Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 2

TOWARDS THE LIGHT

Of Love and Aspiration

THERE is a Light before which all other light is darkness.

There is a Strength before which all other strength is weakness.

There is a Joy before which all other joy is suffering.

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Forward to the Farthest!

Upward to the Highest!

Downward into the Deepest!

At the farthest awaits a humanity fulfilled and realised,

At the highest broods the Divinity that propels and forges,

At the deepest dwells the Instrument -the Individuality - that obeys and executes.

Be aware of these triple elements, house their triple movements;

Find your one and total self in the dynamic union of the Three : -

This is the gate to fulfilment and harmony and the spirit's delight in life.

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The human in man seeks Divinity, the Divine in man seeks humanity.

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Your smallnesses only you can call your own; your greatness is the greatness of the Divine in you.

It is the Godhead in you that can reveal God to you; there is no other proof of God.

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What you want to possess absolutely as your own, will also claim to possess you as absolutely its own.

Lose all-and you fall into the bosom of boundless plenitude.

Sacrifice all-but into the radiant fire of Aspiration that flames up to the gods.

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The Heart is the blazing hearth of Aspiration, the divine door that opens into Immortality.

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Of Love Ananda is the soul, self-mastery the head, and purity the foundation.

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The human approaches to the Divine are dangerous. Seek God in God's ways.

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Aspire and love. . .

Ascending Love leads to Immortality.

Descending Love leads to Death.

Love is defeated as often as Lust is victorious.

Love is ascending Ananda that leads to Immortality.

Lust is descending Ananda that leads to Death.

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The secret of Love is the joy of self-giving.

The secret of joy is self-giving. If any part in you is without joy, it means that it has not given itself, it wants to keep itself for itself.

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Divine love has an element of detachment which human love has not; and yet Divine love can be as passionate as human love, nay, Divine love has an intensity which human love carowt attain.

It is the element of detachment which intensifies love, because it is this which purifies love.

Detachment means freedom from attachment to the body and to the bodily desires and, more than that, freedom from attachment to one's own self.

The love that is thus detached and free makes no demands, for it has no hunger. It is, it exists and therefore possesses the fullness of delight; it can only give itself and ask nothing.

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The strongest attachment is the attachment to one's own self-not to what one really is, but to what one has actually become. To remain what one has been in the past or is at present, to refuse to be what one is meant to be-this is human, too human.

The human self must yield, surrender and dissolve itself into the Divine self.

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Never seek through your desire-soul the person you love. You invite thereby not only misery to yourself but bring a curse upon one you profess to love.

Place always a space of detachment between yourself and your beloved; make the Divine your mediator.

Then shall you secure pure and perfect enjoyment -whose true name is Bliss; and then too can you become the instrument

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to bring a bliss and blessing to the object of your love.

This is the secret of the sweetest and most exquisite and intimate relation possible with persons or things, that it should be made and established in and through the Divine.

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The closer we come to the Divine, the stricter are the conditions we have to fulfil, the severer grow the tests through which we have to pass.

An absolute and thorough winnowing and cleansing is demanded in him who aspires to be the Divine's favourite.

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