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IDEAL OF LOVE.
161 have the Lord as their one goal, as their ekayana and hence all loves and all passions of the human heart must be directed to God, the Beloved! Whom else can this heart love except Him, Who is beauty itself-sublimity itself? Who in this universe is more beautiful than He? Who in this universe is more fit to become the husband than He? Who in this universe is fitter to be loved than He? So let him be the husband, let Him be the Beloved. And often it so happens, that divine lovers who sing of this divine love, accept the language of human love in all its aspects, as adequate to describe it. Fools do not understand this and they never will. They look at it only with the physical eye. They do not understand the 'mad throes of this spiritual love. How can they ? • "One kiss of Thy lips, O Beloved ! He that has been kissed by Thee, his thirst for Thee goes on increasing for ever, all his sorrows vanish, and he forgets all things
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