An extract from the book
“Glimpses of the Divine Vision” by Swami Ramdas – Section “Love”
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Love begets love. Love is life, love is
Truth. The highest attainment is love, the loftiest goal is love.
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The cosmic vision held out in the Gita
alone can enable you to attain universal love. This vision or love grants you
never- fading joy and peace. To love God is to love all, and to love all is to
love God. This is the secret of Self-realization and liberation, and Ram Nam is
the way.
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Indeed every movement of your mind in
thought, every movement of your tongue in words, every movement of your limbs
in activity or works, is the play of Shakti. Shakti is nothing but God’s love.
When we realize that all movement is the movement of that supreme love, we live
continuously in a state of divine ecstasy which is simply inexpressible. Then,
Prem fills us through and through, in other words, we are soaked in Prem. The
quality of Prem is Anand. There is also the witness of this play of love or Shakti
- the immutable, changeless, all-pervading, static aspect of your being, whose
quality is ineffable peace. On this unaffected screen of eternal peace dances
in flitting forms, infinite love producing sweet intoxicating music of Anand.
Every particle of your body and the whole universe is thrilling with Sri Ram’s
love. So, there is nothing but Anand in all movement, change and activity.
There is nothing but peace in the depths of all forms-result of movement and
change. So, eternal peace and bliss are the only Reality.
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Everybody wants to eat only sweet things.
The thought of bitter things is repulsive to all. Love pure and glorious
love-the immortal divine love makes us drink always sweetness and joy.
Therefore, to open your hearts to the inflow of this intoxicating love and
remain ever in the rapture of it is the supreme blessing and purpose of life.
All things pass away-your petty ambitions and unregulated aspirations are
things of the moment. Your pleasures and pains, your successes and failures,
your exultations and depressions, and your desires and fancies, all, all pass
away. The one thing that remains unaltered, permanent and eternal is divine
Love.
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Love does not rest content with merely
loving, but flows out in acts of service. Love is blissful only when it freely
gives itself away. Therefore, it is truly said-“The giver and the receiver are
both blessed.”
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Love must ever be revealed in service;
otherwise, love has no value, or love is no love. Love cheerfully sacrifices;
love willingly suffers. Where such love is, there is real peace and joy. Such a
love illumines and blesses life.
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O Love! There is nothing greater than Thee!
Love is Truth. Love is God. Love is all. The name of this love is Ram. So, to
repeat this name is to realize this supreme Love-is to enjoy everlasting bliss.
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