God is Love was one of the profound reminders from which the infinite, all-consuming nature of God could best be understood. However, knowing this saying means rather much more than mere acquaintance; it’s an opportunity for a journey that gradually transforms how one sees finality in the actual experience of God’s love as truth. In the spiritual work, I Am the Self  by Ramesh T. Narwani, he takes the seekers on this journey in three stages: Learn God is Love, Know God is Love, and Realize God is Love. This journey takes us from intellectual learning to a profound realization, helping us find unity and oneness with the divine source within and around us.

Learn God is Love: Awakening the Heart

The journey begins with learning. This would mean learning that God is Love, an opening into teachings that proclaim love to be the essence of all energies in the universe. This stage includes giving ourselves permission to be open to the wisdom that has been shared through spiritual teachers, such as the words of Narwani and many others who assert that love is the base of everything.

We learn to understand the divine love that will start showing us how much love surrounds our lives in every relationship and our very beings. We will begin to realize that God’s love is beyond anything we could imagine or fathom and, indeed, is eternal and boundless- a force binding all of us together. The more we learn, the more we give up all ego-related desires that make us not see, to the best of our ability, this divine love. The level invites one to open the heart in search of a better understanding of the presence of God living inside us and reflected in all other people. This would form the basis on which we then move forward into a more profound understanding.

Know God is Love: Increasing in the Awareness and Bond

The innerization of this realization is the second step to knowing that God is Love. This takes us further than an intellectual assent to a more profound consciousness of love as unchanging and all-pervading energy in and around us. As Narwani would later explain in I Am the Self, to honestly know divine love is to realize it in one’s very being as the supreme integrative power. Here, one starts turning inward through medication and self-reflection to come near the understanding of the link of the soul with the love of God.

This stage thus makes us view every living creature as a manifestation of that same divine love that forms the reason for our peaceful coexistence with others out of compassion.

Knowing divine love also means knowing that our individual souls are connected with the greater whole and that every act of love is an extension of God’s energy. In this way, through this growing awareness, we start to perceive life’s challenges as opportunities for spiritual growth, guided by love.

Realize God is Love: Embodying Divine Love

Conversely, the final step would be to reach the stage that specifies that God is Love itself. That brings change to our existence when we realize oneness with the love of God. In Narwani’s context, this refers to a perfect union with God through which all the separative illusions fall, leaving just love alone. This does not imply much for understanding and feelings, but it is a pure assumption.

Love becomes our second nature, and all the activities take place spontaneously from the standpoint of love, unity, and peace inside the mind. Deeply and indescribably, there is peace-it speaks of an indestructible oneness with everything and with everybody. Thus, we have a complete sense of the Bible’s pronouncement that “God is Love.” We know it is we who are love, so divine love has now become our pathfinder: it points us to a way that serves, and then, in each stride forward, we become filled, complete within ourselves in the sense of divine union.

Embracing Divine Love in Everyday Life

That is the journey, to learn what “God is Love,” which transforms us from being in the state of knowing into the realization of divine love as our true nature. Embarking on this path will enable us to stay in line with a higher purpose, as we know, comes grounded in the fact that everyone is an expression of God’s infinite love. As Narwani’s I Am the Self illustrates, each step brings us closer to embodying divine love as our natural state, contributing to a world rooted in compassion, unity, and peace. This journey not only deepens our connection with the sacred but also enhances our ability to love and serve others, fulfilling the true essence of spiritual awakening.