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Universal Love and How It Leads
to Self-surrender. How can we love the vyashti, the particular, without first loving the samashti, the universal ? God is the samashti, the general. ised and the abstract universal whole ; and the universe that we see is the vyashti, the particularised thing. To love the whole universe is possible only by way of loving the samashti, the universal - which is the one Unity in which are to be found millions and millions of smaller unities. The philosophers of India do not stop at the particulars. They cast a hurried glance at the particulars, and immediately start to find the generalised form which will include all the particulars. *The search after the universal is thus the one search of Indian philosophy and religion. The jnanin aims at the wholeness of things, at that one absolute and generalised Being, knowing which, he knows every thing. The
