subtle and mental spheres the lover is conscious of being separated from the beloved, but when all these spheres are transcended, the lover is conscious of his unity with the Beloved. The lover loses himself in the being of the Beloved and knows that he is one with the Beloved. Divine love is entirely free from the thraldom of desires or limiting self. In this state of infinity the lover has no being apart from the Beloved. He is the Beloved Himself.
We thus have God as infinite love, first limiting Himself in the forms of creation, and then recovering His infinity through the different stages of creation. The divine romance All the stages of God’s experience of being a finite lover ultimately culminate in His experiencing Himself as the sole Beloved. The sojourn of the soul is a thrilling divine romance in which the lover, who in the beginning is conscious of nothing but emptiness, frustration, superficiality and the gnawing chains of bondage, gradually attains an increasingly fuller and freer expression of love, and ultimately disappears and merges in the divine Beloved to realise the unity of the Lover and the Beloved in the supreme and eternal fact of God as Infinite Love.

  1. LONGING
    If you experience that same longing and thirst for union with me as one who has been lying for days in the hot sun of the Sahara experiences the longing for water, then you will realise me.
  2. PEACE OF MIND
    If you have the peace of a frozen lake, then too you will realise me.
  3. HUMILITY
    If you have the humility of the earth which can be moulded into any shape, then you will know me
  4. DESPERATION
    If you experience the desperation that causes a man to commit suicide and you feel that you cannot live without seeing me, then you will see me.
  5. FAITH
    If you have the complete faith that Kalyan had for his Master, in believing it was night although it was day (because his Master said so), then you will know me.
  6. FIDELITY
    If you have the fidelity that the breath has in giving you company, even without your constantly feeling it, till the end of your life (that both in happiness and in suffering gives you company and never turns against