To turn away from 'me' is to turn to Him

And to repeat what Swami Ram Ji said, that God is the only thing, quote-unquote, we can attain just by turning towards Him. And actually, if I was to just dare to say semantically, that we don't even know how to turn; we only have to turn away from the 'me' and that is to turn towards Him. So if you turn away from pride, if you turn away from grasping, if you turn away from 'what about me'—a lot of us in spirituality are afflicted by a spiritual 'what about me' which is not really spirituality at all, because spirit is the presence of God. So only when it is about the presence of God is it spirituality.

So this spiritual 'what about me,' then relying on past experiences that 'I found God 20 years ago,' 'I found God last week'—all of that is just with the emphasis on 'I' rather than God. It doesn't matter if you found that Krishna is sitting on your couch at home and you're roaming around in the wilderness; are you stupider than the one who hasn't found Krishna or wiser? You see, so many times this is what our spiritual pride does to us: it convinces us of a narrative which actually may sound spiritual but takes us away from God.

So every moment we have to be a beginner in full humility and make ourselves available to God with the simplicity of father, mother, brother, friend, beloved, lover, spouse, partner, child—whatever the construct of our relationship with God may seem like. Say that, and say that 'I am Yours' and mean it. 'I am Yours alone and everything is for You.'