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RENUNCIATION FROM LOVE.
105 and proper in the former case. The same fire that cooks a meal for us may burn a child, and it is no fault of the fire if it did so ; the difference lies in the way in which it is used. Therefore, love, the intense longing for association, the strong desire on the part of two to become one, and it may be after all, of all to become merged in one, is being manifested everywhere in higher or lower forms as the case may be. Bhakti-Yoga is the science of higher love—it shows us how to direct it. It shows us how to control it, how to manage it, how to use it, how to give it a new aim, as it were, and from it obtain the highest and most glorious results, that is, how to make it lead us to spiritual blessedness! Bhakti-Yoga does not say—give up ; it only says--love, love the Highest ; and everything low naturally falls off from him the object of whose love is this Highest.
• “I cannot tell anything about Thee, except that Thou art my love. Thou art
