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BURNING AWAY OF ALL ONE'S DESIRES

Meher Baba

 
The ability to exercise constant control over one's low desires is no mean achievement. Success in establishing a lasting sublimation of all desires is indeed a greater one. But the greatest is the burning away of all one's desires once and for all, which divine love alone can do, as there is never any show about divine love.

This "burning" in love is always without "smoke", i.e. without show. There are times when an outward expression of God-love may amount to heroism, but to make at any time a mere show of one's love for God, for the sake of show, amounts to an insult to God.

 

THE MOVING FINGER WRITES, Part 2, p. 75
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