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Infinite Self. We can love God by surrendering to the Perfect
Master who is God’s personal Manifestation. We can also love
God by loving our fellow-beings, by giving them happiness at
the cost of our own happiness, by rendering them service at sacrifice
of our interests and by dedicating our lives at the altar of
selfless work. When we love God intensely through any of these
channels, we finally know Him to be our own Self.
The beginning of real love is obedience, and the highest
aspect of this love which surpasses that of love itself is the aspect
which culminates into the perfect obedience or supreme resignation
to the Will and Wish of the Beloved. In this love are
embodied all Yogas known to saints and seekers.
The Aura and the Halo
An aura and a halo are two different things and people are unable
to distinguish between the two. Few people know that an aura
and a halo are quite different in their respective natures, despite
their close interconnection. No man can ever possess both aura
and halo completely developed at one and the same time.
Like their respective shadows, every man, woman, child
and baby has an aura, but only a very few individuals have a halo
on the varying phases of its development; and fewer still possess
a full halo. An aura is the reflection of the emotions of an individual
mind, just as any physical thing possesses its shadow on
the physical plane. The halo begins to appear when the aura
begins to disappear.
The difference between an aura – the mental reflection –
and any physical shadow is tremendous. Shadows depend upon
their physical forms, but an individual aura remains unaffected,