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BHAKTI-YOGA.
things to Himself. His is in fact the only attraction worthy of human hearts. Who can attract a soul really ? Only He! Do you think dead matter can trully attract the soul ? It never did, and never will. When you see a man going after a beautiful face, do you think that it is the handful of arranged material molecules which really attracts the man? Not at all. Behind those material particles there must be and is the play of divine influence and divine love. The ignorant man does not know it ; but yet, consciously or unconciously, he is attracted by it and it alone. So even the lowest forms of attraction derive their power from God Himself. “None, o beloved, ever loved the husband for the husband's sake ; it is the Atman, the Lord, Who is inside, and for His sake the husband is loved."* Loving wives may know this or
qarqi qay: Aare afa: fazit waaraan w#10 ofa: प्रियी भवति।
(Brihadåranyaka, II-4)
