Beyond Perception, Beyond Thought - There Is the Satguru Presence - 16th August 2023
Saar (Essence)
Ananta emphasizes that meeting God as a living presence within is the only meaningful purpose of life. He guides seekers to remain empty of self-importance and self-will to allow the light of the Satguru to reveal itself.
Besides this play of light and sound, there is God as a living presence within ourselves.
To be empty for God, you must let go of self-concern, self-importance, and self-will.
If you haven't met God, that must become your primary project in life.
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We may come actually for different reasons—to find peace, to be joyful, to find love, all of these things. But what we discover in satsang is something quite astounding. And that astounding thing is that besides this realm of the senses, besides these objects that are perceivable—whether we perceive them seemingly outside the body or seemingly inside the body in the form of thoughts, imagination, and knowledge—besides all of this, in reality, there is the possibility of meeting God, reaching God while we continue to live. Not as a concept of God, not an idea, but in actuality, a living presence. It is God. So this is the truth, and to come in the company of this truth, in the song of this sat, is to see that besides this play of light and sound, there is God.
And this God is not just notional or a feel-good idea, or in some cases the punishing or the very bad idea. This is a good idea, not a feel-bad idea, about the living presence which is a window into an unlimited reality called God. So to come to satsang is to come into God's light, come into God's presence. Therefore, one who shares a satsang is one who is living like this, because it is the Living Truth for that one. And because it is a Living Truth for that one, that is why we call that one the Guru. The Guru is not a spiritual teacher who takes positive discourses and has spiritual conversations. Guru is one who has found that truth for themselves, and this truth, like any truth that you discover, then becomes infectious. For anybody who makes a great discovery then wants to spread it; they want to publish papers about it, let's say. This is how it works; they want to spread that truth.
Once it is found that actually there is a God which can be found, and it can be found in the most direct way as a living presence within ourselves, then those who come to this discovery usually are open to sharing it or feeling to spread this. So this truth is what we come for when we come to satsang. We may not even realize it; a heart longing brings us to satsang. Many times we just don't know why we come, and then when asked, we may say, 'Because I've had a lot of suffering,' or 'There's some problem in my relationship,' or 'There's some problem in my money,' or 'Some problem in my body.' Usually, these kinds of reasonings we have in our heads as a reason, because we may need a reason for everything at the moment. But really, to come into something like this is to meet God in your heart as a living reality, as a living presence.
And those who have had this grace, they will tell you that life without this grace is not worth living. What is funny is that many who are spiritual or come to us still don't live as if God is reality. They give reality to the notion of 'me,' which is the ego, and to this world out here. And God is just like a fallback option sometimes when we are in big trouble and we say, 'Ah yes, God help me.' But even those in spirituality don't really consider God to be real; they still consider the world to be more real. That is why in Vedanta, the first thing that we are told is that all perceptions come and go, and that which comes and goes is not real. Find that which is not coming and going. But most Vedantins also don't follow this. They are busy learning; they are busy learning more and more, building the spiritual encyclopedia in their heads, rather than coming to that true insight of the one that is fine when we go beyond perception.
So the first question is: Is God a reality? Is God a reality? Yes, not a rhetorical reality. Now, this conclusion that God is a reality, is it coming emotionally because we have a concept of God, or is that your living experience? So to put it simply, rather than academically: Have you met God? So if you haven't met God, then that must become your primary project in life, because all the ones who have met God will tell you that without this holy meeting, this life is a zombie life. This life is a life of flesh and bones and blood. Without meeting God, this life is a roller coaster of ephemeral joy, strong operation through the mind, and suffering. And nothing is worth anything in this world without God.
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True love is love when God is involved. All unconditional love is love for God. Joy is joy in God's presence, not this seeming joy because we rile ourselves so much in a desire and then the desire gets fulfilled and that knot gets opened up, you feel a sense of relief, and we call that joy. That is not joy; that is just relief from the desire. And how long does it last? So you wanted a Ferrari. 'My life is sorted, I'll be the happiest person, I can die easily if I had a home.' And you get the Ferrari. Very happy—one minute, five minutes, ten minutes. You've taken the photos, you posted them to Instagram, you've done everything. Then, 'Oh, my driver miscast it,' or something really. So new worries, new concerns. How long is that? You thought that your life will be sorted; instead, you picked up another set of values.
There is no joy in anything like this. Joy through love is to find the source of it within you. Is the source of it within you? And what are we doing? We are trying to use God to get our other stuff. 'Oh God, please help me with this. Oh God, help me help me get this. Help me win this contract, help me get into this relationship.' So we're using that which is a source of love and joy to give us things which will ultimately lead to more bondage. Not that there's anything inherently wrong with them, but attachment, grasping, always leads to suffering. Things can be around, it's okay. But if God is the true source of love and joy and peace, nobody says, 'Give me a Ferrari so I can be closer to God.' No. In a way, when they want to become like God, you know, they go to become big, building energy for people to bow down to them like God, but that is the misplaced, upside-down way of functioning in this world because the most part is not a reality.
If God was real, how would we live? If God is real and sitting in this room right now, so this hand, how much reality do you give to it as it appears in front of you? You have to give God more reality than that. We don't do it. We come to the mechanics of what I mean by 'give reality.' So we all may understand that Maya is a big thug—sorry about the colloquial translation. What are they trying to say? This realm of perception is calling you away from your reality. It is God's light and God's presence. How real is God for you now? Your mind will attack, relax. It will say, 'I don't think like this, I don't believe like you.' You can keep doing this and then die living as if there is some great importance to your thoughts and beliefs. Nobody cares about what you think, and I will show you that's very important.
Otherwise, like most people in the world, you're trying to convince others around your own belief systems and value systems, but they themselves are constantly changing. Don't play this game with a losing hand. You come to satsang to come to the company of the truth. This truth is capital T, the unchanging truth. That which is unchanging is God. Otherwise, you tell me that, 'Okay Ananta, I want to spend the next five years taking myself to be a meat bucket, just allow me that, then I'll come back after that.' That's fine. I don't force anyone to come. You're entitled to take yourself to be what you want. God has given us this freedom. But if your heart is yearning for a greater choice, for the true reality, if the words of the sages carry a fragrance for you, seem to ring true somewhere, and you're willing to let go of selfishness, willing to let go of being right to make this discovery, which is the only meaningful discovery we can make in this life, then we are fully here. It will serve you.
And to serve that, the ego is the idea that 'I can make myself a winner in spite of God.' The idea of winning exclusive or in exclusion to God is called ego. Nobody wants to be a 'me' and lose. You're trying to be a 'me' so that you can win at something, whatever the idea of winning may be. But just like grasping at nothing and attempts to construct herself into somebody, it always returns. That's why we end up doing stupid things like naming buildings and leaving things in our name so that our name can live on even though the body may die. This is grasping at straws. So that call which brought you to satsang, that call is your heart calling, the heart compass navigating you away from this upside-down world and into reality, which is beyond birth and death, beyond the states of waking, dream, and sushupti.
Suppose for a moment that you feel that everything that I have said so far is true. God is the only discovery worth making. To live in God's presence and God's light is the only way to live. Suppose you take this to be true, then your question should be, 'Okay, I take what you say to be true, but how do I find God? How do I find God? Can you show me God?' This is the popular question that Vivekananda asked Sri Ramakrishna as well. So the easy answer is yes, of course. Can you stop being? Can you recognize that the presence, the beingness within you, within yourself, is God's presence and therefore the window into the ultimate reality of God? That is the easy answer. But usually, it is not as straightforward as that. What gets in the way? Who's guarding this door and blocks him? That is the ego.
In what form? Self-concern, or 'What about me? What's going to happen to me?' and self-will, or 'What do I want? I don't want this. What if I surrender to God and God made this happen? I don't want that surrender.' So let's combine self-concern and self-importance into self-concern. Self-importance is simple: 'I am somebody. I am somebody,' which is not true. It's not about that. Nobody is self-consumable. And the ramblings and rantings of the mind, which has really no true insight into life, in the form of wanting, is self-will. You see, you should say individual importance, individual concern, and individual will. So these are the guards which are guarding the door. So when I ask you, 'Can you stop being?' and meet your being right now, they will come: 'How should I do it? Is this the right way? Am I ready? What's going to happen?' All these variations which will just block him, to block the simplest discovery.
So to paraphrase Guruji—it's very beautiful, I'll paraphrase it—if I say to you, 'Hold this hand right now and you're free,' your mind will come and say, 'Should I hold his hand? Will I be all right after that? Will I get an electric shock? Has he washed his hands?' Raising all this. You want to determine what is good or right for yourself, and this determination for yourself, trying to live on your own deafness, is the original sin. There's no other sin. It's not that scary notion. No, no, it's just 'my way' when God is available. If God's will was available to you, God's glory was available to you, and God's light was available, God's presence was here, how much time would you spend on 'me' and the ego? You see? So this self-importance, self-concern, and self-will, they guard this door. They guard this question when I ask you, 'Can you stop being?' What is needed is for you to be empty with that question.
So to be empty for God, and I've defined what you have to be empty of. This is where we come to learn how to be empty for God. Because unless we are empty here, if the cup is full, then it is not possible for God's light to be apparent to us. Too full of 'me.' All talk about God will remain just talk. My father left his body a few months ago, just before we met in February, and he'd been to a few satsangs. He's been to many Masters. You ask him about them, he'll say, 'Oh, I went to Swami Chinmayananda, he's very good, you know.' He said, 'I don't lie because I don't have to remember what I said last time.' And 'I went to this Guru and he said this here, and he said like that.' Where's God? We come to satsang to collect more ideas that you are spiritual. You will enjoy.
My father left his body a few months ago, just before we met in February. We've been to a few satsangs; he's been to many Masters. If you ask him about them, he'll say, 'Oh, I went to Swami Chinmayananda, he's very good, you know.' He said, 'I don't lie because I don't have to remember what I said last time.' And I went to this Guru and he said this, and he said that. Where's God? People would come to satsang to collect more ideas that you are spiritual. You will enjoy, 'Oh, I know this, this is this.' You know, you'll have a lot of definitions, but are you authentically coming to a true darshan? The opportunity does not come again and again. How do we know what tomorrow will bring? But today you can find God. It's a matter of utmost urgency and importance.
Having had the vision of death so closely these last few months, I can tell you that nobody is really ready for it. My father did not feel like that was his last day. My father-in-law did not feel like that was his last day. Today is the day where we must dedicate our life to the discovery of that which is beyond birth and death. There was a bhajan saying that I did not remember you in this life. And the remembering is not just a mere memory; it is this true meeting and true discovery. They just presume because I've given the Guru Dakshina, who was this man, you see, someone who realized God in his life? This is presumed because nobody does it. So they're already asking for forgiveness because that is the way this story is going for most of us, and they were right.
So now Grace has given us an opportunity. You're meeting someone who can tell you from direct experience that God is there within you and God is here right now. It is for you to decide whether this one is a deluded mad one, or a liar, or a con artist, or if there is a window to your own self-realization, God-realization. By coming to satsang, I mean this. Or the body grows. How many of his Sangha would have met God and lived in God? Because as your teacher, I can bless you, I can pray for you, I can guide you, but I don't have the power to compel you. I don't have the power to compel because for God's light to reveal itself to you, only God himself can do that. And that is the difference between an Avatar and a sage. I can only guide you, can bless and pray. My teacher can direct from direct experience God's light to God's heart to reveal itself to you. Your job is to be empty of the limited self I talked about—empty of self-concern, self-importance, and self-will.
How to be empty of these? Everyone together so far? So far we've talked about God's reality and how to lead a life without God's light, God's presence truly. And not just emotionally; your conceptuality is not a word, it is not a life worth living. And we've talked about how it is important to live in God's light. It is important to be empty of the limited self because, as the sages have told us, the lane is too narrow; there cannot be me and God. If there is God, there is no me. If there is me, there is no God. And what do we have to be empty of? What gives rise to this me? Self-importance. 'I am somebody.' How do we pick up this? So now I'm introducing you to the actual Mahabharata. That true battleground is happening here, you see, and this happens moment to moment. So this is the fruit of everything that I have said so far.
Why it is important to say that is because it's not for you. It is not to make you special, not to make you into somebody, but it is for God's light to be spread. So what is the battleground? How do we remain empty? If the 'me' is the notion that 'I am something, I am somebody,' how do you pick the notion up right now? Right now, right now, are you somebody? Right now, it'll take you a moment even to remember your name. I will tell you, you've forgotten your name, you will say, 'No, no, I remember.' Okay, you need that time to be that somebody. So how do you become that somebody? The mechanics of this are very simple, but the thing is that in the proposals from the mind, it will always tell you the problem is somewhere else. This problem is in your job, the problem is in your relationship, it is in the state of the world, it is somewhere else. So its main job is to deflect.
So what is the real problem? You'll find right now you are indeed naturally empty. Then a thought comes. It says, 'This is true.' It gives you a version of reality. It doesn't say, 'What I'm saying is a thought.' It says, 'It is like this. Things are like this. This is like that. He is like this. My partner is like this.' This one is always proposing some idea, you see. But can it even determine what one moment is like? If I tell you, 'What is this? What is this right now? What is this?' you see. So you may come up with the notion saying, 'I have the truth. This is satsang with Ananta and there are twenty-something of us in this room.' And that is a secret, lifeless, lifeless version of this we take to be real. In that, all light is gone, all presence is gone, all anything valuable is gone, love is gone. So we lead our lives on the basis of these narratives which are very primitive.
What happens if you don't lead your life on the basis of these narratives? If you remain empty? How to fuel yourself? Attention and belief. Attention gives life to a perception; your belief gives a truth value. Okay? So a thought may come in your head: 'I want to go and see the next Olympics.' And if you give it belief, it becomes a belief, you see. It becomes a desire. It becomes part of your persona. You become somebody who wants to see the next Olympics. These are what conditions are. It's not complicated. So your personality now becomes somebody who wants to see these Olympics. You become part of that. So just like that, your persona is just made up of all of these individual ideas. To be empty of your conditioning really means to let it come and let it go. So even if your attention goes to it—to avoid all attention going to all thoughts—but even if your attention goes to it, let the thoughts be like visitors.
Now the 'buts' will start. No, the 'buts' by which I can't let go. 'Some thoughts are too compelling.' Okay, then pray, then meditate, then do that. So many beautiful practices. Chant, sing a bhajan, become humble. In response to the 'but I cannot be empty,' all these modalities of practices are made available to us. That which makes you empty, take that. You can inquire into the mind, you can surrender everything to God, pray using your breath, you can be anchored in the presence of unconditional love in your mind. There are so many tactics to checkmate the mind which have been made available to us, right? But for any of them to work, humility is very important. If you are humble, even the simplest practice will work. If you're special, the highest practice from the highest sage will not work.
Admit that in God's light, compared to God's presence, you're nobody. We are nobody. Some would be quick to proclaim that you are God. Of course you are, but in the recognizing of that, let there remain a 'me' that may always be a servant of God. The recognition takes care of most of you anyway. That little remnant of me that remains, let that remain for everyone, including the highest sages. Let that remnant of me remain as well. Never take yourself to be anything special. People like this should never take themselves to be very smart. It is not that kind of Gyan that this yoga is about. Heart insights. You go inside from this Guru presence within us. That is God, not what we think we know. So humility is very important. That will lead to faith, that leads into confession, kindness, love, so that we can be empty for God. And call that just being, or open and empty, or a no-mind—whatever words you want to use. I mean, no-mind, it's all the same thing. And don't rush, but don't become impatient. Know that it is the mind. The heart has all the time in the world. The ego wants to grasp at things fast.
So now that suppose all of you have heard this and now you know: empty for God. Through what instrument will you recognize God? Are you looking for a spiritual experience? For some special discovery? How will you know? Suppose you met God, how will you know? Because already he said that he is with you. Because what comes and goes is not real. So through the same instrument that you recognize unconditional love, or the feeling of love—not the lovely feeling, but that which is apparent in your heart that doesn't have to have a feeling—through what do you recognize the limitlessness of your being? Through what do you recognize that which is aware of all perceptions, but it itself cannot be perceived? That is insight. That is the Satguru presence. And that is the realization and the recognition of the highest. You cannot do it as a perception, although God's presence can and does have a perceptual quality like a primordial vibration, and that can be met in the lightest, subtlest way. But even this insight is mostly intuitive and one percent vibrational.
That's it. That's all of spirituality, the lay of the land. One side note of that is that don't confuse spirituality to be a very convenient self-help type thing. If it sometimes doesn't feel like it's squeezing your throat, then it's not faith at all. It always seems easy, easy. So spirituality is to risk it all for that which is beyond perception. So your mind will never agree to such an endeavor because it wants spiritual experiences, feel-good ideas, a better quality of life. Although those will come, it will not agree with that which it cannot fathom at all. Don't expect your mind to be an ally in this. It will press all your buttons. So to be empty for God is the simplest and the most difficult thing you will do. At least at one level, the entire you is the singularity. And if there's the tiniest 'me,' it will seem difficult. To be open and empty is the simplest instruction; it is the most difficult instruction because if there is somebody being open and empty, it's the most difficult. Actually, it's just being. These are subtle, subtle things which will become clearer in satsang.
All of us, most of us, would have read books like The Power of Now. You realized maybe decades ago that all I have to do is live in the present. No problem. But how many are doing it? Nobody. Because the 'I' itself is the problem. The one who's trying to be in the now doesn't let you be in the now. You have to just be. Just be. But nobody is doing it because the posture of just being is not just being. It is 'me' doing just being. And that is why it requires tremendous faith to let go and see. It is a different quality. Faith is not just amplified belief—'Oh, I believe it and I believe it and I believe it so much it becomes faith.' It's not that. Belief is to your notions. You can believe your ideas or others' ideas which you heard. Faith is to trust your intuition, your intuitive insights. It may be unperceivable, more than this entire drama of perception. So to have faith in your heart, even especially when the mind comes in and says, 'But you will lose everything in life. You will become a beggar on the streets. You will be left with nothing.' No, it will come and scare you about this. To have faith in God, to have faith in the Master, to have faith in your heart calling, to have faith in that which is beyond rationality and logic. That is what faith is. Not important naturally, it doesn't matter at all whether you're a king or a beggar or a pauper. It is important how empty are you of your ego. That is important.
One day I'll be able to communicate better the immensity of God whose presence is alive within your life. I don't find the words to describe him. May God find a way to communicate this, because in the hearing of the fact that God's presence is available to be discovered by you in this waking state, it makes everything else seem tiny in comparison. About the one God. So as I started by saying, is this an memorial or is God memorial? Is your own an memorial? What is God not here?
That is important. One day I'll be able to communicate better the immensity of God whose presence is alive within your life. I don't find the words to describe him. May God find a way to communicate this because in the hearing of the fact that God's presence is available to be discovered by you in this waking state, to make everything else seem tiny in comparison about the one God. So as I started by saying, is this high memorial or is God memorial? Is your own memorial? What is God not here? And it's not a question of mere beliefs until we don't start living in a way that way of Truth inside and to value that with our feelings. There will still be caught up in this place of Maya where all this is just lip service. But when push comes to shove, God can wait. Any part of what I'm saying not clear? To explain it in some other way? This should be—there are no excuses after this. There should be no excuse. The how is clear, the why is clear, when is clear. What do you find? Questions you want to answer. Who is clear, but where is clear? This one, any of them is not clear? Ask questions.
We were described before I went. I experienced something very deeply and that respond you went through the bar of now. Like very understanding that I cannot be here now. I can never be. And that now is only possible in that space. Yes, that is possible. And then it is so very, very delicious and so much so that um, that itself seems to be like a lord has moved to live with this because I feel like my going back into the thing is like, yeah, automatically. I don't know what something, I'm not sort of well into it um, because it's like almost like no thank you. Sleep knowing that is just no possibility of really enjoying a single moment as is.
So what you're saying is that there is no 'I' or 'me' that can be in the now. Whatever content of this world appearance that we may say is happening now, this happens within my being. Yeah. And what you're saying is that it is—you're talking about what your being, being so intimidating in a sense that you don't want to be put into it or the mind, but no attraction stories. I cannot very good thing. This can be on subscribe. He got a presence or I could feel, yes. But here because...
Thank you. Thank you for that. How do we do this to remain empty for God? How do you become full is by buying into the town. Individuality becomes a part of our persona, that that is the ego. Other side as many days touch hearing all of these things so um...
The center of light is not this kind of light. The light and we can perceivable can be known in an objective way. Writing D for that, huh? I see light is...
Yes, I'm just trying to counter this idea of like there's a like a scientific, ah, like a force of nature or something like all this Consciousness, there is awareness. You see, it's like we are looking at a map and you're saying, okay, specific question is Asia. There's looking at this thing so you recovery intellectually now approach you feel like, 'Oh, I understood now this is consciousness and this is awareness and that is the absolute reality within.' So it becomes very like a framework. But I want to tell you that God is not just some this real discovery that we are making and saying, okay, that is consciousness, but beyond that is the highest which is awareness like that. You see, uh, this God is the only living being. Life itself comes from this, aliveness itself comes from this. So we must not just, you know, it's like um, and then in in that way, representation like Ram, Krishna, Jesus are helpful because we don't know. Okay, beyond that is Ram is there. You'll meet Ram. We want to sit at his feet, you want to be guided by him, want to surrender to him.
So God is that of which these are aspects, and the greatest gods that we can conceptualize and imagine, that is the being within you, the living being. I don't want to say, um, like in the Christians they use this word personal God. It's a personal God, but that will become very confusing. What what that what they're trying to say is that he can be met, he can be related to, he can be loved, he can be prayed through. Not like um, what would be a good example? Like a cloud or something which is very holy. It's not like that. It's an actual living being from which all of this arises. Like no qualities but still living. Exactly, exactly. Like living life is an aspect of it, okay? Life is an aspect of it and that is the easiest aspect of it that we can get a better handle on in some sense because without the presence of God, God the discovery would be—I don't know how. The presence itself is God's grace because in this world so full of form, to meet God without the primordial vibration or presence—I'm saying just theoretically, I don't even know if there would be an emotion of God in this world if the presence was not.
But what happened is whoever's done being really into themselves and with the quest to try and find the truth, whether they are philosophers or they are spiritualists or they were—I mean anyone who undertakes a serious quest comes to this presence of God. Right?
When you're talking about this, I busy but it does not perceive me. Do you mean that is life that perceiving or is it just a part of a bigger life?
Yes, if you're saying that I am aware of the world, the world is not aware of, then I may even say for this presence that I am aware of this presence and this presence is not aware of me because I am that awareness itself. When it comes to perception, everything is perceived by it, by the living being. It is the presence which is the light of perception. It uses attention to perceive. So what is the distinction between perception and awareness? One step behind you, yes. But what what is the difference in a way? But we're saying that awareness is a mode of knowledge and perception is a mode of knowledge. But what is the distinction between duality and argument in? Yes, no. Um, so this actually knows the same as perception. Like here it is just a term that we use to encapsulate sight, smell, taste, touch, memory, imagination—everything that is, uh, that is quantitative or qualitative that can be known in that way is called perception. But awareness is not an abstraction of something else. It's not an amalgamation or something. We are aware of sight, we are aware of taste, we are aware of touch. So suppose the word perception was not there, then you don't—you'd have to individually say that you're seeing it or you're hearing it or you're touching it or tasting it. But you are aware of the scene, there is that smell. So all the perception is a word that you use to describe these things, okay? Awareness is not a word that we used to describe some other things. It is just aware. You're aware of science but you're not citing awareness. If you're aware of hearing but gearing away, you can only be. You can't see being. Exactly.
So and a while is not like a master term for a set of different things that is perception. Is that what you're calling life force? That awareness, is that what you're calling life, like living? Yeah, usually what I call like, you know, the rising of beingness within this awareness. If I haven't started calling it, it's a living being is so that, you know, there was a living being inside you, would you just be like, 'Huh, hold up'? And you want to know who it is. Not an inanimate thing like, 'Oh, you have a kidney, you have a liver or two people, there's God also there.' It's not like that. It's living, amazing. It's a living presence. It can be met. It is the most intelligent, the highest. These are not his words, it's a reality. If somebody came and told you, you woke up tomorrow and a very credible jyotish or somebody told you that today Ram's presence will be within you, you know, if you say it's fine, let me send my emails and let me reply to my phones and things—Ram's presence? So that one, the same one is within you. And this blocking, you know, this blinding is called mind. See? So all of this is just a blinding mechanism blinding us from the true reality. And but once, once it is met from here, then it becomes a vilas, the play of consciousness. Before the kid is discovered, it's a blinding light. No, I'm not in a good location. That's why Vedanta 101 is what? Let go of all things that you can perceive. My name is exactly. I'm telling you God is here. It's like that joke of vasu, you know, and could see is the transmission is happening, he's really coming because Buddha was being born but you distracted him with the services. But what is that distracting ability is this. You see, I'm telling you God lives here, but if if Hrithik Roshan walks into the room, we forget about God being here. So we give more reality to this than to what's inside you. Not inside your body but inside yourself. That is your absolutely everything.
So it can seem very simple to take, to say give more reality to that which is unperceivable. Vedanta basic is that even in the Bible it is saying that value that which is invisible but do his healing. So I was talking to Krishna and come for the funeral there as well and she's been in the mission for so long and she's the very senior position in the ashram and things like that. So we have these beautiful chats or then forever it came from my mouth that, you know, the your the palm of your hand you give that, you give God more reality than that and that much is enough. The blinding light of Maya, the Living God is inside you. Don't leave it till too late. And I've seen that like all these people say, you know, that if in the last moment of your life you remember God then you will find a place at his feet. Would have seen that unless you've lived a life of devotion to God, you don't remember God in your loss. It's not a cheat code. The universities, whatever you left, whatever you valued in your life the most, that is what you would remember. He was very deeply religious man within the last memories they were the things that he had valued. So don't leave it till the end if there are other things that is if there's if there are these other things, yes, is that always appear they're not dead. Yes, most human spend their life in a versions of even the thought of death, you know. Most gatherings if you mentioned there's something this is like a taboo topic. But it's coming, you know, and what is happening is that you spend our life just avoiding the fact that it's coming. How much is left? It's coming. So if somebody else—satsang is to talk about death, to remind ourselves of this inevitability of all this that we are busy gathering and working into this. It's very important to remember that. They say Bhutan is supposed to be the happiest place in the world. There they practice contemplating deaths like twice or thrice a day. So let me holding on type to be like this. There's no contemplation or death. Suppose what you are valuing now is what you'll value your last moment. Just live like that.
To value God's lightest fields, to value your intuitive inside through the Satguru presence is faith. To value your things that you think you are right about and think you know and you think your special life is just believe. Faith will help you beautiful. Make yourself GPS, GPS and um so I wonder why that on their deathbed if all this helps there are so Machu video and I think it really should be number one goal. I want to see it is basically very, very strongly gives to my neighbors English time death is coming security. It was in the road today to go from Iran or coming back to my car almost hit me so I was laughing with so much running and taking care of his body it could be hard. You can never see there is time left. Is this what I mean? I'm not saying don't take care of your body. I realized the benefit of that because...
There are so many videos, and I think it really should be the number one goal. I want to see it. It basically very, very strongly gives to my neighbors. This time death is coming. Security... it was in the road today. To go from Iran or coming back to my car, a car almost hit me. So I was laughing with so much running and taking care of this body. It could be hard. You can never see there is time left. Is this what I mean?
I'm not saying don't take care of your body. I realized the benefit of that because body pain, bodily suffering, can be a big distraction away from just living in the presence. Keep it healthy, treat it like a temple. It's a nice metaphor. If you could say it's a temple of God, it's a nice metaphor. Try this living high on God; you don't have to waste money on substances.
All the sages have told us that the diamond is already in your pocket, that you're sitting on a treasure and you're begging for pennies. So many metaphors they use to convince you about God's presence. The most important thing beyond all this anchoring and grasping in the world... he heard, he knew that. And even metaphors, the teachers are trying ways to explain. It's easy, it is trying to come. But that metaphor of Plato's Cave is very true in that way. One has been able to escape and find the sun, then he comes back and tries to explain to them that this is our one region we can be free. We feel like he is the attacker. Many teachers have been killed in this world for speaking the truth about God.
And one question: like in this transition period, it seems to be it's wiser to just not speak about the others, anything that one is doing. I would determine that no, we have to just live moment to moment in the heart. Because what are the possibilities? You could be guided by the heart and you speak about this and someone turns to God away from the egotism of molecular life, all these receptors and the severe foliation, or they become of us. Do it so we can't really see what is like. We can't say, make a blanket statement and say this is how it's always going to be.
Leave it to God to decide how to move this mouth in front of you. It says then, says nothing for us to be concerned.