Turning Towards God: Now, Not How

So isn't it beautiful that whichever way we want to relate to God—as child, as father, as best friend, as lover, as disciple—whatever the construct of the relationship that we want, and whichever aspect of God appeals to us in whichever way, He makes Himself available to us. That's why I love Swami Ramdas saying that God is the only thing which you can attain just by turning towards Him. You don't have to grab, you don't have to do anything else, just turn towards Him in whichever way that you want with sincerity, with integrity. If you're a Gyani, if you're a Bhakta, if you're a Yogi, if you're any kind of temperament, all that is needed is for you to turn towards Him. When? Now. When? Now. So it's more a question of 'now' than a question of 'how'. Don't waste your life just thinking of what how, which how is better. 'I feel this one, I feel, you know, just this one is better like this, I prefer it like this.' Your whole life doing that, but you never really turn. Like reading the instruction manual your entire life, but you never actually go. So it's a question of application more than understanding for what it's worth.

To remain simplistic for some more time, because I feel like it is helpful somewhere to just simplify a bit: if you're proposing marriage to someone, of course it is up to them to say yes or no, and that is what in this context we are calling Grace. But to say it's all up to Grace, but I will never put out my hand in the first place because ultimately it is Grace, would be silliness. We have to offer ourselves fully and say that 'I am yours, do with me as you please.' So what does it boil down to again? Is God here? Is God here? Because if He is here, then who would I trust—me or Him—to run this life, to own this life? With every decision, with every heartbeat, with every breath, who would I trust? If the one who appears in the forms of Ram, Krishna, Jesus—if that one is here, then how important is this 'me'?