Cultivating Spiritual Wealth: Dedication to God

So many of you may be studying or may have studied. Did you say within six months that, 'Give me my engineering degree' or 'Give me my doctorate' or 'Give me my accounting degree'? No, you said, 'Yeah, it takes time.' But we feel like attainment of God, the highest Ishwar-prapti, should be that? The field has to be worked before the seeds can sprout and you can harvest. You're busy building other types of wealth: material wealth, wealth of worldly relationships, wealth of bodily strength, wealth of conceptual understanding. But what is the wealth that will last you beyond death? All this is going. Suppose you read the entire set of Upanishads and you memorized every Sanskrit verse, then when you die, what will happen to you? God knows. So what is that eternal wealth which is promised to us by God Himself in all His incarnations, whether it is Ram, Krishna, Jesus, all the great sages, gurus? What is that eternal wealth which they have promised? That is the spiritual wealth.

So what is the chance that each and every one of these great sages was lying, and also the incarnations also lied? A big conspiracy? There's no chance, because this is from all parts of the world where there was not even communication; they could not even conspire together, you see? So sages like Kabir Ji must be telling us the truth. It should be a wake-up call for all of us. The opportunity does not come again and again. It should take us out of our complacence. So how to build our spiritual wealth? Cook, cook, cook, and then eat. And don't forget to eat, because cooking can be very prideful. It can be. It's very sweet mostly, but it can become prideful. But that naked innocence of leaving yourself empty for God, that is important.

And what is the only determinant? Like we were saying last time, how much time are you intending to only be with God? It's only about God every day. And my feeling is, at least I have to say in my case, if it is not two hours to four hours every day, then my spirituality is just lip service, just big talk about loving God with no actual intention to be with the Beloved. And I say intention because outcome is up to Grace. But did we say that, 'This time only belongs to You'? We may feel, we often feel when we decide that this time is only for You, that is when the mind comes with the most important-seeming thing. But every time we get distracted and return to God saying, 'Yes, this is the way,' the mind plays; it tries to pull us away, but I return to You in my heart. I offer myself to You. In that time, you don't belong to any other relationship, you don't belong to any other commitment, you only belong to God. At least in that time, say, 'I only belong to You.' And when I only belong to You, then I can say that You are mine, maybe. But what do we do? We want Him to be ours all the time. I said, in how many minutes in a day are you okay for God not to help you, be with you? Not even a single minute. If He leaves us, we are in big trouble. So we want Him to be ours while we are busy belonging to the world, belonging to everything in Maya. So let's start with at least two to four hours. You belong only to God. No family, no work, no body. We literally nobody, have to be nobody.