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THE TRIANGLE OF LOVE. 139 The bhakta loves because he cannot help loving-just as when you see a beautiful scenery and fall in love with it. You do not demand anything in the way of favour from the scenery, nor does the scenery demand anything from you. Yet the vision thereof brings you to a blissful state of the mind by toning down all the friction in your soul. It makes you calm, and almost raises you, for the time being, beyond your mortal nature, by placing you in a condition of tranquil divine ecstasy. So is the nature of real love and this is the first angle of our triangle. Therefore ask not anything in return for your love. Let your position be always that of the giver. Give your love unto God, but do not ask anything in return even from
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The second angle of the triangle of love is that love knows no fear. Those that love God through fear are the lowest of human beings-quite undeveloped as men. They
