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The great saint Ramalingam says that love is the very form of God.
God and love are one —
this is the fundamental truth on the spiritual path.
Thirumoolar explains this:
The ignorant say love and God are two different entities
They know not that love and God are one
Once they know that love and God are one
They remain ever immersed in God as love.
Love manifests itself in various forms: a mother's
love for her child, a child's love for its mother, a husband's love for his
wife and so on. These are all manifestations of human love. But there's a
form of love which is beyond human love and that's the love which exists
between God and God's devotees. This divine love is the purest,
most sublime form
of love. Why? Because this love is eternal. It continues
from birth to birth.
This is
why the saints defined divine love as true love.
Humans search for love. The devotee truly finds it; others think that
they have found it.
Humans fall in love with other humans. This is human love.
Devotees fall in love with God. This is divine love.
Human love often ends in disappointment. Divine love never disappoints. It endures. It
fills the devotee with perennial bliss.
Divine love is the basis for our relationship with God.
The road to God is paved with divine love.
Thirumoolar says
that unless our hearts are filled with love for God,
we cannot reach him.
How should you love God? Like a child loves its mother.
A devotee's love of God is called bakthi or devotion
while God's love towards
a devotee is called arul or grace.
As your bakthi towards God increases, so does's God's arul for you.
As a devotee's craving for God increases, so does God's craving for the devotee.
This craving for God is the surest way to see God.
Humans yearn for all sorts of material riches.
Yearn for God and you'll see God.
