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=What <center>Love dwells in us like an unopened flowerAwaiting a rapid moment of the soul,Or he roams in his charmed sleep mid thoughts and things;The child-god is Love? =at play, he seeks himselfIn many hearts and minds and living forms:He lingers for a sign that he can knowAnd, when it comes, wakes blindly to a voice,A look, a touch, the meaning of a face. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/34/satyavan#p51</ref></center>

= What is Love? = Love is like a flame that changes what is hard into something malleable force and even sublimates this malleable thing into a kind of purified vapour—it does not destroy, it transformsan action. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1014/aphorismdivine-49love#p11p30</ref>

Love is one of the great universal forces; it exists by itself and its movement is free and independent of the objects in which and through which it manifests.What you call love and think of as a personal or individual thing is only your capacity to receive and manifest this universal force.But because it is universal, it is not therefore an unconscious force; it is a supremely conscious Power. Consciously it seeks for its manifestation and realisation upon earth; consciously it chooses its instruments, awakens to its vibrations those who are capable of an answer, endeavours to realise in them that which is its eternal aim, and when the instrument is not fit, drops it and turns to look for others. Men think that they have suddenly fallen in love; they see their love come and grow and then it fades—or, it may be, endures a little longer in some who are more specially fitted for its more lasting movement. But their sense in this of a personal experience all their own was an illusion. It was a wave from the everlasting sea of universal love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p2</ref>

Love is universal and eternal; it is always manifesting itself and always identical in its essence. Love does not manifest in human beings alone; it is everywhere. Its movement is there in plants, perhaps in the very stones; in the animals it is easy to detect its presence. Love, the eternal force, has no clinging, no desire, no hunger for possession, no self-regarding attachment; it is, in its pure movement, the seeking for union of the self with the Divine, a seeking absolute and regardless of all other things. What human beings have made of it, we do not need to say; they have turned it into an ugly and repulsive thing. And yet even in human beings the first contact of love does bring down something of its purer substance; they become capable for a moment of forgetting themselves, for a moment its divine touch awakens and magnifies all that is fine and beautiful. But afterwards there comes to the surface the human nature, full of its impure demands, asking for something in exchange, bartering what it gives, clamouring for its own inferior satisfactions, distorting and soiling what was divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p3</ref>

<center>~</center>==Nature of Love== Love is like a flame that changes what is hard into something malleable and even sublimates this malleable thing into a kind of purified vapour—it does not destroy, it transforms.

When Consciousness separated from In its Origin essence, in its origin, love is like a flame, a white flame which overcomes ''all'' resistance. You can experience this yourself: whatever the difficulty in your being, whatever the burden of accumulated error, ignorance, incapacity and became Inconsciencebad will, a single ''second'' of this pure, essential, supreme love dissolves it as in an all-powerful flame; a single moment and a whole past can disappear; a single instant in which you ''touch'' it in its essence and a whole burden is consumed.[Based on Aphorism 49- To feel and love the Origin emanated Love to reawaken Consciousness from the depths God of beauty and good in the Inconscience ugly and bring the evil, and still yearn in utter love to heal it back into touch with of its ugliness and its Originevil, this is real virtue and morality. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1410/divineaphorism-love49#p20p11,p12</ref>

The material world in its darkness and ignorance had forgotten ...it is the Divinejoy of identity. Love came into Something must be there already which can become conscious of the darkness; it awakened all identity, and that lay there asleep; it whisperedprecisely is love. Then comes the manifestation of love. And in its supreme form, opening the ears that were sealed: 'There is something worth waking , when it returns toits source crossing all the phases of its manifestation, worth living for, and it is love!' And with becomes the awakening to love there entered into bliss of union. For the world feeling of union comes as a consequence of the possibility feeling of coming back to the Divineseparation. The creation moves upward passage through love towards the Divine whole manifested universe gives the feeling of separation from the Origin; and in answer there leans downward the return to meet the creation Origin is the bliss of union, that is, the Divine two things that were separated are united once again. And it is still Love; it is Love and Graceafter the great circuit of the manifestation. When it returns to its Origin, it becomes the bliss of union. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/26-august-1953#p1p6,p7</ref>

Love is in its nature the desire to give oneself to others and to receive others in exchange; it is a commerce between being and being. Physical life does not desire to give itself, it desires only to receive. It has even been said is true that creation it is compelled to give itself was an act , for the life which only receives and does not give must become barren, wither and perish,—if indeed such life in its entirety is possible at all here or in any world; but it is compelled, not willing, it obeys the subconscious impulse of Nature rather than consciously shares in it. Even when love or intervenes, the self-giving at first still preserves to a large extent the mechanical character of the subconscious will in the atom. Love itself at least first obeys the building up law of hunger and enjoys the receiving and the exacting from others rather than the giving and surrendering to others which it admits chiefly as a field necessary price for the thing that it desires. But here it has not yet attained to its true nature; its true law is to establish an equal commerce in which Divine Love could devise its symbols the joy of giving is equal to the joy of receiving and fulfil tends in the end to become even greater; but that is when it is shooting beyond itself in act under the pressure of the psychic flame to attain to the fulfilment of mutuality utter unity and has therefore to realise that which seemed to it not-self as an even greater and dearer selfthan its own individuality. In its life-givingorigin, and, if not the initial nature law of creationlove is the impulse to realise and fulfil oneself in others and by others, this may well to be its ultimate object enriched by enriching, to possess and motivebe possessed because without being possessed one does not possess oneself utterly. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2321/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-iilife#p10p9</ref>

The gnostic life will exist and act for the Divine in itself and in the world, for the Divine in all; the increasing possession of the individual being and the world by the Divine Presence, Light, Power, Love, Delight, Beauty will be the sense of life to the gnostic being. In the more and more perfect satisfaction of that growing manifestation will be the individual's satisfaction: his power will be the instrumentation of the power of Supernature for bringing in and extending that greater life and nature; whatever conquest and adventure will be there, will be for that only and not for the reign of any individual or collective ego. Love will be for him the contact, meeting, union of self with self, of spirit with spirit, a unification of being, a power and joy and intimacy and closeness of soul to soul, of the One to the One, a joy of identity and the consequences of a diverse identity. It is this joy of an intimate self-revealing diversity of the One, the multitudinous union of the One and a happy interaction in the identity, that will be for him the full revealed sense of life.<centerref>~https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-gnostic-being#p21</centerref>

==Origin of Love is a supreme force which the Eternal Consciousness sent down from itself into an obscure and darkened world that it might bring back that world and its beings to the Divine. Love 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!" This human movement of love is secretly seeking for something else than what it has yet found; but it does not know where to find it, it does not even know what it is. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p11</ref>==

The lover of Nature ''A.'' Where does this when he takes joy in all the things of Nature universally without admitting repulsion or fear or mere liking and disliking, perceiving beauty in that which seems to others mean and insignificant, bare and savage, terrible and repellent. The artist and the poet do it when they seek the rasa of the universal love come from ? From the aesthetic emotion or from the physical line or from the mental form of beauty or from the inner sense and power alike Origin of that from which the ordinary man turns away and of that to which he is attached by a sense of pleasureuniverse. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-double-soul-in-man#p9</ref>

Love will be for him the contact, meeting, union of self with self, of spirit with spirit, a unification of being, ...I say that love is a power and joy and intimacy and closeness of soul to soul, of supreme force which the One Eternal Consciousness has emanated in order to send it into the One, a joy of identity and the consequences of a diverse identityworld. Love comes from that.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2205/the26-gnosticaugust-being1953#p21p3,p4,p5</ref>

Nature took up this sublime force of love The material world in its darkness and put ignorance had forgotten the Divine. Love came into the darkness; it awakened all that lay there asleep; it at whispered, opening the service of her creative work by linking ears that were sealed: 'There is something worth waking to, worth living for, and mixing it is love!' And with her movement the awakening to love there entered into the world the possibility of procreationcoming back to the Divine. The creation moves upward through love towards the Divine and in answer there leans downward to meet the creation the Divine Love and Grace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1205/the-four-austerities-and-the26-fouraugusft-liberations1953#p72p1</ref>

In When Consciousness separated from its essenceOrigin and became Inconscience, in its origin, love is like a flame, a white flame which overcomes all resistance. You can experience this yourself: whatever the difficulty in your being, whatever Origin emanated Love to reawaken Consciousness from the burden depths of accumulated error, ignorance, incapacity the Inconscience and bad will, a single second of this pure, essential, supreme love dissolves bring it as in an all-powerful flame; a single moment and a whole past can disappear; a single instant in which you back into touch it in its essence and a whole burden is consumed. [Based on Aphorism 49- To feel and love the God of beauty and good in the ugly and the evil, and still yearn in utter love to heal it of with its ugliness and its evil, this is real virtue and morality.]<ref>http://incarnatewordOrigin.in/cwm/10/aphorism-49#p12</ref> <center>~</center>

It may be said that at its origin love is for the facility supreme power of attraction which awakens, in response, the irresistible need of an absolute self-giving; they are the two poles of the language urge towards complete fusion.No other movement could, better and more surely than this, throw a bridge across the abyss dug by the sense of separation that you say comes from the love formation of the individual. It was necessary to bring back to itself what had been projected into space without destroying for this one or that onepurpose the universe created thus.That is why love sprang up, but it is all the same one Love manifested through different channelsirresistible power of union. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine-love-and-human-love#p58p21,p22,p23</ref>

The Divine Love love is of two kinds—the Divine love for the creation and the essence souls that are part of Truth itself and cannot be affected by human confusionsthe love of the seeker and love for the Divine Beloved; it has both a personal and impersonal element, but the personal is free here from all lower elements or bondage to the vital and physical instincts. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1429/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p13p44</ref>

Divine And the supreme Love is not an emotion,—a very different thing a love without any definite object―the love which loves because it cannot do other than to saylove. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2914/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p39p52</ref>

Divine Love, in my view of it, is again not something ethereal, cold and far, but a love absolutely intense, intimate and full of unity, closeness and rapture using all the nature for its expression...there Certainly, it is without the confusions and disorders of the present lower vital nature which it will change into something entirely warm, deep and intense; but that is no reason for supposing that it will lose anything that is true and happy in the highest or deepest kind elements of love . Love cannot be cold—for there is no such thing as cold love, but the psychic element, love of which comes from the innermost heart Mother speaks in that passage is something very pure, fixed and soulconstant; it does not leap like fire and sink for want of fuel, a kind of inner union or but is steady and all-embracing and self-giving or at least existent like the light of the sun.  There is also a seeking for divine love thatis personal, a tie or an urge independent of other conditions or elements, existing for its own sake and but it is not for like the ordinary personal human love dependent on any mentalreturn from the person—it is personal but not egoistic, vital or physical pleasure—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, satisfactionunlike the human, interest or habitis deep and vast and silent; one must become quiet and wide to be aware of it and reply to it. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p28p36,p37,p38</ref>

Divine Love, in my view of it, The true divine love is again not something ethereal, cold and far, but a love absolutely intense, intimate and full of unity, closeness and rapture using above all the nature for its expressionquarrels. Certainly, it It is without the confusions and disorders experience of the present lower vital nature which it will change into something entirely warm, deep perfect union in an invariable joy and intense; but that is no reason for supposing that it will lose anything that is true and happy peace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in the elements of love./cwm/16/letters-to-a-young-sadhak-iv#p22</ref>

<center>~</center> With the Divine's Love cannot be cold—for there is no such thing as cold love, the 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 into man but into all the love atoms of which Matter has it infused itself in order to bring the Mother speaks world back to the original Truth. The moment you open to it, you receive also its power of Transformation. But it is not in terms of quantity that passage you can measure it—what is something very pure, fixed and constantessential is the true contact; for you will find that the true contact with it does not leap like fire and sink for want of fuel, but is steady and all-embracing and self-existent like sufficient to fill at once the light whole of the sunyour being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2915/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-lovetransformation#p37p31</ref>

There A supreme divine Love is also a divine love that is personalcreative Power and, but even though it can exist in itself silent and unchangeable, yet rejoices in external form and expression and is not like the ordinary personal human condemned to be a speechless and bodiless godhead.It has even been said that creation itself was an act of love dependent on any return from or at least the person—it is personal but building up of a field in which Divine Love could devise its symbols and fulfil itself in act of mutuality and self-giving, and, if not egoisticthe initial nature of creation,—it goes this may well be its ultimate object and motive. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p10</ref> ===Psychic Love=== The Divine's love is that which comes from above poured down from the real being Divine Oneness and its Ananda on the being—psychic love is a form taken by divine love in the one human being according to the real being in needs and possibilities of the other. But to find that, liberation from the ordinary human way of approach is necessaryconsciousness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p37p11</ref>

The soul's turning through love to When the Divine must be through a love that is essentially divine, but as an instrument of expression at first is human nature, psychic loves it takes loves with the forms of human love and bhakti. It is only as the consciousness deepens, heightens and changes that that greater eternal love can grow in it and openly transform the human into the divineDivine Love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p32</ref>

When the love goes towards the Divine, there It is still this ordinary human element in it. There is the call for a return and if the return does not seem to come, the love may sink; there is the self-interest, the demand for facility of the Divine as a giver of all language that you say the human being wants and, if the demands are not acceded to, abhimana against the Divine, loss of faith, loss of fervour. Etc. etc. But the true love for the Divine is in its fundamental nature not of this kindone or that one, but psychic and spiritual. The psychic element it is the need of the inmost being for self-giving, love, adoration, union which can only be fully satisfied by the Divine. The spiritual element is the need of the being for contact, merging, union with its own highest and whole self and source of being and consciousness and bliss, the Divine. These two are two sides of all the same thing. The mind, vital, physical can be the supports and recipients of this love, but they can be fully that only when they become remoulded into harmony with the psychic and spiritual elements of the being and no longer bring in the lower insistences of the egoone Love manifested through different channels. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2914/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p29p57,p58,p59</ref>

The true divine love is above all quarrels. It ..there is in the highest or deepest kind of love the psychic element, which comes from the experience innermost heart and soul, a kind of perfect inner union in or self-giving or at least a seeking for that, a tie or an invariable joy urge independent of other conditions or elements, existing for its own sake and peacenot for any mental, vital or physical pleasure, satisfaction, interest or habit.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1629/lettersdivine-love-topsychic-alove-youngand-sadhakhuman-ivlove#p22p28</ref>

Krishna with Radha Psychic love is quite satisfying, and it can change even the symbol of the Divine Love. The flute is the call of the Divine Love; the peacock is victoryvital love into something great and beautiful. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3029/godsdivine-goddesseslove-psychic-love-and-semi-divinehuman-beingslove#p13p15</ref>

When you reach A psychic love towards all is also emerging; this love is a thing inward and does not seek to express itself outwardly like the contact with vital love which men usually have. The psychic and spiritual attitude is also not dependent on the good and bad in beings, but is self-existent regarding them as souls who carry the Divine's love you see this love in everything them however thickly concealed and all circumstancesare children of the Mother.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1430/divinethe-loveemergence-or-coming-forward-of-the-psychic#p3p14</ref>

The Divine has an equal Psychic love for all human beingscan have a warmth and a flame as intense and more intense than the vital, only it is a pure fire, but not dependent on the obscurity satisfaction of consciousness ego-desire or on the eating up of most men prevents them from perceiving this divine the fuel it embraces. It is a white flame, not a red one; but white heat is not inferior to the red variety in its ardour. It is true that the psychic lovedoes not usually get its full play in human relations and human nature, it finds the fullness of its fire and ecstasy more easily when it is lifted towards the Divine. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmsabcl/1423/divinehuman-relationships-lovein-yoga-i#p30p45</ref>

To If love truly is psychic in its nature, it always brings a sense of oneness or at least of an inner intimate closeness of being. The Divine Love is based upon oneness and the psychic derives from the Divine, we must rise above attachmentsLove. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1429/divine-love-psychic-love-forand-thehuman-divinelove#p24p12</ref>

<center>~</center> With the Divine's Love The psychic love is the power pure and full of Transformationself-giving without egoistic demand, but it is human and can err and suffer. It has this power because it The Divine Love is for the sake something much vaster and deeper and full of Transformation that it has given itself to the world light and manifested everywhereananda. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1529/transformationdivine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p31p13</ref>

<center>~</center> There is only one true love—it Universal love is the spiritual founded on the sense of the One and the Divine Love; all other loves are diminutions, limitations everywhere and deformations of that Love. Even the love change of the bhakta for his God is personal into a diminution and often is tainted by egoism. But as one tends quite naturally to become like what one loveswide universal consciousness, the bhakta, if he is sincere, begins to become like the Divine whom he adores, and thus his love becomes purer free from attachment and purerignorance.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1629/10divine-junelove-1964psychic-love-and-human-love#p2p43</ref>

As supramental Truth is not merely a sublimation of our mental ideaswith individual, so Divine with universal Love is not merely a sublimation ; all that widening of the self through sympathy, goodwill, universal benevolence and beneficence, love of mankind, love of human emotions; it is a different consciousnesscreatures, with a different qualitythe attraction of all the myriad forms and presences that surround us, movement by which mentally and substanceemotionally man escapes from the first limits of his ego, has to be taken up into a unifying divine love for the universal Divine. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2923/divinethe-loveascent-psychic-loveof-andthe-humansacrifice-loveii#p40p5</ref>

The Divine's love 'dynamic'' Love cannot go out equally to all—that would create a chaotic disturbance because of the unpreparedness of the majority. It is only the static immutable universal Love that can apply equally to all—that which comes from above poured down from in a still wideness of the Divine Oneness and its Ananda on heart which corresponds with the still wideness of the being—psychic love mind in which there is a form taken by divine love in the human being according to the needs equanimity and possibilities of the human consciousnessinfinite peace. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsasabcl/2923/divine-lovesadhana-psychicthrough-love-and-humandevotion-lovei#p11p53</ref>

Divine Love, in my view The supramental love means an intense unity of itsoul with soul, is again not something etherealmind with mind, cold and farlife with life, but a love absolutely intense, intimate and full an entire flooding of unity, closeness and rapture using all the nature for its expression. Certainlybody consciousness with the physical experience of oneness, it is without the confusions and disorders presence of the present lower vital nature which it will change into something entirely warmBeloved in every part, deep and intense; but that is no reason for supposing that it will lose anything that is true and happy in every cell of the elements of lovebody. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-lovebhakti-psychic-loveyoga-and-human-lovevaishnavism#p36p37</ref>

Once you have come in contact with this large, pure and true Divine love is of two kinds—the Divine love , if you have felt it even for the creation a short time and the souls that are part of itself and the love in its smallest form, you will realise what an abject thing human desire has made of the seeker and love for the Divine Beloved; it . It has both a personal become in human nature something low, brutal, selfish, violent, ugly, or else it is something weak and impersonal elementsentimental, but made up of the personal is free here from all lower elements pettiest feeling, brittle, superficial, exacting. And this baseness and brutality or bondage to the vital and physical instincts. this self-regarding weakness they call love! <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2903/divine-love-psychic-love2-andjune-human-love1929#p44p7</ref>

The true love Love, the eternal force, has no clinging, no desire, no hunger for the Divine is possession, no self-givingregarding attachment; it is, free in its pure movement, the seeking for union of demandthe self with the Divine, full a seeking absolute and regardless of submission all other things. Love divine gives itself and surrenderasks for nothing. It makes no claimWhat human beings have made of it, imposes no conditionwe do not need to say; they have turned it into an ugly and repulsive thing. And yet even in human beings the first contact of love does bring down something of its purer substance; they become capable for a moment of forgetting themselves, strikes no bargainfor a moment its divine touch awakens and magnifies all that is fine and beautiful. But afterwards there comes to the surface the human nature, indulges in no violence full of jealousy or pride or anger―for these things are not its impure demands, asking for something in exchange, bartering what it gives, clamouring for its compositionown inferior satisfactions, distorting and soiling what was divine. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1405/love19-for-theaugust-divine1953#p20p21</ref>

True Human love, that which fulfils and illumines, is not the nothing but divine love one receives but perverted and distorted by the love one givesinstrument through which it is expressed.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1410/divine-love-and-humanaphorism-love534#p51p4</ref>

The true Human love for the Divine is a self-giving, free made up of demandemotion, full of submission passion and surrender; it makes no claim, imposes no condition, strikes no bargaindesire, indulges in no violences —all 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 them 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 therefore bound to the very material, and here there is no limitation either disabilities of time or of completenessthe human vital nature. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p24p39</ref>

True Human love is something very deep mostly vital and calm in its intensity; physical with a mental support—it can take an unselfish, noble and pure form and expression only if it is touched by the psychic. It is true, as you say, that it is more usually a mixture of ignorance, attachment, passion and desire. But whatever it may quite well be, one who wishes to reach the Divine must not manifest itself in any exterior acts sensational or affectionateburden himself with human loves and attachments, for they form so many fetters and hamper his steps, turning him away besides from the concentration of his emotions on the one supreme object of love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1429/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p64p41</ref>

===Psychic Physical Love ===

A psychic There may too be a physical love towards all is also emerging; this love is a thing inward and , the attraction of beauty, the physical sex-appeal or anything else of the kind awakening the emotions of the heart. If that does not seek to express itself outwardly like happen, then the vital love which men usually have. The psychic physical need is all and spiritual attitude that is also not dependent on the good and bad in beingssheer lust, but nothing more. But physical love is self-existent regarding them as souls who carry the Divine in them however thickly concealed and are children of the Motherpossible.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3031/the-emergence-or-coming-forward-of-the-psychicsex#p14p31</ref>

Psychic love In the same way there can have be a warmth mental love. It arises from the attempt to find one's ideal in another or from some strong mental passion of admiration and wonder or from the mind's seeking for a flame as intense comrade, a complement and more intense than the vitalfulfiller of one's nature, only it is a pure fire''sahadharmī'', not dependent on the satisfaction of ego-desire or on the eating up of the fuel it embraces. It is a white flameguide and helper, not a red one; but white heat is not inferior to the red variety in its ardourleader and master or from a hundred other mental motives. It is true By itself that the psychic love does not usually get its full play in human relations amount to love, though often it is so ardent as to be hardly distinguishable from it and human naturemay even push to sacrifice of life, entire self-giving etc. etc. But when it finds awakes the fullness emotions of the heart, then it may lead to a very powerful love which is yet mental in its fire root and ecstasy more easily when it is lifted towards the Divinedominant character. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p32</ref>

If love is psychic in its nature, it always brings a sense of oneness or at least of an inner intimate closeness of being. The Divine ===Vital Love is based upon oneness and the psychic derives from the Divine Love. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p12,p13</ref>===

The psychic But there is another way of vital love which is more usually the way of human nature and that is pure a way of ego and desire. It is full of self-giving without egoistic vital craving, desire and demand; its continuance depends upon the satisfaction of its demands; if it does not get what it craves, but or even imagines that it is not being treated as it deserves—for it is human full of imaginations, misunderstandings, jealousies, misinterpretations—it at once turns to sorrow, wounded feeling, revolt, pride, anger, all kinds of disorder, finally cessation and departure…Love should be a flowering of joy and union and can err confidence and suffer. The Divine Love self-giving and Ananda,—but this lower vital way is something much vaster only a source of suffering, trouble, disappointment, disillusion and deeper disunion. Even a slight element of it shakes the foundations of peace and full of light replaces the movement towards Ananda by a fall towards sorrow, discontent and anandaNirananda. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p13p32,p33</ref>

The psychic realisation There is a vital love, a physical love. It is possible for the vital to desire a woman for various vital reasons without love—in order to satisfy the instinct of domination or possession, in order to draw in the vital forces of a woman so as to feed one 's own vital or for the exchange of diversity in unity (vital forces, to satisfy vanity, the portion and hunter's instinct of the whole); chase etc. etc.This is often called love, but it is not one only vital desire, a kind of dissolving like a drop lust. If however the emotions of water in the sea—for heart are awakened, then no it becomes vital love , a mixed affair with any or devotion is possible unless it is love all of oneselfthese vital motives strong, devotion to oneselfbut still vital love.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2931/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-lovesex#p19p30</ref>

When there Vital emotions are of an altogether different nature—they are very clear, very precise, you can express them very distinctly; they are violent, they usually fill you with an intensity, a restlessness, sometimes a great satisfaction. some people imagine they experience love only when it is no demand or desirelike that, only when love and self-givingis in the vital, when it comes with all the movements of the vital, all this intensity, this violence, this precision, this glamour, this brightness. And when that is the psychic absent, they say, "Oh, this is not love."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2915/divine-love-psychic-love-and30-humanjanuary-love1951#p14p31</ref>

Psychic When the vital joins in the love is quite satisfyingfor the Divine, and it can change even brings into it heroism, enthusiasm, intensity, absoluteness, exclusiveness, the spirit of self-sacrifice, the vital love into something great total and beautifulpassionate self-giving of all the nature.<ref>http://incarnatewordIt is the vital passion for the Divine that creates the spiritual heroes, conquerors or martyrs.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p15</ref>

=== Supreme Love=== And I have never said that the supreme Love vital is a to have no part in the love without any definite object―the love which loves because for the Divine, only that it cannot do other than to must purify and ennoble itself in the light of the psychic being. The results of self-loving lovebetween human beings are so poor and contrary in the end—that is what I mean by the ordinary vital love—that I want something purer and nobler and higher in the vital also for the movement towards the Divine.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1429/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p52p50,p51</ref>

Universal love ==Misapprehensions Related to Love== It has become human nature something low, brutal, selfish, violent, ugly, or else it is the spiritual founded on the sense of the One something weak and the Divine everywhere and the change sentimental, made up of the personal into a wide universal consciousnesspettiest feeling, free from attachment brittle, superficial, exacting. And this baseness and ignorance.brutality or this self-regarding weakness they call love! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2903/divine-love-psychic-love-and2-humanjune-love1929#p43p7</ref>

The supramental is not, as you can imagine, something coldAs for love, hard and rocklike. It bears within it the presence of love must be turned singly towards the Divine Love as well as the Divine Truth and its reign here means . What men call by that name is a vital interchange for those who accept it the straight and thornless path on which there is no wall mutual satisfaction of desire, vital impulse or obstacle of which the ancient Rishis saw the far-off promisephysical pleasure. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsasabcl/2924/bhaktitransformation-yogaof-the-andvital-vaishnavismx#p20p31</ref>

The supramental <center>~</center> Certainly, one has the right to love and true love means an intense unity of soul with soul, mind with mind, life with lifecarries in itself its joy, but unfortunately human beings are egoistic and an entire flooding of the body consciousness immediately mix with their love the physical experience of oneness''desire to be loved'' in return, and this desire is contrary to spiritual truth and the presence cause of the Beloved in every part, in every cell of the bodypassions and sufferings. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p37</ref>

The one you love must have the right of freedom in her feelings and if you want the truth you must understand this right and accept it. Otherwise there will be no end to your miseries. This is an occasion to surmount your egoism and to open to the true life.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine-love-and-human-love#p6</ref> ===How does Divine Love Manifest? Difference between Aspiration and Desire===

To manifest the Divine The essential difference between love, you must be capable of receiving the Divine in aspiration and love in desire is that love. The wider in aspiration gives itself entirely and clearer the opening asks nothing in them, the more they manifest return—it does not claim anything; whereas love divine in its original purity; the more it is mixed with the lower human feelingsdesire gives itself as little as possible, the greater the deformation. The divisionasks as much as possible, the distinction between the two that you make in the beginning are a creation of the mind: once you rise it pulls things to a higher level, they disappearitself and always makes demands. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0304/222-junefebruary-19291951#p4p21</ref>

The Divine Love, unlike humans, is deep and vast and silent; one must become quiet and wide to be aware of it and reply to it… To give oneself is Psychic love never bargains—but the secret of sadhana, not vital always tries to demand and acquire. The more one gives oneself, the more the power to receive will growderive some benefit for itself in all circumstances. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2917/divine26-love-psychic-lovejune-and-human-love1935#p38p4</ref>

On the physical plane the Divine expresses himself through beauty, on the mental plane through knowledge, on Psychic love is always peaceful and joyous; it is the vital plane through power which dramatizes and on the psychic plane through lovemakes itself unhappy without any reason. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1516/theletters-divineto-workinga-inyoung-thesadhak-universeiv#p6p16</ref>

It is difficult to define its [the Divine Love''psychic love's''] exists in itself and does not depend on outer contact limits or outer expressionto recognise it. Whether For even when there is the psychic love for another person, it gets in the human being so mixed up with the vital that it shall express itself outwardly or how is the commonest thing to justify a vital love by claiming for it will express itself outwardly depends a psychic character. One could say that psychic love is distinguished by an essential purity and selflessness—but the vital can put on a very brilliant imitation of that character, when it likes.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/human-relations-and-the -spiritual truth -life#p58</ref> ==Love and Sex== Nature took up this sublime force of love and put it at the service of her creative work by linking and mixing it with her movement of procreation. This association has even become so close, so intimate, that very few human beings are illumined enough in their consciousness to be able to dissociate these movements from each other and experience them separately. In this way, love has suffered every degradation, it has been debased to be manifestedthe level of the beast.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2912/divine-lovethe-psychicfour-loveausterities-and-humanthe-four-loveliberations#p6p72</ref>

There All movements are in the mass movements of Nature's cosmic forces—they are movements of universal Nature. The individual receives something of them, a wave or pressure of some cosmic force, and is one divine Love secret driven by it; he thinks it is his own, generated in all thingshimself separately, but it is not so, it is part of a general movement which works just in the manifestation [same way in others. Sex, for instance, is a movement of general Nature seeking for its play and it uses this or that one—a man vitally or physically "in matter love" as it is called with a woman is simply repeating and in forms of life] depends upon satisfying the state world-movement of consciousness sex, if it had not been that woman, it would have been another; he is simply an instrument in Nature's machinery, it is not an independent movement. So it is with anger and its organisationother Nature-motives. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2931/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-lovesex#p7p5</ref>

Ordinary human It is not that it is not possible to keep the love pure, but the two things [''love and sex-desire''] are so near each other and have been so much twined together in the animal beginnings of the race that it is not easy to keep them altogether separate. In the pure psychic love there is no trace of the sex-desire, but usually the vital, emotional affection gets very strongly associated with the psychic which is then mixed though still not sexual; but the vital affection and the vital physical and sex-emotion are entirely close to each other, so that at any moment or in any given case one may awake the other. This becomes very strong when the sex-force is strong in an individual as it is in most vitally energetic people. To increase always egoistic—a form the force of selfthe psychic, to control the sex-impulse and turn it into the ''ojas'', to turn the lovetowards the Divine are the true remedies for this difficulty. The psychic element is very small except in a fewSeminal force not sexually spent can always be turned into ''ojas''. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/human-relations-and-the-spiritual-lifesex#p55p21</ref>

Human love is mainly When the psychic puts its influence on the vital, when it the first thing you must be careful to avoid is not any least mixture of a wrong vital and physical togethermovement with the psychic movement. It Lust is the perversion or degradation which prevents love from establishing its reign; so when there is also sometimes the movement of psychic + love in the heart, lust or vital. But desire is the one thing that must not be allowed to come in—just as when strength comes down from above, personal ambition and pride have to be kept far away from it; for any mixture of the perversion will corrupt the Love with psychic or spiritual action and prevent a dominant psychic element is raretrue fulfilment. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/human-relations-and-the-spiritual-lifesex#p56p22</ref>

Human What is real love? Get clear of all the sentimental sexual turmoil and go back to the soul,—then there is real love . It is nothing but divine then also you would be able to receive the overwhelming love perverted and distorted by without getting the instrument through lower being into an excitement which it is expressedmight be disastrous.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1031/aphorism-534sex#p4p24</ref>

Human love is mostly vital and physical with a mental support—it can take an unselfish, noble and pure form and expression only if it is touched by the psychic. It is true, as When you say, that it is more usually a mixture of ignorance, attachment, passion and desire. But whatever it may be, one who wishes to reach the Divine must not burden himself contact with human loves and attachments, for they form so many fetters and hamper his steps, turning him away besides from the concentration of his emotions on the one supreme object of Divine's love you see this lovein everything and all circumstances.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2914/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p41p3</ref>

He was speaking of human The more love manifesting as Bhaktiand bhakti and surrender grow in the heart, as a force of devotion for the Divine, more rapid and he says that at the beginning your love for the Divine is a very human love with all perfect becomes the characteristics evolution of human love. 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 lovesadhana.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0630/16the-psychic-and-junespiritual-1954realisations#p61p23</ref>

There For there is a vital , concealed behind individual love, obscured by its ignorant human figure, a physical love. It is possible for mystery which the mind cannot seize, the vital to desire a woman for various vital reasons without love—in order to satisfy mystery of the instinct body of domination or possessionthe Divine, in order to draw in the vital forces secret of a woman so as to feed one's own vital or for mystic form of the Infinite which we can approach only through the ecstasy of the heart and the exchange passion of vital forcesthe pure and sublimated sense, to satisfy vanityand its attraction which is the call of the divine Flute-player, the hunter's instinct mastering compulsion of the chase etc. etc.This is often called loveAll-Beautiful, but it is can only vital desirebe seized and seize us through an occult love and yearning which in the end makes one the Form and the Formless, a kind of lustand identifies Spirit and Matter. If however It is that which the spirit in Love is seeking here in the emotions darkness of the heart are awakened, then Ignorance and it is that which it becomes vital finds when individual human love is changed into the love, a mixed affair with any or all of these vital motives strong, but still vital lovethe Immanent Divine incarnate in the material universe. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3123/sexthe-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p30p4</ref>

There Love is the power and passion of the divine self-delight and without love we may too be a physical love, get the attraction rapt peace of beautyits infinity, the physical sex-appeal or anything else absorbed silence of the kind awakening Ananda, but not its absolute depth of richness and fullness. Love leads us from the emotions suffering of division into the heart. If bliss of perfect union, but without losing that does not happen, then joy of the physical need act of union which is all the soul's greatest discovery and that for which the life of the cosmos is sheer lust, nothing more. But physical love is possiblea long preparation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3124/sexlove-and-the-triple-path#p31p5</ref> ===Mental Love===

==Misapprehensions Related If the spirit of divine love can enter, the hardness of the way diminishes, the tension is lightened, there is a sweetness and joy even in the core of difficulty and struggle. The indispensable surrender of all our will and works and activities to Love==the Supreme is indeed only perfect and perfectly effective when it is a surrender of love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p11</ref>

Nothing can resist the steady action of love. It has become human nature something low, brutal, selfish, violent, ugly, or else it is something weak melts all resistances and sentimental, made up of the pettiest feeling, brittle, superficial, exactingtriumphs over all difficulties... And this baseness and brutality or this self-regarding weakness they call love!<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0316/29-junenovember-19291938#p7p2</ref>

Because you cannot obtain what you want from It is as the object love of your love, you want to destroy it in order the Divine grows that the other things cease to become free; in trouble the other case, you shrivel up almost in an inner rage, because you cannot obtain, you cannot absorb what you lovemind.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1031/aphorismhuman-relations-and-the-113spiritual-114life#p5p22</ref>

The essential difference between And yet men have invented all kinds of moral and social rules in the hope of controlling this force of love in aspiration , of making it amenable and docile. But these rules seem to have been made only to be broken; and love in desire the restraint they impose on its free activity merely increases its explosive power. For it is not by rules that the movements of love can be disciplined. Only a greater, higher and truer power of love can subdue the uncontrollable impulses of love. Only love in aspiration gives itself entirely can rule over love by enlightening, transforming and asks nothing in return—it exalting it. For here too, more than anywhere else, control does not claim anything; whereas love consist of suppression and abolition but of transmutation—a sublime alchemy. This is because, of all the forces at work in desire gives itself as little as possiblethe universe, asks as much as possiblelove is the most powerful, it pulls things to itself and always makes demandsthe most irresistible. Without love the world would fall back into the chaos of inconscience. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0412/22the-four-austerities-and-the-februaryfour-1951liberations#p21p67</ref> ==To Realise the Oneness==

=== The Role All true love and sacrifice are in their essence Nature's contradiction of Vital ===the primary egoism and its separative error; it is her attempt to turn from a necessary first fragmentation towards a recovered oneness. All unity between creatures is in its essence a self-finding, a fusion with that from which we have separated, a discovery of one's self in others. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-sacrifice-the-triune-path-and-the-lord-of-the-sacrifice#p2</ref>

Vital emotions are <center>~</center> Wherever into a human story of an altogether different nature—they are very clear, very precise, you can express them very distinctly; they are violentlove, they usually fill you with there has entered even an intensityatom of pure love and it has been allowed to manifest without too much distortion, we find a restlessnesstrue and beautiful thing. And if the movement does not last, sometimes a great satisfaction. some people imagine they experience love only when it is like because it is not conscious of its own aim and seeking; it has not the knowledge that, when love it is in not the vital, when union of one being with another that it comes with all is seeking after but the movements union of all beings with the vital, all this intensity, this violence, this precision, this glamour, this brightness. And when that is absent, they say, "Oh, this is not loveDivine."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1503/302-januaryjune-19511929#p31p10</ref>

The vital must have decided that my love would oneness with all in its basis is something self-existent and self-content which does not ''need'' expression. When it does express itself in a particular wayas love, it is something wide and universal, untroubled and as firm even when it did not happen is intense. This is in the basic cosmic oneness. There is also the surface cosmic consciousness which is an awareness of the play of cosmic forces—here anything may rise, sex also. It is this part that wayneeds the perfect psychisation, otherwise one cannot even hold, contain and deal with it in the vital says, "There is no love!" proper way. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1729/20divine-octoberlove-1934psychic-1love-and-human-love#p4p22</ref>

I have never said For supramental Love brings an active ecstasy that surpasses the vital void passive peace and stillness which is to have no part in the love for heaven of the Divine, only that it must purify liberated Mind and ennoble itself in does not betray the deeper greater calm which is the light beginning of the psychic beingsupramental silence. The results unity of self-loving a love between human beings are so poor and contrary which is able to include in the end—that is what I mean itself all differences without being diminished or abrogated by the ordinary vital love—that I want something purer their present limitations and nobler and higher in apparent dissonances is raised to its full potentiality on the vital also for supramental level. For there an intense oneness with all creatures founded on a profound oneness of the movement towards soul with the Divinecan harmonise with a play of relations that only makes the oneness more perfect and absolute. The power of Love supramentalised can take hold of all living relations without hesitation or danger and turn them Godwards delivered from their crude, mixed and petty human settings and sublimated into the happy material of a divine life. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2923/divine-lovethe-psychicascent-loveof-andthe-humansacrifice-loveii#p50p15</ref>

YesWhen the surroundings, circumstances, atmosphere, the way of living and above all the inner attitude are altogether of a low kind, vulgar, gross, egoistic, sordid, love is reluctant to come, that is the nature , it always hesitates to manifest itself and generally does not stay long. A home of vital lovebeauty must be given for Beauty to stay. It is based on desire I am not speaking of external things—a real house, real furniture and the sense all that—I am speaking of claim or sense an inner attitude, of possession; psychic something within which is beautiful, noble, harmonious, unselfish. But when, as soon as it tries to manifest, it is immediately mixed with such low and ugly things, it does not remain, it goes away.This is what Sri Aurobindo says: it is "reluctant to be born"—it could be said that it immediately regrets being born. Men always complain that love does not stay with them but it is based on self-givingentirely their fault.As for They give this lovesuch a sordid life, mixed with a heap of horrors and such vulgarity, things so base, so selfish, so dirty, that the love must be turned singly towards poor thing cannot stay. If they don't succeed in killing it altogether, they make it utterly sick. So the Divineonly thing it can do is to take flight. What men call by People always complain that name love is a vital interchange for mutual satisfaction impermanent and passing. To tell the truth, they should be very grateful that it manifested in them in spite of the sordidness of desire, vital impulse or physical pleasurethe house they gave it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2904/divine-love12-psychicmay-love-and-human-love1951#p52p3</ref>

When the vital joins in the love for the Divine, it brings into it heroism, enthusiasm, intensity, absoluteness, exclusiveness, the spirit The Rungs of self-sacrifice, the total and passionate self-giving of all the nature. It is the vital passion for the Divine that creates the spiritual heroes, conquerors or martyrs. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p49</ref>Love

The love in the vital or other parts is the true thingNext, good for the spiritual lifeone loves spontaneously, only when but one wants to be loved in the vital love return.Then one loves even if one is changed into a form of the psychic love and becomes an instrument for the transformation of the soulnot loved, but one still wants one's loveto be accepted.And finally one loves purely and simply, no longer for the desires without any other need or joy than that of the ego which men call loveloving. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3114/humandivine-relationslove-and-thehuman-spiritual-lifelove#p54p32,p33,p34,p35,p36</ref>

I should perhaps add one or two things to avoid misapprehensions''Q. FirstMother, the love for the Divine what kind of which I speak is not a psychic love only; it is the love of all the being, the vital and vital-physical included,—all are capable of the same self-giving. It is a mistake to believe that if the vital loveswhich says, it must be a love that demands and imposes the satisfaction of its desire; it is a mistake to think that it must be either that or else the vital, in order to escape from its "attachment", must draw away altogether from the object of its love. The vital can be as absolute in its unquestioning self-giving as any other part of nature; nothing can be more generous than its movement when it forgets self for the Beloved. The vital and physical should both give themselves in the true way—the way of true If you loveme, not of ego-desire. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-I shall love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p27</ref>you"?''

There are in the vital itself two kinds of ''But "If you don't loveme,—one full of joy and confidence and abandon, generous, non bargaining, ungrudging and very absolute in its dedication and this is akin to the psychic and well-fitted to be its complement and a means of expression of the divine love. And neither does the psychic love or the divine love despise a physical means of expression wherever that is pure and right and possible: it does not depend upon that, it does not diminish, revolt or go out like a snuffed candle when it is deprived of any such means; but when it can use it, it does so with joy and gratitude. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-I shall love#p32</ref>you"?''

But there And what is another way of vital love which better still is more usually the way of human nature and that not to ask oneself whether one is a way of ego and desire. It is full of vital craving, desire and demand; its continuance depends upon the satisfaction of its demands; if it does loved or not get what it craves, or even imagines one should be absolutely indifferent to that. And that it is begins to be true love: one loves because one loves, not being treated as it deserves—for it is full of imaginations, misunderstandings, jealousies, misinterpretations—it at once turns all because one receives a response to sorrow, wounded feelings, revolt, pride, anger, all kinds of disorder, finally cessation and departureone's love or because the other person loves you. A All those conditions—that is not love of this kind is in its very nature ephemeral and unreliable and it . One loves because one cannot be made a foundation for divine love… Love should be a flowering of joy and union and confidence and self-giving and Ananda,—but this lower vital way do otherwise but love. One loves because one loves. One doesn't care at all about what will happen; one is only a source of suffering, trouble, disappointment, disillusion and disunion. Even a slight element of it shakes perfectly satisfied with the foundations feeling of peace and replaces the movement towards Ananda by a fall towards sorrow, discontent and Niranandaone's love. <ref>http://incarnatewordOne loves because one loves.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p33</ref>

Psychic And, moreover, one thing is certain: the moment one experiences true love never bargains—but , one doesn't even put the vital always tries question any longer. It seems altogether childish and ridiculous and insignificant to derive some benefit for itself in ask this question. One has the complete plenitude of joy and realisation the moment one experiences true love and one doesn't at all need any kind of response. One is love, that's all circumstances. <ref>http://incarnatewordAnd one has the plenitude of the satisfaction of love. There is no need at all of any reciprocity.in/cwm/17/26-june-1935#p4</ref>

<center>~</center> Psychic love I tell you, so long as there is always peaceful this calculation in the mind or the feelings and joyous; sensations, so long as there is some calculation, more or less acknowledged, it is bargaining, it is the vital which dramatizes and makes itself unhappy without any reasonnot love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/letters-to-a-young-sadhak-iv#p16</ref>

All movements are in the mass movements rest is exactly what men have made of Nature's cosmic forces—they are movements of universal Naturelove. The individual receives something of them, a wave or pressure of some cosmic force, and is driven by it; he thinks it is his own, generated in himself separately, but And besides it is not so, it is part very pretty and leads to all kinds of a general movement things which works just in the same way in others. Sexare still less pretty, like jealousy, for instance, is a movement of general Nature seeking for its play or envy, and in violent natures it uses goes as far as hatred. The small beginning is this or : the need, when one loves, that one—a man vitally what one loves or physically "in love" as it is called with a woman is simply repeating and satisfying the world-movement of sex, if it had not been person one loves should know that woman, it would have been another; he is simply an instrument loved. But in Naturethe relation with the Divine: one loves the Divine but insists that the Divine should know that one loves Him! That's machinery, it is the beginning of the fall. One does not an independent movementeven think about the real thing. So it is with anger and other Nature-motivesIt doesn't even slightly touch the mind.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p5</ref>

When the psychic puts its influence on the vital, the first thing you must be careful to avoid It is any least mixture of a wrong vital movement with the psychic movement. Lust is the perversion or degradation which prevents love from establishing its reign; so when there is the movement of psychic love in the heartlong, long, lust or vital desire is the one thing that must not be allowed long way to come in—just as when strength comes down go from above, personal ambition and pride have what men call "love" to be kept far away from it; for any mixture of the perversion will corrupt the psychic or spiritual action and prevent a true fulfilmentlove—a long way. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/sex26-august-1953#p12,p13,p14,p15,p16,p17,p18,p19,p20,p21,p22,p23,p24</ref>

One must give up '' Q. It is said that to become conscious of divine Love all other love has to be abandoned. What is the sex-satisfaction and be satisfied with best way of rejecting the Divine Love other love which clings so obstinately (''Laughter'') and Ananda.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p38</ref>does not easily leave us?''

What That is real love? Get clear of all the sentimental sexual turmoil and go back to the soul,—then there is real love. It is then also you would be able to receive the overwhelming love without getting the lower being into an excitement which might be disastrous.<ref>http://incarnatewordbest way.in/cwsa/31/sex#p24</ref>

It is not that it is not possible to keep Therefore, the best way when love purecomes, but the two things [love and sex-desire] are so near each other and have been so much twined together in the animal beginnings of the race that whatever form it may be, is not easy to keep them altogether separate. In try and pierce through its outer appearance and find the pure psychic love there divine principle which is no trace of the sex-desirebehind and which gives it existence. Naturally, but usually the vital affection gets very strongly associated with the psychic which it is then mixed though still not sexual; but the vital affection full of snares and the vital physical sex-emotion are entirely close to each otherdifficulties, so that at any moment or in any given case one may awake the other. This becomes very strong when the sex-force is strong in an individual as but it is in most vitally energetic peoplemore effective. To increase always the force That is to say, instead of the psychicceasing to love because one loves wrongly, one must cease to control the sex-impulse love wrongly and turn it into the ''ojas'', want to turn the love towards the Divine are the true remedies for this difficulty. Seminal force not sexually spent can always be turned into ''ojas''. <ref>http://incarnatewordwell.in/cwsa/31/sex#p21</ref>

= Why For instance, love between human beings, in all its forms, the love of parents for children, of children for parents, of brothers and sisters, of friends and lovers, is Love Essential? =all tainted with ignorance, selfishness and all the other defects which are man's ordinary drawbacks; so instead of completely ceasing to love—which, besides, is very difficult as Sri Aurobindo says, which would simply dry up the heart and serve no end—one must learn how to love better: to love with devotion, with self-giving, self-abnegation, and to struggle, not against love itself, but against its distorted forms: against all forms of monopolising, of attachment, possessiveness, jealousy, and all the feelings which accompany these main movements. Not to want to possess, to dominate; and not to want to impose one's will, one's whims, one's desires; not to want to take, to receive, but to give; not to insist on the other's response, but be content with one's own love; not to seek one's personal interest and joy and the fulfilment of one's personal desire, but to be satisfied with the giving of one's love and affection; and not to ask for any response. Simply to be happy to love, nothing more.

Love does If you do that, you have taken a great stride forward and can, through this attitude, gradually advance farther in the feeling itself, and realise one day that love is not forgivesomething personal, that love is a universal divine feeling which manifests through you more or less finely, but which in its essence is something divine.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; it understands one must give oneself to the object of love without exacting anything in return. This discipline is elementary in order to surmount oneself and cureslead a life which is not altogether gross. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/1608/2819-augustseptember-19391956#p4p21,p22,p23,p24,p25,p26,p27,p28,p29</ref>

Nothing can resist Let us grant that at first love may only be an extended selfishness and that this aspect of extended selfishness may persist and dominate, as it does still persist and dominate, in higher stages of the evolution: still as mind evolves and more and more finds itself, it comes by the experience of life and love and mutual help to perceive that the natural individual is a minor term of being and exists by the universal. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-ascent-of-life#p2</ref> ===How to Purify the steady action Mental, Physical to Receive and Give Love=== 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. It melts all resistances 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 triumphs over body occupied by the One in all difficulties..creatures.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1623/9the-ascent-of-the-novembersacrifice-1938ii#p2</ref>

I should perhaps add one or two things to avoid misapprehensions. First, the love for the Divine of which I speak is not a psychic love only; it is the love of all the being, the vital and vital-physical included,—all are capable of the same self-giving. It is as a mistake to believe that if the vital loves, it must be a love that demands and imposes the satisfaction of its desire; it is a mistake to think that it must be either that or else the Divine grows that vital, in order to escape from its "attachment", must draw away altogether from the object of its love. The vital can be as absolute in its unquestioning self-giving as any other things cease to trouble part of the nature; nothing can be more generous than its movement when it forgets self for the mindBeloved. The vital and physical should both give themselves in the true way—the way of true love, not of ego desire. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3132/humanthe-right-relationsway-andof-loving-the-spiritual-lifemother#p22p6</ref>

In this love lie peace and joy..."Aspiration in the Physical for the Divine's Love."By the "Physical" I mean the physical consciousness, the most ordinary outward-going consciousness, the fount normal consciousness of most human beings, which sets such great store by comfort, good food, good clothes, happy relationships, etc., instead of aspiring for the higher things. Aspiration in the physical for the Divine's Love implies that the physical asks for nothing else save that it should feel how the Divine loves it. It realises that all strength and all realisationits usual satisfactions are utterly insufficient. It is But there cannot be a compromise: if the physical wants the infallible healerDivine's Love it must want that alone and not say, "I shall have the supreme consoler; it is Divine's Love and at the victorsame time keep my other attachments, the sovereign teacherneeds and enjoyments.... " <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0103/decemberaspiration-in-the-physical-16for-1913the-divines-love#p3p1</ref>

Love alone can work At the beginning of this miraclemanifestation, in the purity of its origin, for love opens all doorsis composed of two movements, penetrates every wall, clears every obstacletwo complementary poles of the urge towards complete oneness. On one hand there is the supreme power of attraction and on the other the irresistible need for absolute self-giving.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0112/decemberthe-four-austerities-and-the-16four-1913liberations#p1p70</ref>

If But because this Unity has manifested in the spirit of divine love can enter, many—in the hardness of multiplicity—something had to serve as a link between the way diminishes, Origin and the tension is lightenedmanifestation, there is a sweetness and joy even in the core most perfect link one can conceive of difficulty and struggleis love. The indispensable surrender And what is the first gesture of all our will and works and activities love? To give oneself, to the Supreme is indeed only perfect and perfectly effective when it serve. What is its spontaneous, immediate, inevitable movement? To serve. To serve in a surrender of lovejoyous, complete, total self-giving. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2309/the-ascent-of-the6-sacrificemarch-ii1957#p11p5</ref>

For supramental Love brings an active ecstasy that surpasses 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 void passive peace sun sets and all becomes silent, sit down for a moment and stillness which is put yourself into communion with nature, you will feel rising from the earth, from below the heaven roots of the liberated Mind trees, and mounting upward and coursing through their fibres, up to the highest outstretching branches, the aspiration of an intense love and longing,—a longing for something that brings light and does not betray gives happiness, for the deeper greater calm which 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 beginning of trees, your own being too will go up in an ardent prayer for the supramental silencepeace and light and love that are unmanifested here.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2305/the-ascent-of-the19-sacrificeaugust-ii1953#p15p1</ref>

Altruism'' Q. You say, philanthropy"Love is everywhere. Its movement is there in plants, humanitarianism, service are flowers of perhaps in the mental consciousness and are at best the mind's cold and pale imitation of the spiritual flame of universalDivineLovevery stones... <ref>http://incarnateword." If there is love in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-i#p20</ref>a stone, how can one see it?''

The more '' A.'' Perhaps the different elements constituting the stone are coordinated by the spark of love and bhakti and surrender grow . 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 hearteffort of Love to bring consciousness into Matter. If one of you (I have my doubts, but still) went down into the Inconscient, what is called the pure Inconscient, you would realise what it is. A stone will seem to you a marvellously conscious object in comparison. You speak disdainfully of a stone because you have just a wee bit more rapid consciousness than it has, but the difference between the consciousness of the stone and the total Inconscient is perhaps greater than that between the stone and perfect becomes you. And the coming out of the Inconscient is due exclusively to the sacrifice of the evolution Divine, to this descent of Divine Love into the Inconscient. Consequently, when I said "perhaps in the stone", I could have removed the sadhana"perhaps"—I can assert that even in the stone it is there. There would be nothing, neither stone nor metal nor any organisation of atoms without this presence of Divine Love. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3004/the24-psychicmarch-and-spiritual-realisations1951#p23p1,p2</ref>

Love leads us from On the suffering of division into physical plane the bliss of perfect unionDivine expresses himself through beauty, but without losing that joy of on the act of union which is mental plane through knowledge, on the soul's greatest discovery vital plane through power and for which on the life psychic plane through love. When we rise high enough, we discover that these four aspects unite with each other in a single consciousness, full of the cosmos is a long preparationlove, luminous, powerful, beautiful, containing all, pervading all.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2415/lovethe-divine-working-andin-the-triple-pathuniverse#p5p6,p7</ref>

All true And when the day comes for the manifestation of supreme love and sacrifice are in their essence Nature's contradiction , for the crystallised, concentrated descent of supreme love, that will truly be the primary egoism and its separative error; it is her attempt hour of transformation. For nothing will be able to turn from a necessary first fragmentation towards a recovered onenessresist That.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-sacrifice-the-triune-path-and-the-lord-of-the-sacrifice#p2</ref> == Why Doesn’t Love Manifest? ==

When the surroundings, circumstances, atmosphereBut since it is all-powerful, some receptivity must be prepared on earth so that the way of living and above all the inner attitude effects are altogether not shattering. Sri Aurobindo has explained this in one of a low kind, vulgar, gross, egoistic, sordidhis letters. Someone asked him, "Why does it not come immediately?" He answered something like this: if divine love is reluctant were to comemanifest in its essence upon earth, that it would be like a bombshell; because the earth is, it always hesitates neither supple nor receptive enough to be able to manifest widen itself and generally does not stay long. A home to the dimensions of beauty must be given for Beauty to staythis love. I am It not speaking of external things—a real houseonly needs to open, real furniture but to widen itself and all that—I am speaking of an inner attitude, of something within which to become more supple—Matter is beautiful, noble, harmonious, unselfishstill too rigid. People always complain that love is impermanent and passing. To tell And even the substance of the physical consciousness—not only the truthmost material Matter, they should be very grateful that it manifested in them in spite of but the sordidness substance of the house they gave itphysical consciousness—is too rigid. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0410/12aphorism-may-195149#p3p15,p16</ref>

For when man speaks The manifestation of the loveof the Divine in the world was the great holocaust, the supreme self-giving. The Perfect Consciousness accepted to be merged and absorbed into the unconsciousness of matter, he associates so that consciousness might be awakened in the depths of its obscurity and little by little a Divine Power might rise in it with an emotional and sentimental weaknessmake the whole of this manifested universe a highest expression of the Divine Consciousness and the Divine love. But This was the supreme love, to accept the divine intensity loss of self-forgetfulness, the capacity perfect condition of throwing oneself out entirelysupreme divinity, its absolute consciousness, its infinite knowledge, to unite with unconsciousness, making no restriction to dwell in the world with ignorance and no reservation, as darkness. And yet none perhaps would call it love; for it does not clothe itself in a giftsuperficial sentiment, asking nothing it makes no demand in exchangefor what it has done, this no show of its sacrifice. The force of love in the world is little known trying to human find consciousnesses that are capable of receiving this divine movement in its purity and expressing it. This race of all beings. And when it towards love, this irresistible push and seeking out in the world's heart and in all hearts, is there unmixed with weak the impulse given by a Divine love behind the human longing and sentimental emotionsseeking. It touches millions of instruments, trying always, they find it hard always failing; but this constant touch prepares these instruments and cold; they cannot recognise suddenly one day there will awake in it them the capacity of self-giving, the very highest and intensest power capacity of loveloving. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p5p6</ref>

<center>~</center> Wherever into a human story of love, there has entered even an atom of pure love and it has been allowed =How to manifest without too much distortion, we find a true and beautiful thing. And if the movement does not last, it is because it is not conscious of its own aim and seeking; it has not the knowledge that it is not the union of one being with another that it is seeking after but the union of all beings with Love the Divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p10</ref> = How Does Love Manifest?=

Love and Harmony and all that is a By becoming divine possibility in us, and persists till these things become the major need of our nature[''one can love divinely'']; there is no other way.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2129/thedivine-doublelove-soulpsychic-inlove-and-human-manlove#p10</ref>

Love will not be destroyed, but perfected, enlarged to its widest capacity, deepened to its spiritual rapture, the To love of God, the love of man, the love of all things as ourselves and as beings and powers of truly the Divine; a large, universal love, not at all incapable of various relations, will replace the clamant, egoistic, self-regarding love of little joys and griefs and insistent demands afflicted with all the chequered pattern of angers and jealousies and satisfactions, rushings to unity and movements of fatigue, divorce and separation on which we now place so high a valuemust rise above attachments. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2414/thelove-perfectionfor-ofthe-equalitydivine#p8p24</ref>

At the beginning of this manifestation, in the purity of its origin, love is composed of two movements, two complementary poles of the urge towards complete oneness'' Q. On one hand I feel there is no love in me towards the supreme power of attraction and on the other the irresistible need for absolute self-givingMother. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-four-austerities-and-the-four-liberations#p70</ref>What shall I do to feel this love?''

<center>~</center> There is a spiritual emotion, a spiritual sense, there is an intermingling of oneness with oneness, of being with being, of consciousness with consciousness, of delight of being with delight of being'' A. There is a joy of intimate separateness in identity, of the relations of love joined with love in a supreme unity, a delight of the many powers''Become truthful, truthspure, beings of the eternal onenesssincere, of the forms of the Formless; all the play of becoming in the being finds its self-expression upon these powers of the consciousness of the Spiritstraightforward. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2132/knowledgethe-right-byway-identityof-andloving-separativethe-knowledgemother#p26p10</ref>

For And it is very easy to explain how a person who has this [ love is like a flame, a white flame which overcomes all resistances] experience can spread it, can act on others; because to have the experience you must touch the one emotion in us which can be entirely motiveless , supreme Essence of the whole manifestation, the Origin and the Essence, the Source and self-existentthe Reality of all that is; love need have and at once you enter the realm of Unity—there is no other motive than lovelonger any separation of individuals, there is only one single vibration that can be repeated indefinitely in external form.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-motives-of-devotion#p11</ref>

If you rise high enough, you find yourself at the heart of all things. And what is manifest in this heart can manifest in all things. That is the great secret, the secret of the divine incarnation in an individual form, because in the normal course of things what manifests at the centre is realised in the external form only with the awakening and the response of the will in the individual form. Whereas if the central Will is represented constantly and permanently in an individual being, this individual being can serve as an intermediary between this Will and all beings, and will for them. Everything this individual being perceives and offers in his consciousness to the supreme Will is answered as if it came from each individual being. And if for any reason the individual elements have a more or less conscious and voluntary relation with that representative being, their relation increases the efficacy, the effectiveness of the representative individual; and thus the supreme Action can act in Matter in a much more concrete and permanent manner. <centerref>~https://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-49#p14</centerref>

The oneness with all in its basis is something self-existent and self-content which does not need expression. When it does express itself as love, it is something wide and universal, untroubled and firm even when it is intense. This is in the basic cosmic oneness. There is also the surface cosmic consciousness which is an awareness of the play of cosmic forces—here anything may rise, sex also. It is this part that needs the perfect psychisation, otherwise one cannot even hold, contain and deal with it in the proper way.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p22</ref> <center>~</center>==By Aspiration==

"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'' Q. When the sun sets and all becomes silent, sit down for a moment and put yourself into communion with nature, you will feel rising from the earth, from below the roots How can one become conscious of the trees, Divine Love and mounting upward and coursing through their fibres, up to the highest outstretching branches, the aspiration an instrument of an intense love and longing,—a longing for something that brings light and gives happiness, for the light that is gone and they wish to have back again. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/19-august-1953#p1</ref>its expression?''

The root To will it is a constant, sustained, concentrated aspiration, an almost exclusive occupation of the second status consciousness. This is desirethe first step. There are many others: a very attentive observation, a very persistent analysis, eager to possess but limited a very keen discernment of what is pure in capacity; the bud of the third movement and what is Love which seeks both not. If you have an imaginative faculty, you may try to possess imagine and be possessed, see if your imagination tallies with reality. There are people who believe that it is enough to receive wake up one day in a particular mood and say, "Ah! How I wish to give itself; the fine flower be conscious of the fourthDivine Love, how I wish to manifest Divine Love...." Note, its sign I don't know how many millions of times one feels within a little quivering of perfectionhuman instinct and imagines that if one had at one's disposal Divine Love, great things could be accomplished, we conceive as the pure and full emergence of the original willone says, "I am going to try and find Divine Love and we shall see the illumined fulfilment of result." This is the intermediate desireworst possible way. Because, before having even touched the high and deep satisfaction very beginning of realisation you have spoilt the conscious interchange of Love by the unification of the state result. You must take up your search with a purity of the possessor aspiration and possessed surrender which in the divine unity themselves are already difficult to acquire. You must have worked much on yourself only to be ''ready'' to aspire to this Love. If you look at yourself very sincerely, very straight, you will see that as soon as you begin to think of souls 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 foundation vital essence, the vital vibration from your conception of the supramental existenceLove. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2104/the-double-soul24-inmarch-man1951#p1p21,p22,p23</ref>

The growth into true love for the third status Divine is a self-giving, free of life by the principle demand, full of associationsubmission and surrender; it makes no claim, imposes no condition, strikes no bargain, the growth indulges in no violences of love, does jealousy or pride or anger—for these things are not abolish in its composition. In return the law of desireDivine Mother also gives herself, but rather transforms and fulfils it. Love is 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 its the divine nature , taking up all the desire to give oneself to others movements of your being and to receive others in exchange; it is a commerce between being directing them towards perfection and being. In its life-originfulfilment, the law of her love enveloping you and carrying you in its arms Godwards. It is the impulse this that you must aspire to realise feel and fulfil oneself possess in others 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 by othersgets it, there ought to be enriched by enriching, to possess and be possessed because without being possessed one does not possess oneself utterly.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-ascent-of-life#p9</ref>no room for any other claim or for any disappointed desire…

Become truthfulWhen the love goes towards the Divine, there is still this ordinary human element in it. There is the call for a return and if the return does not seem to come, the love may sink; there is the self-interest, the demand for the Divine as a giver of all that the human being wants and, if the demands are not acceded to, abhimana against the Divine, loss of faith, loss of fervour. Etc. etc. But the true love for the Divine is in its fundamental nature not of this kind, but psychic and spiritual. The psychic element is the need of the inmost being for self-giving, purelove, sincereadoration, straightforwardunion which can only be fully satisfied by the Divine. The spiritual element is the need of the being for contact, merging, union with its own highest and whole self and source of being and consciousness and bliss, the Divine. These two are two sides of the same thing. The mind, vital, physical can be the supports and recipients of this love, but they can be fully that only when they become remoulded into harmony with the psychic and spiritual elements of the being and no longer bring in the lower insistences of the ego.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3229/thedivine-rightlove-waypsychic-oflove-lovingand-thehuman-motherlove#p10p29</ref>

Each one of you should be able to get into touch with your own psychic being, it is not an inaccessible thing. Your psychic being is there precisely to put you in contact with the divine forces. And if you are in contact with your psychic being, you begin to feel, to have a kind of perception of what Divine Love can be. As I have just said, it is the first gesture not enough that one morning you wake up saying, "Oh! I would like to be in contact with Divine Love", it is not like that. 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 love? To give oneselfthinking, "Oh! I would like to servebe in contact with Divine Love"—you are in a state in which everything appears to you to be this Divine Love and nothing else. What And yet it is its spontaneousonly a covering, immediatebut a covering of a beautiful texture.''So, inevitable movementDivine Love need not be sought and known apart from the psychic being? To serve''No, find your psychic being and you will understand what divine Love is. Do not try to come into direct contact with divine Love because this will yet again be a vital desire pushing you; you will perhaps not be aware of it, but it will be a vital desire. To serve You must make an effort to come into touch with your psychic being, to become aware and free in a joyousthe consciousness of your psychic being, and then, quite naturally, completespontaneously, total self-givingyou will know what Divine Love is. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0904/624-march-19571951#p5p24,p25,p26,p27,p28</ref>

Thus if A psychic fire within must be lit into which all is thrown with the Divine Name upon it be . In that fire all the divine Love emotions are compelled to cast off their grosser elements and those that is are undivine perversions are burned away and the subject of concentrationothers discard their insufficiencies, it is on till the essence spirit of largest love and a stainless divine delight arises out of the idea of God as Love flame and smoke and frankincense. It is the divine love which so emerges that , extended in inward feeling to the mind should concentrate Divine in such man and all creatures in an active universal equality, will be more potent for the perfectibility of life and a way that more real instrument than the various manifestations ineffective mental ideal of brotherhood can ever be. It is this poured out into acts that could alone create a harmony in the divine world and a true unity between all its creatures; all else strives in vain towards that end so long as Divine Love should arise luminously, has not only to the thought, but in disclosed itself as the heart and being and vision of the sadhakadelivered manifestation in terrestrial Nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/concentrationthe-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p8p12</ref>

All The soul's turning through love to the Divine must be through a lovethat is essentially divine, but as an instrument of expression at first is human nature, indeedit takes the forms of human love and bhakti. It is only as the consciousness deepens, heightens and changes that that greater eternal love can grow in it and openly transform the human into the divine. But in human love itself there are several kinds of motive-forces. There is adoration has a spiritual force behind psychic human love which rises from deep within and is the result of the meeting of the inner being with that which calls it, towards a divine joy and even when union; it is offered ignorantly , 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 a limited objector broken by misunderstandings, disappointments, strife and anger, something of but pressing always straight towards the inner union. It is this psychic love that splendour appears through is closest to the poverty of divine and it is therefore the rite right and the smallness best way of its issueslove and bhakti. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2329/thedivine-love-ascentpsychic-oflove-theand-sacrificehuman-iilove#p3p32</ref>

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 Divine Love if it came in would create a perturbation and possibly be attacked by a mixture which would make it impossible for it to stay. It is therefore that touches only can come. <centerref>~https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p4</centerref> ==By Getting Rid of Lower Movements==

Keep your ... the will to pierce through this limited and human form of love pure and discover the principle of divine Love which is behind it. Then one is sure to get a result. This is better than drying up one's heart. It is perhaps a little more difficult but it is better in every way, for like this, instead of all selfish claim egotistically making others suffer, well, one may leave them quiet in their own movement and desire; you only make an effort to transform oneself without imposing one's will find that you are getting all the love that you can bear on others, which even in ordinary life is a step towards something higher and absorb in answera little more harmonious. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3208/the-right-way19-of-loving-theseptember-mother1956#p4p30</ref>

Let us grant that at first love may only be an extended selfishness and that this aspect ...one can certainly become conscious of the Divine's Love before one has oneself the universal love—one can become conscious of extended selfishness may persist and dominate, as it does still persist and dominate, by contact with the Divine in higher stages oneself. Naturally the consciousness of it should lead to the evolution: still as mind evolves and more and more finds itselfdevelopment of a universal love for all. But if he means a love that is divine, not tainted by the lower movements, then it is true that until there comes by the experience peace, purity, freedom from ego, wideness, light of the universal consciousness which is the basis of life and the universal love and mutual help , it is difficult to perceive have a love that is free from all the natural individual is a minor term defects, limitations, taints of ordinary human love. The more one has of being and exists by the universaluniversality the more one tends to be freed from these things. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2129/thedivine-love-psychic-love-ascentand-ofhuman-lifelove#p2p23</ref>

The conscious preservation higher Consciousness is a state of pure love but it is also a state of individuality along with pure openness to divine knowledge. There is no opposition there between these two kindred things; it is the consciously accepted necessity mind that makes them separate. The best way to get to it is to refuse all mental agitation when it comes, also all vital desires and desire of interchangeturmoils, self-giving and fusion with other individuals, is necessary for to keep the working of mind and heart turned as constantly as possible towards the principle of Divine. The love; for if either is abolished, the working of love ceases, whatever may take its place. Fulfilment of love by entire self-immolation, even with an illusion of self-annihilation, Divine is indeed an idea and an impulse in the mental being, but it points to a development beyond strongest force for doing this third status of Life.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2116/the19-ascentoctober-of-life1939#p7p3,p4</ref>

Only he who loves can recognise You say of your God: "I have loved Him so much and yet He did not remain with me!" But what kind of love have you given Him? In its essence, loveis one, just as consciousness is one; but in the manifestation, it is coloured and differentiated by each individual nature. Those who If you are incapable of giving themselves impure and egoistic, love in a sincere loveyou will become impure and egoistic, narrow, sectarian, limited, ambitious and possessive, violent, jealous, will never recognise love anywherevulgar, brutal and cruel. Is this the more kind of love that can be offered to God? If you want your love to be worthy of the one you love is divine, that is if you want to sayenjoy love in its eternal perfection, unselfishbecome perfect, break out of the less they can recognise itlimitations of your ego, partake of eternity. And then you will always be close to the object of your love, for you will grow into his likeness.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/love-for-the-divine-love#p33p15</ref>

Keep your love pure It is possible by bringing the real soul to the surface to replace the egoistic standards of pleasure and pain by an equal, an all-embracing personal-impersonal delight.The lover of Nature does this when he takes joy in all selfish claim the things of Nature universally without admitting repulsion or fear or mere liking and desire; you will find disliking, perceiving beauty in that you are getting all which seems to others mean and insignificant, bare and savage, terrible and repellent. The artist and the poet do it when they seek the ''rasa'' of the universal from the aesthetic emotion or from the physical line or from the mental form of beauty or from the love inner sense and power alike of that you can bear from which the ordinary man turns away and absorb of that to which he is attached by a sense of pleasure. The seeker of knowledge, the God-lover who finds the object of his love everywhere, the spiritual man, the intellectual, the sensuous, the aesthetic all do this in answertheir own fashion and must do it if they would find embracingly the Knowledge, the Beauty, the Joy or the Divinity which they seek. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2921/divinethe-lovedouble-psychicsoul-lovein-and-human-loveman#p25p9</ref>

One does not say to GodThere is only one true love—it is the Divine Love; all other loves are diminutions, "Show your limitations and deformations of that Love. Even the love of the bhakta for me firsthis God is a diminution and often is tainted by egoism. But as one tends quite naturally to become like what one loves, shower on me the experience of yourselfbhakta, satisfy my demand, then I will see whether I can love you so long as you deserve it." It if he is surely the seeker who must seek and love firstsincere, follow begins to become like the questDivine whom he adores, become impassioned for the Sought—then only does the veil move aside and the Light be seen thus his love becomes purer and the Face manifest that alone can satisfy the soul after its long sojourn in the desertpurer. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2916/bhakti10-yoga-andjune-vaishnavism1964#p11p2</ref>

If you want your love to be worthy The nature of the one you loveBhakti is adoration, worship, if you want self-offering to enjoy love in its eternal perfection, become perfect, break out of what is greater than oneself; the limitations nature of your ego, partake of eternitylove is a feeling or a seeking for closeness and union. And then you will always be close to Self-giving is the object character of your love, for you will grow into his likenessboth; both are necessary in the yoga and each gets its full force when supported by the other. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmsabcl/1423/sadhana-through-love-forand-thedevotion-divineii#p15p1</ref>

Love alone can All love, indeed, that is adoration has a spiritual force behind it, and even when it is offered ignorantly and to a limited object, something of that splendour appears through the poverty of the rite and the smallness of its issues. For love alone that is worship is at once an aspiration and a preparation: it can conquer bring even within its small limits in the Ignorance a glimpse of a still more or less blind and partial but surprising realisation; for there are moments when it is not we but the One who loves and is loved in us, and even a human passion can be uplifted and glorified by a slight glimpse of this infinite Love and Lover. It is for this reason that the worship of the god, the worship of the idol, the human magnet or ideal are not to be despised; for these are steps through which the human race moves towards that blissful passion and ecstasy of the Infinite which, even in limiting it, they yet represent for our imperfect vision when we have still to use the egoinferior steps Nature has hewn for our feet and admit the stages of our progress. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1423/divinethe-loveascent-of-andthe-humansacrifice-loveii#p24p3</ref>

The thirst ''A.'' He was speaking of human love manifesting as Bhakti, as a force of devotion for affection the Divine, and he says that at the beginning your love for the Divine is a very human need, but it can be quenched only love with all the characteristics of human love. Yet if it turns towards you persist and make the Divine. As long as necessary effort, it seeks satisfaction in is not impossible for this human beings, it will always love to be disappointed or woundedtransformed into divine love through identification with what you love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1406/divine16-lovejune-and-human-love1954#p17p61</ref>

<center>~</center> It is not the love that someone feels =Love and Bhakti for you that can make you happy, it is the love you feel for others that makes you happy: for you receive the love that you give from the Divine, who loves eternally and unfailingly. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine-love-and-human-love#p38</ref>Krishna=

<center>~</center> As for Krishna, why not approach simply and straight? The simple approach means trust. If you pray, trust that he hears. If the reply takes long in coming, trust that he knows and loves and that he is wisest in the choice of the time. Meanwhile quietly clear the ground, so that he may not have to trip over stone and jungle when he comes. That is my suggestion and I know what I am saying—for whatever you may say, I know very well all human difficulties and struggles and I know of the cure.That is why I press always on the things that would minimise and shorten the struggles and difficulties,—the psychic turn, faith, perfect and simple confidence and reliance.These, let me remind you, are tenets of the Vaishnava yoga.our aim Of course, there is the other Vaishnava way which swings between yearning and despair—ardent seeking and the pangs of viraha. It is that you seem to move towards a be following and I do not deny that one can arrive by that as one can by almost any way, if followed sincerely. But then those who follow it find a greater ''rasa''even in ''viraha'', in the absence and happier manifestationthe caprice of the Divine Lover. That too is Some of them have sung that they have followed after him all their lives but always he has slipped away from their vision and even in that they find a labour ''rasa''and never cease following. But you find no ''rasa'' in it. So you cannot expect me to approve of divine Lovethat for you. Follow after Krishna by all means, but follow with the determination to arrive: don't do it with the expectation of failure or admit any possibility of breaking off half-way.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmsabcl/1323/relationssadhana-withthrough-personslove-outsideand-thedevotion-ashramiv#p33p15</ref>=More on Love=

Love is the nature of the lover, courage the nature of the warrior; love and courage are impersonal and universal forces or formulations of the cosmic Force, they are the spirit's powers of its universal being and nature. The Person is the Being supporting what is thus impersonal, holding it in himself as his, his nature of self; he is that which is the lover and warrior. <centerref>~http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-gnostic-being#p29</centerref>

So Krishna with Radha is the part symbol of the consciousness which has been struck by this opposition makes a direct appeal to Divine Love. The flute is the origin call of the Divine Love, with an intensity which it would not have without ; the experience of this refusalpeacock is victory. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1030/aphorismgods-88goddesses-89and-90semi-91divine-92beings#p7p13</ref>

As Radha is the personification of the absolute love for yoga we may add something else: it is as I said in the beginningDivine, the will to pierce through this limited total and human form integral in all parts of love and discover the principle of divine Love which is behind it. Then one is sure being from the highest spiritual 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 waythe physical, for like this, instead bringing the absolute self-giving and total consecration of egotistically making others suffer, well, one may leave them quiet in their own movement all the being and only make an effort to transform oneself without imposing one's will on others, which even in ordinary life is a step towards something higher calling down into the body and a little more harmoniousthe most material Nature the supreme Ananda. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0829/19bhakti-septemberyoga-and-1956vaishnavism#p30p61</ref>

So, even if your The Divine has an equal love remained as pure as it can be in the manifested world, it could not keep you in constant contact with the Divine unless for all the rest was transformed. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/14-april-1954#p19</ref> <center>~</center> This was what I meant, not anything else. I was stating that a human beingbeings, unless he raises himself to but the divine heights, is incapable obscurity of consciousness of receiving, appreciating and knowing what most men prevents them from perceiving this divine Love is. Love must cease to be divine to be accepted by manlove.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0814/31divine-october-1956love#p11p31</ref>

Radha is You feel lonely because you feel the personification of the absolute need to be loved. Learn to love for the Divinewithout demand, total and integral in all parts of the being from the highest spiritual to love just for the physical, bringing the absolute self-giving and total consecration joy of all loving (the being and calling down into most wonderful joy in the body world!) and the most material Nature the supreme Anandayou will never again feel lonely. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2914/bhaktidivine-yogalove-and-vaishnavismhuman-love#p61p29</ref>

One has just The thirst for affection and love is a tiny little openinghuman need, very tiny, at times like a pinhead, and naturally that force rushes inbut it can be quenched only if it turns towards the Divine. For As long as it is like an active atmosphere; as soon as there is a possibility of being receivedseeks satisfaction in human beings, it is receivedwill always be disappointed or wounded.<ref>http://incarnateword. But this in/cwm/14/divine-love-and-human-love#p17</ref> It is so for all divine things. They are there, only one does not receive them, the love that someone feels for one is closed upyou that can make you happy, blocked; one it is busy with other things most of the time. So, as one is full of oneself, there is no place love you feel for anything else. One is filled with things; there is no place others that makes you happy: for you receive the love that you give from the Divine, who loves eternally and unfailingly.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0614/19divine-love-and-mayhuman-1954love#p12p38</ref>

To go throughTrue love, that which fulfils and illumines, to see what is behind it, not to stop at the appearance, not to be satisfied with love one receives but the outer form, to look for the principle which is behind this love, and not be content until one has found the origin of the feeling in oneself. Then the outer form will crumble of itself and you will be in contact with the divine Love which is behind all thingsgives.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0814/19divine-love-and-septemberhuman-1956love#p23p52</ref>

Therefore, the best way when love comes, in whatever form it may be, is to try ''Q. Are Divine Love and pierce through its outer appearance and find Grace the divine principle which is behind 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.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/19-september-1956#p26</ref>same thing?''

==Role of Psychic in Channelising Love== ''A psychic fire within must be lit into which .'' Essentially, all is thrown with things are the Divine Name upon itsame. In that fire all its essence everything is the emotions are compelled to cast off their grosser elements and those that are undivine perversions are burned away and the others discard their insufficienciessame, till the spirit of largest love and it is a stainless divine delight arises out phenomenon of the flame consciousness; but Love can exist without Grace and smoke and frankincenseGrace can exist without Love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/But for the-ascent-human consciousness all manifestation of-the-sacrifice-ii#p12</ref> ===How to Purify the Mental, Physical to Receive and Give Love?=== A psychic change Grace is demanded, a divestiture manifestation of the masks of the Ignorancesupreme Love, a purification of the egoistic mental, vital and physical movements that prolong the old inferior inevitably. Only it goes beyond human 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.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2304/the-ascent-of-the24-sacrificemarch-ii1951#p2p19,p20</ref>

I should perhaps add one or two things For God has not set me here merely to think, to philosophise, to weave metaphysical systems, to play with words and syllogisms, but to avoid misapprehensions. Firstact, the love for the Divine of which and know. I must act divinely so that I may become divine in being and deed; I speak is must learn to love God not a psychic love only; it is the love of in Himself but in all the beingbeings, appearances, objects, the vital and vital-physical includedenjoyments,—all are capable of the same self-giving.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-right-way-of-loving-the-mother#p6</ref> = Bhakti and Love = Loveevents, bhaktiwhether men call them good or bad, surrenderreal or mythical, the psychic opening are the only short cut to the Divine—or can befortunate or calamitous; for if and I must know Him with the love same divine impartiality and bhakti are too vital, then there is likely completeness in order that I may come to be a seesaw between ecstatic expectation and virahalike Him, abhimāna, despairperfect, pure and unlimited—that which will make it not a shortcut but a long all sons of Man must one, a zigzag, not a straight flight, a whirling round one's own ego instead of a running towards the Divineday be.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2912/the-central-processes-of-the-sadhanaphilosophy#p18p2</ref>

There are different kinds of bhakti and Thus if it be the divine Love that which is of the nature subject of love concentration, it is on the strongest and is considered essence of the highest, most intense and ecstatic idea of all. Also God as Love that the mind should concentrate in love itself such a way that form the various manifestations of it which is made of self-giving; surrenderthe divine Love should arise luminously, absolute adorationnot only to the thought, urge towards a selfless union is but in the true kind heart and being and vision of bhakti that is lovethe sadhaka. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2923/bhakti-devotion-worshipconcentration#p26p8</ref> <center>~</center>

Selflessness<center>To live, self-givingto love are signs of infinite things, entire faith Love is a glory from eternity's spheres.Abased, disfigured, mocked by baser mightsThat steal his name and confidence, absence of demand shape and desireecstasy, surrender to He is still the Divine Will, love concentrated on the Divine—are some of the main signs [of true love and bhakti]godhead by which all can change. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2934/bhakti-devotion-worshipsatyavan#p28p48,p49</ref></center>

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