graduation with Thom Knoles

"Love is to enjoy the family rose of petal-beings,
And thence to move to spacious fields -
Passing by portals of social, national, international
          sympathy,
On to the limitless Cosmic Home –
To gaze with looks of wonderment,
And to serve all that lives, still or moving.
This is to know what love is.
He knows who lives it.

Love is the Heaven
Toward which the flowers, rivers, nations, atoms,
          creatures – you and I
Are rushing by the straight path of action right,
Or winding laboriously on error’s path,
All to reach haven there at last"

                         - Paramahansa Yogananda
                                     from Songs of the Soul

with my first student, Brajesh