What happens when one tries to feel that love is God and existence?

Existence gives you love without any conditions. Whatsoever you want, you do -- that's your freedom. God loves you as you are. But we have destroyed even the idea of god. The Old Testament god says 'I am a very jealous god. If you worship some other god I will take revenge.' Now this is not god's voice. This is so ugly, the very idea that some jealous man is speaking in the name of god, that some jealous priest is wearing the mask of god, is so stupid. It is not god's face, not god's voice; god's love is unconditional. And god is not a person, hence he cannot be jealous. Jesus is far more right when he says god is love. But Christians misunderstood even that. They thought love was one of the qualities of god -- that is not so.

The only quality that man already possesses which can be called divine is love. Love is the only proof that God exists. There is no other proof. So those who have not loved cannot conceive that God is possible. Friedrich Nietzsche says that God is dead for the simple reason that his heart never flowed in love. In fact he should have said that love is dead. That's what was happening inside him: love was dead. And because love is dead there is no proof for God. Sigmund Freud does not believe in God because he does not believe in love. He thinks sexuality is all, man ends with sex. If man ends with sex then there is no difference between man and animals, then there is no humanity really, then man is another species of animal. Sigmund Freud takes away all the glory of humanity.

Beloved master, I have heard it said many times that love is god, existence is god, god is existence, god created the world and that god is a supernatural power who administers the world. I have tried to feel all this, but could not. All these statements are more and more confusing. Kindly tell me what is god. And when you use the word 'god' in your lectures, what does it mean?

Bal Krishna Bharti, don't try to imitate what others say. They may be saying a profound truth, but by imitating them you will never reach to that truth; because they never reached to that truth by imitation. They reached to that truth by being original. Jesus says: God is love. I say that love is God. My statement is far more penetrating than what Jesus says. Jesus says: God is love; that means God may have many other qualities, one of the qualities is love. I say love is God, there is no other quality, love is the only quality that is divine. And you listen to these things and you try... but what are you going to do? Do you know what love is? You become worried about God -- first you will have to know what love is, and the love that you know is nothing but lust.…

[Disconnect yourself from love and you miss God] Love connects you with the source of all the energies. That source is God. Without love we live in a disconnected state, hence a very tiny amount of energy remains available to us. That too is in spite of us, because we cannot be absolutely disconnected from God, otherwise we will die. So a little bit of connection continues, but if one is consciously rooted in God, grows his roots in God... That's what love means: growing your roots in God. Becoming more and more love-full is becoming more and more God-full. And the more you love, the more you see God everywhere. Soon it becomes an all-comprehending strength. The source remains available to you; you cannot exhaust it, not even death can destroy it.

Logicians go on running in circles, about and about. The meaning of the word 'about' is around; they think about God, they think about truth, they think about love, they think about life -- that means they go on around and around. They never live, they never love, they never experience reality. God never becomes a reality to them. It is not surprising that all the logicians of the world sooner or later become convinced that God does not exist. In fact if a logician does not come to this conclusion he is dishonest. That is the natural outcome of logic; logic cannot come to any other conclusion. If it comes to any other conclusion that means the man has been insincere. He has not followed even his logic totally, he has deceived himself. I respect logicians more than theologians because logicians are at least sincere people.