In English
Love can be got only through love
Love is a precious diamond which can be got only in the realm of love and nowhere else. The kingdom of Love is located in the heart, in a heart filled with love. Love can be experienced only in a mind flowing with love and a heart filled with love. The precious diamond of Love cannot be got through or meditation, through prescribed rituals or various sacred acts. These can only give mental satisfaction. Love can be got only through love. The different paths of devotion - (peace), (friendship), (material love), (affection) and (sweetness) - are all based on love. The essence of all spiritual disciplines is contained in love. The greater a man's love for God, the greater the bliss which he experiences. When love declines in man, his joy also declines equally. The lover of God sees God everywhere. Hence man's heart must be filled with the love of God. Love will not enter the heart of one who is filled with selfishness and self-conceit. Therefore, man should forget his petty self and concentrate his thoughts on God. Love of God makes a man oblivious to his own existence. Love becomes a form of intoxication. Love makes the devotee and God dance in ecstasy and becomes one with them. It induces self-forgetfulness. It generates an ecstasy in which everything is forgotten. Love cannot bear separation from the beloved. Today is the day when we celebrate the advent in human form of the Lord who came down to the earth from to instil love in human beings. The nature of divine love can be understood only when the Divine in human form teaches as man to man the nature of this love.