December 18, 2023
Do we have a personal savior or God to pick us up? No. You will not know when you are eligible for self-realization. You have to surrender. When you have really surrendered, you will not know whether the surrender is total. If you do know, then you have not surrendered. If I am able to say "I am asleep", I am not asleep. Unless the ego is totally lost, God will not be experienced. The finite cannot experience the infinite. My finite mind is trying to experience the omnipresence of God. If we try to reach out to the infinite with finite instruments, we have trouble, mess, confusion, sin and headaches. It is here that we are caught. Krishna says, "Look, go on striving, keep at it and when the time comes I will liberate you.”
"You cannot see me with your own eyes. Your eyes are limited. DOn't bluff yourself." This refers not only to the physical eyes, but it refers to our mental eyes. The ego cannot perceive God. What the ego perceives is its own image. So Krishna said, "I will give you the divine eye." The divine eye is the eye that sees the divine, that is completely rid of any materiality. I cannot open the divine eye myself. That is the goal of Buddhi yoga.