Swami yogananda quotes on love

The following excerpts are cheat the tome Spiritual Relationships by Paramhansa Yogananda (titled How strengthen Love courier Be Loved in India).

Deepening Friendships

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From the talks and writings of Paramahansa Yogananda

God is playing hide-and-seek through human hearts, so that ultimately you will understand that it is His love you are seeking in your human loves. If you omit God from your human loves, love fades away. But by bringing God into your daily life, ordinary human love changes into divine love, manifested from the image of God within you.

It is not necessary to know and love all human beings and other creatures personally and individually. All you need to do is to be ready at all times to shed the light of friendly service over all living creatures whom you happen to meet. This attitude requires constant mental effort and preparedness; in other words, unselfishness.

If we understand the spiritual purpose of relationships — to teach the expansion of self-love in ever-widening circles of love for others — then through the gates of friendship, conjugal affection, parental love, and love of all fellow beings and all animate creatures we can enter into the kingdom of almighty, super-, or Divine Love.

No love is real love until it is one with God’s love; for all true love comes from God alone. Human love, to be divine, must be deep and selfless. Purify the heart’s love until it becomes divine.

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Paramhansa Yogananda — The Power of Divine Love

We’re here this evening to pay homage to the life of one of God’s children — an enlightened being with the humility of a child who was one we call “Master.” We use this word, not in the sense of our being his servants, but because he was master of himself. Through his example, he can also help us to become masters of ourselves, of our passions and lower nature, in order to discover who we really are. Our goal in life, whether we know it or not, is to fulfill our potential as human beings.

There’s a story of a woman saint in Kashmir, India who used to wear no clothing because she had renounced everything. A scandalized villager once said to her, “Why don’t you wear any clothes?” She answered, “Why should I? I see no men around.” To her rather drastic view, nobody even deserved to be called a human being so long as his or her consciousness was still on the physical plane. Then one day a saint came to visit her, and as soon as she learned he’d arrived, she began rushing around looking for clothing to wear. She explained, “Finally a man has come,” and she had to be modest before him.

This slightly unconventional way of looking at things is nonetheless the attitude of divine beings who look around and see that most people aren’t