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IDEAL OF LOVE.
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building up earths, suns, and moons--playing with the human hearts, and animals, and plants! See that we are but His chessmen. He arranges us first in one way and then in another, and we are consciously or unconsciously helping in His play. And Oh bliss! we are His playmates!
The next type is what is known as batsalya (), or loving God not as our Father but as our Child. This may look peculiar, but it is a discipline to enable us to detach all ideas of from the power of concept God. The idea of power brings with it awe. There should be no awe in love. The ideas of reverence and obedience are necessary for the formation of character. But when the character is formed, when the lover has tasted the calm peaceful love and also a little of its intense madness, then he need talk no more of ethics and obedience to the scriptural forms. To conceive God as mighty, majestic and glorious Lord of the Universe,
