We Cannot Give Reality to the Egoic 'Me' and God at the Same Time

So God has given us another—in His love for us, He's given us another way to approach Him. He said, 'Okay, forget all this, don't worry. Can you go inside to your heart?' I can try. Where to go? 'Oh, within.' Okay, my heart? Yes. Then the question may come: 'But this is not my physical heart.' Yes, it's not the physical heart, but there's something there which you say, 'Yes, there's something here.' See, He has told us through the mouths of the sages that here His presence, my presence, God's presence will be available to you. You can find Him there.

But there's one condition, and that condition is that you cannot obsess about yourself. You cannot be 'me, me, me, me, me.' So when the sages tell us in very simple language that the lane is too narrow, there is not space for two. If there is 'me,' there cannot be God; and if there's God, there cannot be 'me.' Is it so? The sages have told us that we must find a way in which we get over this obsession with the 'me' so that we can remain in the Darshan of God in our heart and hopefully live in His presence constantly after that.

So then, what is the way to stop obsessing with the 'me'? We start to pray, we start to inquire—all the pointers that we are learning in Satsang—so that we can come to this place which is exactly the same: the non-physical, non-phenomenal recognition of that within ourselves, that presence called Consciousness, but also called God, also called the Satguru presence within ourselves.

So this is literally a reality more real than what the world seems to show us. But we cannot give reality to two things at the same time. We cannot give reality to the world—and especially to the egoic 'me'—and to God and His presence at the same time. But literally within yourselves is His home, where He can make Himself available to you when it is His grace and when it is His will.