Go Crazy in Love with God

Given that it's ultimately a question of Grace, does that mean that nothing then is required of us? In fact, just the opposite. But ultimately it's a question of Grace. But whatever I feel I have in my power—and what is the way to check that? Whatever things you feel you have in your power in the world that you want to do something, you want to achieve, you want to go here, you want to take a holiday—you feel you have agency, you have volition, you have some power. Whatever that is, you must use it fully in your longing, in your thirst for God. So to put simply: go crazy in love with God, and I promise you this, you will not regret it. And if 'crazy in love with God' sounds a bit too far-fetched at the moment, then a little more than you are right now. And remember what I said: the 'how' will come, but your intention right now is what is important.

And it's beautiful the way the world works, because the minute you become a little bit crazy for God, the world starts to attack you. Why did I say beautiful? Because you have instant feedback. You're going the right way. If your family is calling you silly, if the world is saying, you know, these kind of things, it gives you instant feedback that something is pushing some button somewhere. And I want to tell you that if that is happening, you started to really surrender yourself to God. Maybe too general a thing to say; you can check with me. It all depends on that question: Is God here? Is He here?

One beautiful way to check—and I had no idea that something is going in this direction, but because it was sounding like Krishnamurti earlier—but one beautiful way to check is that love Him and see if that love is reciprocated. Not with the expectation, of course, but just with innocence. I promise you that this is the relationship in which the reciprocation is beyond expectations and it is no strings attached. And the beautiful thing about this is that if you love God more and more deeply, does that mean that your quota of love is running out and the people around you won't get that love? Then it's not true at all. It's the opposite. The more love you offer to God, the more it reflects. True love, unconditional love, reflects in the world as well. And if there was nothing there, then how is your love coming back to you manifold? What is the source of love in your heart? Whose presence is sitting there?