The Innocence of Prayer and the Presence of Sages

It is this innocence, no? To the educated spiritual mind, it sounds like, 'What are you saying?' But if you dive into it, it's very beautiful. Like, where is—we can be pretty certain, let's take for example, say Tulsidas Ji merged into Lord Ram. That is, if there's a guarantee about anything, we can guarantee that this happened. But do you feel like in this merging that they would lose the awareness of the time that they spent here, or lose awareness of who is remembering them right now? It's not a merging into dissolution. It's like finding your true home and becoming a part of that, becoming a part of the body. So I have full faith that all the sages of the past, if you remember them, they listen to you. They hear you, because time and space is not a thing for them anymore. They are with God.

So when we invoke sages, when we invoke Tulsidas Ji, Mirabai, she's with us, she's hearing us, and she's with God. St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, all of them, they are available to us to teach us. I mean, if this sounds too much for today, I think don't worry about it too much. But if you really contemplate this, you will see that a dissolution cannot be that now you are in time and space and all the past you have forgotten. It's not true. Things that in the world we call clairvoyance and all of these things are naturally with them because they are with God. So whichever sage resonates with you in your heart, you can ask them for help at any time. All of this needs simple innocence. And we're not getting into Catholics versus Protestants and all of those debates, whatever.

The simplest way to look at it is that God encourages our faith, so this helps our faith. He makes it so. If you get too much of our intellect into it, then it seems far-fetched. If it is rational, we don't need faith. So what is the difference between blind faith and true faith? True faith is that which you get from inner insight, heart insight. Blind faith is that which is mostly because of fear and mental oppression, so that is superstition. So you have to be true to your heart. If you say, 'Any of you there, but my heart says it's different,' then you have to go with that. But God is making sure of one thing: that everything I scoffed at when I was younger, now I have faith in almost everything. More and more will also be shown. I'm sure that everything that I found absurd and ludicrous and illogical and stupid, that I scoffed at, now I feel the value in that. And what do you think about our God? That we are in our faith, we are praying to Tulsidas Ji and he says, 'No, no, he's no longer there, I'm not going to listen to you'? He is not that unkind.