Beyond All This Drama, All This Maya, There Is a Better Place

Beyond all this drama, all this Maya, there's a better place. So, if you remember, some of you read The Chronicles of Narnia—my children, I read it a lot—so the children have to go into a closet and the closet leads to a different world. It is just coming to me that it's quite parallel to this. So, what is that closet? The closet is your heart. What is the world? It is the world of Heaven, it is the world of Vaikuntha, it is the world of Consciousness, pure Consciousness where He lives, where God lives.

Can we take it literally? Firstly, the more literally you can take it, the easier it will be. Or, if you're trying to squeeze God into a part of your worldly life, then it will seem very difficult because it's in different, you see? This is Maya and that is reality. Initially, that will seem like an unreal dream-like thing and this will seem more real. But as you deepen in God's presence in your heart, you will see that this will start to have an ephemeral taste and texture, and that seems to have more solidity, more reality, more substance.

So, as the sages have told us, to escape Maya, this is how to do it. This is how you escape Maya: so you let go of the world appearances, you don't mix your identity with any world appearance, and you remain only inside yourselves, waiting in the temple of God for His presence to be apparent to us, and then to not leave that, come what may.