If It Requires Resolution It Is Not the Truth

Entitled: If It Requires Resolution It Is Not the Truth Link: https://youtu.be/l6TR92kItjs Times: 54:35-1:00:30 hhps://youtu.be/PhRnGdt-iQ8 Switching the OperaOng System We are changing the operating system. Spirituality is not a change to an existing way of life. It is a complete overhaul of the operating system itself. When I was younger we would wait for the next operating system to come, and then when it came, we would be excited about the changes that it would bring. So, what is the operating system for most of humanity at the moment, it is the way of the head, it is the way of the mind. So, Satsang is like we are changing our operating system. It is not that you're patching the existing soeware or you're making it better, but changing the entire way of operation. Our foundation right now is shaky because it is based on change-ables, changeable things, it is based on that which changes, it is based on our mind, it is based on the changing perceptions of the world. Because the foundation is based on this, our life itself seems quite shaky. So if you're going to come to steady ground it cannot be based on the basis of belief, because beliefs themselves are unsteady, they will continue to be shaky. Now to switch out of that into the Way of the Heart is the new way of life. It is not the completion of a pie chart, which we make about our life to see that, okay, I have a physical life, I have a mental life, I have an emotional life. And now I will have a spiritual life. Spirituality is not that. Spirituality is the complete overhaul of the operating system, the mechanics of our very existence and how we exist. Firstly, it is that. Secondly, it is not based on a new belief. So I'm not going to ask you to believe anything, I'm not going to ask you to believe that God is within you. I'm not going to ask you to believe that there is Atma, I'm not going to ask you to believe that there is no difference between Atma and Paramatma. I'm not going to ask you to believe any of this, the attempt is to show it to you. Show it to you so that it doesn't become shaky like the rest of our life where we live a lot in the way of the mind. In the way of the mind, it is beliefs which are dominant- 'I believe this', 'I believe that' and we are willing to kill and be killed for our belief systems. But greater than belief is True Insight. The Way Of The Heart Switching over from the opera%ng system of the head to the opera%ng system of the Heart is what I'm calling the Way of the Heart. The starting point is that the new operating system is not based on a belief that the Truth is within you, or that God is within you, not the belief but the discovery. Not a thought, not a concept, but the Insight itself. [Because Hll you find that this is true, you find, you discover, you recognize that this is true, Hll then it will continue to be shaky and we will continue to be attached to things of the outer rather than the real insight.] So this switch over from Head to Heart, the Way of Head to the Way of Heart has two elements which are like, to use Bhagwans (Ramana Maharishi) metaphor, they are the two wings of a bird. The two elements are Intui%ve Insight and the Way of Faith. Intui&ve Insight tiow do I come to intui%ve insight about what I am and then once I see what I really am how do I deal with the apparent flows and ups and downs of life and what is the right way to live? Both are not actually different, in the Insight about who you are, the 'how to live' becomes quite apparent and in the how to live, who you are becomes quite apparent. But in the meanwhile, in the interim we can make these provisional categories. So how do we move into the stronger foundation of Reality- whether we call it God or we call it Brahman? How do we come to the discovery of that? tiow not to do this discovery First, it's important to consider how it is not going to happen. Because it is the ‘how not to do it’ which most spiritual seekers don't get. So, most spiritual seekers are in a trap of trying to achieve the results which are not possible with the tools that they are using. So, first is that you will not find God or Truth or Self in an objective way. No matter how hard you try, the Self will never be an object of discovery, it will never be an experience of perception. If it was objective, then it will be spatial. And it will be in time. If it was an object to be discovered then somebody would have figured out where it is and would have mapped the latitude and longitude of it and said, 'Here is where the Self is'. But through the world of perception, through our senses, whether we look on the seeming outside or we look on the seeming inside you cannot find the Self, at best the perceptual byproducts of our spiritual experiences, what I like to call the 'prasad' along the journey, the offering that you get when you visit a temple. So that is as much as we can value those. So, we cannot perceive, we cannot do this as an objective search, you cannot proceed through our senses, through sight, through taste, touch, smell, hearing, none of these methods will bring us the Truth. It's very, very important, because most spiritual seekers are still waiting for the 'experience' of the Self. It is not going to happen. The Self is not objectifiable. It can never become an object in this realm because then all that we're seeking for from It would have to first be discarded. We're seeking- All there Is, The All Pervasive, The All Knowing, it is not possible if it was just an object. So it would not be a fair exchange if we said give up on all your best aspects and show me you as an object. It's not a worthwhile trade off. The second way not to do it is to come up with concepts, come up with ideas about God. They do serve some purpose in the negation. At best, you can negate your ideas about God, like the method of neH-neH in Vedanta is very helpful. If there is anything that you can think or conceptualize about God,it's not that- 'it's not this, not this'. So one of the most beautiful lines I've ever read in my life is about Guru Nanakji saying that 'We may think and think and think 100,000 times but God will never be a product of our thinking, it's not conceptualize-able at all.' So if I've met you here, which is that I've told you and you've met me here-that you cannot perceive God and you cannot conceptualize God, If you can truly meet me here then the Insight part of the struggle is mostly done because it is the 'what not to do' which seems more difficult along the journey. Usually some helplessness is normal on hearing this because we feel like perception and the ability to conceptualize are the only tools we have . What else do we have? You see, you feel that but now I'm all lost, it's all, all randomized. I don't know whether it can happen? And you're right that these are the tools of effort that you have. The tools of effort that you have, have been discarded now. You can try to find through looking, through sight, through hearing, you can try to find through effort. And you can try to think now- A squared plus B squared equals Godly, it will not get you there. [You may think but that's just not possible and you can conceptualize, but it will never be Reality. Both of these methods may give you some fake evidence and that may perpetuate the Maya but will never be your Reality.] So now you've come to helpless openness if you really heard me and if it's not helpless, it's a nice effortless openness but helplessness is alright as well. But at least the wrong tools you're not trying to use. So you are already out of hankering for or getting feverish about a perceptual experience of God. Already, we are beyond those games. Now this is the starting point of introduction to your Intuitive Insight or your Sadhguru Presence or your Heart or the Divinity within. Now, if I propose to you that anything of value, in your True Reality, is only known beyond these two mechanisms of perception-the senses and concept, what would you say? What can you value in this world? I'm proposing that that which is valuable is only known in this way. Suppose you say that I'm not very spiritual, but I know I love my partner, I love my children. I love my parents. Any of those. Now that love you know is independent of the feeling which may be there in the moment. And as parents, even as children, most of us know that many times the feeling is of frustration or anger or something. It's not always lovey-dovey. And yet you ask the parent or the child, do you love the other, you say yes independent of what the emotion there may be. There is knowledge about this. Some of you say I don't know why I started coming to Satsang. And even aeer coming, I wasn't able to understand anything you were saying. It seemed too difficult or abstract. Or maybe you're being nice and not saying ‘nonsensical things!’ But I knew I had to come. I knew I had come, many have reported this about the particular days, 'Today, I just didn't want to come. I had too much work. Too much resistance to come, I didn't want to hear you at all, but my bike drove me to your building' which is another way of saying that somewhere else I knew I had to come. So, we talked about love, we talked about love for the Master in some way, but also getting drawn to Satsang even though it may not be giving us anything apparently. So, these are just two examples, which come close to our operation in the world. Many of us will also admit that when we look back at the past we will see for the most important things that we just happened to be at the right place at the right time. Or the wrong place at the wrong time. But mostly in hindsight we're able to say something just happened and it turned out like that. So there is something beyond perception and mind. There is a knowledge beyond perception and mind which may be in your most tantrum throwing resistive state also gets you to Satsang. You see, I just knew I had to come. What knowledge is that? What knowledge is love? Many people never come to the Satsang side [the side of his house where the Satsang hall is] some friends I get them to the Satsang side and many times 70-80% of the time they say I feel something here, I feel something when I enter the Satsang side. It's not a feeling, it's like a calling from the heart. When I saw Guruji for the first time, I knew in my Heart that I could surrender fully. He hadn't spoken to me, he was just coming down the stairs but I already knew that this struggle, this problem of finding God is his problem now. I knew this, but it was not a thought and he was not sending some perceivable ways, so intuitively. So intuitively all that is of value is already known to us. Now, let's see if the Truth that we are seeking is also known intuitively. When I ask you, can you stop Being? You know that you can not. You know that you cannot. Now, you may say that, 'But I notice it, I notice that there is a Presence here. So, is that not perceptual?’ That's a fair question you may ask. Actually it isn't but let's explore. You may notice the byproduct of this Beingness, which may be localized in your heart, your head, around your body, in the room, whatever, whatever your experience may be. But that is the byproduct of your Being because when I ask you the question, 'Does this Being have a boundary?' You will inevitably say 'no'. Location? You will inevitably say no. It tells me already that intuitively you can, you can know the Boundless Being although you may be also experiencing a perceptual byproduct of this Being because that which is boundless you can never perceive, you can only perceive that with boundaries,only localized objects. So then can this die? Was this born? All of these questions you answer inevitably in the negatives although you cannot derive this knowledge from the perception that you're having at this moment, so what knowledge are you relying on? It's not conceptual, it's not because you were told that the Being has no boundary. It is because you know, but it's a different type of knowing. But it is of the same variety that I knew that I had to come to Satsang, the same variety that I know I love my kids, family, sangha, music. The same variety. Very good, so if we can meet over here, we've already crossed over to the pristine discovery of the Atma itself. You realize, you're realizing that you cannot do it through empirical means, you realizing that it is completely effortlessly possible intuitively. And it is independent of any time or location, all those things do not matter. So what's happening in the objec%ve universe does not matter as far as the discovery of your Beingness or Consciousness is concerned. This is the simplicity of the Heart, the simplicity of Intui%ve Insight. Effortless. If you're making an effort you're going in the wrong direction, don't have to do anything at all. My words are pointing you very gently to it and with the innocence, as much innocence as you can muster just follow along, there's nothing that you have to do. Now, if I ask you whether you are aware now? The answer is already with you, instantly, immediately, without any mechanics or effort and that which does not need mechanics or effort is called Intui%ve or 'Aparoksha'. So this, not only that there is Awareness, but also that I am aware is apparent to you only effortlessly. This I which you cannot locate in time or space and yet intuitively you're very comfortable calling it I. I am Aware which is not distinct from I am Awareness itself. It is just I'm speaking the words of your Heart. No effort again is needed for this discovery. So this Nirguna Brahman, your Absolute Reality without attributes, is also recognized effortlessly, Intuitively from your Heart. Of course, some of your minds must be complaining, 'but can I stay like this?' All that you can keep aside for now, don't worry. Some of your minds will also complain and say but you're not really getting it. You're faking it. You're not really coming to the discovery of Awareness, you're just faking it. It is not for you, you are not worthy, you're not even paying attention. All these doubts can come. But really it is impossible to do this wrong. You may try hard to do it wrong, but you still can't do it wrong. To notice that you are the Witnessing principle which is aware of all these perceptions, you can try but you can't do it wrong. Impossible, because in Intuition there is no right way or wrong way. The only wrong is if you're trying to use your mind or your senses. If you're not using those then you can't do it wrong. There is no possibility of ‘wrong’ in Intuition. So to recognise that I am Awareness, I am Empty of AZributes, I am Changelss, I am the Pure Witnessing, I do not have a start or an end. Nothing in the world can really touch me in my Reality. Nothing can burn me, scratch me or dent me in any way. Is just Effortless Intuitive Insight. It is universally available for those who are willing to step aside from their heads and their perceptions for a moment. That's all it takes. So this is Atma Gyana, Self Recognition, Atma Darshan, whatever you want to call it. This is the Knowledge of Brahman itself, Brahma Gyan. So this is what I'm calling the Way Of Insight. So now some of you may say, Ananta this is quite straigh{orward, quite apparent, why do I need faith? And you are right, on most Spiritual paths it is the way of Faith which comes before the Way of Insight, in the way it is shared. Here what I found is that God is playing it differently. [Chuckles] So Insight seems quite natural and available for most of the Sangha but strangely even aeer the Insight being apparent the questions about 'What am I meant to do? How should I run my life?’ All the questions which are related to the conditioning of the non-existent one, and non-existent in our very own discovery, still seem to hold some potency on us, some power over us. So all the conditions have not yet dissolved. Of course to dissolve them you can continue to remain in the inquiry, in the Darshan of the Self. But I have another tool for you. And what I have is that one of the most potent ways to dissolve these conditions or to blow them up is to surrender deeply and completely to God's Will. So this is what I call the Way of Faith. The Way Of Faith So to surrender deeply and in fact completely to God's will is to follow the Way of your Heart, the Will of your Intuitive Insight. Now you may ask, tiow do I know what is the will of my Heart, what is the will of my intuitive Insight, what is God's will? tiere you cannot be confused or lost there because you are only being Intui%ve as long as the Self is apparent to you, it can only be apparent through your Intuitive insight. Your Self can only be apparent through your Intuitive Insight. ADD UNConditional Love, (see from satsang) So, if you are living in what I am calling 'God's Light', living in the Satguru Presence, because the Self is apparent only through the Satguru Presence, in the Light of this Intuitive Insight, then to follow the Will of God or as Guru Nanakji has advised us to do, to live in the 'Hukkum', is straigh{orward because if your Being is apparent to you, your Self is apparent to you, you are being Intuitive and in the Light of that now your life naturally unfolds. Of course it is unfolding only in God's will, but not just that, if there is guidance and something has to be revealed to you, even those words can get revealed to you in your Heart. Just as the words of Satsang get revealed in the Master's heart and are shared in the Heart to Mouth process with no mind involved. The same Satguru Presence is your very Heart. And in Self Knowledge all Knowledge is contained anyways. The only thing is it will not dance to your individual desires, egoic needs, so you cannot use it in that way. In fact I would never wish it to be used in that way because then the spiritual ego would get fully magnified and very difficult to chop down. So it's a good gie that you cannot use it that way. Some of course get the blessings of some Siddhis but that is a conversation for another time So live your life in your Heart, in God's Light and allow it to unfold organically from there. When life seems to force you to make a decision, should I travel there, should I get into this relationship, should I take this job, should I… ? Some of these can seem like they are important decisions for us to make and my my advice, guidance, pleading with all of you is that unless it is clear in your Heart, don't move, don't move especially when the mind is saying ‘you don't have time for that’, especially when the mind is saying ‘rush rush’. Don't move because it will become clear in your heart. So, in all cultures, all traditions, you will find that this aspect of following God’s Will, this devotion, this obedience is very very important. We have such beautiful examples, Hanuman of course is possibly the prime example of it in our tradition and culture. In Islam, to be a Muslim means that you follow God’s Will, that is the literal meaning of Islam. In Christianity, the only sin really is to follow individual desire and not follow God’s Will. In Sikhism, we just said, with the prime guidance which all Sikhs are meant to chant every morning tells you how to be free, how to come to the Truth, there is only one way which is to follow the Hukum where Hukum is nothing but God’s Will or God’s Command actually. So, this is the fiery surrender, it is not the usual lukewarm surrender that we find in Spiritual Movements where we get emotional and then we say, I am fully surrendered to you and then within ten minutes that can change and we go back to just following our individual desires and our individual will. tiow do you know that you are following God’s Will? Especially in times of confusion, right now you may be clear, first, ask yourself what do I want? What do I want? With all the pointers at your disposal, with all the spiritual muscles that you have now, let go of that. If you can’t let go of that, inquire into it, pray, surrender, in whatever way, it’s very important to let go of what you want. It’s also important not to jump to the opposite of what you think you want and say,’ Oh I wanted this, like many times in Satsang we see- I was resisting coming up, so I decided I must come up.’ It sounds alright, it’s okay, provisionally, it’s okay that we think we outsmarted the mind by doing the opposite of what it wanted. But the mind is also quick to then play along. It has still got you dancing to its tunes, it just has to say the opposite. So, don’t jump to the conclusion that I must do the opposite of what I want and that will be God’s Will. It is not that simplistic. You must let go of your hankering, of your feverishness to what you think you want and return to your Heart, return to God’s Light. And that is why one of my favorite questions to ask you these days- Are you living in God’s Light? So, return to God’s Light even if it feels invisible at the moment, especially if it feels invisible. When you seem completely lost, then don’t move. Because a moment of patience and waiting for God is worth many lifetimes of rushed activity. So, don’t move. In the light of your Presence, unimpeded by your head, actions may naturally start to unfold in a way and you can trust those actions. If there’s still a pressure for a decision, a call that you have to take, then wait to be guided from the Heart even if you spend your whole lifetime waiting, it's still worth it. That much trust we need to have, that much risk you need to take. When you are guided in this way you have to trust this guidance unwaveringly. Then you cannot put it into any sort of benchmarks and say ‘No no, not this, not that’, whatever. You have to follow it unwaveringly but when you do waver don’t beat yourself up with guilt, beat a hasty retreat back to your Heart. Return to God’s Light, let go of your individuality, as right or as solid or as true as that individual will may seem. In fact, you will be confronted by all your knowledge and all your righteousness almost immediately as you embark on this way of Faith. To follow God’s Will, to be obedient to God’s Will is to return to the innocence of a child. This is True Freedom although it may seem like you have gone from Freedom into a God dictated life. You have only gone from a mental slavery to following the True Light of this Universe, the Intelligence which is running this Universe is a much better Guide to our life that our limited selfish mind is. If you find yourself faltering, return to your Intui%ve Insight, it will never leave you. That becomes your anchor in this new life. So, this is the complete change of the operating system. We have gone from a limited, wrongly identified, flimsy, changeful existence to a life with the solid foundation of God itself both in terms of Insight and in terms of ‘how to live’, ‘what should happen’. But, remember that these two ways -head and heart, if we can call it that, are not compatible. You cannot do a bit of this and then a bit of that, when you get in trouble with your head, you say ‘huh !’ and then when your desires start to overwhelm you, you say, ‘no no I’ll go back to my head just for a bit and then come back’. And this is what I mean when I’ve been saying that you have to decide for God. To decide for God is to say come what may I will live in the way of the Heart. Of course, the Advaitin in you will scream and say but I am not the decision maker, I am not the doer, who is there to decide? You decide. Those are just resistance. So this is the layout, the lay of the land, basically.This is the metaphor of the two birds, two wings of the bird as Bhagwan Ramana Maharishi said. This is the life, the new life, driven in the tieart, from the Heart rather than from the head. Love cannot really be called love unless God is involved All of you are walking on the path of Faith beautifully because you're confirming the Presence of God. You are confirming the vastness of your inner life, although it is completely irrational. Even to say inner life is not rational, ‘What inner life?’ In the mind's version of life you are the body, inside the body you are only flesh, blood, organs and bones. So to confirm that you have an inner life, you have a Presence which is palpable, you are Aware, boundlessly Aware. The recognition of it is effortless but the acceptance of it in the seeming outer life is an act of Faith already. Because it is irrational, it is unreasonable that you're finding the boundless within you, how can that ever be rational? ‘Within’ itself is a boundary, but you confirm the Boundlessness you are finding within you. And you know it is not a lie because it is known beyond conceptual understanding. To share this, to live this, is an act of Faith, is to live in Faith. And you're realizing that it is only the sharing of this Faith which we can truly call love. Love cannot really be called love unless God is involved now. Because a Godless love is a love of Maya, is a love of delusion and now knowing the Truth to spread delusion cannot be love. Knowing the Truth to spread lies cannot be love. This doesn't mean that you force it if you feel like there's a lot of closeness, but also accept that many times the price for love is to get hate in return. If love is to point to the Reality, the truest Truth that you are finding and you cannot bear to lie to your Beloved, and the Beloved could be a stranger you meet on the road, then accept that many times you will feel that you are attacked in response to your love. And many of you are going to share this in your own way, and it is inevitable that if you share from your Heart you will get a lot of fight back from the mind. Sometimes I get into delusions of grandeur or something feels like ‘wow this was this was a great Satsang, everybody must love me or something’ and I go back home and I open my messages- tantrum 1, tantrum 2, tantrum 3…that keeps my arrogance in check. So know that the deeper you are sharing the Truth the more the mind is going to give you hate in return or attack in return. Don't get attached to those outcomes as long as you're being true to yourself, you're not lying just to be nice-nice. It's very easy to molly-coddle, all of you come, you love me so much, I could easily mollycoddle you and say, very good, very good, excellent! But am I helping in any way with that? If you were to look at the natural expression of this man , it is to be very approving, nice- nice. The fire that comes in Satsang is because my Heart directs me in that way and I cannot share in opposition to how my Heart is directing me. Who is a True Teacher of God? To be able to be given the words to share His Light, to allow this mouth to be used as an instrument of God’s Light, it is an unbelievable privilege, and complete Grace, because nothing so deserving was here. Only those who recognise the privilege in this have the great honour of this. I feel like more and more it is just clear to me and reading about thousands and thousands, not just a few that are popularly known, but thousands, of the Ones who were just sharing God's Light from their Heart and they were put to death in this world, I feel like only one who can say that they are willing to die, in response to sharing the Truth, ultimately, can be called a True Teacher of God, but it is not even just that, it is so much more. [Because many times …in bravado also we can say yes yes...] So, although, at some level it’s a very simple question, the simplest answer is that If you have seen the Light for yourself, you, of course, can lead to that Light, therefore everyone can be a Teacher of God. If you found the Light for yourself, of course that much is a basic requirement, but that is not difficult for those in Satsang. So from that starting point, to really a complete surrender of ones’ will and if required life. An utter lack of selfishness is very important also, because the human ego once put on a pedestal, can play some weird tricks on you, so if there is selfishness and desire which still overwhelms anyone, then for their own sake it is not advisable. The willingness to take on every affliction from everyone of their children, whether the child is even asking for that or not but every phenomenal affliction, energetic, whatever, not as if it’s a sacrifice that- Oh I am willing to do this for my sangha, not even that. Just as a matter of how we do it for our children. As parents we all know we said when we have seen our children suffering, we said- just give it to me. God give it to me instead, in that same sense. And yet, at the same time follow your Heart when the burning is happening as it is going to happen in the Light of God, the ego is going to burn. Unwaveringly follow your Heart, God’s Will, makes a True Teacher of God. There are many aspects, so beautiful actually, right from just the unselfish willingness to share God with a brother or sister, makes you worthy, but it doesn’t stop there, complete sacrifice of everything that the world can offer to you, may also be needed actually. And we must not be under any delusion that today’s world is a different world. It’s the same world: if belief systems are questioned, the ego will have the same reaction. I don’t want to be called a teacher, a Master, a Guru, I just want to be a servant of God. If this life can be spent in service to God's Will, I cannot give myself a higher gie than that. To be a servant is to hand over our individual will and give it to God-Let Thy Will be done truly. What Does God Want? Find out now then what does God want? I’ve shown you how, I've told you how. Why are you being so flimsy about it? This is what I mean by weak foundation. God is your foundation now, I've shown you how. Now? It's only our idea that ‘Oh that God cannot do that, that God cannot decide, for this I have to do it by myself’ and life will keep throwing situations at you where you feel like you have to decide. What is God's will, it's pretty clear what is your will in the sense that you want freedom from whichever shop it is available. But what is God’s will? Our cleverest thoughts will not help us. The mind cannot trouble you unless you want something, so ask yourself, ‘What do I want?’ ‘I want to go deeper and go deeper’ Forget about it, who are you to want to go deeper? Let God decide. Just live in the foundation of God, I'm not saying do the opposite, that's a very important point, mind is saying go deeper, so I should not go anywhere. No, I'm saying forget about it! Which means don't have a notion about it and allow God, God may say go deeper but have you checked? It’s important to check and when the guidance does not come, live in God's light, so everything that unfolds happens in the auspicious light of God itself. It's actually very simple and that's the problem. You really need to leave no room for the ego. The hyperactivity of the mind in itself is not trouble to you, it need not trouble you, like I shared this example-if you do not have to cross the road, why count the cars on it? It's only because you think you have to do something with it or something has to change about it, because maybe you ‘want a quiet mind’. I have not said anything about the mind becoming quiet. Only want what God wants. Only want what God wants. If God wants, then God will pave the way itself. It’s the simplest way to live. So, this moment is the best thing? Not even that. What is God saying? Don't rush to any conclusion, even the most spiritual sounding, most humble. None of that. Empty. That's where open and empty comes in. As you are Open an Empty, Intuitive Insight is apparent to us and God's presence is palpable. Guru Nanakji has said when asked, ‘How can you become truthful and how can the veil of Illusion be torn away?’ tie answered, ‘You shall obey the ‘Hukum’ of His command and walk in the way of His will.’ It's very straigh{orward, all the tricks of the mind are listed down, all the tactics which are not going to work are listed down and what to do is spelt out very clearly. tie said, ‘When I act in ego, You are not present, When You are Present ego is absent.’ O Nanak, repeat these words, ‘He is me, I’m Him’ ‘The One in whom the three worlds are merged.’ You have no more excuses. And every excuse only looks like ‘ me plus God’ whatever it maybe. All the ‘buts’ , all the ‘this and that’ and all the tantrums and all the things, have the same message- I want me and God. Not Possible. You want to swim and ride the horse at the same time, it's not going to work. Not Possible. Master Rahim as said, The way to God is very narrow, only one can remain. Otherwise it’s a very comfortable lip service, armchair spirituality. God’s Will To follow ‘God's will' sounds so simple and beautiful conceptually but you'll find a lot of burning will happen, that burning is very auspicious, it's very important. The only reassurance given is to remember what is it that can burn. Let go of what you want, you say, I want freedom, the wan%ng itself is the absence of freedom. Even the wanting of freedom. What is the price that you are unwilling to pay for God's will? And remember what I said, to let go doesn't mean to do the opposite of what the mind is saying. It is to be empty. To be empty, make yourself empty for God to enter. This is the true meaning of ‘to die to yourself’. It is to become empty of oneself. Where is the space for God otherwise? I said so oeen the lane is too narrow, you cannot have a ‘me’ and God. And what is the ‘me’ made up of ? It is made up of your will, your individual will ,your individual desire, your individual righteousness, your individual judgment, your intellectual notions, your conceptual notions about your life, your narratives. You want to keep them and get God? Become empty, invisible to yourself. So invisible that you have to strain hard, what do I want? Not because I am confused or I have too many wants [Chuckles]. It’s just that I can't find anything. If a genie came and asked, what do you want? You will say,`I can't find anything, “who”? That is to become empty. That is to trust, that is to have faith. It is completely unreasonable, irrational. You cannot do it in half measures, you cannot have a safety net. For most of you the insight is apparent but the mind's proposals to your individual wants, your individual will seems to have a lot of magnetism. So to surrender to God's will is the antidote to that. Guru Nanakji has said when asked, ‘How can you become truthful and how can the veil of Illusion be torn away?’ tie answered, ‘You shall obey the ‘Hukum’ of His command and walk in the way of His will.’ It's very straigh{orward, all the tricks of the mind are listed down, all the tactics which are not going to work are listed down and what to do is spelt out very clearly. tie said, ‘When I act in ego, You are not present, When You are Present ego is absent.’ O Nanak, repeat these words, ‘He is me, I am Him’ ‘The One in whom the three worlds are merged.’ You have no more excuses. And every excuse only looks like ‘ me plus God’ whatever it maybe. All the ‘buts’ , all the ‘this and that’ and all the tantrums and all the things, have the same message- I want me and God. Not Possible. You want to swim and ride the horse at the same time, it's not going to work. Not Possible. Master Rahim says, ‘The Important thing is that the choice must be made. To not choose God is to choose the world.’ You cannot do it in half measures, you cannot have a safety net. True spirituality is not about you it is about God , you put God in the center then this is the Way of the Heart. If it's still about me , God for me and not God for God's sake, it’s still the way of the head.