The Spiritual Bank Account: Investing in God's Presence

Yeah, and that is the struggle. That is the real struggle of our spiritual life. That the only antidote to the human condition is God's presence moment to moment. Everything else that is shared in satsang is just so that we can become like that. But there is no other antidote other than God's presence, Atma's light. So by grace we come to a point where we run out of moves and we just have to stay with God. By wisdom, very few can do that, but few can, which is to notice, maybe from the mistakes of others, that there is nothing to be gotten. I can be in the driver's seat, I can be in the passenger seat, I can take charge, I can carpe diem all I want, but at the end, death is waiting. And death is not going to count your money, death is not going to count your relationships, death is not going to see your healthy body. Death is just going to take away this life. And at that moment, if you don't have a bank account which is the true bank account... of course, everything even then is God's grace, and in God's grace everything is possible. But my feeling is that if our spiritual bank account is empty, then it is the continuation of this separation, continuation of this Maya.

So just because the world doesn't consider the spiritual bank account to be a true bank account doesn't mean that we don't take it to be a true bank account. So every time you remembered God, you're making a deposit. Can we just look at it very simply like that? Because otherwise the construct can be too stark in... especially when we are stuck in Maya, it can seem like, 'Okay, now if I did this, then I would have this opportunity, if I did that...' Why don't we look at every moment that I spend just remembering God as if I'm making a deposit in my spiritual bank account? Let's drive that car. Let's see. So many thousands of moments in today's day, how much did I add to my only true bank account? Which great sages have told me—not just the stupid man who's sitting here—but great sages have told us that that is the only account that matters, you see. And there's a very, very, very, very slim chance that all of them, beautiful, honest people, could have been lying to us. So if that is the truth, let me add to that spiritual wealth. Let me deepen in my love for God. And whether I believe in the construct that that will give me a chance to be completely merged into God or to live forever in His holy presence, both are unimaginably good. Both of those promises, which are the spiritual promises, are unimaginably good, and anything that the world has to offer cannot come close. And just... I know it's easier to say, but just take it from me because really I've seen, like my father, I've seen.