Love

Love for God develops in a man, as soon as his attraction for the world is completely gone.

Whatever thing is yours, you like it always. So taking God as your own, love for God also develops.

How surprising, that the ever-existing changeless entity (i.e.) God is not loved, but the ever changing world appears so dear.

So long as there is attachment to the world, there is no real love for God.

The world's pleasure-giving propensity, is a special obstacle to God's love. If one renounces this propensity, then love for God would automatically arise.

So long as man has an attraction for the perishable, until then, even with spiritual practice, one is not attracted by the love of non-perishable God, nor realize Him.

Exclusive love for God, is called, the Rādhā Tattva. Until there is attraction for the world, the Rādhā Tattva is not intuited.

There is no worship that equals the love of God.

So long as an aspirant wants to carry out his own wishes, till then, he would neither love the God with attributes nor the God without attributes.

God's love is not acquired by sacrifices, penance, charity, fasting pilgrimage, etc., but through regarding him firmly as his own.

You do not get love from practising penance, but only achieve power. Love arises from treating God, as one's own.

In the love of God, there is an exclusive rapture that is not in knowledge. Knowledge gives unbroken happiness, but love endless bliss.

Differences exist amongst sects, not in love. Love devours all differences completely.

The pull towards God is called devotion. Devotion is never complete but it keeps on increasing, more and more.

For the love of God, one must have greater closeness with Him. For His vision a fervent craving is essential.

Knowing the world, would make one a renunciate. By knowing God, greater love for Him would result.

One whose realisation is sure, love Him. Do serve the world that is sure to be separated.

That is love, where there is no impurity of personal comfort and selfishness.

Love is ahead of salvation even. Upto salvation one can relish it, but in love, one becomes the giver of bliss.

In the path of knowledge, sorrow and bondage are gone and one gets established in one self, but one achieves nothing. In the path of devotion, one acquires love which increases every moment.

Without knowledge, love passes off as delusion, and without love, knowledge is lost in nothingness.

One within whom exist the previous influences of devotion, and the shelter of divine grace, he is not satisfied by liberation alone. God's blessings dilute the taste of salvation and replace it by granting him unlimited love.

No insistence on one's creed and not resorting to the disregard, rebuttal, or disrespect of another sect, after salvation, automatically helps achieve divine love.

When the desire for enjoyment ends, there is fulfilment of knowledge, but there is no end to the thirst for love which is never quenched, and increases every moment.

In the world, there are both attractions and repulsions (likes and dislikes), but in God there is only attraction and no repulsion at all. If there is any repulsion, then in reality, there has been no attraction.

Just as from a worldly point of view, without greed for wealth, there is no special importance for the same. So without love, knowledge has no special significance and it might lead to nothingness.