Sri Bhagavan

“This is faith, and it’s a beautiful experience. Once you have it, once you have that divine experience, there is no going back. From suffering arises faith, then joy. With this new faith, there is no more fear of pain and suffering. Life is constantly serving up suffering. Unless you know how to deal with it, you will become hard and dead internally. All diseases arise from this inner death. All suffering starts from within. All external problems also start within. Sri Bhagavan says, “Whatever is happening, if you can experience it fully, then you will find limitless joy. What will happen when there is so much joy? It doesn't stop there. It becomes love. Only a happy and joyous person can truly love. An unhappy person cannot love. That love is nothing but attachment and possession. True love comes only when there is true joy, and true joy comes when you experience whatever is going on inside. It is not very difficult.” All challenges and crises are opportunities for faith. You see the challenge. You respond to it with an effort to experience it fully, and eventually you transcend it. Then flowering happens.”
― Sri Bhagavan, Love Begins with Accepting Yourself: The Journey of Discovering Love, Deepening Relationships, and Being One with All That Is

“When you accept and experience the other as she or he is, that is the birth of love.”
― Sri Bhagavan, Love Begins with Accepting Yourself: The Journey of Discovering Love, Deepening Relationships, and Being One with All That Is