- The real thing is that you must love God the way a mother loves her son, a chaste wife her husband, and a worldly man the things of the world. When your love for God has the combined intensity of all these three, you will see Him.
- Love for God is very rare. If you have single-minded devotion to God, like a wife has for her husband in the beginning, only then do you develop love for God.
- When you have ecstatic love for God, you forget external objects, you forget the world. You forget even your own body which is so dear to you.
- The important thing is to love God, to have longing for Him. Then you may take whatever path you like, whether you believe in God with form or God without form, whether you believe that God incarnates as a man or not.
- When you mix with other people, you should be affectionate to them all, be one with them, have no grudge against anyone, whether a person believes in God with form and does not believe in the formless or accepts the formless and does not believe in God with form.
Intense Love
- Without intense love, you cannot realize God. Without loving God, you cannot attain Him.
- When intense love for God comes of itself, rituals like repetition of the name, and so on drop off. When you are mad with love for God, how can you perform rituals?
- What love and devotion the gopis had! They would be seized with the madness of love just to see the tamal tree! Such was the fire of separation burning in Radha’s heart that tears from her eyes would dry up from its heat – the tears would just evaporate.
- Love Him. ‘Lord, can one ever know You without loving You, by only performing worship and sacrifice?’ Pray! Cry! Weep out loud to Him in solitude that you may gain such attraction for Him, such love for Him!