450.-455.

450 – If thou canst not love the vilest worm and the foulest of criminals, how canst thou believe that thou hast accepted God in thy spirit?

451 – To love God, excluding the world, is to give Him an intense but imperfect adoration.

452 – Is love only a daughter or handmaid of jealousy? If Krishna loves Chandrabali,¹ why should I not love her also?

453 – Because thou lovest God only, thou art apt to claim that He should love thee rather than others; but this is a false claim contrary to right and the nature of things. For He is the One, but thou art of the many. Rather become one in heart and soul with all beings, then there will be none in the world but thou alone for Him to love.

454 – My quarrel is with those who are foolish enough not to love my Lover, not with those who share His love with me.

455 – In those whom God loves, have delight; on those whom He pretends not to love, take pity.

This is the most charming criticism one can make of jealousy and also the best way to cure it by overcoming the limits of the ego and by uniting with the Divine Love which is eternal and universal.

6 April 1970

¹ Sri Krishna loved Radha best among the gopis, but he loved Chandrabali and the other gopis also. _(vissza)