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BHAKTI-YOGA.
man, his mind will continuously think of God and remember nothing else. He will give no room in himself to thoughts other than those of God, and his soul by being unconquerably pure, will break all the bonds of mind and matter and become serenely free. He alone can worship the Lord in his own heart and to him forms, symbols, books and doctrines become all unnecessary and incapable of proving serviceable in any way. It is not easy to love the Lord thus.
Ordinarily human love is seen to flourish only in places where it is returned and where love is not returned for love, cold indifference is the natural result. There are, however, rare instances of human love where we may notice love exhibiting itself, even though there is no return for love. We may.compare this kind of love, for purposes of illustration, to the love of the moth for the fire. The insect loves the fire, falls into it and dies—for it is indeed in the nature of this insect to love
