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UNIVERSAL LOVE.
127 comes, "welcome pain"-or if misery comes, "welcome misery, you are also from the Beloved.” If a serpent comes, it will say "welcome serpent." And even if death comes, such a bhakta will welcome it with a smile. He will say "blessed am I that they all come to me; they are all welcome.” The bhakta in this state of perfect resignation, arising out of intense love to God and to all that are His, ceases to distinguish between pleasure and pain, in so far as they affect him. He does not know now what it is to complain of pain or misery—and this kind of uncomplaining resignation to the will of God, who is all love, is indeed a worthier acquisition than all the glory of grand and heroic performances.
• To the vast majority of mankind, the body is 'everything. The body is all the universe to them and bodily enjoyment, their all in all. This demon of the worship of the body and of the things of the body has
