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IDEAL OF LOVE.
157 because they have the baby Jesus and the baby Krishna. The women in India often look upon themselves as Krishna's mothers. Christian mothers also may take up the idea that they are all Christ's mothers, and it will bring to the West the knowledge of God's Divine Motherhood, which they so much need. Thus the superstitions of awe and reverence in relation to God, deeply rooted in the heart of our hearts, fades away through the power of love and sometimes it takes long years entirely to sink in love, the ideas of reverence and veneration, of awe, majesty and glory with regard to God.
There is one more human representation of the divine ideal of love. It is known 'as the madhura (AYT), or sweet, and is the highest of all such representations. It is rindeed based on the highest manifestation of love in this world, and the strongest, known to man. What love shakes the whole.
