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PART I. GIFTS OF LOVE
"Love is a gift from God to man. |
Obedience is a gift from Master to man. |
Surrender is a gift from man to Master. |
"One who loves desires the will of the Beloved. |
One who obeys does the will of the Beloved. |
One who surrenders knows nothing but the will of the Beloved. |
"Love seeks union with the Beloved. |
Obedience seeks the pleasure of the Beloved. |
Surrender seeks nothing. |
"One who loves is the lover of the Beloved. |
One who obeys is the beloved of the Beloved. |
| One who surrenders has no existence other than the Beloved. |
"Greater than love is obedience. |
Greater than obedience is surrender. |
All three arise out of, and remain contained in, |
Meher Baba |
When I went to India in 1965, I went for a specific reason. I understood inwardly why I went to India. I knew that I had come to receive the gift of love. It was very frightening for me, the prospect of receiving a gift of love from God. Who would not be afraid? I feared that I would be overpowered and destroyed by the gift, and I did not want that. Not even the saints want that and I am no saint. But I was not overpowered nor destroyed by meeting face to face the Divine Beloved. Baba held my face between His cool hands. It was a face flushed with the fever of anticipation.
*From The Everything and the Nothing.
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