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Human Love and Divine Love · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  How do we understand the term? Love in the context of spiritual
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  sadhna, we bring to the term, a large number of Impressions
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  ideas and conceptions. Based on our cultural
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  background, educational upbringing and socialization in
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  our society We have no direct experience for the most part of
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  anything other than what we make all human love.
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  Human love is a very mixed Affair.
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  Including various needs urges desires, vital drives lusts of
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  the body and mental preconceptions about.
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  Love that color. Our understanding human love is
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  also often Associated on an individual basis with sexual
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  gratification domination and vital reactions of jealousy and
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  various forms of Abusive conduct towards those with whom we have
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  a relationship, we call love. We look at actions of Charity
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  self-sacrifice for a higher cause or altruism as acts of
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  Love on a more disinterested scale.
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  It is impossible to bring all these associations into the
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  truth of what may be termed Divine love.
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  We can assert certain things that Divine love is not but
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  until we have an actual experience of divine love, our
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  conceptions are obviously going to fall short, those who have
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  experienced even a touch of divine love report and
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  experience of ineffable. Bliss of an overwhelming,
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  feeling of Adoration of gratitude of self giving in a
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  non demanding way with no expectations. there is a joy of
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  surrender to the Divine that goes beyond any experience of
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  human interactions under the term love Even human compassion
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  and Goodwill cannot approximate the experience of those who have
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  been graced with the experience of divine love.
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  All expressions of love, in our lives, whether personal and
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  individual, or whether the wider more expensive forms, we give to
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  these acts contain a seed of divine love.
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  Although, in some cases, there is only a very tiny seed or one
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  that has been vastly deformed and distorted as it has been
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  filtered through the human instruments of the body life and
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  mind. It is therefore not possible to
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  speak of bringing forth Divine love in the world, without
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  associating it with the transformation of Consciousness,
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  that brings with it, an entirely new relationship and perspective
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  between the human individual and the universal manifestation that
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  shifts. The relation from an ego basis,
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  to one that is wide receptive and giving at the same time, SRI
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  aurobindo observes quote to bring the Divine love and
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  beauty. And on under into the world is
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  indeed the whole Crown in essence of our yoga.
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  But it has always seemed to me impossible unless they're comes
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  as its support and foundation and guard.
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  The Divine truth, what I call the super mental and it's divine
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  power. Otherwise love itself blinded by
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  the confusions of this present Consciousness May stumble in its
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  human receptacles and even otherwise may find itself,
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  unrecognized rejected or rapidly degenerating and lost in the
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  Frailty of man's inferior nature.
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  But when it comes in the Divine truth and Power, Divine love
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  descends first as something Transcendent and Universal and
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  out of that Transcendent and universality, it, applies itself
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  to persons according to the Divine truth and will creating a
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  vaster greater pure personal love than any the human mind or
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  heart can. Now imagine it is when one is,
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  felt this descent, but one can be really an instrument for the
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  An action of the Divine love in the world.
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  And quote reference SRI aurobindo, integral yoga, SRI,
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  aurobindo stitching and method of practice, chapter 6, Sade,
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  not through love, and devotion Divine love, Universal, love,
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  and psychic. Love pages 156 to 158.