The Simplest Path to God: Taking His Name

So how to be with Him is to keep remembering Him. How to keep remembering Him is to keep taking His name.

So suppose you had a childhood heartthrob—maybe it is your partner, maybe it is the one who got away or whatever it is called—so how will you remember them? The name will come to you, then some imagery will start coming, some stories you'll remember, and for that little point of time, you may forget yourself and just be about that one. But the thing to remember is that in this case, because it is God's name, it is much more auspicious than remembering some Maya fantasy.

So tell me one reason why, whatever our situation may be, we cannot take God's name? And we are coming to the Gana Marg in a minute. Can there ever be any reason? And yet we don't, because that is the play of Maya. And Maya makes us doubt; it creates a lack of fears. Can God have made it easier than this? All you have to do is take His name. We'll come to prayer of quiet and all those things in a minute, but just for now, suppose you are caught up in things, something, something—you take His name. Is He going to be upset with you because you didn't take it 108 times? No, He's not. Suppose you're having a very busy day, but throughout the day you try to remember Him. That's the best you can do, as long as it is the best that you can do. Simple.

Anything stops us? No matter what the situation is, whatever has happened in our life, we can say 'Ram.' Can we not? Jesus, Ram, Allah, Krishna, Kali, Durga, whatever we... Why? Yes. Then why don't we? So deepening in love for God is to remember Him, to be with Him more than you remember yourself and are concerned about yourself. And if that suddenly seems like too much of a step up, it's okay, don't worry, we'll get there slowly. This much is okay. Any difficulty in this? No.