The Heart Temple: What Do You Keep Inside?

So it's like what I'm talking about: this cleaning up the heart temple. Just clean up the heart temple where God lives, and God's presence is going to shine; His love is going to be apparent. What will you put in your heart temple? Or what are you putting? Is there a temple of God where God lives? Where does He live? Within yourself. And we call it, a little poetically, we call it the heart, you see, also because it can feel like it's in the heart like that. So what will you keep in the temple? A very innocent question. What do you keep in the temple, huh?

So we know somewhere, no? What He likes: kindness, compassion, faith, being truthful, honest, wanting to help, wanting to follow Him. We know the answer. It's actually simple like that; even children know. And what should we not keep? Right? We know. The temple is for Him, but we are the pujari or something, like some special something. The enlightened one. The temple is for Him, but we have our own photo everywhere. So that we should not keep, you see. Unkindness, anger, just resentment, grievances—we have this taste. It's very, very natural for us to know this.

So when we offer flowers, fruits, malas, those are representatives of the beautiful things that we can offer. So in our inner temple, we have love, kindness, compassion, helping a brother or sister, smiling more—simple, simple things. But if you feel the temple is for Him, but we are just filling it up with self-concern—me, me, me, me—then we know. So that's why this metaphor is helpful. This metaphor of the heart temple is very helpful because every moment we are filling it up with something. Is that pleasing to Him? And I'm not saying pleasing to Him like He'll be upset or He'll be like that, but we have a sense of it. Or are we saying 'heart temple' and still the mind makes us find a way to make it about the 'me'?

So who is in our heart temple: me or God? That is literally the lane, this narrow lane; only one will fit, you see. And it's not a question of determining for our whole life; it's moment to moment. Who is in my temple right now? Right now? Right now? Your life will change because you will find yourself changed. If you have work or business, you will feel like, 'But whose side am I supposed to negotiate from?' I don't know. These things will become very strange, but you have to just become reliant on Him to guide you. Because if you make yourself mental about this—that 'I'm going to play the role of being somebody free or enlightened' or something like that—then that is still me, me, me. But you will come across these situations where you just have to rely on Him to guide you, to run this life for you.