Fw: [MillionPaths] The experience of Self is only love

[Guest guest]

- Gloria Lee

path ; namo

Monday, January 10, 2005 5:14 PM

[MillionPaths] The experience of Self is only love

This dialogue is one of my favorite dialogues with Sri Ramana Maharshi.

Love itself is the actual form of GodQ: Swami, it is good to love

God, is it not?Then why not follow the path of love?

Maharshi: "Who said you couldn't follow it? You can do so.But when

you talk of love,there is duality,is there not?-the person who loves

and the entity called God who is loved? The individual is not

separate from God. Hence love means one has love towards one's own

Self."

Q: That is why I am asking you whether God could be worshipped through the path of love.

Maharshi:"That is exactly what I have been saying. Love itself is the

actual form of God. If by saying, `I do not love this, I do not love

that', you reject all things, that which remains is the real form of

the Self. That is pure bliss. Call it pure bliss, God, Self, or what

you will. That is devotion, that is realization and that is

everything.If you thus reject everything, what remains is the Self

alone. That is real love. One who knows the secret of that lovefinds

the world itself full of universal love.The experience of not

forgetting consciousness, alone,is the state of devotion which is the

relationship of unfading real love, because the real knowledge of

Self,which shines as the undivided supreme bliss itself, surges up as

the nature of love. Only if one knows the truth of love, which is the

real nature of Self, will the strong entangled knot of life be

untied.Only if one attains the height of love will liberation be

attained.Such is the heart of all religions. The experience of Self

is only love, which is seeing only love, hearing only love, feeling

only love, tasting only loveand smelling only love,which is bliss."

[Guest guest]

, "Lady Joyce" <shaantih@c...> wrote:

>

> -

> Gloria Lee

> path ; namo

> Monday, January 10, 2005 5:14 PM

> [MillionPaths] The experience of Self is only love

>

>

> This dialogue is one of my favorite dialogues

> with Sri Ramana Maharshi.

 

Ah yes, mine too, who wouldn't melt in it?

Thanks for forwarding it Joyce.

 

Wim

 

>

> Love itself is the actual form of God

>

> Q: Swami, it is good to love God, is it not?

>

> Then why not follow the path of love?

>

>

> Maharshi: "Who said you couldn't follow it?

>

> You can do so.

>

> But when you talk of love,

>

> there is duality,

>

> is there not?-

>

> the person who loves and the entity called God who is loved?

>

> The individual is not separate from God.

>

> Hence love means one has love towards one's own Self."

>

>

> Q: That is why I am asking you

>

> whether God could be worshipped through the path of love.

>

>

> Maharshi:"That is exactly what I have been saying.

>

> Love itself is the actual form of God.

>

> If by saying, `I do not love this, I do not love that',

>

> you reject all things,

>

> that which remains is the real form of the Self.

>

> That is pure bliss.

>

> Call it pure bliss, God, Self, or what you will.

>

> That is devotion, that is realization and that is everything.

>

> If you thus reject everything, what remains is the Self alone.

>

> That is real love.

>

> One who knows the secret of that love

>

> finds the world itself full of universal love.

>

> The experience of not forgetting consciousness, alone,

>

> is the state of devotion

>

> which is the relationship of unfading real love,

>

> because the real knowledge of Self,

>

> which shines as the undivided supreme bliss itself,

>

> surges up as the nature of love.

>

> Only if one knows the truth of love,

>

> which is the real nature of Self,

>

> will the strong entangled knot of life be untied.

>

> Only if one attains the height of love will liberation be attained.

>

> Such is the heart of all religions.

>

> The experience of Self is only love,

>

> which is seeing only love,

>

> hearing only love,

>

> feeling only love,

>

> tasting only love

>

> and smelling only love,

>

> which is bliss."

[Guest guest]

, "Lady Joyce" <shaantih@c...>

wrote:

>

> -

> Gloria Lee

> path ; namo

> Monday, January 10, 2005 5:14 PM

> [MillionPaths] The experience of Self is only love

>

>

> This dialogue is one of my favorite dialogues

> with Sri Ramana Maharshi.

>

> Love itself is the actual form of God

 

Namaste,

 

This is a nice piece but it is explained a little clearer by Ramana.

He says that any relationship with God can only be an illusory one

as there is nothing but God.

 

True Bhakti or devotion is to remain as one really is, in the state

of being in which all ideas about relationships with God have ceased

to exist. p82 'Be as you are'.

 

Bhakti is being without an ego, surrender is being without an ego,

any other devotion based on duality is unreal. Many people mistake

dual emotional attachment as Bhakti, this is a step on the way.

For true Bhakti has no lover or beloved only the

One.........ONS..Tony.