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BHAKTI-YOGA.
bhakta wishes to realise that one generalised abstract Person, in loving Whom, he loves the whole universe. The yogin wishes to find and have possession of that one generalised form of power, by controlling which he controls his whole universe. Thus the Indian mind, throughout his history, has been directed to this kind of singular Search after the universal in everything-in science, in psychology, in love, and in philosophy.
The search of the bhakta leads him to the conclusion that, if one goes on merely loving one person after another, one may go on loving them so for an infinite length of time, without being in the least able to love the world as a whole. One, therefore, should strive to arrive at the central idea, that the sum-total of all love is God, that the sumtotal of the aspirations of all the souls in the universe, whether they be free or bound or struggling towards liberation, is God—then alone it will become possible for one to put
