God's Faith in Our Faith: The Highest Meeting

Spirituality is completely a consensual process. God will not force our hand to love Him. But when we take one step towards Him with full consent, all the pathways open up for us. And one of the pathways which I'm really happy about sharing with all of you is just to not normalize the fact that God is here. Just to recognize the magnificence of that fact. That's how we started today's conversation, that God-confidence comes from the faith in His presence here, and then that faith also tells us how magnificent, how awesome He is. Now, if you were to see this in a pratyaksha way, or see it in a sensorially apparent way, you see, then that itself may have been powerful, but then that will get us attracted, attached to the false again.

Okay. So, faith then becomes the eyes through which we can—we don't have to find in the sensorially apparent way. We can trust what we are seeing in the eyes of the heart itself. You see, and if you learn to meet God and love God in this way, it will not be a reduction of the magnificence that you find, you see, but a greater, more awesome magnificent. You see, a quick-fix solution may be that if Ram Ji was to make an appearance physically, you see, it may seem like, 'But wouldn't that really help?' You see, but it is really worth questioning. Would that really help? You see, it can seem like, 'How would that not help?' And maybe in some cases that would help. But for God to appear within Maya would mean that He has lost faith in us, not being able to meet Him in faith. That sounded too complicated, no?

Okay. So, He has faith. I feel like I'm nobody to talk about God, but I feel He has faith that we can meet Him in faith and not reduce Him to phenomena. You see, maybe one day if He doesn't have that faith in us and we are desperate, maybe He makes that appearance. You see, so it's coming to say—I never really contemplated this before—but I feel He has faith in our faith. He has faith that we will meet Him in our faith, which is the higher meeting in a way. It's like, what is the conversation? Was it with Jesus and Little John?

So Little James says, 'Rabbi, you've blessed so many and you've healed them.' I'm paraphrasing, of course. 'So, but you can obviously see that I also have a problem with my leg and I walk with a stick and a limp, and through me also so much healing has happened now. You see, but this has been weighing on my heart so deeply. Why haven't you healed me yet?' You see, so that's a beautiful, beautiful conversation. Whether you're Christian or not, or whether you believe in Christ or not, you must see this conversation because that is so... Jesus tells him that, 'You don't need my physical healing. You don't need this thing because your faith is greater than that. Your faith in me doesn't have to rely on these miracles to play out. Your faith can be just based on love itself.' Again, I'm paraphrasing too much maybe, but this is the way I met that scene where we don't need to have miracles happen around us to deepen in our love for God.

Yes, thank you. So He told him, 'How many do you feel that me and my Father trust with this kind of faith? And you are one of them.' So you don't need your life to change or miracles to happen or your leg to get fixed. So is our faith that feeble that we will trust and have faith in God only if He was to make a physical appearance in front of us? Our heart is already telling us the reality. So He has faith in our faith. Is that faith misplaced? It is not. He cannot be wrong. This part, like if He has faith in our faith, could He be making a mistake? Can't be. He knows us through and through. So it is apparent if you look at the entire history of humanity that God Himself considers us meeting Him in the Nirguna way the highest. You see, because He has always had to be cajoled into showing the phenomenal form. Arjuna is not listening for many chapters, no, before He says, 'Okay, see now.' And what happened even after seeing?