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169. Universal Love

Human love is selfish. It can turn into hatred and enmity. We hear occasionally of life long friendship turning sour and bitter. Love is incapable of becoming anything other than love. It is incorruptible as it is Ananda received by the Soul behind the heart.

People who fall in love used to think that their love is divine love. Divine love is defined as love of the divine. It has nothing to do with the love of one human being for another. The Bhagavat Gita calls for surrender of the ego. It calls the dissolution of ego as Brahma nirvananam. When the ego dissolves, the Psychic Being emerges. The Psychic Being is the evolving soul, a deputy of Jivatma in evolution. Its widest reach is the whole universe. Surrender is its native attitude and its one emotion is Love. It is universal love capable of spreading all over the universe. The love of the psychic is a vibration of the universe. In bhakti yoga the psychic being comes forward. It can lead to moksha or to Supermind as we choose.

Once Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was walking towards the riverbank. Suddenly he felt a whip lash on his back. Turning around, he saw someone whipping his bull. Love is a universal vibration. In theory, all acts are universal. An act, here the act of beating the animal, is universal. We do not feel it, as we are closed to the universal plane. Love, the truly divine Love, when it is born in the human vessel, opens his entire being down to his physical body to the plane of the universe. So, he is able to receive the vibrations he is open to. The subtle knowledge, the subtle power of infinite variety in the different worlds - planes - is known to our ancestors. One of them is what is called in the massive, pregnant Sanskrit phrase prakriti laya, a trance of the body from which the JIVA can go out for centuries and return safely, provided the body is kept intact during the period when the soul is journeying outside.

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  • Acknowledgement by the Author
  • Introduction
  • 101. That Which Has an End is Not Patience
  • 102. Scarcity is NOT Real
  • 103. The Spirit in Planning
  • 104. Determined Refusal of Good Luck
  • 105. Correspondences in Life
  • 106. Censor, the Index of the Spirit
  • 107. Form and Content
  • 108. Silent Suffering
  • 109. Darsan in the Subtle Plane
  • 110. Birthday
  • 111. Restoration of Lost Property
  • 112. Consummation of Invocation of Spirit
  • 113. Sweetness is the Knowledge of Love
  • 114. Abolition of Space
  • 115. Generosity – Meanness
  • 116. Power Failure
  • 117. Failure in Spirit is still Success in Life
  • 118. Faith Must be Pure, NOT Dependent on Other things
  • 119. Invocation of Spirit Makes Luck Possible
  • 120. Love that Knows NO Failure
  • 121. Micro-nutrients of Personality
  • 122. Power of Thought Uttered or Unuttered
  • 123. Lost Eyesight
  • 124. Large as Life
  • 125. Life's Determinism
  • 126. Human Determinism
  • 127. Spiritual as well as Psychic Determinism
  • 128. The Unfailing Success of the Psychic Determinism
  • 129. Characteristics of the Psychic Determinism
  • 130. Invisible Potentialities
  • 131.Outer Expression of Inner Consciousness
  • 132. St. Antony
  • 133. From the Bottom 5% to the Top 5 %
  • 134. Power of Cleanliness
  • 135. Chanting of Om
  • 136. Life Version of Chanting OM
  • 137. Birth of Freedom in the Mind of Life
  • 138. Word of Mouth
  • 139. Spirit is Infectious
  • 140. Happy Home
  • 141. Persistence in the Righteous Course Brings Reward
  • 142. Krishna's Flute
  • 143. The Auspicious Hour
  • 144. The Grace of the Copious Rainfall
  • 145. Carrying out Instructions Precisely in Their Spirit
  • 146. Imagination is the Power of Future Potentialities
  • 147. Wedding is a Gift of the Benevolent Spirit
  • 148. Strength of Timidity
  • 149. Know Thyself, Know Your Strengths
  • 150. Pilgrimage to Prosperity
  • 151. The Godhead I Love and Adore
  • 152. Self-justification Fortifies the Present
  • 153. The Touch of Low Consciousness
  • 154. The Music of Human Life
  • 155. The Invisible Spiritual Infrastructure in Human Personality
  • 156. The Role of Management in Nation Building
  • 157. Luck is Psychological Management
  • 158. The Spiritual Power of Truth in Ordinary Life
  • 159. The Dominant and the Submissive
  • 160. Flat Dullness, Interest and Liveliness
  • 161. Self-awareness is Self-evaluation
  • 162. Pre-occupation of the Being
  • 163. The Fisherwoman of Paramahamsa
  • 164. Quarrel is the Uncultured Embrace of the Ununderstanding Vital – (feelings)
  • 165. Sign of the Presence of the Spirit
  • 166. I Do Not Know What to Pray For
  • 167. The Soul's Longing for Spiritual Peace
  • 168. Home Sweet Home
  • 169. Universal Love
  • 170. The Quest of the Scientist for the Ultimate Reality
  • 171. Theory of Creation
  • 172. Follow the Heart
  • 173. Family Deity, its Blessings and Limits
  • 174. Unemployment and the Unemployed
  • 175. Discovery of India
  • 176. Not a Pretty Face; but a True Heart
  • 177. Disbelief in Superstition
  • 178. Let Thy Will be Done; Not My Will
  • 179. Strange Are the Ways of Life
  • 180. Examination Results
  • 181. An Accomplishment Out of the Ordinary
  • 182. Sincerity of Purpose
  • 183. Salary Arrears
  • 184. Sin and Virtue
  • 185. Srinivasa Ramanujam
  • 186. The Genius of India
  • 187. Eisenhower
  • 188. Old Age
  • 189. Longing for the Spirit
  • 190. Rain in Kutch
  • 191. The Roving Ambassador of India
  • 192. Establishment and Political Leadership
  • 193. The Grace of Culture
  • 194. Individuality
  • 195. Two Sides of Human Nature
  • 196. Pilgrimage
  • 197. Suffering from Surplus
  • 198. Spiritual Truth in Human Life
  • 199. Truisms of Spirit in Life
  • 200. U Thant
  • Appendix 1: How to Invoke the Spirit
  • Appendix 2: Invocation of the Spirit
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