God's Communication: Beyond Our Blocks

How should we surrender? How should we trust? What is our usual lamentation? Our usual lamentation is: 'I'm bringing this to you, why don't I hear your solution?' Do you feel that if God wanted us to hear a solution, something we could do to stop it from happening... like God is trying to tell us, you see, God is saying 'I want this child to know this,' then because we are blocked or we are mental, then all that will get in the way and God has no way to communicate with us? He's just blocked? That is a very popular notion, isn't it? That the Lord of this universe, for whom all of this is nothing, could not say what he wants to say, tell us what he wants to tell us in the most obvious, most direct way? If that was what he wanted, what would stop him? Do you think that we can really block him if we are fully mental also?

So I'm going to again complete this story, okay? Suppose you are fully mental. Ananta is sitting like a fool like always, and he's just lost in his mind and caught up. So then God obviously has lost all ways to communicate with him? He's lost? Is it like that? So if God wanted to communicate with him, he could pause this world. He could say 'stop here.' He could show himself in whichever way he wanted and come and have a conversation. But if that's what he wanted... so what could be the reason that he doesn't do that? Does he love us a little less? So he has no time? And we looked at all of those things. But doesn't it happen that we can't hear him because we are too... doesn't it happen that we cannot hear him because we are too involved with our mind?

Yes, so that's exactly what I'm asking. So if he wanted to communicate with us, he would communicate in every single way, any single way. Isn't that a form of communication too? Just to prove to us that if we keep involved with our minds, we're not going to be able to hear him? Yeah. So if he is doing that, it must be because he... what would be, in our tiny human way, what would we make of that intention?

Yeah, so first this point is clear: that if he wanted to communicate with us, really wanted to communicate with us, nothing could come in his way. He could come in a burning bush and start talking to us. In Indian spirituality and history, there are millions of ways in which God has communicated with people. So when he really wants to, nothing can stop him. But we are saying that... how is it? One very beautiful thing I heard today: that if we are feeling distant from God, who has moved? We are not able to hear him; we are feeling distant from God. Who has moved? Has God moved away from us? He hasn't moved away from us. So what is that moving then?

So what we are saying is that there seems to be a lesson for us. Because if God wanted to communicate, he could communicate in any way; nothing could stop him. But he is saying that you must get over yourself. You must stop relying on yourself. You must stop thinking of yourself as powerful enough to resolve your life. You must stop relying on this tiny mind and make yourself available for me, and then I will commune with you. But does that mean that is a restriction on him? It is just what he wants us to learn. Are we getting this point? That the all-powerful one can never be stopped from anything. He's not sitting there waiting, saying, 'Oh, I'm being blocked because this child is fully egotistical now, what do I do?' No, he's teaching us how to live.