The first commandment is to love your Innermost, your inner Buddha, your inner divinity, the star that you came from, which we lost touch with. We do not even have an idea about that. Most of us have not experienced it. When you experience that reality inside of you, that inner Buddha — which is completely different from that self that you think that you are — you learn something emotionally, spiritually, that can never be conveyed. You become a child in the presence of your inner parent. You feel a kind of love that is far beyond terrestrial love, even beyond the love of a parent to a child. The love that exists between your soul and your spirit is eternal. The love of a parent for a child is beautiful and deep, but it is only from one existence over one life. If that love was sustained over many thousand of years, over millions of years, imagine the depth and richness and profundity of that love. That is the love that is between your Essence (Buddhadatu), your soul, and your spirit, your inner Buddha. When you taste that love and you experience it — and you can and you will if you persist in your efforts to meditate — you will understand why Jesus said that is the first commandment. When we forget that commandment is when we fall into mistakes, and our ethical discipline: when we forget God, when we forget our Innermost. You see, if you remember the presence of your Innermost and of your Divine Mother and Divine Father, and you know that they are here and now with you, how can you allow lust to come into your mind? You cannot even conceive it. How can you allow pride to take hold of your mind when you remember the presence of your Innermost? You cannot. It is inconceivable. That is real renunciation.
Gnostic Instructor