The Blissful Self...

"Many are the means described for the attainment of the highest good, such as love, performance of duty, self-control, truthfulness, sacrifices, gifts, austerity, charity, vows, observances of moral precepts.

I could name more.

But of all I could name, verily love is the highest:

love and devotion that make one forgetful of everything,

love that unites the lover with me.

What indescribable joys does one find through love of me,

the blissful Self!"



Krishna
_Srimad Bhagavatam_
Translated and edited by Swami Prabhavananda
Madras: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1972, pp. 240-241