Find God, There's No Time to Waste

The self that we take to be the self is not worth a minute. I just feel like right now the best words to describe it is: God is real. If some other words come as we go along, I'll be able to share more, but I feel like even after Satsang, most of us live in an unreality of God. We live on an emotional version of God or a convenience called God. But if God was real, we would be free like children. We don't take God to be real, and that is the primary thing of Vedanta. We still take the world to be there, although we know it is not, conceptually. In this minute, we still value the world more than God because value comes from what we take to be here. What God means for me, how my life changes because of it, whether it is working for me or not working—just how do I explain what happened? The most intelligent, the most beautiful Being beyond human comprehension is available to us in our heart. But we cannot be enamored with the false self. Self-concern is just a manifestation of that.

I want to just keep guiding all of you away from concern about the non-existing one. No matter what our problems may seem like, no matter what we may think we are going through, God is here. God is real, more real than anything else. If this was real for you, how would you live? What would you fear? What would you be concerned about? What would be important? But the mind conveys the unreal to be real and the real to be unreal, and our perceptions are used as evidence of that. Actually, your real life is somewhere else. Your life is initially your relationship with God and then your recognition of the non-duality. To live in God's light and live in God's will, no matter what the condition of life may be or what the temptations of life may bring you—the Masters may use different expressions, but there is commonality in this: you haven't lived unless you have lived in God.

For that, you have to have a relentless letting go of your individual will. If you keep relying on 'I want, I want, I want' or 'I need my life to go this way,' it's a complete denial of God. You don't realize it, because if God is real, who knows better what you need? So, self-concern is a denial of God; it's a lack of faith. 'What will happen to me? What's in it for me?' How long will we keep this 'me' around? Then we come up with fraudulent ways to try and extend this lifespan by saying, 'How many will remember me?' You see? And you think your true value is how many people showed up at your funeral. No, it isn't. The true value is whether you found reality in this life, not how many showed up at your funeral. You're not going to see that. So stop falling for these nonsensical things which are egotistical and find God. There's no time to waste.

If you try to build a legacy, it won't last. If you try to build a name, after you're dead, nobody is going to have that name. You need to stop living like a zombie today. The only way to live is to live in God's presence. This is not something which you discover once and then you leave it and say, 'Ah, this lies safely in my safe at home; I can go to it while I wander in my mind all day.' If it doesn't come through God, it's not good. Our only arbiter or judgment about what is good and what is bad is whether it comes from God or whether it leads to God. The mind has been trying to resolve ethics for centuries; it doesn't work. This is the time. There is no time. If you don't make your life about God now, then when? You will come to an age where you won't be able to hear the words of Satsang, you won't be able to sit and breathe comfortably. Don't wait till this instrument gets fully deteriorated to even be used as a worthy instrument for God.

Don't be half-hearted; that's the main thing. If you don't have faith there is God, then be full-hearted—go for it, become the next Elon Musk or whatever, just go full in. But if you have faith there is God, then where is the room for 'me'? Where is the time for 'me'? Allow God to run your life. Whatever responsibility or roles you have to play, God can play them better than you. Otherwise, know that they were not meant to be played. This is the God I wanted you to meet—not a conceptual God, but a God that can really be alive and run your life. Not an idea that you run to, but a live presence which animates your life and also guides you and brings you rest and comfort. That is the God present within you.