The Sels alone remains and that is Love

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Question: Swami, it is good to love God, is it not? Then why not

follow the path of love?

 

Sri Ramana 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.

 

Questioner: That is why I am asking you whether God could be

worshipped through the path of love.

 

Sri Ramana 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

Swarupa, that is the real form of the Self. That is pure bliss. Call

it pure bliss, God, Atma, 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 (Bhakti), 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.

 

Hari Aum !!!