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 Commandment - 9
Mould your living so as to rouse a feeling of love and piety in others.
The ninth commandment is simple and straight forward. It says that one should live in such a way as to arouse in all or all-round a feeling of love of God and pious living. One becomes imitable and an example to others. Secondly, it provokes not love of oneself or for oneself but to God. For one begins to ask oneself how it is that one lives so nicely as to evoke love for the individual himself because of the love that he has for God. The Brhadaranyaka Upanishad states that not for love of oneself does one love another, nor for the sake of love of another does one love him, but for the love of the Supreme Self or God does one love another. Because he sees God as the source of all life and love does he love everything or rather does he not shrink away from another. This view-point of God towards man and all is what is natural, whereas the way to love things in this world for the pleasure they give and so on is unnatural. God shines on all equally in so far as He is the inner force or Anna (food or spiritual power that sustains all according to their status and evolution). Our aim being to reach the highest we mould ourselves in the manner of godly living and godliness which is precisely the experience of love to all.
Unless one loves all one cannot get the return of love. Love leads to real piety because it is the love of God in all and it is selfless.
God's Nature is similar to that of the sun. His love flows to all in equal measure. One who loves God also begins to love all and draws all towards the Divine. The Kenopanishad states the condition of one who loves God. All beings seek him with love. Thus one develops the Divine nature when one loves God only and thus stirs the inward love within each and every one. God's approach to each individual or being is individualised and unique. This is the occult mystery of the unity of the One and the Many. The One manifests in the Many and in diverse ways It links Itself up with every one individually. There is only the unity of the source which relates all to one another. Thus in the Natural Path we link up ourselves with God through love and discover that we love all and that others love us with






























































































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