"... The sadhana of loving God as He really is, as 'I am,' with all one's heart, having rejected all other thoughts, is identical to the path of true devotion as taught by Bhagavan on many occasions:
Question: That is why I am asking you whether God could be worshipped through the path of love.
Bhagavan: … 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 realisation, 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.
Jesus instructed his followers that they should not merely love God with all their heart, they should also love their neighbours as themselves. Here Bhagavan is saying that this automatically happens when the first commandment, loving God with all one's heart, is fulfilled. When one experiences 'Love … the actual form of God', the world itself, including all possible neighbours, is experienced as one's own Self, and is found to be 'full of universal love'.
The experience of not forgetting consciousness ['I am'] alone is the state of bhakti, which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the real knowledge of Self, which shines in 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. ..."
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