Passage 13

In English

Understand God's love

Turning to God's love, let me make it clear that 99 percent of devotees do not understand what this prema means. This love is construed in a worldly sense. This leads them astray. The attachment between husband and wife, mother and child, between friends, between kith and kin, all are loosely described as Prema (love), but these attachments are the result of temporary relationships and are by their nature transient. Prema is (Love is that which lasts through all the three categories of time - the past, the present and the future). Such love can exist only between God and the devotee and cannot apply to any other kind of relationship.