Message #30282

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Divine love is trying to express itself in human souls through the various avenues of conjugal and parental love and the love of friendship.

 All the various relationships of family, society and nationality among living creatures (even among animals birds and flowers) are but catalysts of life intended to purify and convert earthly love into divine love. When friendship and love between souls becomes corroded with poisonous chemicals of possessiveness, selfishness, mechanical family relationships, sex obsessions, physical attachment, emotional excitement, utilitarian barterings, sudden attachments followed by sudden hates—then human love dies.

But hidden in each man’s heart is in eternal divine love.  It may remain asleep for a while, but it can never really die. If man’s human love fails to become purified by his association with other people, he will be dissatisfied and he will keep on seeking other loves in this life (or beyond The portals of this life in an astral incarnation) until he meets someone (usually his guru) in whom he finds the full expression of all the perfections of divine love.

The highest form of earthly love his friendship for in friendship there is no compulsion. Until a perfect unconditional, undying, pure, divine love of true friendship has been expressed by the soul in a human incarnation there will be no liberation.~Paramahansa Yogananda