In Silence, There is No Duality - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

God is the junction of presence and present. Whenever every cell, every atom of the mind and body get totally immersed in the presence and present, you experience something ecstatic, something beyond this world. And experience of eternity comes. This "Me! Me!" dissolves. You say, "I am." This "I, I, I." You find there is nothing like "I". "Is-ness" dawns. Is. There is something. And what is that something? You don’t know. That is presence. A presence where only knower remains is God.

Many people talk in terms of "God is speaking to me, I have a message from God." It is your own consciousness becomes God, another part becomes your mind. That is not God. God is the totality. Everything is in God. There is nothing that can be outside God. Whether good or evil, both exist in God.

Which thought is there which has not come from God? You are not separate from God. You can never be away from space, whatever you do. Even the worst sinner can never escape from God. God is omnipresent, and if He is omnipresent, He is present in the wonderful. The only difference is that one knows it, another one does not. Wherever you see the difference, there is duality, the two.

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