All That Is Needed Is Your Emptiness

Another child was asking me the other day that when we refer to God, how is it that, like in some traditions, God is called a personal God, and what is your feeling behind that? So I said that many times we may come to a conclusion that the Absolute or awareness or even beingness is just like a force of nature like gravity, you see? Just like we've discovered this force within us but we cannot relate to it, we cannot bow our head down to it, we cannot pray to it, we cannot be in service to it or devoted to it. It is just not true, you see. That does not mean that you're discovering something personal as we define it to be personal—that means individual—but it is not a force of nature like gravity or electricity or magnetism.

God is the Supreme intelligence from which all the functioning of this universe sprouts all out of, and therefore we can trust that when we bow down and we pray to God or when we long in our heart, "Oh God," our prayer is being heard. You don't need to do this by ourselves. We don't need to check on our progress. We don't need to push ourselves along the spiritual ladder. We don't need to fix our energies. We don't need to fix any of this. Otherwise, our discovery would be a complete lie. Have we found God or no? You see, that is the question. Have we found God or no? And if we have found God, then what are we doing? It's like we found the fastest escalator in the world and we're still trying to run. Or we have not found God's presence, or we don't have faith that this is God's presence, you see.

And how to come to God's presence is to be empty to yourselves. Die to yourself inwardly. Everything else is just a way to get there—self-inquiry or surrender, our prayer, our devotional singing, or yogic practices—everything is a way to come to an emptiness so that God's presence can be properly discovered, recognized. And you recognize that in the palpable vibration of God's light, there is an unbounded being which is recognized beyond perception. All that is needed is your emptiness. And can you start a moment not being empty? Start a moment being full of something. Be full now, at one moment.

So God is always already empty now. It is completely our prerogative—it is our prerogative to operate as a limited being or to be empty. That is the only prerogative that we have: to take up the false me using whatever pretext. It may sound very true and humble in the narrative we have, but no story is the true story. The treatment of it is real; only God's light is reality. And this is moment to moment to moment. So we have to stop being somebody, anybody, including a spiritual somebody. And that is naturally what you are: a nobody. Not really a nobody—that is not bad news. It sounds like an insult, but actually it is the greatest gift because you are nobody. The Master's only attempt is to help you come to your nobody-ness.