The experience of Self, which is nothing but the form of [supreme] love, is that in which the eyes see only love, the tongue tastes only love and the touch feels only love, which is bliss.
Guru Vachaka Kovai (The Garland of Guru’s Sayings) by Sri Muruganar - V. 655, Ch. 32 - The Truth of Love
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This verse describes that the nature of the experience of Self is the one unbroken essence [ekarasa] of love, that is, it explains that this world, which is nothing but the experience gained through the five senses, is transformed into and experienced as Self when the dawn of Self-knowledge takes place. Verse 62 of this work is to be read once again here:
He who knows this world-appearance to be his own form, Supreme-Consciousness, experiences the same Consciousness even through his five senses.
Sri Muruganar:
The Self-love which shines naturally in everything when all is known as Self, is completely different from the false and delusive feeling of pleasure which appears through the mental sense-experiences. This divine ecstasy, known as ‘prema’ or ‘bhakti’, is what is expressed by Saint Manikkavachagar in his Thiruvandappahuti as his great experience.
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