Chapter 164485–489

images. So love and grow mighty to enjoy all, to help all and to love for ever.

488 – If there are things that absolutely refuse to be trans-formed or remedied into God’s more perfect image, they may be destroyed with tenderness in the heart, but ruthlessness in the smiting. But make sure first that God has given thee thy sword and thy mission.

489 – I should love my neighbour not because he is neighbour-hood, — for what is there in neighbourhood and distance? nor because the religions tell me he is my brother, — for where is the root of that brotherhood? but because he is myself. Neighbourhood and distance affect the body, the heart goes beyond them. Brotherhood is of blood or country or religion or humanity, but when self-interest clamours what becomes of this brotherhood? It is only by living in God and turning mind and heart and body into the image of his universal unity that that deep, disinterested and unassailable love becomes possible.

All the human reasons that are given for solidarity and mutual love are of little value and also of little effect. Only by becoming conscious of the Divine and uniting with Him can one attain and realise true Unity.

20 April 1970 490 – When I live in Krishna, then ego and self-interest vanish and only God himself can qualify my love bottomless and illimitable.

491 – Living in Krishna, even enmity becomes a play of love and the wrestling of brothers.