Having obtained Love he sees that alone, hears that alone, speaks that alone, and thinks that alone.
No religious system pretends to define Deity: it can at the best strive with other systems to suspend some intellectual or emotional veil through which, in shining, the light may take form. Love is one of these, and care is taken to remark that the essential nature of Love, which is that of Deity, cannot be expressed. Like a dumb man who can taste, but cannot express his sense impression. So is Love; it can be felt but not described. It is seen to shine forth in some particular individual (lit.: “vessel”). It is found to be free of the three qualities or powers which are inherent in all material things (sattwa, rajas and tamas—brightness or goodness, action or passion, and inertia or stupidity); it has no selfishness, it seems ever to grow greater the more it is sought; it never falters; it is found in the heart as a subtlety by those who centre their keenest perceptions inwardly. Once having experienced Love, all a man’s activities become devoted to it.
No religious system pretends to define Deity: it can at the best strive with other systems to suspend some intellectual or emotional veil through which, in shining, the light may take form. Love is one of these, and care is taken to remark that the essential nature of Love, which is that of Deity, cannot be expressed. Like a dumb man who can taste, but cannot express his sense impression. So is Love; it can be felt but not described. It is seen to shine forth in some particular individual (lit.: “vessel”). It is found to be free of the three qualities or powers which are inherent in all material things (sattwa, rajas and tamas—brightness or goodness, action or passion, and inertia or stupidity); it has no selfishness, it seems ever to grow greater the more it is sought; it never falters; it is found in the heart as a subtlety by those who centre their keenest perceptions inwardly. Once having experienced Love, all a man’s activities become devoted to it.