Evolution of love

MAHARAJ ABOUT HIS GURU

Nisargadatta himself tells of his time with his Guru, and what transpired in the more mature phase of his spiritual practice (sadhana):

"My association with my Guru was scarcely for two and a half years.
He was staying some 200 kilometers [120 miles] away, and he would come here once every four months, for fifteen days.
This [realization] is the fruit of that.
The words he gave me touched me very deeply.
I abided in one thing only:
the words of my Guru are the truth,
and he said, "You are the Parabrahman [Absolute Reality]."
No more doubts and no more questions on that.
Once my Guru conveyed to me what he had to say I never bothered about other things— I hung on to the words of the Guru.

My Guru told me: “...Go back to that state of pure being,
where the ‘I am’ is still in its purity before it got contaminated with
‘I am this’ or ‘I am that.’ Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all.”
My guru told me, “Trust me, I tell you: you are Divine.
Take it as the absolute truth.
Your joy is divine, your suffering is divine too.
All comes from God. Remember it always.
You are God, your will alone is done.”
I did believe him and soon realized how wonderfully true and accurate were his words.
I did not condition my mind by thinking,
“I am God, I am wonderful, I am beyond.” I simply followed his instruction,
which was to focus the mind on pure being,
“I am,” and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together,
with nothing but the “I am” in my mind and soon the peace
and joy and deep all-embracing love became my normal state.
In it all disappeared—myself, my guru, the life I lived, the world around me.
Only peace remained, and unfathomable silence.