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<font style="font-size: 14pt">The Story of Love</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>LOVE, in its essence, is the joy of identity. It finds its final expression
in the felicity of union. Between the two there are all the phases that make up
the universal manifestation.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Love comes from the very origin of the universe.
Love in its essence, I say, that is, before the manifestation, is the delight
of identity. Something there was which became conscious of the identity. And
that is precisely Love. Afterwards comes the manifestation of Love. In its
highest form, when it comes back to its origin across all its history of
manifestation, it becomes the felicity of union. The sense of union comes as a
consequence of the sense of separation. The passage through the whole manifested
universe gives the sense of separation from the origin and the return to the
origin is the felicity of reunion – union of two things which were separated
and are united again. That is Love in its great circuit of manifestation.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>When it climbs back to its origin, it returns to
the starting point with something more than what it had before it started. It
is the experience of the universe and universality. Fundamentally, that is the
reason for the existence of creation. Consciousness would not be what it is
had it not been expressed in a creation. There is an enrichment of
consciousness through the experience gathered in an objective universe, a
richness of content and a plenitude it would not have if there were not a manifested
universe.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The return movement of creation is not a thing that
happens in time. It is difficult to conceive, because for us things are suceessive.
But if one could conceive a movement as a whole .embracing everything, which
would be at the same time the<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>beginning and the end, and contain all, it would then be not a return in
time, but a return in consciousness.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:174.45pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>If there were not the circuit,
there would never be the Ananda of union, there would be only the Ananda of
identity. And it is precisely in order that this Ananda of identity may find
its culmination and crowning in the Ananda of union that the whole circuit has
been done.<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:174.45pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The very moment when the individual consciousness
moved away from its divine origin and remained no longer identified with the
movement of the divine consciousness, the sense of separation was created. The
individual consciousness did not separate wilfully, but it remained no longer
identified. Not being identified, the Divine Consciousness followed a certain
movement and the individual consciousness followed another, and naturally they
drifted apart from each other more and more. Let us say, as an image, that the
Divine Consciousness advances at a certain speed and the individual
consciousness, not having remained united with it, could not keep pace with it
and therefore fell back more and more, far behind. The Divine moves forward,
the individual stops; when the individual moves, the Divine flies. When the
individual takes one step, the Divine leaps. That increases the gap of
separation more and more. It is this original separation that has produced
others in its train and these separations all together have created the
universal misery, at least the earthly misery as we know it.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It all began by a separation in the consciousness
and it ended by a separation in respect of the worlds and their elements, by a division
that we witness down to the material nature. The separation in consciousness
has produced the separation of forms and the separation of forms has induced
pain and suffering. Now, therefore, there are these countless objects that lie
about divided and separated from one another. Since, however, the universe had
to be a progressive thing, the bliss of identity, the full consciousness of
this identity had necessarily to be veiled, otherwise nothing would have moved.</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:12.7pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Evidently,
if the sense of unity were reestablished, the miseries would disappear. But if
you realised the perfect identity and the whole universe in its totality
realised this absolute unity in which<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>there is no possibility of any distinction, then there
would be no universe at all, it would be the return to Pralaya. The solution
then is to find Ananda in the play of mutual exchange and union.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>What has been projected into space and time must
be brought back to itself, without thereby annulling the world so created. That
is why Love burst forth as the irresisitible power of <st1:place>Union</st1:place>.
It soared over darkness and unconsciousness, it scattered itself, pulverised
itself into the bosom of unfathomable night. It is then that the awakening and
the ascension began the slow formation in and out of Matter and a progress
without end.</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>There is a state of consciousness in which one
experiences the Divine Love everywhere. One does not feel then a great difference
between one creature and another except in their physical appearance. Even in
unconsciousness and immobility, the apparently complete inertia – of the stone,
for example – can be found a dazzling light, the light of the divine Presence.
There is much more aspiration than one thinks in objects that are usually
called inanimate. In the stone precisely there is a spontaneous sense of what
is there high above and although it cannot express it, it feels the thing and
that affects it although in different ways. In the stone, in things and
objects, there is a strange receptivity that comes from this Presence.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>You can take what you call a precious stone and
concentrate a force or forces in it. It retains them. These forces radiate
afterwards very slowly, but increasingly, progressively. And if you know how to
do it, you can charge it with a quantity of force quite enough to last almost
indefinitely so to say. There are stones that serve as intermediaries of union,
stones that serve as accumulators of energy and stones that may serve as
foretellers of circumstances, they may carry messages. Therefore, as they can
serve as accumulators, it means that they carry in themselves the source of the
Force itself, otherwise they would not be receptive.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It is a force of this kind that is the origin of
the phenomenon of crystallisation. <st1:City><st1:place>Crystals</st1:place></st1:City>
gather together in matter, it is already a movement of love. Stones that
crystallise, rock crystals, for<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>example, form wonderful designs, so magnificent in their
absolute harmony; that comes because of only one thing – the Force of Love.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:167.25pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>You do not see the thing,
because you have not the inner sensibility. But once you have the direct
perception of the forces of love behind things you see that it is everywhere
the same. And you can even come to understand what man-made manufactured
things tell you.<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:167.25pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The movement is quite
perceptible in the vegetable kingdom, in the tree and the plant. These trees
that rise up and up always, the small ones trying to catch up with the big
ones, the big ones endeavouring to mount still further! The plants always seek
to find out a direction from where they can receive as much light as possible. <span
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>It<b> </b></span>is the need to grow in order
to get more light, more air, more space.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>When you see a rose opening out to the sun, it is
as if it were for the need of giving away its beauty. For us it is
unintelligible, for flowers do not think out what they do. A human being always
associates with what he does the capacity to see what he does, to think what he
does. But flowers I are not, so to say, conscious at all, theirs is a
spontaneous movement. <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>It<b> </b></span>is
a mighty Force that is at work through all this, the great universal Consciousness,
the great force of universal Love that makes all things flower in beauty.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It is said the tiger's need to devour is one of
the first expressions of love in the world. What is likely to prove that this
is not quite false is that when a tiger or a serpent catches its victim, the
victim usually gives himself up in a kind of delight of being eaten. A
testimony comes in the experience of a man in the following true story. He
happened to be in the midst of bushes with his comrades. He was a little
behind, away from others and a tiger caught hold of him. The others returned
when they noticed that he had disappeared. They found and followed the traces
and arrived just in time to save him from the jaws of the tiger. When he had
recovered a little, he was asked what a terrible experience he must have had!
He replied that it was nothing of the kind: &quot;Just imagine, I don't know
what happened to me, but as soon as the tiger seized me and began to drag me
along the ground, I felt an intense love for him and a great desire that he
should eat me up.&quot; This is, I say, a true story.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>As a matter of fact, long before the tiger came on
the scene, there must have been early creatures dwelling at the bottom of the
sea that had only one function, the stomach. They existed only as stomachs and
their only activity was to swallow. One may say that these are the first
expressions of love seeping through matter. For, before that there was nothing,
except perfect inconscience, complete immobility, nothing was moving. It is
with love that movement began, consciousness awakened, transformation started.
Love is the power of the world.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The need to swallow is a primitive way of uniting
with things, but it is a very direct way, you swallow and you absorb the thing.
The tiger takes a great joy in the thing; there is a joy and that is already a
higher form of love.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>If you want to know what love is, you must love
the Divine. <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>It<b> </b></span>is a very
well-known fact that in the end you become just like the thing you love. If you
love the Divine, by the force of this love, little by little, you will become
more and more like the Divine. And then one can identify oneself with the
divine Love and know what it is, you cannot know it in any other way.<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Necessarily, the love between two human beings is
always made of ignorance, misunderstanding, weakness and a terrible sense of
isolation. <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>It<b> </b></span>would be as
if you wanted to gain entrance into the presence of a unique Splendour and the
first thing you do is to put a screen between yourself and this Splendour and you
are very much astonished that you do not have even a vague impression of it!
The first thing then to do is to do away with the screen, pass through and
stand in the presence of the Splendour. Then you know what it is. But if you
go on piling veil after veil between yourself and That, you will never see it.
You may have just a vague impression, &quot;there is something&quot; and that
is all.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>One of the highest expressions of love in human
beings is the giving of oneself entirely to the person loved. That is to say,
to sacrifice oneself for the motherland, give one's life in defending another
person, etc. This may not be the very highest form, but it is already
something. From there you have to climb very high up to arrive at the true
expression which is on the summit of the ascent. The ultimate expression of
love is in the felicity of union.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>That brings us to the symbol of <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place>
and Radha. <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>is he of whom Sri Aurobindo speaks as the divine
Flute-player, that is to say, the immanent and universal Divine who is the
supreme power of attraction. Radha is the name given to the soul, the psychic
personality responding to the call of the Fluteplayer.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Radha consciousness is essentially the way in
which the individual answers to the divine call. Sri Aurobindo describes it as
the capacity to find Ananda in all things through identification with the one
divine Presence and through total self-giving to this Presence. That has the
power of changing everything into perpetual ecstasy. Instead of seeing things
in their apparent discord, you see the Presence alone, the Will and the Grace
in all things. And every event, every element, every circumstance, every form
changes into a way, a detail through which you can approach more intimately and
more profoundly the Divine. The discordances disappear, the uglinesses vanish,
there remains only the splendour of the divine presence in the Love that
radiates in all things.</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>Love for the Divine means an exclusive attachment to the divine
Reality. This concentration finds its culmination in an integral identification
and is instrumental to the supramental realisation upon earth.<o:p></o:p></i></p>

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mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Love alone is capable of putting an end to the
suffering of the world. Only the ineffable delight of Love in its essence can
wipe out of the universe the burning pain of separation. For it is only in the
ecstasy of the supreme union that creation will discover the reason of its
existence and its fulfilment.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It is this marvellous state that we wish to
realise upon earth. It is this that will be able to transform the world, make
of it a dwelling place worthy of the divine Presence. And then only Love, true
and pure, will incarnate in a body that will no longer be a disguise or a veil.
That is why no effort is too arduous, no austerity too rigorous to illumine,
perfect, transform the physical substance so that it no more hides the Divine,
when the Divine takes an external form through Love. For, then there will be
freely manifested in the world that marvellous divine Kindness that can change
life into a paradise of the sweetest delight.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Divine Love is there with all its intensity,
with all its tremendous power. But most people do not feel anything. What they
feel is exactly proportionate to what they are and what they are capable of
receiving.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:9.35pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Just imagine that you are bathed in an atmosphere
wholly vibrant with divine love. But you perceive nothing of it. Sometimes,
rarely, all on a sudden you get the impression of something. Then you say:
&quot;Oh! Divine Love came to me!&quot; It may seem to be an illusion, but the
simple thing is that for some reason or other you were open just a little and
you perceived the Thing. But it is always there.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Divine Consciousness also means the same
thing. This too is there in its full intensity. Yet people do not perceive it
or perceive only spasmodically. But at one moment you happen to be in a good
condition, you feel something and say: &quot;Oh! the Divine Consciousness
appeared to me.&quot; But, as I said, it is not quite that. When you have a
small opening, sometimes even like that of a pinhead, it rushes into you, for
it is an active atmosphere. Whenever there is a possibility of its being
received, it is received.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It is the same thing with regard to all divine
things. They are all there.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Only you do not receive them, because you are
closed up, blocked up. And you are very actively occupied with other things all
the while. All the while you are full of yourself. As you are full of yourself,
there is no place for the Divine. But He is there.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>All wonderful things are there around you: You do
not see them, or see them occasionally only, at a moment when you are a little
more receptive, or perhaps in sleep, when you are less exclusively occupied
with your petty affairs. Then a light comes to you of something; you see, you
feel something. But generally, as soon as you wake up, all that is obliterated
by the formidable ego that is full of itself.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>If you look at yourself closely you will see that
it is always like that. Your vision of the universe is this: that you are at
the centre and the universe is around you. It is not the universe that you see
but you see yourself in the universe. So there is no room for any other thing.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The surest means of reestablishing the right
perspective is to<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>give yourself to the Divine. Then you are obliged to come
out of yourself a little at least to begin with.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Generally, when people think of the Divine, the
first thing they do is to pull as much as they can and they receive nothing.
They tell you: &quot;Oh, I have called, I have prayed and I have had no
answer&quot;. If they are asked: &quot;Have you offered yourself?&quot;, they
reply: &quot;No, I have pulled.&quot; &quot;But that is why you have not
received.&quot; It is not that the answer did not come. But when you pull, you
are so much shut up within your ego that you raise a wall between what is to be
received and yourself. You confine yourself within a prison and yet you are
astonished that in your prison you feel nothing.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Throw yourself out of yourself. Give yourself
without holding back anything, simply for the joy of the self-giving. Then
there is a chance of your feeling something.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>When you do not ask whether you are loved or you
are not loved, when you are absolutely indifferent to that, then only there is
the beginning of true love. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>You love because you love, not because you receive
an answer to your love, or because the other person loves you. You love because
you cannot do otherwise than love. You do not pay any attention to what may
happen. You are perfectly satisfied with your feeling of love. You love because
you love. Everything else is bargaining, it is not love.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Besides, it is sure and certain that as soon as
you are truly in love, you do not put the question any more. It is so childish,
ridiculous and insignificant to put the question. As soon as you are truly in
love, you have the entire plenitude of delight and realisation. You do not need
any kind of response. You are the Love. That is all. You have the full
satisfaction of love. And there is no need of reciprocity.</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>&quot;To become conscious if the Divine Love, you must
abandon all other love.&quot; What is the best way of rejecting &quot;the other
love&quot; which is so obstinate in its denial and which does not leave you
easily </i>?<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>To pass through – yes, pass through and see what is
behind, not to stop short at the appearance, not to rest satisfied with the<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>external form, but to look for the principle that <i>is </i>behind
the love, not to be satisfied until you have found the source of the feeling in
you. Then the external form will fall away of itself and you will be <i>in </i>contact
with the Divine Love that is behind everything. That is the best way. To try to
reject one to find the other is very difficult, almost impossible. Because
human nature is so limited, so full of contradictions and so exclusive in <i>its
</i>movements that if you want to reject love <i>in its </i>lower form, that is
to say, human love as human beings feel it, if you force yourself towards
rejecting that, then generally you reject even the capacity to feel love and
you become as it were a stone. Then sometimes you have to wait for years or
even centuries for the capacity of receiving and manifesting love to reawaken
in you.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Therefore the best means is, when love comes in
any form whatsoever, to try to pierce through its external appearance, to find
out the divine principle that is behind and that <i>is </i>the cause of its
existence. Naturally <i>it </i>is full of snares and difficulties, but it is
the most effective. In other words, instead of ceasing to love, because you
love in the wrong way, you must cease to love in the wrong way and try to love
in the right way. For example, the love between human creatures, in all <i>its </i>forms,
the love of the parents for their children, of the children for their parents,
the love between brothers, between lovers, all are tainted with ignorance and
egoism and every other fault that is the common human fault. So, instead of
ceasing altogether to love, which is besides very difficult, as <i>it </i>will
simply dry up the heart and therefore serve no purpose, you must learn to love
with devotion and self-giving and self-abnegation, you are to fight not against
love itself but against its deformities. All forms of appropriation, the sense
of possession, jealousy, all other feelings that accompany and support these
root feelings are to be rejected. Instead you must not seek to possess,
dominate, impose your will or caprice or desire, must not be eager to take and
receive, but to give. Do not demand a return from the other, but be satisfied
with your own love; do not seek your interest, your personal pleasure, the
fulfilment of your own desire but rest content with your love and affection, do
not ask for a response, but remain happy <i>with </i>loving only, nothing more.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>If you have done that, you have taken a big step,
and then through that attitude, little by little you may progress more into<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>the feeling itself, and you will find one day that love is
not a personal thing, love is a divine universal feeling that manifests through
you as well as it can, but it is in its essence a divine thing.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The first step then is to cease to be egoistic. It
is the same rule for all, not only for those who want to do Yoga, but even in
ordinary life, if you want to love, truly, first of all you must not love
yourself and particularly do not love in an egoistic way; you must give
yourself to the object of your love without asking for anything in return. This
is the very elementary discipline, if you are to transcend yourself, and live a
life that is not wholly commonplace.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:
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said, the will to pierce through this limited and human form of love and
discover the principle of Divine Love that is there behind; it is there then
that you are sure to arrive at a result. That is better than drying up one's
heart. It is more difficult perhaps, but it is always better because, by so
doing, you do not make others suffer egoistically, you leave others to their
own movements, you concern yourself with your own transformation, without imposing
your will upon others and that, even in ordinary life, is a step towards
something that is a little higher and more harmonious.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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