There is only one Love and it is the Divine Love. All other love is either its diminution or distortion or perversion. It is the Divine Love that is labouring ceaselessly in creation since the beginning pulling it out slowly from the state of inertia and inconscience into which it had fallen. If it were to withdraw even for a moment, the creation itself would collapse.
In a more personal way, the Divine Love is at work within each individual as a silent inner support that cushions every pang of suffering, healing the sorrows and helping us outgrow and overcome our littleness and ignorance which is the cause of all our suffering. In a general way it is constantly sifting the various elements of our nature to prepare them to receive the divine forces and become ready to undergo the needed transformation by its power. But it is only those who respond to the Divine Love with faith, gratitude, surrender and self giving who recognize it.
Here is what the Mother, herself an embodiment of the highest Divine Love, reveals.
‘What value have our impulses and our desires, our anguish and our violence, our sufferings and our struggles, all these inner vicissitudes unduly dramatised by our unruly imaginationโwhat value do they have before this great, this sublime and divine love bending over us from the innermost depths of our being, bearing with our weaknesses, rectifying our errors, healing our wounds, bathing our whole being with its regenerating streams?
For the inner Godhead never imposes herself, she neither demands nor threatens; she offers and gives herself, conceals and forgets herself in the heart of all beings and things; she never accuses, she neither judges nor curses nor condemns, but works unceasingly to perfect without constraint, to mend without reproach, to encourage without impatience, to enrich each one with all the wealth he can receive; she is the mother whose love bears fruit and nourishes, guards and protects, counsels and consoles; because she understands everything, she can endure everything, excuse and pardon everything, hope and prepare for everything; bearing everything within herself, she owns nothing that does not belong to all, and because she reigns over all, she is the servant of all; that is why all, great and small, who want to be kings with her and gods in her, become, like her, not despots but servitors among their brethren.’
Affectionately,
Alok Da
