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UNIVERSAL LOVE.
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forth universal love. The bhakta says therefore that, God is the samashti, and this visible universe is God, differentiated and made manifest. If we love this sum-total, we love everything. Loving the world and doing it good will all come easily then-but we shall have to obtain this power, only by loving God, first-otherwise it is no joke to do good to the world. “Everything is His and He is my Lover ; I Love Him," says the bhakta. In this way everything becomes sacred to him, because all things are His—all are His children, His body, His manifestation. How then may we hurt any one? How then may we not love any one ? With the love of God will come, as a sure effect, the love of every one in the universe. The nearer we approach to God, the more do we begin to see that all things are in Him. When the soul succeeds in appropriating the bliss of this supreme love, it also begins to see Him in everything. Our
