Life as a Love Triangle: Soul, Maya, and God

You're welcome. In one Satsang I spoke about this. Our life is basically a love triangle. It's basically a love triangle. We have one Antahkarana, one soul. Now this soul can give itself to Maya or the soul can give itself to God. So this is our our triangular love story actually. Now one of them is u flashy, exciting, urgent, always wanting attention. You see the other one is patient, humble, loving, caring, always available. You see now in like in all movies you're first attracted to the exciting and urgent and you see instant gratification one then over a period of time we realize that that one is not good for us. You see we are meant in fact we are designed to be with somebody else. You see now that be with somebody else becomes one with somebody else. But we come to that first it is important to be with somebody else. Now so Antahkarana, Maya and God you see now how does this play out? You see how does this play out? Now our relationship with Maya has an intermediary as a middle person. Who is that? This is the mind. Correct? So when the soul engages too much in the mind, then it starts to take itself to be a limited entity, a me. And that me then seems to live within Maya. You see? So then I am living inside Maya. This world is real and God seems to be a distant thing, a conceptual reality. We can even live in Maya with the posture of spirituality. Just because last time we were saying just because we know a lot of spiritual words doesn't mean that we are living with God. You see it's just like we have all these hundreds of spiritual words as medicine in our medicine cabinet. But the important question is which medicine are we taking? You see, so what are we living? What are we inhaling moment to moment? You see, so when our Antahkarana gets involved with its faculty of the mind, then this entity called me seems real. And when me seems real, it is the world that seems more real or the only reality compared to God. Now on the other hand, how is our relationship with God? Who is the middle person there? This is God himself. But in the form of the Atma itself, you see, so our relationship with God is through the Atma. I'm making it simplistic. Okay? So not this is not the truth. It is just a template which will help us to point ourselves in the right direction. So when the Antahkarana gets involved with the Atma between the love of the Atma, the guidance of the Atma, the peace of the Atma, the virtues of the Atma and the devotion that Atma itself has towards God. Then we seem to live a different texture of life which is full of God's light and love. You see, so it is this battle between two ends of the spectrum which seems to make our spiritual journey a struggle because neither side is giving up. You see neither one is giving up. So it is not that I really I say I just want to be with God and the mind says okay done go. It doesn't give up that easy. And because our our very design our very true love in our heart is God himself. Therefore for the Atma to give up is not possible at all. But there's a difference in which the mind and the Atma seem to operate. The mind is more forceful, rushing, authoritative and pushy in nature and the Atma is more patient, loving. Um it seems like it has all the time in the world because it does. We don't. It does. You see, so at some point in our spirituality, we are able to distinguish between these two textures. What is calling us towards what? Am I going to the mind? And if I'm going to the mind, then I will be going towards egotism and taking myself to be an object within this realm of Maya. And if I go towards the Atma then I'm going towards both oneness and servitude of God. So oneness with God and servitude with God. So that is how our life is actually playing out. And this play happens in the battlefield of the moment. You see happens in the right now. Right now. So even if you spend the tiniest time with Maya that seems more real. If you spend the tiniest time with Atma, God seems more real. Moment to moment. See like that. That is why it's very important for our spirituality to bring us to spirit to the light of spirit. If our spirituality doesn't bring us to the light of spirit then it is what were we saying last time then it is Ravana disguised as a sage. See Maya disguised as a sadhu. So whether our spirituality is working, whether our practice is working, whether the pointers that we have when applied are working, only we can tell in our heart. Is our relationship with God deepening? Is our love for God growing? Is our humility growing? You see and strangely I'll tell you that better than all the fancier sounding ones if our humility is growing then our relationship with God is growing. This is if you need just one benchmark. If you just need one, how can I tell if I'm going more towards God or getting stuck in Maya? Am I becoming more humble? Is my humility growing or do I now have a lot of pride of my spiritual knowledge or any knowledge that I have? Please