The Power of Intention: Turning Towards God

Yes, just the intention to turn to God's presence, the focus to make it about Him. I have to share this beautiful conversation, and I don't know if I shared this before, but this message kept coming to me from various sides. And really, it's so beautiful to understand that just our intention to be with Him is as good as our being with Him. It just makes things a lot easier. The feeling that 'I want to turn to You' is as good as being with Him. So Swami Ramdas said in a satsang that if when we find it difficult, like these moments that we were talking about, if we just turn to Him and say—I'll say in first—means that 'I'm not able to do this, Father, or God, or Lord, You only do it.' Even that is enough. That is good enough for that moment. It's as good as being with Him. So amazing that what really matters is where our focus is, not whether the outcome of His love, His light, His presence, but just that. Yes, turning towards Him with that intention of being with Him.

Yes, there you are. So it doesn't matter. It matters in terms of taste, of course. It matters in terms of being able to say, 'I taste this presence.' But really, it doesn't matter whether we turn towards our heart altar and we came across His light or we found it empty, we didn't find anything there. What is important is the turning. Yes. Doesn't that make things so much simpler? So right. And for us to just keep everything about Him, make Him the center of everything and not worry about the outcomes, the tastes. Of course, it's very beautiful, reassuring, and very anchoring for that taste to be there. But what to do when the taste is not there? And in a way, this is also like Shabri's question, that we can get into this situation of beating ourselves up, you can see. 'Why is it not happening? I must be doing something wrong,' something like that. But we don't have to go down that road. Just, we know in our heart what is it that we really want in this moment, you see? We know that. Yes, we can't hide that from ourselves. So if we really want Him and we really want ourselves to belong to Him in that moment, then we don't have to worry about anything else.

Yeah, yeah. Very. There's a competition between how His longing feels and His presence feels. I don't know who would win. No idea. I can't really say that the longing wins, but I can't really say that His presence... exactly. Yeah. The good news is that we don't have to determine what is right. Yes, yes. Thank you. Yes, bless you.