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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
ecstasy of super-consciousness, he plunges into the ocean of Joy in his own Self!
We might call this intense love of the bhakta madness, if we please, it is certainly disregardful of what 'soul-less' humanity regard as sound intellectualismbut we must remember that it takes us not to tears, and sorrow, and darkness in the grave, as worldly wisdom undoubtedly does, but to the Land of Joy and Love and Immortality. Can the love of Mammon lead us an inch beyond Turkish carpets, motor cars, palaces for residence, and the like, all of which tend to expedite the approach of death, but can in no case confer immortality? Blessed is the madness which ends in bliss; who cares for the 'sanity' that leads to the grave?
Jain Education International
Those who wish to study the nature of Love from the standpoint of mysticism, will find it beautifully described in the Nârada Sutra. We shall here give an extract of a few of its passages from an excellent translation of it by Mr. E. T. Sturdy. Love is of three kinds, namely, (1) where the only motive is to seek pleasure, to take all and to give nothing, (2) where there is exchange, and the loving depends on being loved-'I love thee, because thou lovest me,' and (3) where there is unconditional devotion, the giving everything and seeking nothing,no recognition, no return. The first is the love of the sensualist, the second that of the ordinary worldly man or woman, but the third is that of the real devotee. Love has been defined by Vyâsa, as devotion to worship, by Garga, as devotion to hearing about the Atman; Sândilya considers it the unbroken feeling of the Universal Self in one's own self, and Nârada refers to it as the
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