CWTVKS Volume 2

Attraction, Sentiment, Love

Let us look up to the Silence in which knowledge of the past may embrace knowledge of the future that concerns us—and that living in the present.

Meanwhile it is but correct and useful to hold that the present is a projection of a link in the chain of a lived past moving towards a prearranged great future which we are called upon to meet here and work out.

But sentiments, emotional attitude, feelings of love, affection, are all results of a deeper cause and attraction and, however much they may appear on the surface alloyed with vital motives, have a deeper origin and value in the subtle scheme of a more permanent existence.

Once this is recognised, everything becomes natural, explicable, and nothing looks extraordinary.

The question of your ‘desert’ or mine does not arise at all.

9 September 1938

The mere matter-of-fact mind cannot appreciate or understand this ‘deep sentiment’, because it is not a mental principle or a vital wave, though it may, for manifestation, use the mould of a vital motive or a mental idea, for the attraction of souls predestined to meet.

Things are preordained, so are events.

9 September 1936

Though it is true that none of us would like to express his love and esteem for the other in person, human heart—when it is sincere and devout—finds in pouring itself out great compensation for the physical sense of separation from the object it is attached to.

15 November 1930

Yes, ‘good’ and ‘love’ are different words obviously and connote different ideas, excite different feelings, evoke different sentiments,—though they both, we learn on good authority, fuse into each other as we rise in consciousness higher into planes of existence that are above our normal human understanding and life.

11 March 1937

It was Gautama Buddha who first illustrated distinterested love as the love of the true mother for her child. To give birth to a single noble child is possible only for a noble soul.

5 June 1933