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= What is Love? =
  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 Love is only your capacity to receive and manifest this universal force.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p2</ref>
Love is like in its nature the desire to give oneself to others and to receive others in exchange; it is a flame that changes what commerce between being and being. In its life-origin, the law of love is hard into something malleable the impulse to realise and fulfil oneself in others and by others, to be enriched by enriching, to possess and even sublimates this malleable thing into a kind of purified vapour—it be possessed because without being possessed one does not destroy, it transformspossess oneself utterly. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1021/aphorismthe-ascent-of-49life#p1p9</ref> 
== What is Divine Love? ==
A supreme divine Love is a creative Power and, even though it can exist in itself silent and unchangeable, yet rejoices in external form and expression and is not condemned to be a speechless and bodiless godhead. It has even been said that creation itself was an act of love or at least the building up of a field in which Divine Love could devise its symbols and fulfil itself in act of mutuality and self-giving, and, if not the initial nature of creation, this may well be its ultimate object and motive. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p10</ref>
There is only one true love—it is the The Divine Love; all other loves are diminutions, limitations and deformations of that Love. Even the love of the bhakta for his God is a diminution and often is tainted by egoism. But as one tends quite naturally to become like what one loves, the bhakta, if he is sincere, begins to become like the Divine whom he adores, and thus his love becomes purer and purer.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/10-june-1964#p2</ref> === How Does Divine Love Manifest?=== To manifest the Divine love, you must be capable of receiving the Divine love. The wider and clearer the opening in them, unlike the more they manifest love divine in its original purity; the more it is mixed with the lower human feelings, the greater the deformation. The division, the distinction between the two that you make in the beginning are a creation of the mind: once you rise to a higher level, they disappear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p4</ref> On the physical plane the Divine expresses himself through beauty, on the mental plane through knowledge, on the vital plane through power and on the psychic plane through love.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/the-divine-working-in-the-universe#p6</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 the secret of sadhana, not to demand and acquire. The more one gives oneself, the more the power to receive will grow. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p36,p37,p38</ref> 
== What is Psychic Love?==
Psychic love is a form taken by divine love in the human being according to the needs and possibilities of the human consciousness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p11</ref>
Psychic love can have a warmth and a flame as intense and more intense than the vital, only it is a pure fire, not dependent on the satisfaction of ego-desire or on the eating up of 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 love does 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. 
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 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 love is pure and full of self-giving without egoistic demand, but it is human and can err and suffer.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p13</ref>
 
==What is Human Love?==
Ordinary == What is Human Love?==In human beings the first contact of love is vitalbrings down something of its purer substance; they become capable for a moment of forgetting themselves, emotional for a moment its divine touch awakens and physical magnifies all that is fine and always egoistic—a form beautiful. But afterwards there comes to the surface the human nature, full of self-love. The psychic element is very small except its impure demands, asking for something in a fewexchange, bartering what it gives, clamouring for its own inferior satisfactions, distorting and soiling what was divine. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/human-relations19-andaugust-the-spiritual-life1953#p55p21</ref>f>===Love & Sex===All movements are in the mass movements of Nature's cosmic forces—they are movements of universal Nature. Sex, for instance, is a movement of general Nature seeking for its play and it uses this or that one.
==Misapprehensions Related It is not that it is not possible to Love== Love, keep the eternal force, has no clinging, no desire, no hunger for possession, no self-regarding attachment; it is, in its love pure movement, but the seeking for union of the self with the Divine, a seeking absolute two things love and regardless of all sex-desire are so near each other things. Love divine gives itself and asks for nothing. What human beings have made been so much twined together in the animal beginnings of the race that it, we do is not need easy to say; they have turned it into an ugly and repulsive thingkeep them altogether separate. And yet even in human beings In the first contact of pure psychic love does bring down something there is no trace of its purer substance; they become capable for a moment of forgetting themselvesthe sex-desire, for a moment its divine touch awakens and magnifies all that is fine and beautiful. But afterwards there comes to but usually the surface vital affection gets very strongly associated with 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/05/19-august-1953#p22</ref> ==Love & Sex== 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 psychic which is driven by itthen mixed though still not sexual; he thinks it is his own, generated in himself separately, but it is not so, it is part of a general movement which works just in the same way in others. Sex, for instance, is a movement of general Nature seeking for its play vital affection and it uses this or that one—a man vitally or physically "in love" as it is called with a woman is simply repeating and satisfying the worldvital physical sex-movement of sexemotion are entirely close to each other, if it had not been so that woman, it would have been another; he is simply an instrument at any moment or in Nature's machinery, it is not an independent movement. So it is with anger and any given case one may awake the other Nature-motives.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p5</ref>
 =Why Doesn’t Love Manifest?= When 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, it always hesitates to manifest itself and generally does not stay long. A home of beauty must be given for Beauty to stay. I am not speaking of external things—a real house, real furniture and all that—I am speaking of an inner attitude, of something within which is beautiful, noble, harmonious, unselfish. People always complain that love is impermanent and passing. To tell the truth, they should be very grateful that it manifested in them in spite of the sordidness of the house they gave it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0431/12-may-1951sex#p3p21</ref> 
= Why is Love Essential? =
As the love of the Divine grows that the other things cease to trouble the mind.
It is as the love of the Divine grows that the other things cease to trouble the mind. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/human-relations-and-the-spiritual-life#p22</ref>
 
In this love lie peace and joy, the fount of all strength and all realisation. It is the infallible healer, the supreme consoler; it is the victor, the sovereign teacher. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/01/december-16-1913#p3</ref>
Love alone can work this miracle, for love opens all doors, penetrates every wall, clears every obstacle.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/01/december-16-1913#p1</ref>
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 the Supreme is indeed only perfect and perfectly effective when it is a surrender of love.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/human-relations-and-the-spiritual-life#p22</ref>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p11</ref>
The oneness which is self-existent and self-content is expressed as love, it is something wide and universal, untroubled and firm even when it is intense. This is in the basic cosmic oneness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p22</ref>
= How to Love? =
One moves gradually in the gradations of love. Firstly, it takes the form of, ''If you love me, I shall love you". Then, there is a feeling which is slightly better than the former, ''If you don't love me, I shall love you." One should love because one cannot do otherwise but love. One loves for the joy of loving. There should be no bargaining in the mind and feelings. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/26-august-1953#p12,p13,p14,p15,p16,p17,p18,p19,p20,p21,p22,p23,p24</ref>
And what One will realise one day that love is the first gesture of not something personal, that love? To give oneselfis 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 servestop being selfish. What For everyone it is its spontaneousthe same thing, immediatenot only for those who want to do yoga but also in ordinary life: if one wants to know how to love, inevitable movement? To serveone must not love oneself first and above all selfishly; one must give oneself to the object of love without exacting anything in return. To serve This discipline is elementary in order to surmount oneself and lead a joyous, complete, total self-givinglife which is not altogether gross. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0908/619-marchseptember-19571956#p5p21,p22,p23,p24,p25,p26,p27,p28,p29</ref> A psychic fire within must be lit into which all is thrown with =How to Love the Divine Name upon it. In that fire all the emotions are compelled to cast off their grosser elements and those that are undivine perversions are burned away and the others discard their insufficiencies, till a spirit of largest ?=By becoming divine in nature [''one can love and a stainless divine delight arises out of the flame and smoke and frankincensedivinely'']. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2329/thedivine-love-ascentpsychic-oflove-theand-sacrificehuman-iilove#p12p10</ref>==By Aspiration==To become conscious of the Divine Love one must will it. To will it is a constant, sustained, concentrated aspiration, an almost exclusive occupation of the consciousness. This is the first step. There are many others: a very attentive observation, a very persistent analysis, a very keen discernment of what is pure in the movement and what is not.
One must aspire to feel and possess the Divine Love in all the parts down to the very material.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/24-march-1951#p21,p22,p23</ref><ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-right-way-of-loving-the-mother#p3,p4</ref>==By a Psychic Opening== Bhakti The psychic element 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. 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/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p29</ref>==By Getting Rid of Lower Movements==If you are impure and egoistic, love in you will become impure and egoistic, narrow, sectarian, limited, ambitious and possessive, violent, jealous, vulgar, brutal and cruel. Is this the kind of love that can be offered to God? Refusing all mental agitation when it comes, also all vital desires and turmoils, and to keep the mind and heart turned as constantly as possible towards the Divine. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/love-for-the-divine#p15</ref><ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/19-october-1939#p3,p4</ref>= How Does Divine Love Manifest?==The manifestation of the love of 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, so that consciousness might be awakened in the depths of its obscurity and little by little a Divine Power might rise in it and make the whole of this manifested universe a highest expression of the Divine Consciousness and the Divine love. This was the supreme love, to accept the loss of the perfect condition of supreme divinity, its absolute consciousness, its infinite knowledge, to unite with unconsciousness, to dwell in the world with ignorance and darkness.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p6</ref>
Love, bhakti, surrender, On the psychic opening are physical plane the only short cut to Divine expresses himself through beauty, on the Divine—or can be; for if mental plane through knowledge, on the love and bhakti are too vital, then there is likely to be a seesaw between ecstatic expectation plane through power and viraha, abhimāna, despair, which will make it not a shortcut but a long one, a zigzag, not a straight flight, a whirling round one's own ego instead of a running towards on the Divinepsychic plane through love.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2915/the-centraldivine-processesworking-ofin-the-sadhanauniverse#p18p6</ref>
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