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OF CULTURE
 
मियालय
 
GOVERNMENT OF
 
SL
 
occurred to the mystics of all religions
is the Love of woman for man. The
intensity and the fight against odds that
this God-love means find a parallel only
in clandestine love. Hence the saying:
Yosha jaramiva priyam. The mystic
language of the Rasa is hardly stranger
than that of Solomon's song of songs, or
of St. Bernard's
or of the
writings of Coventry
which
 
sermons,
Patmore,
 
speak of Christ the bridegroom and
Church the bride.
 
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"The Law and the
Prophets describe pure by impure. Bride
and Bridegroom are the highest images."
Thy maker is Thy Husband." That.
the Lord's dance with the cowherd
women and their Love for Him mean
something which has to be sought
beyond their face-meaning must be very
clear to anybody. For the Lord Himself
tells the woman when they seek Him:
"The Love of those whose minds are
absorbed in Me cannot be physical love :
Na mayyavesitadhiyam kamah kamaya
 
kalpate." (X. A. 22-26.)
 
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THE BHAGAVATA