When you see Lord Krishna meditating, Yuga Purusha, Purushottam, when we see pictures
and idols of Lord Shiva meditating on Kailash, we have to think, we have to introspect,
we have to ask ourselves a fundamental question, “Upon whom are they meditating?”
We should not be biassed that God looks like this or God looks like that.
For an example when we think of Lord Ramachandra of Ayodhya or Lord Krishna,
how would you imagine them? How would you think of them?
When I tried in my earlier days in my youth, images that used to come to my mind and my heart
were as per the photographs that I used to see in my house, in our puja rooms, on TV later on, all those movies.
And you start imagining those actors who acted as Lord Rama and Lord Krishna, they start flashing in your mind.
But is God like that? No one had seen God.
Something that happened few millennia back.
Even if we did see them in their original form the way they walked on this Earth,
even when they were face-to-face with Duryodhana, Yudhishtra, how many could recognize them?
No one.
Not even Arjuna could recognize the godliness of Lord Krishna. These are exceptional beings.
Too much time has passed, too much water has flown under the bridge, we have lost the connection.
We are trying to establish that connection and that is why it is called Yoga. Yoga means ‘to connect with the Source’.
When we remain partial and prejudiced that God is like this or God is not like that, then we are lost in the thinking.
But we have to be a humble seeker, sincere seeker that “My God, I know I don’t know you”,
I have to accept that first. “I like to have your experience in my heart, the way you are.”
Not as per my terms, not as per my conditions, not as per the pictures and idols that I have seen in my childhood.
I am not against all these photographs or images; I am not against, please do not misunderstand me.
What we are trying to understand today is the original nature of God.
When you think of Rama and Lakshman and Mother Sita travelling together, walking together on this Bharat Bhoomi (the land of India),
Bharat Mata (Mother India), what must have transpired day to day, the princes walking on this planet,
morning and evening they used to meditate.
When you see Lord Krishna meditating, Yuga Purusha, Purushottam, when we see pictures
and idols of Lord Shiva meditating on Kailash, we have to think, we have to introspect,
we have to ask ourselves a fundamental question, “Upon whom are they meditating?”
We have to look forward to that Essence.
We have to spread this message that let us go beyond
that divides one sect from another sect. India is one, Bharat Bhoomi is one, we have to be united.
United in a different way, not in a divisive way and that is what we all stand for.
Bharat ek hai (India is one).
The goal is one. Every human being, but we don’t realise what my goal is also. We have a big task ahead of us.
When we meditate, our approach should always be this “My Lord, please help me experience
your presence in my heart”.
So with this attitude let us sit and meditate thinking that Divine presence is already there in my heart,
I need to just experience that and be one with it. That is all we need to do.
Rest of the work is done by Guruji Maharaj, who transmits to us his love, we call it Pranahuti (Transmission).