Passage 6

In English

Love is highly sacred, valuable, and vast. It is present universally in all beings. It is the primary duty of man to recognize the divinity present within, in the form of love. But man is making no effort in this direction. He is facing hardships because he thinks that God is different from him. God is not separate from the individual. He dwells in all living beings in the form of love. One has to make every effort to experience this truth. There is no man in this world without love, but he is associating it with worldly and ephemeral things. He fails to understand that the love in him is nothing but divine. He limits his love only to physical relationships. The love of a mother towards her child is called (affection), the love that exists between husband and wife is called (infatuation). The love of a person towards his friends and relatives is known as (attachment), the love towards material objects is referred to as (desire). Though love is classified in this manner, it is essentially divine. One should always remember this. As man has forgotten this fundamental truth, he is developing differences based on physical relationships. This is the main cause of man’s suffering. So long as there is such feeling of difference in man, he cannot attain divinity. I have been repeatedly exhorting you to give up body attachment. (attachment to God) decreases as (attachment to body) increases. Attachment to body is worldly in nature, whereas divine love is related to the heart. Every man has equal right to experience this love. Man cannot understand God’s love because he tries to compare it with his narrow and selfish love. Such comparison is incorrect because God’s love is totally selfless. It is infinite, immortal, and incomparable. In parlance, Divine love is referred to as as it circulates in the form of essence in every limb of the body. The love of man and the love of God are the same in quality as well as quantity (i.e., limitless). It is a folly to see difference between them. Man tries to estimate divine love from a worldly point of view. But there is no relationship whatsoever between worldly activities and divine love. They are entirely different from each other.