Love is the law of life. To love is to fulfil the law, and to fulfil the law means eternal peace and everlasting happiness. This world has come out of love, it exists in love and it finally dissolves in love. Love is the motive-power of the universe. Love is life, love is joy, love is warmth. Love is the golden tie which binds heart to heart, soul to soul. Love is constructive and creative – it binds and builds. Love is the principle of regeneration. Love is an actual substance one can use with confidence. Love is a positive, concrete thing. One who applies the law of love with scientific precision can work wonders. The law of love is a far greater science than any modern science. The law of love prevails among saints and good men.
To live is to love. To love is to live. One lives that one may learn to love. One loves that one may learn to live in the Eternal. A life without faith, love and devotion is a dreary waste; it is real death. There is no virtue higher than love; there is no treasure higher than love; there is no knowledge higher than love; there is no dharma higher than love; there is no religion higher than love; love is Truth; love is God. God is the embodiment of love. In every inch of his creation, one can verily understand his Love.
Love is the immediate way to Truth or the Kingdom of God. It is the life-principle of creation. It is the highest expression of the soul-force. It is the sum total of all the duties of religion. It is the magic wand in the hand of a devotee by which he conquers the whole world.
Compassion is feeling for the suffering of others. In compassion you make another’s misery your own, and by relieving them you also relieve yourself. Pity, fellow-feeling, sympathy, kindness and tenderness are all synonymous with compassion. The dew of compassion is a tear.
Most people are selfish and have no compassion. They may spend large amounts of money on a car for their children, but they will not spend anything to relieve the suffering of the poor. They have their eyes and ears closed. They do not hear the cries of people in distress. They do not see the stream of tears flowing from their neighbours. They just close their doors and eat magnificent food.
The whole world is one family. Feel this. Open your heart to compassion. Understand the suffering of others and be ever ready to help them. Share what you have with others. Wipe the tears of the suffering. Compassion opens the door to freedom and expands the heart.
Divine love is the sweet mystery of life. It is the greatest thing in the world, the greatest power on this earth. Love is vital to spiritual progress. Love all. Cherish love. Pour it forth on all. Love is the crown of life. It is the true joy of every heart. Therefore, cultivate love. True love will ever reign supreme in this universe. This is the truth. Man cannot live by bread alone, but by love. Love is the best nourishment for life. It is the sum total of all vitamins. Love is all in all. Love is God. God is love. Love embraces everything. It abides in the heart.
Love is the illumination. It has the power to make one wise and stimulates the intuition.
The nearest approach to Truth or God is through love. Faith, devotion and love are immortal sisters. Love of God arises in a heart that is desireless. Divine love is the only solvent, the one great healer and forgiver.
Pure, unselfish love is prem or devotion to God. Pure love is a rare commodity which has to be gradually cultivated. It endures or lasts forever. There can be no rupture, friction, weary face or frowning, no decline or waning. It always increases like the waxing moon or the Ganga in the rainy season. Pure or divine love alone can remove all the barriers that separate one man from another. Pure love alone can eradicate all sorts of unreasonable dislikes and prejudices, intolerance and hatred. Pure love alone can unite a Jew and a Christian, a Hindu and a Muslim, a Catholic and a Protestant, a Brahmin and a non-Brahmin, a Vaishnavite and a Shaivite, a Sanatanist and an Arya Samajist, an Englishman and an Italian, a Chinese and a Japanese, a sannyasi and a vairagya, on a common platform and the care of their hearts.
In the world even best friends fight amongst themselves, even husbands and wives who are united for a long time quarrel among themselves and even fathers and sons are at loggerheads, but there can never be any break of continuity in pure love. Pure love is divine. Pure love is God. God is pure love. In pure love there can never be any tinge or microscopic trace of selfishness. That is the reason why it endures forever. Love is a great purifier of the mind. Love or prem is a mighty power. It exercises a wonderful power over the beings that come under its masterful influence. Love is a great leveller. All differences between the two vanish. The lover and the beloved are placed on the same level. Pure, unselfish love can turn God into human and human into God. There is no power on earth greater than love.