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The God of Love is His
own Proof. Now what is the ideal of the lover who has passed quite beyond the idea of selfishness, of bartering and bargaining, and who knows no fear ? Even to the great God such a man will say—“I have given you my all, and I do not want anything from you ; indeed there is nothing that I can call my own." When a man has acquired this stage his ideal becomes one of perfect love-one of perfect fearlessness of love. The highest ideal of such a person has no narrowness or particularity about it. It is love universal, love without limits and bounds, love itself, perfect and absolute. This grand ideal of the religion of love is worshipped and loved absolutely as such, without the aid of any symbols or suggestions. The highest form of bhakti is the worship of this all-comprehend
