Chapter 47General

When the true and sacred love is there (love from the Divine and for the Divine), whatever happens is always utilised as a means for increasing and perfecting the union. This leaves no place for worry, regret and depression, but, on the contrary, fills the consciousness with the certitude of victory.

* Integral love for the Divine: pure, complete and irrevocable, it is a love that gives itself for ever.

* Flaming love for the Divine: ready for all heroism and all sacrifice.

* To love truly the Divine we must rise above attachments.

* Love is with all, working for the progress of each one equally — but it triumphs in those who care for it.

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(Message for the World Vegetarian Congress)

Love alone can overcome hate and violence.

Let the divine compassion express itself through you always and in all circumstances.

The divine compassion reaches out not only to the one who is eaten but also to the one who eats, not only to the one who is tortured but also the one who tortures.

* Divine Love can overcome the evil and the cruel — the tiger does not attack the yogi.

* Unmanifest Divine Love: the splendour of the marvellous love which the Divine keeps for the pure heart.

* Indeed, all life is love if we know how to live it.

13 July 1963

* Sweetness is within every heart.

Bitterness is an illusion that melts in the Sun of Divine Love.

July 1966