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 organised.
How beautiful is the union of two self-dedicated souls, but how hard and how long is the road to that goal!
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, AUM — Vol. 1, No. 1, 27 August 1965, Boro Park Printers -- Brooklyn, N. Y., 1965
