God's Presence: More Than a Concept

Maya is a forgetting of God's reality. Well, not the very appearance of Maya itself, but when Maya is taken to be real, you see, then God becomes conceptual. So how does God live within Maya? Conceptually. You know, it's very airy-fairy. But as we let go of our mind, as we let go of 'may ayah' which is Maya, as Anandamayi Ma said, then God is no longer conceptual. God becomes the living reality, and the play of light and sound in this realm of time and space, that becomes conceptual. That becomes... you're not bothered about anything when your Lord is with you.

You see, so that remembrance leads to the insight of that reality, and the insight comes from the same place. So Atma Darshan and Atma Gyan cannot be avoided whether you're a bhakta or a jnani. For this, what is very important is that we must undo what we've done in the last few hundred years, which is God has been made into a force field. We also call it the universal field of consciousness. All these kind of things, I have also done all this. But in that, we take out the bhava from it, the ability to make friends with God, because you will not make friends with gravity or magnetism, you see.

And the friends, He said, 'Make any kind of friend with Me. Make Me your beloved.' So some of the greatest sages made Him the beloved. He said, 'Make Me your sakha.' So some, like Sudama Ji, made Him the best friend. Arjun made Him the best friend. Then, 'Make Me your teacher or master.' Then so many started including God's name, and then thus like the servant of the Lord. So how beautiful is it that there is no correct way? Whichever appeals or resonates with us most in our heart, whichever way we love Him the most, we can love Him.