Focus on Spiritual Wealth More Than Anything Else

Now suppose that you say, 'I have zero spiritual experience and I don't know what you're talking about. I don't even know that there is a God.' But somehow I listen to what you're saying and I stay inward. After remaining inward for a few hours, for a few minutes even, are you better than before? You're always better by turning towards God. By grasping at the world, no matter how pleasurable that momentary experience may have seemed, are you better than before or worse? And if you're not able to see it, it is very important to keep remaining inward, and your heart compass will develop where a sense of deepening connection or a disconnection will tell you whether you're truly alive or pretending to be alive.

So when I call it a zombie life, I really mean it as a zombie life. It's like that which gives us life has been cut off. So just like a bundle of Prana and flesh and blood roaming around—Prana mixed with mind mixed with body—just walking, no actual life. And one day, the Giver of the actual light of life will take the Prana away for everyone. When this Prana is taken away, all our smartness, all our material wealth, all our worldly accomplishments, all that will come to zero. So focus on spiritual wealth more than anything else.

How much have you constructed the heart temple? The holy altar has been presented to you; this is a gift from God. To remain with it is to construct the Holy Temple in your heart. Who is that sage? The cobbler sage... Pusala? No, how do you pronounce it? How do you say Pusala? That's how you say Pusala.

One time, the king of the land wanted to build a huge temple for Shiva. He spent a great part of his wealth, his treasury, and built this great temple for Shiva. A lot of the construction had happened, and one night Shiva came to this king in a dream. The Lord came and the Lord said, 'No, the temple to me where I will stay has already been built. The most magnificent temple has already been built.' And the king woke up in a panic and said, 'I am spending so much of my treasury and with so much love and devotion I'm building this temple. Who has built this temple?'

So Shiva had told him in the dream that there's this man called Pusala, go meet him there; he has built the true temple. So this king tries to find this man. It turns out he's a beggar—he's like a beggar or a cobbler, something like that. Nothing comparative in worldly standards to the king. But the king has to meet this man. So he goes to Sage Pusala and says, 'Shiva has told me that His temple has already been built by you. How have you built this temple? I don't see anything around. Where is it? Where is it?'