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Why is love blind?

Actually love is not blind, rather, for a moment at least it removes blindness and one see the Divine in form that has awakened love in the human heart. It becomes blind only in the sense that it mistakes the form for the Spirit and the body for the soul.

Affectionately,

Alok Da.

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