The Humility of the Sage and God's Unconditional Love
True humility acknowledges that spiritual recognition is God's grace, and every moment is an opportunity to choose God over the 'me,' trusting in His boundless kindness, patience, and unconditional love.
Can I just expose something? When you're saying this, what's happening over here is that it's actually quite humbling. Because somewhere I felt like I was living there and then this huge kind of hypnosis clouded everything and I feel like I had such a big fall. And it's humbling, but it's also quite scary.
Yeah, that is why all the sages live in such humility. Let me say, all the traditional sages used to live in such humility. You see, because they never felt like they are on top of a perch where they cannot fall from. It is God's Grace. One moment of recognition happens only by God's Grace. We may have a conceptual idea that 'I am that.' But when trouble comes, then that conceptual idea doesn't help anything. It only makes it worse even, unless it's a pointer to look. You see, but many of us after spiritual insight start making knowledge out of it in our heads. Not that you're doing that. I'm saying that that is the propensity which I'm trying to avoid in all of you. That if your insight is true right now, then what is this story of the 'me' which seems too important? Both can't be true at the same time.
I mean, it means like Rahim is saying like now it's the difficult point I have arrived somewhere. Because if I be truthful, I will not get the world, I'll fail in the world. But if I have the hypocrisy or stay in the falsehood, then I will not get the Rama. So now I need to make the decision where I want, what I want.
Beautiful. Yeah. There comes a point where you have to be God or 'me.' Every moment is there. Every moment. That's why remember that the battlefield is... what's at stake in the battlefield is time. You see, so that's why Kabir's Doha was not about homework. It's a very, very important point which I'm realizing the value of more and more as I'm getting older: that the point is that day after day after day after day, Maya offers us some things, and we feel like it is justified, it is rational to not live in God's presence today because today this happened, today that happened. This happened and soon, like the last 51 years have gone like a blink of an eye. The remaining 10, 20, 30, 40 years will go in the blink of an eye and then Kabir Ji's Doha... Why he said like that? Because that's what he saw all around him. Everyone running on a treadmill going nowhere where the compass of the heart is not set at all. What is this life really for? What is our very design? Who are we in reality?
Today, now, I really clearly just took your offer like a child when you said just love Him, you know. It was an impossibility today. My head was hurting, everything is feeling all buzzy. I saw how kind God is, that He is so kind. Like He's just so kind, you know, calls you and He allows you to approach Him in whatever construct like you've been saying. I was seeing it so, and how even if Maya is strong, if I go to Him, He is going to pull me up if I just went to Him. And there's no place for despair, there's no place for... everything is so literal.
Absolutely. These Sages were able to put such complicated things in such simple language. But that's got pros and cons. The pro is that you can just meet it so easily. The con is that when it's too simple, our modern mind thinks that it is worthless. You see, so what is anybody can say? It means if you've fallen down, get up. You see, so Bhai said if you've fallen down, then get up. It's a very powerful point. Don't waste time on thinking about why I fell, why did this happen, 'God doesn't love me,' all this stuff. Just get up.
And you know something even more astounding is that the Lord is the Shabri in our story. He is the Shabri in my story. He is waiting for me 51 years. You see, so there's something to learn. Even on the other side, the Atma is never saying, 'Oh, you didn't turn to me for 51 years, now go away.' He is most forgiving, most gracious, most merciful. So in our 'force-field-ification' of God, we've forgotten His mercy, His love, His patience, His kindness. I do feel all it needs is to turn and make you leave the world. It's quite... our Holy Father is with us in our heart. It really feels like that.
Key Teachings
- Sages live in humility, recognizing that spiritual insight and recognition are gifts of God's Grace, not personal achievements.
- Every moment presents a choice between identifying with the 'me' or with God; time is precious and should be used to turn towards Him.
- God's kindness and unconditional love mean that even if Maya is strong, turning to Him will lead to being pulled up and rescued.
- God is eternally patient, forgiving, and merciful, always waiting for us to turn to Him, regardless of how long we have strayed.
From: God Lives in Our Heart - 12th December 2025