By constant communion with Him, everything but God vanishes. I have no consciousness of nationality, no consciousness of India or America. I love you all just as I love my own family. Good or bad, I love all alike, for they are my brothers and sisters. Naughty or good, we are His children. We must manifest that love now; we must practice that love now. Patriotism that teaches everyone to love all nations as well as their own is the right form of patriotism. But that patriotism which teaches us that to love one's own nation one must be the enemy of other nations—patriotism that espouses aggressive domination and bloodshed—is wrong. One who does not love all as God's children does not have true patriotism, for as I wrote in the poem, "My India,"* "God made this world; and man made its confining countries with their fancy-frozen boundaries."
Paramahansa Yogananda
