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surrendering of all actions to God, and feeling the greatest misery in forgetting him. Nârada further declares that it is greater than work, knowledge, or yoga, because it is its own reward, or end,- not merely a means to an end, as, he maintains, is the case with knowledge. Love emancipates the heart from impurity. It has no rights or property of its own ; neither does it tolerate the spirit of copy-righting. Wealth, strength, abilities—all must be held in trust for the world, at the service of every straggling manifestation of Life. The fruit of Love is enjoyed by him who avoids evil company, who associates with those of great mind, who gives up all sense of possession, who frequents lonely places, who uproots the bondage of karmas, who abandons all anxiety as to livelihood, who renounces the fruit of works, who gives up even the Vedas, and looks upon all living beings with equanimity. The true ‘lonely place' is in the depths of the heart, where, with all the doorways of interruption through the senses fastened, the devotee sees, in unbroken solitude, nothing but his own pure Self as the 'one without a second.' "How are these doorways, through which distractions enter, to be closed ? For the bhakta, through Love, Love, and yet again Love; by driving away everything from his thoughts, but sympathy, compassion and those ideas and emotions which lead up to a perfectly impassioned Love-quixotic it may be --reckless, ridiculous to us in its fervour, but unconquerable and unrelenting. Giving it full play, never checking it, weeping, it may be, for the miseries of the world and the sense of separation from the one Ocean of Life and Love, day and night, in public or in
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