Bhakti is like being in love with everything continuously – from humans, to birds, to flowers – everything. One has no choice, for one realizes one’s real nature and the nature of oneself and with this ‘impossible’ relationship, how is it possible not to feel love for everything? When a glimpse is gained of the essence of everything, the essence that is normally hidden from the eyes of most people, bhakti must result. When one finds out one’s real nature and the nature of everything one will feel bhakti. One will never be the same person again.
However, this state comes only when one has the grace of expanded awareness. Once one has had a taste of the divine kiss from the lips of the beloved, one will feel unquenchable thirst and aspiration for the supreme consciousness. The bhakta will chase and worship the Supreme like a madman. Everything will be forgotten except the Divine. One divine kiss and one’s whole life is transformed.