We love what makes us happy, and since knowing ourSelf generates ever-present happiness, we therefore love knowing ourSelf. Knowing ourSelf IS an inner-Self infinite-circle of unobstructed love-and-happiness. The loving-knowing of ourSelf is expressed in Advaita as the phrase: Bhakti (love) is the mother of Jñāna (Self-knowledge).
The true path of Bhakti begins when
we are not seeking to gain anything from God [Self],
we are doing it just for the love of God [Self].
-Michael James
Over time, via Self-inquiry, it is realized that we ourSelf have always been an internal infinite-loop of joy, and more importantly, that our inherent joy can not be found or experienced anywhere else in the world, but from directly within. The realization of Self-joy is the end of our suffering; which is continuously being acknowledged by us via our ever-present experience of unconditional love (Bhakti).
The undoubtable knowing that we ARE unconditional love is solidified by the experience of experiencing ourSelf AS ourSelf. It then dawns on us that since all we know is unconditional love, because all we know is ourSelf, then by logical reduction, everything known that is ‘other than’ ourSelf (the manifestation) must also itSelf be unconditional love. This understanding collapses the distance between Self and ‘other than’ Self into One, One-love.
Experiencing and innately-knowing this One-love AS yourSelf is known in Advaita as Love without Otherness. When it's realized that in the One-reality there is no ‘other than’ yourSelf, and that only love itSelf exists alone AS You, then the experience of Love without Otherness is witnessed.
The experience of yourSelf AS Love without Otherness is a supreme ineludible experience, for regardless of what the manifestation is presenting itself as, either favorable or not, all that you inherently-know and understand is the manifestation’s underlying reality of unconditional love; yourSelf. The experience of Love without Otherness is beyond words; it is the utmost mysterious, yet oddly ordinary and familiar, witnessing of perplexing-wonder ever-imagined.
-Love Outpouring-