The Only Refuge for the 'Me' Is at God's Feet

If you look at our inner posture, then you'll notice that there's like a grasping at God and there's a like a dissolving or the—if there's a posture left, then the posture is that of openness, of emptiness too. So really it is when the intention is me belonging to God, then that can become the last intention in a way; then that can become the last intention. But when it is God for me—make this better, do this for me, take care of the me—then that can lead to other desires, other intention. So as much as possible, we say, 'I'm yours. My heart belongs to you. I belong to you' as an attempt to hand over our individuality, our will in His hands. So that the texture of our inner posture remains available to emptiness, available to openness.

So, another way of saying that is that God is for me only when me is for God. My God is mine only if I am completely at least intending to or willing to hand over myself to Him. So the only refuge, the only safe place for the me is at God's feet. As long as we are empty, it's only God, God. But as long as waking state will come, there will be the arising of this me, the getting caught up in the narrative. Maya is so strong that the incarnations themselves got caught up in the narrative from time to time and they had to rely on their devotion, their Bhakti, to keep them safe from their own Mahamaya.