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The Manifestation of Love
copyright 1998 Prem Prakash
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"Love is manifest where there is an able vessel"(Narada Shakti Sutras vs. 53)
Narada states clearly that love is manifest where a capable vehicle is present; love abides where it is welcome. To the ordinary human personality, love is confused with obtaining one's desires and, as such, it appears as an elusive experience based on external acquisitions. To the ordinary spiritual aspirant, love is confused with obtaining some psychic or spiritual experience, such as a vision. Love then appears to be something that must be sought and, therefore, it remains an elusive experience based on externals.
The bhakti yogi, however, realizes that he is not seeking love, but that it is love that is seeking him. His task is not to make himself into something special, whereby he can acquire love; his task is to make himself into nothing, a vessel empty of selfish individuality. When the vessel is empty, then God can fill it with divine love. this emptying of the sense of egoic personality is referred to as "the great disappearing act." The ego disappears and love appears.
(The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion; Prem Prakash; pg. 100)
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