Look at Everything in God’s Light - In the Light of God’s Presence in Your Heart - 25th May 2025

See, often in Satsang we have spoken about how to determine what is happening. Like, what is this? There are so many lenses through which you can try to get a handle on what is happening. I can look at it through a biological lens and say that a set of bodies are sitting together and mouths are speaking and ears are hearing. You can look at it through a human lens and say human beings are communing in a community and sharing together. I can look at it through a spiritual lens and say that God's presence is shining upon us and we are breathing in it; the words are just an outer excuse to be together.

Now, the fact is that the 'what is' of the moment is too broad for any of these explanations to actually grasp. So what happens is that we grasp onto that which becomes our most conditioned frame or set of modes that we use to make sense of what it is, because the mind is otherwise very scared of dealing with a life which has no actual graspable sense. So my encouragement, of course, is to look at everything in God's light—the light of God's presence in your heart—and make Him the star of your movie. Once you make Him central to your movie, then life becomes much easier, simpler to handle.

But if we have a framework which is empty of God's light, empty of God's presence, empty of God's will, empty of His grace and mercy, then our explanation may seem to provide some immediate psychological relief to us because we get this idea that we got a sense of what is going on. But the key ingredient of 'what is' is missing, because the key ingredient is God's light. In His light, everything is functional. So when we remove that from the picture and look only at what is happening in the frame of the movie, then it is only a half-picture. Thinkers and intellectual philosophers have been trying to make sense of this life for thousands and thousands of years. But I've seen that only those who came to looking at the world from the lens of God's light came to a sense of peace or contentment or a sense of restfulness.

So, see if you can—if there's going to be a narrative and explanation—see if it can be in the light of God's will, in the light of God's love, in the light of God's grace. And that is the learning I have from seeing the history of philosophy. You know, some of you know that I spent a lot of time reading all of that. But for most, it's an endless grasping at truth. They are grasping at truth: 'This is how it is, this is what is happening.' But without that recognition of that ultimate light and ultimate truth, then the narratives and explanations of the outer movement are never satisfactory, although they seem to provide some symptomatic relief for some short period of time.

The thing is that either we go to the highest, highest explanation—then that leads us to God, like some of the greatest philosophers in the world—or like the Bhaktas who went to a tremendous simplicity: 'This is God's will, this is God's will, this is God's will.' Simplify, simplify, simplify. And that brings us to the innocence of a child, and that brings us to God. Both are difficult, but at least in simple people like us, the innocence of a child is easier to approach.