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LOVE

Love must be turned singly towards the Divine. What men call by that name is a vital interchange for mental satisfaction of desire, vital impulse or physical pleasure.

Bliss and oneness are the essential condition of the absolute reality, and love as the most characteristic dynamic power of bliss and oneness must support fundamentally and colour their activities.

The true love for the Divine is a 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.

Divine Love : There is 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. The Divine Love, unlike the human, is deep and vast and silent; one must become quiet and wide to be aware of it and reply to it. He 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.