Offering Your Heart: The Only Way to 'Force' God

I'm getting all these strange examples these days, but so if the Antahkarana was a thali, was a plate, you see, it's got many elements. It's got body's sensations. It's got thought movement. It's got emotional things. All the sensations of pain and pleasure, then emotional pain and pleasure. All of these things are offered on the thali for God, on the plate for God. But the love in our heart is the mango pickle, or whatever is attractive to you. If it is the dessert or the sweet dish, then that is the love in our heart. So when we offer ourselves to Him with full love in our hearts, then I don't feel He knows how to turn away from that. You see, of course, everything is ultimately His grace and He cannot be forced. But if there was a way to force Him, probably this is the only way that comes close to forcing: just offer yourself as a plate, an empty plate to God, just with that one bite of your heart which is available to Him.

This plate is probably the only plate which is best offered empty, except that pickle in it. If we are too full of ourselves, then it seems more difficult for God to take over. So coming to Satsang is an attempt at a takeover from me to God. So how to attract that One to buy me out? Yes, the love is most attractive. But if I say—exactly, see, exactly, this is exactly what I want to show. If we offer ourselves like this, no, the minute He comes close, we're like—you see, then you know what she did? You didn't see on Zoom, but she said, "Okay, now tell me, are you really giving it to me or not?" You see, so in a way, this is our relationship with God also. "I surrender fully, fully. Do what You want with me," you see, and then something starts to shake in our life. "No, no, no, not that, not that! I take it back, I take it back!" So we surrender and we take it back. Yes. What is to be surrendered? Our full everything. Our full insides, outsides, everything.