New Age Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 28 )

If we remember this always, we shall never beunderstand; love never comes until there is freedom.
attached to nature; we shall know that nature is aThere is no true love possible in the slave.If you buy a
book in which we are to read, and that when we haveslave and tie him down in chains and make him work
gained the required knowledge, the book is of no morefor you, he will work like a drudge, but there will be no
value to us. Instead of that, however, we arelove in him. So when we ourselves work for the things
identifying ourselves with nature; we are thinking thatof the world as slaves, there can be no love in us, and
the soul is for nature, that the spirit is for the flesh, and,our work is not true work. This is true of work done
as the common saying has it, we think that man "livesfor relatives and friends,and is true of work done for
to eat" and not "eats to live". We are continuallyour own selves. Selfish work is slave's work; and here
making this mistake; we are regarding nature asis a test. Every act of love brings happiness; there is
ourselves and are becoming attached to it; and asno act of love which does not bring peace and
soon as this attachment comes, there is the deepblessedness as its reaction. Real existence, real
impression on the soul, which binds us down andknowledge, and real love are eternally connected with
makes us work not from freedom but like slaves. Theone another, the three in one: where one of them is,
whole gist of this teaching is that you should work likethe others also must be; they are the three aspects of
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