The Highest Treasure: God's Presence Within

But suppose that you say that you admit, like I admitted at one point in my life, that I really don't know. Is this true? Is God the one God who is the God of this universe and every universe? Is His presence really here in my heart? Just like if you discovered that in one corner of your house there's a hidden treasure which can take care of everything. You may say it's a rumor, it can't be true, but all of us will still dig. Even if we hide from our family, we just go in the night one night and just dig and see, really, is the treasure there? So that is the introduction to satsang, that I just want to motivate or inspire this much: that I'm telling you what I take to be a fact and you may take to be a rumor or unreality or something too far-fetched. But just to make you that much open that the highest treasure in the universe can be found within yourself as the Atma is a living possibility for you. And your mind will doubt, your mind will resist, it will say, 'Not possible,' and 'I don't have time for this,' all of these things. But somewhere something may get seated in you which may help you to look, to dig for that treasure which is, in my words, the highest treasure that any human can ever find or discover.

And whatever might happen, you may be worldly in your outer expression, or you may be intellectual, or you may be a jnani, or you may be a bhakta, whatever it is. If I can see this in you, that this foolish man is telling you that God exists, He is real, and you can live in His presence; He exists in the form of your Atma and you can find it and you can live with it, then I've done my job. The rest is just the momentum from that which has to take over. But if the question doesn't change from 'What about me?' to 'What about God's presence?' then neither... I mean, in God's grace everything is possible, but neither are we deepening in our relationship with God and neither will we see any point of satsang. So really truly, even keeping all that we understood and all words of satsang aside, is there God and is He here now? Is it all just some hocus-pocus make-believe stuff? How will we, how can we approach this question: is there God?