The Priest of God's Temple: Serving Without Personal Will

So whatever the world presents, we offer it up to God and allow the returning to happen. So the priest also knows what is being offered, how much of that is to be returned, whether something has to be added, or the whole thing has to be kept. The priest knows. So like that, how you interact with the world is: don't take any of the offerings of the world as if they are for you, whether you call them good or bad. It's none of your business. You offer it to God's presence in your heart, and if there's a reciprocation from there, something arises in terms of words or action from there, then you just send that back out. Then it makes life very simple. You don't have to apply your intellect, you don't have to apply your knowledge, you don't have to think about left or right. Is it really simple?

Okay, so the mind will try everything to try and prevent you from turning this way, and it presents its case in very rational ways. And when it presents its case in very rational ways, just go back to: what is this really about? You see, what is this really about? And if it becomes about God instead of me, then we are back on track. So Maya is 'my,' isn't it? So it's all about me. Spirituality is all about God's presence, God's light. So if I'm turned inwards but I'm not enjoying it, you see, 'I'm enjoying it more in the world,' and you know, 'Then I'm enjoying my social activities' or something like that, you see, then enjoyment is not important. I don't feel like a temple priest enjoys their job every day. I hope they do, but I don't know whether they do.

So are you ready to just devote your life to being a priest in God's Temple? And that temple is in your heart, and anything else that you want will only get in the way. Happy like that? To sit in front of God and just, if the world appears, then just your job is to accept, offer to God, take what God gives back. You don't have any independent will. You're just serving.

Yeah, that's your whole job today from the world. That's all. That's what gets in the way of a sacrifice of our will—is only our pride. And this pride is not small, because it is saying that 'I know better than God does' or 'I can do better than God can.' So every interaction in the world, we have to slow down. Initially, it will seem like we slow down and we take our time, we offer it to God, because everybody has a chance to become a devotee, to offer their prayers at the temple. Somebody comes, they shout like that. So you have to make sure that you're not getting caught up in that. Remember that you're just a priest. So you take that, you offer it to God, saying, 'This is what this one has brought. Guide me, help me with what you want to give back to them.'