This world has come out of love. It exists in love and finally dissolves in love. Love is the motivating power of the universe.
Love is life. Love is joy. Love is warmth. It is the golden tie which binds heart to heart and soul to soul. Love is constructive and creative. Love binds and builds. Love is the principle of regeneration. It is an actual substance that you can use with confidence. Love is a positive, concrete thing. One who applies the law of love with scientific precision can work wonders.
To live is to love. To love is to live. You live that you may learn to love. You love that you 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 because love is Truth; love is God. God is an embodiment of love. In every inch of His creation, you can verily understand His love.
Love of the body or skin is passion. Love of God is prem, spiritual love or devotion. It is pure love; love for the sake of love. To love anyone for attaining a selfish gain is selfish love and binds you to this earth. To love all beings as manifestations of the Lord is pure love. It is divine love and leads to liberation.
Earthly love is hollow. There is a jarring note, a hidden doubt, a flaw. But true, pure love is rich, profound, full and flawless. Pure, divine love is eternal, unchanging and infinite. Selfish passion seeks gratification through others, but pure love only seeks to make the beloved happy and derives happiness from the happiness of the latter. Love is sacrifice. To love is to share.
Love vibrates in the form of service, charity, generosity and benevolence. Compassion is active benevolence. It is the positive expression of love. Passive goodness alone is not sufficient. Active goodness or positive goodness is essential for one’s spiritual advancement. The spirit of service should be ingrained in you. It must be innate or inherent in you.
There should not be a mere show. All service is empty if there is no love, affection, sincerity and feeling, bhava. If you serve with bhava and love, God is behind you.
Serve, love, give. One who practises these instructions can live through hard times and bad days, enlightened by the heavenly ray. Make others truly happy, just as you strive to make yourself happy. Speak a helpful word. Give a cheering smile. Do a kind act. Serve a little. Wipe the tears of one who is in distress. Render smooth a rough place in another’s path. You will feel great joy.
Worship the poor, the downtrodden and the oppressed.
These are your first gods. Love all. You will reap the benefit of more than a million sacrifices, austerities and observances. Regard your neighbour’s happiness as your own happiness and regard your neighbour’s pain as your own pain. We are all the fruit of one tree and the leaves of one branch. There is no stranger or alien in this world. Everyone is God in the process of evolution. Identify yourself with everything that lives. Live at peace with friend and foe. All are limbs of one body. All creation is the family of God. Love all God’s creation. Love animals, birds, plants and stones. Love everything. This is the way to knowledge of the mystery underlying everything.
True religion does not consist of ritualistic observances, baths and pilgrimages, but in loving all. Cosmic love is all embracing and all inclusive. In pure love, no one is shut out from its warm embrace. It is wide enough to include the humblest of us, from the tiny ant to the mighty elephant, from the condemned prisoner to the mighty emperor, from the worst scoundrel to the most revered saint on the surface of this earth. It is hatred that separates man from man, nation from nation and country from country. It is pride and egoism that divide one man from another. Hatred, pride and egoism are mental creations. They are the products of ignorance only. They cannot stand before pure love.
In love lies the salvation of all beings. Love is the hope of this dark and lonesome world. This world needs leaders filled with sympathy, cooperation, love, compassion, sacrifice and tolerance. In the cultivation of this cosmic love is individual spiritual progress, the welfare of the entire community and the peace of the whole world. Set to work therefore and spread the message of love, unity, goodwill, service and cooperation. Let the spiritual message of oneness and the divine call to unity, friendship and amicable feeling reach the hearts of all and awaken brotherhood and love in the bosom of humanity. Let the whole world be circled with a heart of love.
My dear children of love, tread the path of love, commune with God and reach the eternal abode of love. This is your highest duty. You have taken this body to achieve love, which alone is the goal of life. Live in love, breathe in love, sing in love, eat in love, drink in love, talk in love, pray in love, work in love, think in love, move in love, meditate in love and die in love. Purify your thoughts, speech and actions in the fire of love. Bathe and plunge in the sacred ocean of love. Take the honey of love and become an embodiment of love.