Vivekananda Mailing List-1/1/04- Happy New Year

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It is not easy to love the Lord thus. Ordinarily human love is seen to

flourish only in places where it is returned; where love is not

returned for love, cold indifference is the natural result. There are,

however, rare instances in which we may notice love exhibiting itself

even where there is no return of love. We may compare this kind of

love, far purposes of illustration, to the love of the moth for the

fire; the insect loves the fire, falls into it, and dies. It is indeed

in the nature of this insect to love so.