Wake up and start Living

Now, some of you and many in the world may feel that to meet God’s presence or God’s Light is not that straigh{orward. So, all the spiritual pracHces and Love and devoHon and singing and all of that is meant to put us in touch with this. And I want to tell you that if you’re in this world and you haven’t met God, you haven’t lived yet. You haven’t started living yet. I’m not making a passionate speech or being poeHc. Very very literally and in a very straigh{orward plea I want to tell you that WAKE UP AND START LIVING. Wake up and start living because the life that you have imagined in your head is only going to death. It’s only ending under the ground or on the funeral pyre. You may feel, especially if you’re new to Satsang, you may feel that you’re not equipped enough to undertake this task of meeHng God. You may feel it because the world has made it a very far- fetched scene. It happens to very rare people. It made itself to be something which is far- fetched, it’s made far-fetched even in spirituality. I’ve met and I’ve spoken to a few spiritual masters who are not talking to their students about meeHng God really. Just talking about some conceptual spirituality and something to make you feel beZer. This is not true. God is available to us. God is what we’re made up of. A liZle bit of le^ng go of egoHsm, le^ng go of ‘my way’, ‘things have to be my way’, and you’ll start to see that God’s Light is revealing itself to you. It is actually true that if you take one step, then God takes a hundred. But in our mind, we’ve blocked it, we’ve blocked it, we made it something…either something that ‘should be done in the really old age’ or ‘there’s no point even because who’s going to ever find God anyway?’; ‘even the great Sages had so much difficulty in finding God apparently…’ It can feel like this is unachievable. But what are you going to do about the calling in your heart which is saying: “Come!”. You will not be saHsfied unHl you meet your Creator. What are you going to do about it? And how much material can you drown out by this calling? And how much ambiHon, how much money, how much muscles and how much understanding, conceptual meaning of things which is all going to die with you. How do you drown out this calling that something is missing? How about you follow it for a bit? And see if it is possible to find an eternal life which is not constricted by birth and death. So, what I’m saying in a way is keep your goals, but just make them a thousand Hmes bigger. You want to be happy Hll you’re 85 and then die. I’m saying: is it possible for you to live for thousands of years? You want money to make you happy for a few years, whatever years are lee of this life. Try to find something which can make you happy eternally. The mind will block you and it’ll say, “that sounds too far-fetched”. But what is the alternaHve? To be lee with Sisyphus, with only one alternaHve: do your daily job, earn your daily bread, live lifelessly for 70, 80, 90, 100 years. That. I promise you that if you live like that, the mind has won, and if you live with half-dosage, the mind has sHll won saying: “Nice try, but see you next Hme!” And I’m going to fight tooth and nail so that doesn’t happen. Let God say to the mind once: “Nice try, my child, you did well, but this one is mine.” Let God say that to us. Ok, I’ve spoken non-stop. Now, let me end with just one thing, which is that what is all of this – our mind wants to know: “What is the pracHcality in all of this? How can I actually live this?” So, for that, I’m saying: you wake up in the morning…you may not remember first thing in the morning, but as soon as you remember because I’m seeding this with you…you may not even remember it tomorrow morning, but there will be a morning soon [chuckles]. You’ll remember this. Wake up in the morning, instead of turning to your mental task list, turn to you Heart. Till the Presence is not clear, apparent to you, don’t leave your bed. What is the worst-case scenario? Your family will call you stupid, you’ll miss your work appointments, people say “he’s lost it, he’s become a sadu, she’s lost it…”, whatever. It’s fine. Accept all that with ‘may come your will’. Because you remember you sacrificed your life to God. So, don’t leave your bed, don’t pick up your phone, don’t do anything at all Hll you have met God in your Heart. Whether it takes prayer to do it, chanHng to do it, breathing to do it, just “Hah” [opens both arms] to do it, if it takes half a moment or it takes two hours, it doesn’t maZer. Meet God in your Heart and dedicate the day to God. That’s a very very beauHful and auspicious beginning. It’s a very beauHful and auspicious beginning where you did not start off in service to your phone or to tasks [chuckles], to whoever or whatever it is. You started the day in service to the Light within you. Then, remain there throughout the day and let all acHons just unfold from that. Let all acHons unfold from that. And without you using that label, I can tell you that your Life has already become a Satsang. Because that is how Satsang is shared. This one just shows up, this instrument just shows up here waiHng for the Heart to move this mouth. There have been a few Satsangs in twelve years when for a few days the Heart did not move this mouth, so we just sat in silence. It’s fine. So, if the words of Satsang can be shared from this Light, then can our life not be lived from there? So just allow this Light to move whatever you take yourself to be. If you take yourself to be the Universe, then allow the Light to move the Universe as the Light sees fit. If you take yourself to be this body, then allow the Light to move this body. And even if that means…like one boy said: “I was just standing in front of the shelf, not knowing what I came here for.” But even that moment in front of the shelf, being in God’s Presence is greater than any book you would’ve picked up from the shelf or whatever you came to the shelf for. So don’t let your mind to become a judge of what is happening in your life. That part seems scary to all of us. Because the fear is, ‘I was fine with my mind. I wanted God. But what if God completely messes it up?” But who is the determinant of a worthy life? On what basis can we determine if our life is a mess, or it isn’t? Are these Avadhutas roaming around – and I’m not advocaHng you choosing any Avadhutas – but just roaming around with no ambiHons and no money, just eaHng what people give them, but hopefully and apparently living fully in God’s Light. Is that a more worthy life? Or is our life of worry and reject and chasing and grasping and then dying – is that a more worthy life?