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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?==In human beings the first contact of love brings 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>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/19-august-1953#p21</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. 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 affection gets very strongly associated with the psychic which is then mixed though still not sexual; but the vital affection and the vital physical sex-emotion are entirely close to each other, so that at any moment or in any given case one may awake the other.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p5</ref><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sex#p21</ref>= Why is Love Essential? =As the love of the Divine grows that the other things cease to trouble the mind.
Ordinary human love is vital, emotional and physical and always egoistic—a form of self-love. The psychic element is very small except in a few. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/human-relations-and-the-spiritual-life#p55</ref>
==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/31/human-relations-and-the-spiritual-life#p22</ref><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p11</ref>
Love, the eternal force, has no clinging, no desire, no hunger for possession, no The oneness which is self-existent and self-regarding attachment; content is expressed as love, it issomething wide and universal, untroubled and firm even when it is intense. This is in its pure movement, the seeking for union of the self with the Divine, a seeking absolute and regardless of all other thingsbasic cosmic oneness. <ref>http://incarnateword. Love in/cwsa/29/divine gives itself -love-psychic-love-and asks for nothing. What -human beings have made -love#p22</ref>= How to Love? =One moves gradually in the gradations of itlove. Firstly, we do not need to say; they have turned it into an ugly and repulsive thing. And yet even in human beings takes the first contact form of , ''If you love me, I shall love does bring down something of its purer substance; they become capable for a moment of forgetting themselvesyou". Then, for there is a moment its divine touch awakens and magnifies all that feeling which is fine and beautiful. But afterwards there comes to the surface slightly better than the human natureformer, full of its impure demands''If you don't love me, asking I shall love you." One should love because one cannot do otherwise but love. One loves for something the joy of loving. There should be no bargaining in exchange, bartering what it gives, clamouring for its own inferior satisfactions, distorting the mind and soiling what was divinefeelings. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/1926-august-1953#p12,p13,p14,p15,p16,p17,p18,p19,p20,p21,p22,p23,p24</ref>
One will realise one day that love is not something 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; one must give oneself to the object of love without exacting anything in return. This discipline is elementary in order to surmount oneself and lead a life which is not altogether gross. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/19-september-1956#p21,p22,p23,p24,p25,p26,p27,p28,p29</ref>=How to Love the Divine?=Love & SexBy becoming divine in nature [''one can love divinely''].<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/divine-love-psychic-love-and-human-love#p10</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.
All movements are One must aspire to feel and possess the Divine Love in all the parts down to the mass movements of Nature's cosmic forces—they are movements of universal Naturevery material.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/24-march-1951#p21,p22,p23</ref><ref>https://incarnateword. The individual receives something in/cwsa/32/the-right-way-of them-loving-the-mother#p3, p4</ref>==By a wave or pressure Psychic Opening==The psychic element is the need of some cosmic forcethe inmost being for self-giving, love, and is driven adoration, union which can only be fully satisfied by it; he thinks it the Divine. The spiritual element is his the need of the being for contact, merging, union with its ownhighest and whole self and source of being and consciousness and bliss, generated in himself separatelythe Divine. The mind, vital, physical can be the supports and recipients of this love, but it is not so, it is part they can be fully that only when they become remoulded into harmony with the psychic and spiritual elements of a general movement which works just the being and no longer bring in the same way 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 othersyou will become impure and egoistic, narrow, sectarian, limited, ambitious and possessive, violent, jealous, vulgar, brutal and cruel. SexIs 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 instance-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, is a movement 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 general Nature seeking for its play obscurity and little by little a Divine Power might rise in it uses and make the whole of this or that one—a man vitally or physically "in love" as it is called with manifested universe a woman is simply repeating highest expression of the Divine Consciousness and satisfying the world-movement Divine love. This was the supreme love, to accept the loss of the perfect condition of sexsupreme divinity, if it had not been that womanits absolute consciousness, its infinite knowledge, to unite with unconsciousness, it would have been another; he is simply an instrument to dwell in Nature's machinery, it is not an independent movement. So it is the world with anger ignorance and other Naturedarkness.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-motives1929#p6</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/cwsacwm/3115/sexthe-divine-working-in-the-universe#p5p6</ref>
=Why Doesn’t Love Manifest?=