Instead of What I’m ‘Getting’ Change to I’m Giving Myself to God Every Second - 10th September 2025
Saar (Essence)
Ananta teaches that meeting God is not about grasping a tangible object, but about remaining in the 'heart temple' as a humble priest, offering every moment and reaction back to the Divine presence.
Be the priest of your temple and offer everything that comes to God; don't personally react.
Stabilize yourself in whatever inflames your heart in love and awakens it in attentiveness.
The beauty of meeting God is that His presence is both phenomenal and non-phenomenal.
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When you say you meet God, do you have nothing as a palpable... like you met God? Sorry. Like, no, in a sense. When you mean like palpable, what do you mean? Like, how are we talking about it?
The beauty of meeting God as His presence within is the fact that He's both phenomenal and non-phenomenal. If it was just another object—suppose that I met, like many spiritual experiences happen, so let's not worry about those—I'm saying suppose you went inside, inside, and inside you had the most sweetest discovery that God is actually baby Krishna. He's actually this. That's His size. That's His dimension. That's the shape of His head. That's all of this. It'll be very sweet and very beautiful and we would love it because it's so tangible also. But in a few days, we would start to feel that He is just that object. You see? So see how beautifully God has done it. He said you can grasp on to Me, but only just by being the subtlest vibration is My presence. Subtlest vibration is My presence. But you know there's an infinite abyss on the other end of that vibration. Yeah. There isn't... describe more about the Atma. It's like that. Yeah. So the 'am' part of it is the subtlest vibration and yet you know that everything is made up of this, and the other end of it—the 'I' part of it—you see, unfathomable.
As they say, you know, it's not the destination but the journey. So it's not the getting, but it's the feeling of getting every single second of, you know, of offering yourself up. It's not that you cannot ever say that I've got God. It's just that I feel like the paradigm, if you just switch to instead of what I'm getting, I'm giving myself to God every second, then that will keep us safe.
It is similar to what I've said today: that be the priest of your temple and offer everything that comes to Him. What does the priest do? We give him a bag. It will have some coconut—at least in the south—some coconuts, some Tulsi leaves, some fruit, some all of that. What does he do? He doesn't just keep it there and give it back. So, he keeps it there. He mixes a little bit of stuff. He tries to be proportionate a little bit, but he does some stuff. He prays on it and then hopefully intuitively he offers something back. So our job is very similar in terms of seeking guidance of how to deal with the world so that we don't leave the heart temple to just sit like the priest. You take that and then you don't personally react to it, no. You offer it to God and say, 'Okay, this is what's on offer right now,' and then you wait for Him to respond back. You see what is the Prasad that the priest gives us back. So all of us then become temple priests and it's for our safety because in that way we don't leave the temple. So we don't react from the wrong places. Take whatever's showing up.
So is that fresh, fresh?
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Yeah, it has to be. Because unless we are naked, innocent, alive to that particular moment's sense from within, we can't offer the right Prasad back. It's just not possible. So accepting it can't be mechanical. Like, a good priest doesn't say that... that would be too mechanical. And I'm saying it as a joke, but most spiritual teachers, including myself, fall into that trap. I know this question and answer, so it becomes like a mechanical process. But it's not that; it has to be alive. So how do you know? Somebody's given three mangoes; you give them two strawberries back. Everything is coming in the moment to be fresh. Fresh.
Whatever is coming, when you say offer it to God, you're saying don't react because reaction means it's coming from a certain kind of conditioning or prejudice.
Yeah. Good job. And if you are in that kind of mindset, you can't... you are no longer in the heart temple anyway. So what is my guidance today? Whatever little guidance I'm able to offer is for us to be there in a loving, quiet, humble, attentive way, isn't it? So if we remain there, then naturally we are being the priests of the temple. But these are very human words: humble, attentive, effortful. The principle remains the same in our relationship with God also.
But that's not necessarily fresh, fresh, Father.
It is, in the sense: how to remain there unless I'm humble, loving, gentle, attentive in this very moment? How will I know what He's trying to convey? Is there... like, how to hear God's voice? Empty. Are we circling around the same? Is that also empty and open?
Yeah, it's the same thing in the sense that how to remain empty. I want to just be empty, then what happens? Most of us get trapped in the position of empty. How to be empty of empty? Oh, sounds like a nice idea, we have to be empty of empty, you know? Then we feel like, 'I've understood it.' So, 'I've understood it' becomes a concept because I've understood it. Here we feel like we've understood it. Everything gets solidified into a concept.
Exactly. So even open and empty. 'I just have to be empty.' But that's no longer empty.
I'm just being empty right now. No, you're not. Because if you're being empty, you're not being empty. I don't know if this is making sense. It becomes... that's why I switched terminology to if you're being loving, attentive, gentle. If you're being empty, then you're not being empty. It's empty. You're getting it.
Yeah. Ultimately, the only crux of everything that you've said is like just offering yourself up constantly. That is just making so much sense. Yeah. And just keep doing.
Exactly. Because our whole conditioning in life has been... the knowing becomes the center point. Like a lot of us, including myself, have now read so much about humility that we think we're very humble. True. That's the thing. Because we've read a book on humility, we feel like, 'I'm very humble.' Oh, I'm not humble at all. It's the acts of humility. How are we talking to the help in our house? How do we talk to people who visit us and they want something from us?
I'm the very angry mother from the past few days. So much like I see there's nothing which is happening. So much angry. It's like only Father can deal with this one.
So, with all spirituality now, we have to be very careful of this. We talk love. Let 20 people around you come and report that to you, that you're so loving. Just to be able to speak things or read things or conceptually understand things is the first step. Like, if I can quote 100 quotes on humility, it doesn't make me humble unless they are used as pointers for me to share love and not my pride.
There's only God, right? There's no other word but God. So in the hospital, listen, then I was totally confused what prayer I should do. So when mom was going through convulsions, I was actually... I do the Jesus prayer, then I would skip to the Kleem prayer. Then I go back to my traditional Om Namah Shivaya. I felt I was so rudderless. I'm going on, man, I can't pray.
That's okay. Either, any, all of them are good. See, what is the test? Is it helping to—we talked about this—is it helping to inflame our heart in love? And is it helping to awaken our heart in attentiveness? Whoever...
What I felt, what I meant to say, Father, was I felt needy.
No, no, so this was a very important point. Sorry. How do we know if our spiritual practice is actually helping? Because she said that when this situation was happening, then I was confused. Should I do this? Should I do that? Then nothing actually happened. So stabilize yourself in whatever inflames your heart in love and awakens it in attentiveness. This is Ram. Ram Ram. You can sense that it keeps your heart, like she said, soaked in love. Soaked in love and we are doing it attentively, not just... so is again the marriage example. 'I love you, I love you'—nobody's going to buy 'I love you' unless we are truly offering ourselves, 'I love you' with attentive loving there. So when we say Ram, when we say Jesus, we say Allah. So to then practice, just practice staying like that. So when life's turmoil comes, the tsunamis come, then we are not so easily shaken. And there will come a point where you feel like just a breath is your practice, or not even breath, just an inward turn is your practice. Just you turn inwards and you're inflamed with love in your heart. But in the modern age, our trouble is we want to jump. So if you remember what Supriya said, which is the journey is the beauty. So don't try to end the journey by coming to some finality. Enjoy the beginners and beginners of this because the path that we are on, we will always be beginners.
Father, there will be some time when we'll merge with God sometime, someday, some... merge with God. They won't exist like this. That's what...
No, that's the beauty of it. That's the beauty of it. That's... sorry, I know we have to go, but such a beautiful point. Like a sage never dies. A saint never dies. So how is it possible they merge into God and still don't die? That can be the question. That is the beauty of it. That even though God takes them, merges them with Himself—which is what is heaven? It's the same thing. Living in heaven is actually merging with God. We don't realize that it's the same thing—is to stay with God in the sense of in God palpably. No, you're always in God, but palpably. So, if you pray to Tulsidas Ji right now, what does your heart tell you? Is he hearing or is he gone? Shabri Ma... so is it just some void now? So they've merged into God and yet God is the supreme intelligence which... so they merge into... but you pray to St. Teresa of Avila, she has changed my life in the last so many months since I found God. Why would God destroy something which is full expression? Let's make it simple. We remember Tulsidas Ji. What does our heart tell us?
She knows. Father, this is so true because you feel for so many people that they've gone, you know, they've died. But certain people you never feel they've gone because they... like for my brother, I've never ever felt that he's gone. Ever. Like I just feel him so palpably present, like here right now also. Like, and with so many people you feel they've died. Today what we felt for mom... and it was just the same.
So imagine the gift that we have. I have these sometimes, I share with some of you, that I have this fantasy that God will create for us a life after this one where we just all... all of us living together and we wake up in the morning and we say, 'Should we go listen to Saint Teresa of Avila?' And I promise you that if we can fathom it, God's grace will only be greater than that. It will not be smaller than that. Sages gone got more powerful. In fact, their presence is so much stronger, spread. How many people know Tulsidas Ji today? His presence is so strong.
So I understand what you're saying about patience, attentiveness, and humility because then you can feel the presence.
Exactly. Thank you. Thank you for this beautiful opportunity.