Understanding Love
Even in our ordinary human life, when we start loving someone, then we are able to understand the person. But if you want to understand everything about the person, why he or she lives in the way she lives, and then we want to love, it fails. That is, to put it in one sentence, love makes all understanding possible, but understanding does not create love. Similarly, spiritual growth makes physical life understandable, intellectual necessities understandable, but not the other way.
Taken from the book "The Role of Master in Human Evolution", Chapter "Vorauf - June 28, 1986", pg. 4, by Revered Chariji