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activities. In my opinion that also is love lowered, by being particularised. When I think of myself as a part of the universal Whole and love It-my love becomes universal also, and there can surely remain then no selfishness in me. But when I, by mistake, think that I am a little something disconnected from the Whole—my love becomes particularised and narrowed. It is a great mistake therefore thus to make the sphere of love narrow and contracted—for all things in the universe are of divine origin and deserve to be loved. It has, however, to be borne in mind that the love of the whole includes the love of the parts. This universal whole is the God of the bhaktas, and all the other Gods, or Fathers in Heaven, or Rulers, or Creators, and all theories and doctrines and books, have no purpose and no meaning for themfor they have through their supreme love and devotion, risen above those things altogether. When the heart is purified and
