As already explained, Shree Swamiji says that material love is the experience of enjoyments of the senses. This may include looking to worldly beauty, or smelling something, or touching something, or listening to something nice like music. All kinds of sense gratifications come in the same category. It means all of these enjoyments of the world are based on our imaginations, and the deeper the imagination, the deeper the experience. Less imagination means less experience; negative imagination means negative experience. All of these enjoyments of the world fall in the same category.
And now comes the question that if in the world we experience happiness at various occasions which are temporary, and not permanent, and we want to make this permanent - What is that thing to make permanent? The other side, the Divine side, the Divine world, the Divine love. Because whatever is lacking in the material love is completed in the Divine love. Everything is fickle, temporary and grief-giving in the end in this world. Everything in the Divine world is complete, perfect, everlasting. So that is Divine love. There can be no example given of Divine love because all the examples are material. It cannot be compared. If you want to really compare, you can compare the maximum happiness you have received in this world, take it as a unit and multiply it by uncountable times. If it is possible to apprehend your mind. What is that thing? That is Divine peacefulness. Multiply again to uncountable times. What is that? Divine happiness. Multiply that to uncountable times.
So only after understanding the limitations of material love comes the question, "What is Divine love?" Not before that. Because as Shree Swamiji explains - Divine love is very far away from material love. They are two distinct, separate entities. One is material and the other is Divine.
Swami Prakashanand Saraswati explains that our true self is our Divine self and that desires perfect happiness, Divine love, which is only God, not this world. Our mind likes, desires, covets worldly things - but our true self is our Divine self, our soul. When we understand this fact, we aspire for God, who is absolute Bliss, absolute love, absolute beauty and absolute Graciousness. This is why we need God's love, the Divine love, for receiving full contentment in life, forever.
What happens after God realization? Swami Prakashanand Saraswati says that at that moment, the body, mind and senses become Divine. Suppose a soul is doing right devotion to find God. At the end of his devotion, at the complete purification of his heart, he realizes God with the Grace of His true Divine Master. What happened? Shree Swamiji says that it is just an instant transformation, nothing else. The soul is already Divine. Just the mind and senses are transformed. There are two things: the mind and brain, and the gross and subtle senses. When you are dreaming, you enjoy with your subtle senses. You see the dream with your subtle sense of sight. So there is gross seeing and subtle seeing, and a gross brain and subtle mind. That devotee's mind and subtle senses are Divinized. Then the mind is Divine, senses are Divine, soul was already Divine. He becomes Divine, a Divine personality. Then whatever he imagines or thinks in the world, he enjoys only the Bliss of God, Divine love, and nothing else and that is perfect. That is what we really desire from inside. From within ourselves, we desire that state of perfection, absolute perfection, where there is no chance of any kind of misery. That is called God realization, the attainment of Divine love.
So Shree Swamiji teaches that what we really desire from inside is God realization, without question. But our conscious mind sometimes confuses itself. It can't confuse our soul. So now we understand that we need God because we desire for God.
Excerpted and adapted from Speech P3-1A: "Material love and hate is not a reality; it is a mental illusion. Your soul is longing for Divine love. The three situations of peace, happiness and love." Copyright © 2009 Swami Prakashanand Saraswati.