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BHAKTI-YOGA.
smooth, flowing, and as natural as the things around us. We see the manifestation of this sort of renunciation, although more or less in the cause of caricatures, every day around us. A man begins to love a woman; after a while he loves another, and the first woman, he lets go. She drops out of his mind smoothly, gently without his feeling the want of her at all. A woman loves a man ; she then begins to love another man, and the first one drops off from her mind quite naturally. A man loves his own city, then he begins to love his country, and the intense love for his little city drops off smoothly, naturally. Again, a man learns to love the whole world; his love for his country, his intense, fanatical patriotism drops off, without hurting him, without any manifestation of violence. An uncultured man loves the pleasures of the senses intensely; as he becomes cultured he begins to love intellectual, pleasures, and sense-enjoyments become less and
