[The Transcendent, Cosmic and Individual Divine: https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-divine-and-its-aspects#p18]
Love is the supreme Divine Force that works in creation to uplift and transform it. It works in two main ways. Firstly, it works to hold creation together in a harmonious unity through the power of attraction and the joy of giving oneself to the object of love. In our present nature of ignorance, it is deformed into its very opposite. The power of attraction changes into the wish to attract others through whatever means, thereby opening the gates to the forces of falsehood and deception. Similarly, the urge to give as a means to realise the union is deformed into the impulse to devour.
The other aspect of Love is its power to uplift creation out of its state of darkness, ignorance and chaos towards the Divine. Here again, it is through the twin powers of attraction of the human soul towards the Divine and the urge of giving itself to the Divine is the way. But it is deformed into the urge to draw and pull the Divine for one’s own egoistic purposes and imprison Him into the limited moulds of our thought and will and feelings instead of surrendering and giving oneself to Him.
In fact, it is the Divine who has first given Himself to the creation attracted by the Divine concealed in the Inconscient. It is this Divine Sacrifice that has compelled creation to emerge out of the chaos of the Inconscient. It is this Divine Sacrifice that repeats itself in the Avatara and, it is this Divine Sacrifice, moved by Love, that will save creation and transform it into its Divine Truth.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
