Love: sacrifice

Fulfilment is nothing but voluntary sacrifice.

Where your sacrifice is, there will as well be your delight.

Sacrifice is fulfilment attained. Surrender is delight obtained. Love is union manifested.

Love is precious. Surrender is more precious. Union is still more precious.

Self-giving alone has free access to Joy everlasting.

It has been delightfully claimed that: “Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.” In the true Indian tradition love has always been a self-offering and a self-fulfilment.

Sri Chinmoy, Eternity’s Breath, Sri Chinmoy Lighthouse, New York, 1972