Prayer: Remembering God and Offering Your Heart

So what are they saying? That this path will only happen if you put in your 100% and Grace is 100% with you. So it's full effort and full grace. Only can be done by Grace, only can be done by your effort. It doesn't make sense, but it's not going to, because the sensible part is here. We're moving to the part which is beyond linearity, beyond straight-line rationality. That is why, difficult as it may seem, we must do our sadhana. We must do our... we must apply the tools that have been given to us. Come about me, if prayer is your path, then pray, pray, pray, just pray. And to be simple about it, what is prayer? It is to remember God. If the focus is on God and not on me, then you are praying. The method is secondary, even the outcome is secondary. Can you give this moment fully to God? It can seem like a big sacrifice. Do you belong to God right now? Who is your heart for? Your every breath, your every heartbeat, can it belong to Him or Her, whichever way you want to relate to God? The Divine Mother, or the beloved husband, the great Father, or the little child, the Bal Gopala or the infant Jesus. How we relate to Him is not that important because He knows that our thinking is very limited.

Find a way to relate to Him which allows you to surrender yourself and offer up all your love to Him. If it is Nirguna, then it is Nirguna. If it is Saguna, it is Saguna. In my case, I can only report that my truest love is that ineffable, unperceivable God, but I truly love His aspects in so many different forms, and neither is higher or lower. It is our offering, our love which is important. Offering ourselves up which is important. So this love, this saying that 'I am yours, Father, I'm yours, oh Beloved, I'm yours, oh Mother, I'm yours,' allows us to shine a light which goes deep into our hearts into aspects of our existence that we never realized exist. And we come to Atma Gyan. And in the light of this Atma Gyan, we can come to the highest, the Brahma Gyan.