The Highest Treasure in the Universe Can Be Found Within Yourself As the Atma

Now suppose that you say that I don't believe all this, that there is God which is beyond perception. I feel like this life is all there is. We have to be a good person and just live through this life and then we die. That's it. Suppose that that is your belief. But now you've come to Satsang and a mad person is telling you that actually your idea of your life and of this world is a little bit limited and reality is much bigger than that, and there is the reality of God and His presence sits in your heart in the form of the Atma. Yeah.

So you heard these foolish words, you see. Now what options do you have? You can say it's all ludicrous. There's no point. It's all wasting our life. Leave it all, you see. But suppose that you say that you admit, like I admitted at one point in my life, that I really don't know. Is this true? Is God, the one God who is the God of this universe and every universe—is His presence really here in my heart? Just like if you discovered that in one corner of your house there's a hidden treasure which can take care of everything. You may say it's a rumor. It can't be true, you see. But all of us will still dig. Even if we hide it from our family, we'll just go in the night one night and just dig and see, really, is the treasure there?

Okay. So that is the introduction to Satsang that I just want to motivate or inspire this much: that I'm telling you what I take to be a fact and you may take to be a rumor or unreality or something too far-fetched, but just to make you that much open that the highest treasure in the universe can be found within yourself as the Atma is a living possibility for you, okay? And your mind will doubt, your mind will resist, it will say 'not possible,' 'I don't have time for this,' all of these things. But somewhere something may get seated in you which may help you to look, to dig for that treasure which is, in my words, the highest treasure that any human can ever find or discover.