Love of God (Hinduism)

This is an ecstatic yet intense consciousness of unity with God, an awareness only of God, nothing else exists and – as para bhakti (supreme love), prema bhakti (ecstatic love) and mahabhava (intense love) – the highest form love for God can assume. This is the state of the avatar or the ishvarakoti whose birth is to lead humanity to realization of truth.

The third – prema – and fourth – mahabhava – states reached in the yoga of love – bhakti yoga; the highest state on the way of love – bhakti marga.