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Love is the Inner awakening to Reality
Reality and that is why Master had said ‘Love Him who loves all and thus everybody is automatically loved through Him.’
2. Dr.K.Madhava
This definition of love is refreshing. It is at variance with popular notions about the emotion of love.
I) When a particular thing or relationship occupies your consciousness with a compelling force which makes the consciousness oblivious of other things or events, you may say that you are in love with that object or relationship.
I will take the example of the famous scientist, which Rev Babuji Maharaj mentioned in his article about sensitivity.
Normally when a person is hungry the consciousness is disturbed (Kshipta) and he can not give his whole hearted concentration on any thing till his hunger is appeased. But the scientist was so engrossed in his experiment that his dog ate his lunch and the servant cleaned the plate thinking that his master had taken his lunch.
His love and devotion to his work or experiment commanded all his attentions to such an extent that a powerful biological drive like hunger could not distract him. You may also interpret that he has sacrificed his comfort (of remaining in a state of discomfort due to hunger) for the object of his love.
In the second instance when his 20 years of hard and dedicated work goes up in smoke as a result of his dog’s turning the lighted candle on his papers, he turns philosophical and pats the dog’s head and says “you do not know what damage you have done”. His love for
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