God Knows Your Intention, Not Your Words

If you notice that you have that problem, it is not only are we stupid, then we are actually presuming stupidity on God's part also, you see? So it's like, 'But I was supposed to pray to Shiva, but I ended up praying to Krishna, so the money will not go to the right account.' Because God is like just a, you know, bank teller who doesn't know—you have to tell him the right account? No. But if you really look at it, we are presuming that God doesn't know what our intention is. So we just like—that's why the story, it's an old story that I think even my Dada used to tell me about the one who, instead of Ram, got into so much pain and started just saying 'Mara, Mara' and that God took to be 'Ram.' So He's giving us more benefit of the doubt rather than just saying, 'Okay, you were meant to pray to Krishna, you're praying to Shiva.' You think God is there doing that? 'How dare you say Jesus in the same prayer?' You think God is sitting there? And where this conditioning comes from? All this conditioning comes from these kind of pundits who wanted power and wanted to be seen as important. So then they became these like, you know, 'You can't do like that, you should do like this.'

In the words of any true sage, nobody has said about all this grammar and pronunciation and all that. It's good, it's good to have it; I mean, it shows our diligence. But the method is not at all comparable to the intention. Keep your intention for God. God knows you. Look at it really: that I wanted to pray to Shiva, but actually I ended up saying 'Sh, sh, sh, sh, sh,' I forgot the rest. So then I will not find a place at Shiva's feet because I didn't say 'Shiva,' I said only 'Sh'? No. But that's what we do. What does it make a difference whether we say Krishna or Jesus or Allah? So this is how the mind makes us lose. And then if you do it for like three days, everybody starts becoming proud of chanting Ram. 'You should try it, you know, you're still stuck on Krishna, you should do Ram.' It takes three minutes to become proud of something. No, it is true that some places carry a certain vibration or current. It's not mandatory to follow.