Stories of Sri Ramana Maharshi

Scriptures or books often quoted by Sri Ramana

Advaita Bhoda Deepika

 

 

                    "Love itself is the actual form of God"



Q:  Swami, it is good to love God, is it not?
Then why not follow the path of love?
 

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."



Q:  That is why I am asking you whether God
could be worshipped through the path of love.
 

Maharshi: "That is exactly what I have been saying.

Love itself is the actual form of God.

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."
 

Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi