3 as one book - Kirpal Singh

LOVE ' O 5A man without love will never realize the Lord, so makethis body a cage of love, and then talk. If no love is developedthrough outer practice, what is the use of it?Such practice is a mere performance of gymnastics. Unlesswe remember Him with tears, it is a dry remembrance;the remembrance that comes from a heart overflowingwith love will bear fruit. The tenth Guru says,"Hear ye all, I tell you the Truth: God is realized b)those who love." God is love, and the soul is a drop cfthat very Essence, and is therefore also the image of love.What kind of love has he who boasts of loving the Lordbut hates his brothers? Sheikh Farid says, "If you desireto meet the Beloved, injure not any heart." .4 true de\wtee of God will have no enmity toward any other being.Shamas Tabrez says, "Hundreds of years in prayer willnot make you a namnzi" (true worshiper). He in whomthere is no love awakened cannot fathom the secrets ofthe Lord. So live in a cage of love if you want to realizeGod, and that love will drag you toward Him. Life willbecome an agony, a yearning, a restless, lonely miser)without Him, for love is a sea without a shore: there isno end to it, save in the all-encompassing absorption inHim when you give your whole life to Him.How can this love be developed? It is not grown infields or sold in shops. There are only two wavs to developlove. One way is to sit beside one who is love, fromwhom you will catch an infection of that love. From life.so is life created. A glimpse of love can be seen onlv ina true lover's eye. These things are mentioned in books,but words cannot reallv express what love is. The other