________________
UNIVERSAL LOVE.
131 me up, O Lord !"-such is the prayer that proceeds out of the depths of the bhakta's heart. To him who has experienced it, this eternal sacrifice of the self unto the Beloved Lord, is higher by far than all wealth and power, than even all soaring thoughts of renown and enjoyment. The peace of the bhakta's calm resignation is a "peace that passeth all understanding," and is of incomparable value. His apratikulya is that state of the mind, in which the mind has no interests in anything whatever in this world and naturally it knows nothing that is opposed to those interests. In this state of sublime resignation, everything in the shape of attachment goes away completely, except that one all-absorbing love to Him “in Whom all things live and move and have their being." This attachment through love to God is, indeed, one that does not bind the soul, bút effectively breaks all its bondages.
