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RENUNCIATION FROM LOVE. 107 this mighty feeling of love is working itself out in the world. Sometimes a little friction is produced, but that is only in the course of the struggle to attain the higher and real love. Sometimes there is a little fight, or a little fall ; but it is all along the way only. Stand aside, and freely let these frictions come. You feel the frictions, only when you are in the current of the world. But when you are outside of it, simply as a witness or as a student, you will be able to see that there are millions and millions of channels in which God is manifesting Himself as Love.
"Wherever there is any bliss, even though in the most sensual of things, there is a spark of that Eternal Bliss which is the Lord Himself."* Even in the lowest kinds of attraction there is the germ of Divine love. One of the names of the Lord in Sanskrit is Hari, and this means that He attracts all
एतस्यैवानन्दस्य गागि सर्वे मावामुपजीवन्ति ।
