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The Yoga of Love

James Anderson

Abstract
This article glimpses at the evolutionary aspects of the Yoga of Love, seen through the lens of personal experience.
For true Love to manifest inside, certain steps are needed, the most important being to align oneself to the Truth
itself. To love truly one must live truly. We must rise above ourselves to reach the summits of Love. The ideal must
always be set before us and we must become vast and give ourselves entirely to it.

No word is more misunderstood and abused of its parts have a way of barricading this
than love. There is so much base content that force. If we live in the heart more than in
masquerades under its compelling disguise. the head, it really helps. The heart is the
It would be true to say that love has many channel and transmitter of love and in those
gradations. At this stage of our evolution, moments when it touches our true nature,
what counts for love is a torrid mix that love automatically dawns. Love appears,
deadens and distorts this supreme state. bringing drops of bliss (Enanda) to saturate
Really though, it takes only the tiniest morsel our being. Love and Enanda come hand in
of pure love to transform our murky emotions hand: we give love and receive Enanda. We
into something very vast. It requires only a begin to realise why Love and Enanda are
small fraction to lift our whole being. When the twin pillars of all existence.
installed inside, there is no greater surety
of health. It has a mighty power. Indeed if These brief moments have a way of changing our
the totality of true Love were to descend, it life and become imprinted in our consciousness
is certain that we would all explode…. So for all eternity. The descending ecstasy is
humanity as a whole is still not ready for generally as much as our mortal frame can
it. It is up to the individual to prepare the bear. Initially Love comes in sudden rushes
ground for the future. when the mind is quiet and the vital still. If
our nature is agitated it stays away. Veering
When the heart is pure and aspiring, it feels between states of duality, we tend to play
love. However, the whole complex nature hide and seek with this state more than any
needs to lift and harmonise for true Love to other. But anything simple, like a photograph
permeate completely in the being. So many or a supreme act of kindness, might inspire it.

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