On love

Pure Love, you have brought out is unexpecting, universal, untainted by personality, Love for Love’s sake. Plato in his admirable discourse on Justice, in his dialogue on Ideal Republic, says the same thing. Universal Justice is Love Immortal which is selfless, embracing All – friends and foes alike. The same is the burden of the Song Celestial – Bhagavadgita. Quotes from Plato and Bhagavadgita reinforces what the Great Prophet said, which you have cited:

Poet Pindar is quoted by Plato, the choice one has to make:

Whether shall I the lofty wall

Of Justice try to scale;

Or, hedg’d within the guileful maze

Of Vice, encircled dwell?

Bhagavadgita, Chapter IV: Devotion through Spiritual Knowledge:

“Those who have spiritual discrimination call him wise whose undertakings are all free from desire, for his actions are consumed in the fire of spiritual knowledge. He abandoneth the desire to see a reward for his actions, is free, contented, and upon nothing dependeth, and although engaged in action he really doeth nothing; he is not solicitous of results, with mind and body subdued and being above enjoyment from objects, doing with the body alone the acts of the body, he does not subject himself to rebirth. He is contented with whatever he receives fortuitously, is free from the influence of ‘the pairs of opposites’ and from envy, the same in success and failure; even though he acts he is not bound by the bonds of actions. All the actions of such a man who is free from self-interest, who is devoted, with heart set upon spiritual knowledge and whose acts are sacrifices for the sake of the Supreme, are dissolved and left without effect on him. 

“The Supreme Spirit is the act of offering, the Supreme Spirit is the sacrificial butter offered in the fire which is the Supreme Spirit, and unto the Supreme Spirit goeth he who maketh the Supreme Spirit the object of his meditation in performing his actions.”

The Enlightened Ones teach that the Law of Life is Sacrifice – Yajna. This I understand to be the true meaning of Jihad, which the Great Prophet says is his very being. Krishna says He is Adi-Yajna in this body. Our true Self, the Divinity within, is Yajna itself. The One Self becomes all this, all, All, is Self, One and indivisible, but appearing to imperfect minds as divisible. As long as we have and maintain fragmented consciousness, bearing selfish and wedded to selfish life, we are full of injustice, do sins and suffer endlessly, thinking all the while we are good and doing good. This outer illusionary self, the mortal self, has to sacrifice itself to the Divine – perform Yajna in the fire of spiritual knowledge, and merge with the Supreme who is ALL, in ALL, the ONE without a second.

Realisation of IT is Justice of Plato, Love of Sufi saints and Vaishnava mystics, Ideal of human Perfection taught in the Bhagavadgita, Islam of Mohamedanism.