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The Forms of Love-Manifestation.
Here are some of the forms in which love manifests itself. First there is reverence. Why do people show reverence to temples and holy places ? Because the Lord is worshipped there, and His presence is associated with all such places. Why do people in every country pay reverence to teachers of religion ? It is natural for the human heart to do so, because all such teachers preach the Lord. At bottom, reverence is a growth out of love ; we can none of us revere him whom we do not love. Then comes priti-pleasure in God. What an immense pleasure men take in the objects of the senses ! They go anywhere, run through any danger, to get the thing which they love, the thing which their senses like. What is wanted of the bhakta is this very kind of intense love which has, however, to
