God Is the Most Loving, Kind, Merciful, Intelligent, Beautiful Being

So, Hanuman Prasad Poddar Ji said very simply: the quickest way to come to this deep insight is to leave the topics of the world. I mean, there is poison in these topics. It doesn't translate well, you see; leave them. So what is he saying? I like to co-opt it that way and say he is also saying: open and empty. Because if you forget the topics, then you're empty. Can we really forget about all the topics and the topics to discuss?

So, what we can't leave is what is the nature of attachment in our lives. And God is not unmerciful; He's not set a 100% benchmark. He said, 'In this moment, does your heart belong to me? Then I'm yours also.' In this moment, in this moment, in this moment, you see? Now, in the next moment, He knows very well we'll get caught up in some drama. But He doesn't deny Himself to us because of that. That beautiful Atma is not going to come to you and tell you, 'I know what you're going to do in the next two hours, so now I can't be with you.'

That is why I've been emphasizing this point: that rather than making a force field out of God, rather than making an energy system out of God, it's better if we consider God to be the most loving, kind, merciful, intelligent, beautiful Being, rather than thinking of God's presence or consciousness as magnetism or electricity or something like that. We do that. Because of my conditioning, I'm also used to calling God or the Atma 'it,' and that's not a good habit. Rather, say Him or Her. Is it that all that is human about us is just a fraction of what is real about Her? We have dehumanized the very one from which our humanity comes from because that's the way the mind conceptualizes.

From Nirguna Brahman, there was a Saguna Brahman. What does that sound like? Sound like a force field only, because the mind can't reach; it's beyond its pay grade. So, from Nirguna to Saguna, what does it sound like? Like some force came. Then we hear that it is in the form of the word, or the primordial vibration, or the Om. You see, it doesn't feel like the most loving, most kind Being; it sounds like some force field of some sort. But God has made it very easy for us to relate to Him.