The Gift of Seeing God in Everyone
Through true devotion, God blesses us with the ability to see the Divine in everyone and everything, a profound and literal experience that leads to a full heart and empty mind.
Yes. Can one try to live like that? Specifically, he mentioned eleven, including a dog. So he learned, he says that 'I learned something from the trees, I learned something from the wind, I learned something from the sun.' So they are all the master. But also very beautiful is I was sharing the other day about what we learned from Hanuman G, which was he said Hanuman-pada, where he said that after doing that process of taking everyone to be God, what happened with him is that after a few seconds, like two or three seconds of looking at anyone, only Krishna would be seen.
So God also blesses us in that way that it becomes easier as we go along in our true bhakti. So imagine what a beautiful way to live where everywhere you turn you see Krishna is there. He said that Krishna also gave me the gift that He allowed me to do my work, which is to spread spirituality in the form of the Gita Press, you see. So when it came to proofreading work, the words didn't become Krishna, so he could make corrections and he could make changes. So beautiful. And we must take this thing literally because our skeptical mind comes and says he must be exaggerating or he must be meaning it as a feeling. You see, there's no reason for a sage to lie to us or to exaggerate because they are so deeply in love with God, they have everything they want in their heart. So they don't want your praise or your applause or anything like that.
So it must inspire us. We cut the inspiration by becoming skeptical very easily. So let's start looking at everyone as God, you see, and then in fifty years, if it doesn't happen that way, then we can say, 'Oh, Hanuman G was lying to us.' So whether we go neti-neti, inward, inward, inward, or fully embracing everything outward, outward, outward, it will lead to the same point of being full-hearted, head empty.
Key Teachings
- True bhakti can lead to seeing God (Krishna) in everyone and everything.
- This ability is a divine blessing that makes life beautiful and devotion easier.
- We should take the experiences of sages literally, as they are deeply in love with God and have no reason to exaggerate.
- Embracing everything outwardly as God, or going inward (neti-neti), both lead to the same state of a full heart and empty head.
From: You Cannot Be Proud and Love at the Same Time - 25th March 2024