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So when we ourselves work for the things of the world as slaves, there can be no love in us, and our work is not true work. The same thing applies to the work done for relatives and friends, more to work done for our own selves. Selfish work is slave's work; and here is a proof whether any work is selfish or not. Every act of love brings happiness with it; there can be no true act of love which does not bring peace and blessedness as the result of its reaction. Real existence, real knowledge, and real love are eternally connected with one another, and in fact form three in one where one of them is, the others also must be; they are the three aspects of the one without a second-the Existence-KnowledgeBliss: When that existence becomes relative, we see it as the world; that knowledge becomes in its turn modified into the knowledge of the things of the world; and that bliss forms the foundation of all true love known to the heart of man. Therefore true love can never react so as to cause pain either to the lover or to the beloved.
