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BHAKTI-YOGA. may enjoy the Beloved !”—This is what the Bhakta says. Love for love's sake is his highest enjoyment. Who will not be bound hand and foot a thousand times over to enjoy the Beloved ? No bhakta cares for anything except love,-except to love and be loved. His unworldly love is like the tide rushing up the river-going madly up against the usual current. The world calls him mad! Aye-I knew one whom the world used to call mad, and this was his answer—"My friends! the whole world is a lunatic asylum ; some are mad after worldly love, some after name, some after fame, some after money, and some after salvation or going to heaven. In this big lunatic asylum I am also mad- I am mad after God. If you are mad after money, I am mad after God. You are mad; so am I. I think my madness is after all the best." The true bhakta's love is this burning madness, before which everything else vanishes for him!
