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BHAKTI-YOGA.
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Ethiop at all! For-Helen or Ethiop, the objects of our love are really the centres round which our ideals get crystallised. Now what is it that the world commonly worships? Not certainly this all-embracing, ideally perfect ideal of the supreme devotee and lover. The ideal which men and women commonly worship, is what is in themselves and every person projects his or her own ideal on the outside world and kneels before it. This is why we find that men who are cruel and bloodthirsty conceive of a bloodthirsty God-because they can only love their own highest ideal. That is why good men have a very high ideal of God and their ideal is indeed so very different from that of others.
