Faith and the Heart's Knowing in Devotion

Yeah. So after you're empty, it has to be an empty in faith because after you are empty, you're empty. It is to the mind you're empty. It has no—it's like you've gone into the sanctum sanctorum but the mind is like your slipper is not allowed inside. Get in. So you've gone to the innermost chamber of your being but your mind is not allowed there. Now what will your mind report be? Nothing happened, because it wasn't party to what happened. You see, then the question has to be: how do you know that something happened? You see, but in that question is the implication that your mind is the only way of knowing. So faith is not blind belief, but faith is to know what your heart is telling you to be true. Who can live like this? That is a sadhu who lives like that. A true lover of God has to live like that in faith. If he constantly needs the candy, the cookies, then it's not a true devotee. When we are truly in that mode: 'Do with me as You like. I am Yours. My heart belongs to You, Lord.' Then we can't say, 'Okay, now I did that, what happened?' He said, 'No, do with me as You like.' He didn't say, 'Do with me as You like and keep reporting back to me what is happening.' You see, so the checker guy, the seeker identity, wants us to constantly be able to conclude whether we are making progress or not. And therefore, because we can't conclude anything about these hours that we spend in our heart, it seems like a waste of time. But if you were to listen to your heart, it'll tell you that it is the most transforming, the most rejuvenating. It is a flowering that happens there. You see, and to tell you this secret is the main reason why you get a teacher in your life: that God's reality, God's presence is a reality in your heart. And if you live there, your life will be transformed.