God's Unwavering Love and Presence

Good. I'm very happy to hear you speak these words. I just feel that actually the other day in Satsang some words came that I feel such an antidote to discouragement, that we can never be discouraged if you remember those points. So let me elaborate on all of it a little bit and then we can condense it so that we may return to the pointers again and again. But the broad point very much is that God is here. God is here. The whole design of Maya, the whole idea of Maya, is to convince you that actually He isn't, He's just an idea, He's just a belief system. If you believe in God, then it makes your life better, but He's just a belief. There is no actuality of God's presence, His reality. That is Maya's job, to convince you that the world is real and God is unreal. So if you are in spirituality, our faith, our heart, our beautiful insight has told us that God is, He is a reality. That's the first thing.

But what does that actually translate into? When we look at our life through the lens of that, then that just simple statement that God is conveys to us that He is aware of everything in my life. He is aware of everything in my life: my intention, my action, my inaction, my breaths, my heartbeat, everything that is happening in my body, mind, intellect, and emotion, everything He is aware of. So His existence, that He is firstly real, shows us that He's aware of everything, because He would not be God if He was not aware. The second thing we can remember is that this reality called God is not bound by time and space. What that means is that if He wanted to, He could have an unlimited amount of time for all of us. He would never have a shortage of time like I would.

My action, my inaction, my breaths, my heartbeat, everything that is happening in my body, mind, intellect, and emotion, everything he is aware of. So his existence, that he is firstly real, shows us that he's aware of everything because he would not be God if he was not aware. The second thing we can remember is that this reality called God is not bound by time and space. What that means is that if he wanted to, he could have an unlimited amount of time for all of us. He would never have a shortage of time, like, 'I want to help you but sorry I don't have time, I have seven billion just humans to look after, then trillions of animals and things like that,' you see. So, but because he's beyond time and time is just a plaything that arises within him, he has an infinite amount of time to help each of us. That is the second thing.

The third thing is that he, as a source of love, the creator of love and the creator of life, must feel an immense amount, unfathomable amount of love for us because the love that he gifts us all comes from him. The true unconditional love only comes from him. So we find intuitively that his love for us is unbound; there is no boundary to that love, it's unlimited. And the fourth thing is that nothing can get in the way of his will. He can do whatever he wants. So if he is aware of us, he loves us so deeply, he's got an unlimited amount of time for us, and nothing can get in the way of his will, then without doubting any of these, how can we get into any sort of despair or discouragement? So it is doubting God and his nature and how he is which can lead us to this kind of spiritual discouragement, spiritual suffering thing.

So I encourage all of you to deepen more and more in his presence so that these words are not just a conceptual belief, but you see them as true insight in your heart that every aspect of this is true. And that then leaves us with no reason for despair, no reason for anxiety, worry, loneliness. Yes, and the danger of like pseudo-scientific or Godless spirituality is that these aspects of God's reality, God's nature, are forgotten about. But these aspects are really important. So most importantly, just to remember that he is then brings us in touch with all of this. So to remember means smaran, and that also is called simran. So to remain in unceasing prayer is to remain in a constant remembrance, which is not a memory-type remembrance; it is a live being present to his reality, being present to his presence.

And to take his name is one of the simplest ways to remain alive to his presence, to remain present to his presence. To remain empty for him is a beautiful way to do that. To inquire into the nature of reality is a beautiful way to do that. So all spiritual paths are just ways in which we remain empty for God in remembrance of God. So try to be in despair without doubting any of these. Can we do? Do I have reason to doubt? If God isn't, if God isn't, then I'm just on my own and this whole big bad world is for me to deal with and it's every, quote-unquote, man for himself, and it's a very dangerous way to live, seems like. So, but we recognize that God is. It's not just an idea but intuitive sense and intuitive insight that God is.

And God is not just like an unconcerned watcher of the movie, but he is, he is that witness, pure untouched witnessing, but also he is the most loving, caring parent, beloved child, one who is so faithful in his presence with us. He never takes a holiday away from us; we take many holidays away from him. So his love for us is unquestionable. His intelligence, his awareness of not just my life but of everything, is unquestionable. His ability to create and to manifest whatever is his will is very apparent to all of us, and he has no constraints of time and space. So why can we not live like little children in this care? That is the journey of spirituality: to return to that innocence which is full of the highest insights, full of the highest love, highest light. Okay, I feel I'll take a break and just lie down for a bit. We just close with Hanuman Chalisa.