspire to It is when this Loveselfish element is rejected that one can feel the true psychic or divine love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0431/24human-relations-and-the-marchspiritual-1951life#p23p57</ref>
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My love is always with you; if then you do The spiritual life will draw its sustenance not feel it, it is because you are not capable from desire but from a pure and selfless spiritual delight of receiving itessential existence. It And not only the vital nature in us whose stamp is your receptivity that is lacking desire, but the mental being too must undergo a new birth and a transfiguring change. Our divided, egoistic, limited and ignorant thought and should be increasedintelligence must disappear; in its place there must stream in the catholic and faultless play of a shadowless divine illumination which shall culminate in the end in a natural self-existent Truth-consciousness free from groping half-truth and stumbling error. Our confused and embarrassed ego-centred small-motived will and action must cease and make room for this you the total working of a swiftly powerful, lucidly automatic, divinely moved and guided unfallen Force. There must open yourselfbe implanted and activised in all our doings a supreme, impersonal, unfaltering and unstumbling will in spontaneous and one opens oneself only if one gives oneselfuntroubled unison with the will of the Divine. Surely you are trying more or less consciously to draw 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 this inner heart in which dwells the forces Divine, will be transmuted into calm and the intense movements of a twin passion of divine love towards youLove and manifold Ananda. The method This is badthe definition of a divine humanity or a supramental race. Give yourself without calculating This, not an exaggerated or even a sublimated energy of human intellect and without expecting anything in returnaction, and then you will become capable is the type of receivingthe superman whom we are called to evolve by our Yoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1423/receptivityself-surrender-in-works-the-way-of-the-gita#p21p4</ref>
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I was stating 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 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 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, 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 beinglove. There is the disturbance of the whole life, the illumination by an 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, unless he raises himself to the divine heightsintense 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 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 incapable beyond the highest power of receivingthe normal human emotions, appreciating 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>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-way-of-devotion#p5,p6</ref> ===By Oneness=== I have said that if one wants to know what love is, one must love the Divine. Then there is a chance of knowing what divine Love love is. Love must cease to I have said that one grows into the likeness of what one loves. So if one loves the Divine, gradually, through this effort of love, one grows more and more like the Divine, and then one can be identified with the divine to be accepted by manlove and know what it is, otherwise one can't. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0806/3114-octoberapril-19561954#p11p7</ref>
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…the will to pierce As with individual, so with universal Love; all that widening of the self through this limited sympathy, goodwill, universal benevolence and human form beneficence, love of mankind, love and discover the principle of divine Love which is behind it. Then one is sure to get a result. This is better than drying up one's heart. It is perhaps a little more difficult but it is better in every waycreatures, for like this, instead the attraction of egoistically making others suffer, well, one may leave them quiet in their own movement all the myriad forms and only make an effort to transform oneself without imposing one's will on otherspresences that surround us, by which even in ordinary life is a step towards something higher mentally and emotionally man escapes from the first limits of his ego, has to be taken up into a little more harmoniousunifying divine love for the universal Divine.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0823/19the-ascent-of-the-septembersacrifice-1956ii#p30p5</ref>
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To go through, to see what is behind it, not to stop at the appearance, not to "It may be satisfied with the outer form, to look for the principle which is behind this said that a complete act of divine love, and not be content until one worship has found in it three parts that are the origin expressions of a single whole,―a practical worship of the feeling Divine in oneself. Then the outer form will crumble act, a symbol of itself and you will be worship 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 of the divine principle which is behind act expressing some vision and which gives it existence. 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 must cease to love wrongly and want to love well…one must learn how to love better: to love with devotion, seeking or some relation 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 the feelings which accompany these main movements. Not to want to possessDivine, to dominate; an inner adoration 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 longing for oneness or feeling of one's personal desire, but to be satisfied with oneness in the giving of one's love heart and affection; soul and not to ask for any responsespirit. Simply to be happy to love, nothing more… "<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/1925-septemberjuly-1956#p23p1</ref>
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It The force of love in the world is here trying to find consciousnesses that the emergence are capable of receiving this divine movement in its purity and expressing it. This race of all beings towards love, this irresistible push and seeking out in the secret psychic being world’s heart and in us as all hearts, is the leader of impulse given by a Divine love behind the sacrifice is human longing and seeking. It touches millions of the utmost importanceinstruments, trying always, always failing; for but this inmost being alone can bring with it constant touch prepares these instruments and suddenly one day there will awake in them the full power capacity of the spirit in the actself-giving, the soul in the symbol..capacity of loving.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0803/152-augustjune-19561929#p1p6</ref>
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So too ...the one thing essential is the intense devotion of the thought in the mind to the object of adoration...It is in its real nature not a still, but an ecstatic contemplation; it seeks not to pass into the being of the Divine, but to bring the love that desires Divine into ourselves and grasps to lose ourselves in the deep ecstasy of his presence or of his possession; and its bliss is troubled with joy and shaken with grief must not the peace of unity, but the ecstasy of union. Here, too, there may be rejected the separative self-consecration which ends in the giving up of all other thought of life for the equalpossession of this ecstasy, eternal afterwards in planes beyond, or the comprehensive consecration in which all-embracing love that is free from these things the thoughts are full of the Divine and even in the occupations of life every thought remembers him. As in the other Yogas, so in this, one comes to see the Divine everywhere and has no dependence upon circumstances in all and is not modified by response or absence to pour out the realisation of responsethe Divine in all one's inner activities and outward actions. So we shall deal with But all is supported here by the movements primary force of the soul; but of these things we shall speak farther when we consider emotional union: for it is by love that the Yoga of entire self-perfectionconsecration and the entire possession is accomplished, and thought and action become shapes and figures of the divine love which possesses the spirit and its members. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2324/the-releaseway-fromof-the-heart-and-the-minddevotion#p7p5</ref>
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In ...the more varied and most intimate experience of divine love cannot come 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 within itself all the riches of personality when we get into its heart, and one who sought only to enter into or to embrace the infinite Presence alone, may discover in it things he had not dreamed of; the being 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 in of the act divine Personality. The Divine is a great Being and complete not an abstract existence or a status of pure timeless infinity; the original and powerful sacrifice universal existence is He, but that tends existence is inseparable from consciousness and bliss of being, 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 its selfthis Being; all things are the faces of God; all thought and action and feeling and love proceed from him and return to him, all their results have him for source and support and secret goal. It is to this Godhead, this Being that the Bhakti of an integral Yoga will be poured out and uplifted. Transcendent, it will seek him in the ecstasy of an absolute union; universal, it will seek him in infinite quality and every aspect and in all beings with a universal delight and love; individual, it will enter into all human relations with him that love creates between person and person.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-mystery-of-multiplication love#p2</ref> ===By Surrender=== The indispensable surrender of all our will and works and activities to reach the discovery Supreme is indeed only perfect and perfectly effective when it is a surrender of love. All life turned into this cult, all actions done in the love of the One Divine and make in the radiation love of the world and its creatures seen and felt as the Divine possible… manifested in many disguises become by that very fact part of an integral Yoga.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p11</ref>
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To bring the It is to discover that at its [Divine Love ] supreme source, to bring it from within and Beauty and Ananda to radiate it out up to the extreme confines of life that is turned the effort of the Yoga. All action, all creation must be turned into a form, a symbol of the world iscult, indeedthe adoration, the whole crown sacrifice; it must carry something that makes it bear in it the stamp of a dedication, a reception and essence translation of our Yogathe Divine Consciousness, a service of the Beloved, a self-giving, a surrender. But This has to be done wherever possible in the outward body and form of the act; it has must be done always seemed to me impossible unless there comes as in its support inward emotion and foundation and guard an intensity that shows it to be an outflow from the Divine Truth—what I call soul towards the Supramental—and its Divine Power..Eternal.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2923/divinethe-loveascent-psychicof-love-andthe-humansacrifice-loveii#p2p10</ref>
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The integral YogaDivine Love, refusing unlike the human, is deep and vast and silent; one must become quiet and wide to rely upon the fragile stuff be aware of mental it and moral ideals, puts its reply to it. ...make it his whole emphasis object to be surrendered so that he may become a vessel and instrument—leaving it to the Divine Wisdom and Love to fill him with what is needed. Let him also fix this in this field on three central dynamic processes—the development of the true soul or psychic being mind not to insist that in a given time he must progress, develop, get realisation; whatever time it takes, he must be prepared to take wait and persevere and make his whole life an aspiration and an opening for the one thing only, the Divine. To give oneself is the place secret of sadhana, not to demand and acquire. The more one gives oneself, the false soul more the power to receive will grow. But for that all impatience and revolt must go; all suggestions of desirenot getting, not being helped, not being loved, going away, of abandoning life or the sublimation spiritual endeavour must be rejected.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p38</ref> ==How Can Divine Love be Manifested?== The movement of love is not 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 divine lovecommunion with Nature: you will feel rising from the earth, from below the elevation roots of consciousness from its mental the trees and mounting upward and coursing through their fibres up to its spiritual the highest outstretching branches, the aspiration of an intense love and longing,—a longing for something that brings light and Supramental plane by whose power alone both gives happiness, for the soul light that is gone and they wish to have back again. There is a yearning so pure and intense that if you can feel the movement in the life-force can be utterly delivered from trees, your own being too will go up in an ardent prayer for the veils peace and prevarications of the Ignorancelight and love that are unmanifested here.<ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2303/the-ascent-of-the2-sacrificejune-i1929#p20p7</ref>
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The human form is naturally unable to bear the Divine Love or contain itOne has just a tiny little opening, very tiny, because it is itself at times like a creation of the ignorancepinhead, weak and impurenaturally that force rushes in. It must be transformed in order to be capable of thatFor it is like an active atmosphere; it must become strong and pure. First as soon as there is a possibility of allbeing received, it must have the strength to love the Divine alone and turn away from all other tiesis received. 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 this is so for all down to the divine things. They are there, only one does not receive them, for one is closed up, blocked; one is busy with other things most physical—then in that peace an increasing inner strength pure and unegoistic—then of the Divine Light and Knowledge transforming all time. Most of the consciousness and movementstime one is full of oneself. When this has been doneSo, as one is full of oneself, then the human form can contain there is no place for anything else. One is very actively (''laughing'') busy with other things. One is filled with things; there is no place for the Divine Love and Ananda. …<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2906/divine-love-psychic-love-and19-humanmay-love1954#p5p12</ref>
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The Divine Love may not real soul emerges and takes the place left vacant by the desire-mind. The cleansed and emptied cup is filled with the wine of divine love and delight and no longer with the sweet and bitter poison of passion. The passions, even the passion for good, misrepresent the divine nature. The passion of pity with its impure elements of physical repulsion and emotional inability to bear the suffering of others has to be able yet to manifest on rejected and replaced by the physical planehigher divine compassion which sees, understands, humanity being what it accepts the burden of others and isstrong to help and heal, as fully not with self-will and revolt against the suffering in the world and with ignorant accusation of the law of things and freely as it would otherwise dotheir source, but that does not make it less close or intense than with light and knowledge and as an instrument of the human… Divine in its emergence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2923/divinethe-release-lovefrom-psychicthe-loveheart-and-humanthe-lovemind#p6p7</ref>
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There The soul's turning through love to the Divine must be through a love that is the one essentially divine Love secret in all things, but as the manifestation [instrument of expression at first is a human nature, it takes the forms of human love and bhakti. It is only as the consciousness deepens, heightens and changes that that greater eternal love can grow in matter it and openly transform the human into the divine... It is this psychic love that is closest to the divine and it is therefore the right and best way of love and bhakti. But that does not mean that the other parts of the being, the vital and physical included, are not to be used as means of expression or that they are not to share in forms the full play and the whole meaning of love, even of divine love. On the contrary, they are a means and can be a great part of the complete expression of divine love,—provided they have the right and not the wrong movement… And neither does the psychic love or the divine love despise a physical means of life] depends expression wherever that is pure and right and possible: it does not depend upon the state that, it does not diminish, revolt or go out like a snuffed candle when it is deprived of consciousness any such means; but when it can use it, it does so with joy and its organisation.gratitude…<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p8p32</ref> ===In Physical=== That is why no effort is too arduous, no austerity too rigorous if it can illumine, purify, perfect and transform the physical substance so that it may no longer conceal the Divine when he takes on an outer form in Matter. For then this marvellous tenderness will be able to express itself freely in the world, the divine love which has the power of changing life into a paradise of sweet joy.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-four-austerities-and-the-four-liberations#p84</ref>
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You ask how you Physical means can repair be and are used in the wrong you seem approach to divine love and worship; they have done. Admitting that it is not been allowed merely as you saya concession to human weakness, nor is it seems to me the fact that in the reparation lies precisely in this, in making yourself a vessel psychic way there is no place for such things. On the contrary they are one means of approaching the Divine Truth and receiving the Divine LoveLight and materialising the psychic contact, and so long as it is done in the right spirit and they are used for the true purpose they have their place. And It is only if they are misused or the first steps towards approach is not right because tainted by indifference and inertia, or revolt or hostility, or some gross desire, that they are out of place and can have a complete selfcontrary effect.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-consecration and self-purification, a complete opening human-love#p32</ref> ===In Vital=== The true vital movement is the most beautiful and magnificent of oneself to movements; but it has been twisted and turned into the Divinemost ugly, rejecting all in oneself that can stand in the way of most distorted, the fulfilmentmost repulsive. In the spiritual life Wherever into a human story of love, there is no other reparation for any mistakehas entered even an atom of pure love and it has been allowed to manifest without too much distortion, none that is wholly effectivewe find a true and beautiful thing. At If the beginning one should movement does not last, it is because it is not ask for any other fruit or results than this internal growth conscious of its own aim and change—for otherwise one lays oneself open to severe disappointments. Only when one seeking; it has not the knowledge that it is free, can not the union of one free others and in Yoga being with another that it is out seeking after but the union of all beings with the inner victory that there comes the outer conquestDivine.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3103/time-and2-change-of-thejune-nature1929#p22p10</ref>
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There It is the selfishness which is always a part if not inner offering of the heart's adoration, the soul of it in the symbol, the whole spirit of human love—and it in the act, that is the reaction very life of the demand sacrifice. If this offering is to be complete and desire it brings that creates universal, then a turning of all our emotions to the opposite feelingDivine is imperative. It This is when this selfish element the intense way of purification for the human heart, more powerful than any ethical or aesthetic catharsis could ever be by its half-power and superficial pressure. A psychic fire within must be lit into which all is rejected that one can feel thrown with the true psychic or divine loveDivine Name upon it.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3123/humanthe-relationsascent-andof-the-spiritualsacrifice-lifeii#p12</ref><center>~</center>They [sex impulsions] persist only because something still wants to reserve a place for them. So the best answer to the question about the sadhana (What is the place of sex in our sadhana?) is "No place". One must give up the sex-satisfaction and be satisfied with the Divine Love and Ananda.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p57p40</ref>
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Thus It is true that the removal of the motives sex-impulse in all its forms and, generally, of devotion have first the vital woman-complex is a great liberation which opens up to direct themselves engrossingly and predominantly towards the Divine, then considerable regions of the being which otherwise tend to transform themselves so that they remain shut up. These things are rid a degradation of their more earthy elements and finally to take their stand the source in pure and perfect love. All those that cannot coexist with the perfect union of lovebeing from which bhakti, must eventually fall away, while only those that can form themselves into expressions of divine love and into means of enjoying divine love, can remainadoration arise.. For love is the one emotion in us which can be entirely motiveless and self-existent; love need have no other motive than love. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2431/the-motives-of-devotionsex#p11p91</ref>
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The higher consciousness in its descent takes several fundamental forms—peaceIn 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, power till a spirit of largest love and strength, light, knowledge, Anandaa stainless divine delight arises out of the flame and smoke and frankincense. Usually it It is the peace divine love which so emerges that descends first. This is not a mental, vital or physical peace of extended in inward feeling to the ordinary kindDivine in man and all creatures in an active universal equality, but something from above (spiritual), very firm, solid will be more potent for the perfectibility of life and concretea more real instrument than the ineffective mental ideal of brotherhood can ever be. It is its concreteness this poured out into acts that makes you feel like could alone create a still massive block—a mass of harmony in the higher consciousness world and a true unity between all its creatures; all else strives in place of vain towards that end so long as Divine Love has not disclosed itself as the more tenuous substance heart of the ordinary naturedelivered manifestation in terrestrial Nature. As for its being worth having, you can see that it is—it is indeed <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the beginning -ascent-of -the real transformation—all -sacrifice-ii#p12</ref> ===In Mind=== It is the rest hitherto has been mainly preparation and clearing thoughts of difficulties and impediments through all these years. This serene peace and massive stillness has the outer mind that have to stabilise itselfbe refused, fill the whole nature, widen itself until all existence internal suggestions and external seems full ideas that end by disturbing the sadhana. There are also a number of it. This may take timethoughts of all kinds that have no interest, but which the beginning once there it mind is sure accustomed to take placeallow to come as a habit, if mechanically,—these sometimes come up when one is steady tries to be quiet. They must be allowed to pass away without attending to them until they run down and constant. It the mind becomes besides the sure base on which all the rest,—power still; to struggle with them and strengthtry to stop them is no use, light and knowledge, Ananda and divine love, can come in and securely fill the consciousness. there must be only a quiet rejection… <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3031/the-descentmind-ofand-theother-higherlevels-consciousnessof-and-forcebeing#p19p15</ref>
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The soul's turning through love to This is the weakness of the Divine must be through a love mind that is essentially divineit limits itself by its thoughts, but as the instrument of expression at first is a human natureits positive and negative ideas, it takes the forms aspects of human love and bhakti. It is only as the consciousness deepens, heightens and changes Divine Reality that that greater eternal love can grow in it sees, and openly transform tends too much to pit one against the human into the divineother.<ref>http://incarnateword.. It is this psychic in/cwsa/24/love that is closest to the divine -and it is therefore -the right and best way of love and bhakti-triple-path#p8</ref><center>~</center>... But that does not mean that the other parts of the beingif thoughts come up from within, from the vital and physical includedpsychic, are not to be used as means thoughts of expression or that they are not to share in the full play and the whole meaning Mother, of divine loveand joy, even perceptions of divine lovetruth etc. On the contrary, they are a means and can these of course must be a great part of the complete expression of divine lovepermitted,—provided as they have the right and not the wrong movement… And neither does help to make the psychic love or the divine love despise a physical means of expression wherever that is pure and right and possible: it does not depend upon that, it does not diminish, revolt or go out like a snuffed candle when it is deprived of any such means; but when it can use it, it does so with joy and gratitude…active.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2931/divinethe-lovemind-psychicand-loveother-andlevels-humanof-lovebeing#p38p15</ref>
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It is in its real nature not a still, but an ecstatic contemplation; it seeks not The Intuitive or Overmind are more open to pass into the being truth of the Divine, but to bring the Divine into ourselves Love and to lose ourselves in the deep ecstasy more capable of his presence or of his possession; and its bliss is not the peace of unity, but universalising love than the ecstasy of union. Here, too, mind ordinarily is—love there may be the separative self-consecration which ends is also more calm in the giving up of all other thought of life for the possession of this ecstasyits intensity, eternal afterwards in planes beyond, or the comprehensive consecration in which all the thoughts are full of the Divine and even less ego-bound than in the occupations of life every thought remembers him. As in the other Yogas, so in this, one comes to see the Divine everywhere and in all and to pour out the realisation of the Divine in all one's inner activities and outward actionsmental parts. But all is supported here by the primary force mind can also approach their quality 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 if the divine love which possesses the spirit in it grows psychic and its membersspiritual.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2429/thedivine-love-psychic-love-wayand-ofhuman-devotionlove#p5p9</ref>
==Common Misconceptions Related to Development of Divine Love=In Psychic===
Always It 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, exposes, repels the mind's and the life's falsehoods, seizes hold on the truth of the Divine Love and Ananda and separates it from the excitement of the mind's 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 draw away stand on the heights, new in spirit and sublime in figure.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p13</ref><center>~</center>The love that belongs to the spiritual planes is of a different kind—the psychic has its own more personal love, bhakti, surrender. Love in the higher or spiritual mind is more universal and impersonal. The two must join together to make the highest divine love.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p18</ref><center>~</center>Live in the consciousness of the psychic centre; thus your will will express the Divine's Will alone and your transformed being will then be able to receive and manifest the Divine Love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-soul-the-psychic#p33</ref><center>~</center>If, through a sustained effort, a deep concentration, a great forgetfulness of self, you succeed in coming into touch with your psychic being, you will never dream of thinking, "Oh! I would like to be in contact with Divine Love"—you are in a state in which everything appears to you to be this Divine Love and nothing else. And yet it is only a covering, but a covering of a beautiful texture.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/24-march-1951#p25</ref><center>~</center>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 pitfallsa 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 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, pour into are not to be used as means of expression or that higher intensity their diminishing elementsthey are not to share in the full play and the whole meaning of love, even of divine love. On the contrary, they are a means and can be a great part of the complete expression of divine love,—provided they have the right and not the wrong movement. There are in the vital itself two kinds of love,—one full of joy and confidence and abandon, generous, unbargaining, seek ungrudging and very absolute in its dedication and this is akin to the psychic and well-fitted to capture be its complement and a means of expression of the descending Power for themselves divine love. And neither does the psychic love or the divine love despise a physical means of expression wherever that is pure and their interests right and degrade 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>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p32</ref><center>~</center>…our aim is to go beyond mental ideas into the light of the supramental Truth, which exists not by ideative thought but by direct vision and identity. In the same way our aim is to go beyond emotion to the height and depth and intensity of the Divine Love and there feel through the inner psychic heart an aggrandised mental, inexhaustible oneness with the Divine which the spasmodic leapings of the vital emotions cannot reach or experience.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p39</ref><center>~</center>It 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, exposes, repels the mind's and the life's falsehoods, seizes hold on the truth of the Divine Love and Ananda and separates it from the excitement of the mind's ardours and the blind enthusiasm of the misleading life-force. But all things that are true at their core in mind and life and the physical instrumentation for desire being it extricates and takes with it in the journey till they stand on the heights, new in spirit and ego…sublime in figure.
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A psychic change is demanded, a divestiture of the masks of the Ignorance, a purification of the egoistic mental, vital and physical movements that prolong the old inferior consciousness; each movement of love, spiritualised, must depend no longer on mental preference, vital passion or physical craving, but on the recognition of soul by soul,—love restored to its fundamental spiritual and psychic essence with the mind, the vital, the physical as manifesting instruments and elements of that greater oneness. In this change the individual love also is converted by a natural heightening into a divine love for the Divine Inhabitant immanent in a mind and soul and body occupied by the One in all creatures.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p2</ref><center>~</center>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 that it seeks most, it is the love of the Divine that is its spur, 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 immature existence it has 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 has plunged into the night for the redemption of the world from the universal Inconscience. It is not attracted or misled by mental imitations or any vital misuse of these great deep-seated Truths of existence; it exposes them with its detecting search-ray and calls down the entire truth of divine Love to heal these malformations, to deliver mental, vital, physical love from their insufficiencies or their perversions and reveal to them their true abounding share of the intimacy and the oneness, the ascending ecstasy and the descending rapture.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-i#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-extinction, but by a growth out of what we now are phenomenally into the consciousness of the omnipresent reality which we always are in the essence of our being. It substitutes for the form of religious piety its completer spiritual seeking of a divine union. It proceeds by a personal effort to a conversion through a divine influence and possession; but this divine grace, if we may so call it, is not simply a mysterious flow or touch coming from above, but the all-pervading act of a divine presence which we come to know within as the power of the highest Self and Master of our being entering into the soul and so possessing it that we not only feel it close to us and pressing upon our mortal nature, but live in its law, know that law, possess it as the whole power of our spiritualised nature. The one thing conversion its action will effect is an integral conversion of our ethical being into the Truth and Right of the divine nature, of our intellectual into the illumination of divine knowledge, our emotional into the divine love and unity, our dynamic and volitional into a working of the divine power, our aesthetic into a plenary reception and a creative enjoyment of divine beauty, not excluding even in the end a divine conversion of the vital and physical being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-integral-perfection#p12</ref><center>~</center>If the rift in the lid of mind is made, what happens is an opening of vision to something above us or a rising up towards it or a descent of its powers into our being. What we see by the opening of vision is an Infinity above us, an eternal Presence or an infinite Existence, an infinity of consciousness, an infinity of bliss,—a boundless Self, a boundless Light, a boundless Power, a boundless Ecstasy. It may be that for a long time all that is obtained is the occasional or frequent or constant vision of it and a longing and aspiration, but without anything further, because, although something in the mind, heart or other part of the being has opened to this experience, the lower nature as a whole is too heavy and obscure as yet for more. But there may be done , 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 what was to it superconscient, then there begins a knowledge and experience of superior planes of existence. The experience is in accord with that which is brought to change 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 itfeels an infinite Power or a divine Presence or experiences the contact of a divine Love or Beauty or the atmosphere of a wider and greater and luminous Knowledge.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-triple-transformation#p24</ref> ==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-Loving, the All-Beautiful and the All-Blissful. Worship and meditation are used only for the preparation and increase of intensity of the divine relationship. And this Yoga is catholic in its use of all emotional relations, so that even enmity and opposition to God, considered as an intense, impatient and perverse form of Love, is conceived as a possible means of realisation and salvation. This path, too, as ordinarily practised, leads away from world-existence to an absorption, of another kind than the Monist’s, in the Transcendent and Supra-cosmic.But, here too, the exclusive result is not inevitable. The Yoga itself provides a first corrective by not confining the 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 suppress all forms whatsoever. We can see how this larger application of the Yoga of Devotion may be so used as to lead to the elevation of the whole range of human emotion, sensation and aesthetic perception to the divine level, its movement spiritualisation and the justification of the cosmic labour towards love and joy in our humanity. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-systems-of-yoga#p18,p19</ref><center>~</center>The principle of Yoga is to turn God-ward all or destroy any of the powers of the human consciousness so that through that activity of the being there may be contact, relation, union. In the Yoga of Bhakti itis the emotional nature that is made the instrument. Its main principle is to adopt some human relation between man and the Divine Being by which through the ever intenser flowing of the heart's emotions towards him the human soul may at last be wedded to and grow one with him in a passion of divine Love. It is not ultimately the pure peace of oneness or the power and desireless will of oneness, but the ecstatic joy of union which the devotee seeks by his Yoga. For without Every feeling that can make the heart ready for this ecstasy the Yoga admits; everything that detracts from it must increasingly drop away as the strong union of love becomes closer and more perfect. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-godward-emotions#p1</ref><center>~</center>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 can find no other expression. It uses human relations and sees a divine person, not as mere figures, but because there are divine relations of supreme Delight and Beauty with the human soul of which human relations are the imperfect but still the real type, and because that Delight and Beauty are not abstractions or qualities of a quite impalpable metaphysical entity, but the very body and form of the supreme Being. It is a living Soul to which the soul of the bhakta yearns; for the source of all life is not an idea or a conception or a state of existence, but a real Being.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-way-of-devotion#p7</ref><center>~</center>Where external worship changes into the inner adoration, real Bhakti begins; that deepens into the intensity of divine love; that love leads to the joy of closeness in our relations with the Divine; the joy of closeness passes into the bliss of union. Love too as well as knowledge brings us to the highest oneness and it gives to that oneness its greatest possible depth and intensity. It is possible anywheretrue that love returns gladly upon a difference in oneness, by which the oneness itself becomes richer and sweeter. But here we may say that the heart is wiser than the thought, at least that thought which fixes upon opposite ideas of the Divine and concentrates on one to the exclusion of the other which seems its contrary, but is really its complement and a means of its greatest fulfilment…<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/love-and-the-triple-path#p8</ref><center>~</center>Thus the motives of devotion have first to direct themselves engrossingly and predominantly towards the Divine, then to transform themselves so that they are rid of their more earthy elements and finally to take their stand in pure and perfect love. All those that cannot coexist with the perfect union of love, must eventually fall away, while only those that can form themselves into expressions of divine love and into means of enjoying divine love, can remain. For love is the one emotion in us which can be entirely motiveless and self-existent; love need have no other motive than love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0324/2the-motives-juneof-1929devotion#p10p11</ref>
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To want to get rid For devotion by its embodiment in acts not only makes its own way broad and full and dynamic, but brings at once into the harder way of works in the one in order to find world the other is very difficult. It is almost impossible. For human nature is so limited, so full divinely passionate element of contradictions joy and so exclusive love which is often absent in its movements beginning when it is only the austere spiritual will that if one wants to reject love follows in its lower forma struggling uplifting tension the steep ascent, that and the heart is still asleep or bound to say, human silence. If the spirit of divine love as human beings experience itcan enter, if one makes an inner effort to reject itthe hardness of the way diminishes, one usually rejects the entire capacity of feeling love and becomes like a stone. And then sometimes one has to wait for years or centuries before tension is lightened, there is a reawakening sweetness and joy even in oneself the core of the capacity to receive difficulty and manifest love…struggle.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/198-septemberaugust-1956#p23p10</ref>
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It is not that love for all is not part of the sadhana, but it has not to translate itself at once into a mixing with all―it We can only express itself in a general and when need be dynamic universal good-will, but for the rest it must find vent in see how this labour larger application of bringing down the higher consciousness with all its effect for the earth. As for accepting Yoga of Devotion may be so used as to lead to the working elevation of the Divine in all things that is necessary here too in the sense whole range of seeing it even behind our struggles human emotion, sensation and difficultiesaesthetic perception to the divine level, but not accepting its spiritualisation and the nature justification of man and the world as it is―our aim is to move cosmic labour towards a by a greater love and happier manifestationjoy in our humanity. That too <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-systems-of-yoga#p19</ref> =More on Divine Love= Bitterness is a labour an illusion that melts in the Sun of divine Divine Love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1314/relations-with-persons-outside-thegeneral-ashram1#p33p12</ref>
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It is this consciousness that has expressed itself in your letter—or the obscure part of it which clings to its old attitude. It does not want to fulfil the sadhana unless it can get by it the things it wanted. It wants the satisfaction of the ego, "self-fulfilment", appreciation, the granting of its desires. It measures the Divine Love by the outward favours showered upon it And with Grace and looks jealously to see who gets more of these favours than itself, then says that the Divine has no divine 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 nothing is not in you alone that this part feels and acts like that, it is in almost everybody. If that were the only thing in you or the others, then indeed there would be no possibility of Yoga..impossible.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3114/difficulties-of-the-physical-natureendurance#p105p13</ref>
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It is Great beings have taken birth in this world who came to bring down here something of the inability to affirm or keep this character sovereign purity and power of Divine love. The Divine love has thrown itself into a personal form in them that makes human its realisation upon earth may be at once more easy and more perfect. Divine love either transient , when manifested in a personal being, is easier to realise; it is more difficult when it is unmanifested or baulked of impersonal in its full significance or condemned to sink into a less exalted movement diminished to the capacity of the human receptacle…. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2803/philosophical-thought2-andjune-yoga1929#p31p12</ref>
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Love itself blinded by ...the confusions of this present consciousness may stumble in its human receptacles andwhich is at work to transform mankind, even otherwise, may find itself unrecognisedunites Force with Love, rejected or rapidly degenerating and lost in the frailty One who must realise this transformation will come on earth with the Power of man's inferior nature…Divine Love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2910/divine-love-psychic-love-andaphorism-human170-love171#p2p4</ref>
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Its other signs are doubt; tamasic depression; an exaggerated sense of impurity and unfitness; the idea that the Mother ''Q. Which is remote, does not care swifter for one, is not giving what she ought to give, is not divine, with other similar suggestions accompanied by an inability to feel her presence transformation: Divine Love or her help; a feeling that the Yoga is not possible or is not going to be done in this life; the desire to go away and do something in the ordinary world—the thing itself suggested varying according to the personal mind. If it were not this one invariable hostile Mahakali’s force acting, there would not be this exact similarity in all the cases. In each case it is the same obscurities thrown on the intelligence, the same subconscious movements of the vital brought to the surface, the same irrational impulses pushing to the same action,—departure, renunciation of the soul?''s truth, refusal of the Divine Love and the Divine Call.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/dealing-with-hostile-attacks#p16</ref>
''A: Kali's force is necessary only for those who are not yet open to Divine Love. For one who is open to Divine Love, nothing more is needed. ''<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/11-november-1967#p2</ref><center>~</center>The Supramental is something in which the basis is absolute calm and however intense a Divine Love there is in it it does not disturb the calm but increases its depth. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p6</ref><center>~</center>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 Complete Manifestation as the crowning.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-true-aim-of-life#p65</ref><center>"One single drop ~</center>What gives the interest in Yoga is the rasa of the Divine and of Thy the divine consciousness which means the rasa of Peace, of Silence, of inner Light and Bliss, of growing inner Knowledge, of increasing inner Power, of the Divine Love, of all the infinite fields of experience 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>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-inward-movement#p80</ref><center>~</center>It is not that love for all is not part of the sadhana, but it has not to translate itself at once into a mixing with all―it can transform only express itself in a general and when need be dynamic universal good-will, but for the rest it must find vent in this suffering into an ocean 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 not accepting the nature of man and the world as it is―our aim is to move towards a by a greater and happier manifestation. That too is a labour of delight!"divine Love.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1613/20relations-with-persons-julyoutside-1932the-1ashram#p1p33</ref></center>
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