{"id":2712,"date":"2007-04-24T18:53:04","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T18:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/sri-chinmoy-poetry-2\/my-god-hunger-cry\/i-love\/"},"modified":"2012-06-02T18:54:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T18:54:04","slug":"i-love","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/?page_id=2712","title":{"rendered":"I Love at Once my Lord and Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;My God-Hunger-Cry&#8221; Prayer for March 20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love at once my Lord and man.<br \/>\nThis is, indeed, my God-fulfilled plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sri Chinmoy<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Again, the best comments to this prayer may be words by Sri Chinmoy<br \/>\nhimself:<\/p>\n<p>7848. To <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoylibrary.com\/books\/0387\">Love Man Unreservedly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To love man unreservedly<br \/>\nIs to discover God in one&#8217;s own heart<br \/>\nImmediately plus unconditionally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoylibrary.com\/books\/0387\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and from an excerpt from &#8220;The Inner Hunger&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Divine love is the expansion of our consciousness. The very nature<br \/>\nof divine love is to expand, expand, expand and become one with all<br \/>\nthat it touches. The more we expand ourselves, the sooner we feel the<br \/>\nUniversal Consciousness as our very own. And when we feel the<br \/>\nUniversal Consciousness as our very own, at that time we become the<br \/>\nUniversal Self.<\/p>\n<p>It is through love that we can expand our consciousness faster than<br \/>\nany other way. So if we really want to expand ourselves, then<br \/>\nconsciously we have to make an effort to love the world. When we love<br \/>\nthe world, we have to know that God and humanity cannot be separated.<br \/>\nNo spiritual person will dare to say that he loves God but not<br \/>\nhumanity. If anyone says, &#8220;I love only God and not humanity,&#8221; then<br \/>\nrest assured that he is not really a spiritual person. A spiritual<br \/>\nperson loves humanity precisely because God is inside humanity. God<br \/>\nwas one; then He decided to play the Game of infinite forms and<br \/>\nshapes in and through us. He is the root and humanity represents the<br \/>\nbranches and leaves. The root cannot be separated from the rest of<br \/>\nthe tree. Creator and creation go together&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2684,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2712","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2712"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4661,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2712\/revisions\/4661"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}