How Would We Live if God Was Real?

Yes, we were conditioned by society and tend to value conceptual knowledge, because that is the way of the world, not that they have to be blamed, but there is a beauty in first playing the game of delusion and then stepping out of it. Consciousness is playing this beautiful game that way. It's always been there [i.e. the intuition] so many times, even in worldly ways, with people that have not been in Satsang. I call them and they say “Huh, I knew you're gonna call”, although the conversation may be happening aeer two years, but suddenly, just before the phone rang somebody says, I just felt like you're gonna call. What is that? So, we neglect this, like, because there is no mental way to make progress with that. Mostly people are in like denial of this. They put it into some categories of deja vu or something astrological, they put it into those categories of coincidence, you see, we put it into these nonsensical words and we hide away from that. Because actually you know what? In the human condition we are scared of this. We feel like we will lose our sanity. To come to that which is without boundary, to come to that recognition that I am that which is not perceivable to the mind is very scary, it may look like death. It is the death of the false but we feel like, then I'm over, finished, game over. So, most of us, although this knowledge is hitting us in the face every day, we are running with all our might away from this. We are running with all our might away from this dissolution of the false, because to the mind it's scary. It's contra to everything that the mind thinks about the world, in opposition to all our notions about time and space. Who wants to live like that, with no notion about time and space? [Responding to Sangha] Sure? [Laughs] It all sounds very good on paper. But I'm telling you it's really good. That's why the presence of a living Guru is so helpful, because it can reassure you, once it's going to be fine, you're not losing anything of value. Because it is to give up on an old way of life, it really is. So, when you call someone your Guru – and no Guru will ever force anyone to call them Guru – but if you call someone your Guru really what you're saying is “Take my life”. Until you are not willing to give up on that conceptual narrative you have about your life, and I'm kind of mellowing it down to not scare everyone, Hll you're not willing to do that, then it's not fully a Guru-disciple relationship. Then it is just, Oh, I call you Guru so that you can serve me and make my life more blissful or free of anxiety or something. And is this a good gie that you can give to the Master? It's not a gie to the Master. The Master doesn't have use for so many lives, the Master has given up on their lives, what is he going to do with all these narratives and stories? Nothing. It's a gie that you are giving to yourself. To give up on the false, no matter how glorious or exciting or even painful - sometimes we are attached to our painful story, because we love our comfortable hell. „Okay, I'll give up on all the good stuff, but this really happened to me, yeah, this one did this to me, I cannot forget that. I may forgive, but I can't forget“. So may sound these glorious things my friends say sometimes [not all my friends are in Satsang], I just have to listen sometimes, so you hear these kind of reports, this kind of thing. But, what is that? It's our own prison, mind created prison. So let go of all these narratives, they are your chains, they are stopping you from flying. Now, suppose, in Reality you are a sparrow, but you think you're a turkey. And then you say,“Yes, I want to fly, but I want to fly like a turkey“. Till you give up on your turkey-ness, you cannot fly like a sparrow. That's all that I'm saying. In the same way, you will not lose anything of value when I say, this is what I mean. You may think, this is very valuable for my turkey life, and I'm not talking about the country by the way [chuckles], the bird is very valuable for me as a turkey, but actually I'm not a turkey. How many turkey stories are valuable to a sparrow? Zero. You are not what you think you are. But you know what you are in your Heart.