- Einstein said, I want
to know the mind of God. The rest is details. Somebody asked what that means here. And of course the mind of God is consciousness. Consciousness is the, the light that emanates from
this consciousness is not God in the same way that the light
of the sun is not the sun. And yet, on the other hand, the light of the sun is one with the sun, but you couldn't quite
say this, this light, that this is the sun in the
same way, your consciousness, which is not yours, the
essence of who you are, the light of the world is an emanation from
the source of all life. And so I use the analogy of the sun and there's a good reason why
in my ancient civilizations, the sun was regarded as God, because it's a continuous
outpouring of life energy. And so in the sense perceived universe, the closest analogy one can
find is you can point to the sun and say, that is like
continuous emanation, all life derives from it. And the life, the consciousness
in things is that. So God realization is the realization of, I am that I am your, I am identity and that's God speaking, but it would also be you speaking. So it doesn't transform the
ray of the sun into the sun, but it makes the ray of the sunlight aware of its origin and its home and what it is still connected with and always remains connected with. At some point, we need to transcend the
naive beliefs in what God is as a controlling figure. That's has, that created
the world a long time ago. And then he walked away and lost interest, or maybe he is still interested, but some of the things are not going well. (crowd laughs) Or he's condemning people
for being dysfunctional. And then of course, there are many arguments you
could raise against that, that kind of view of God. And that's the traditional
argument of people who don't believe in God, believe in God, who would say, if there were a God
who controls everything and supposedly loves people, or maybe not doesn't love, but he's controlling things. Then if there is a God, how would he allow all that
suffering and evil to happen in this world? Therefore they say, there is no God, or they say, therefore, God is morally inferior to us because we could create a, we can see the injustices
and the terrible things that happened in this world. And we are touched by it, but God isn't, therefore God is some inferior creature that created the world
out of malevolent intent. That was actually a belief
held by many of the Gnostics, ancient Christian and
pre-Christian group of people who otherwise had also
some interesting teachings, but they believed that the
entire physical universe was the creation of a malevolent
deity and inferior deity. I can see why in some way, but it's not the case. So there isn't a controlling
figure there that is. So we need to go beyond that image, that anthropomorphic image of a paternal authority figure and realize that God is
the life in all beings. God manifests as the life in all beings. God is the consciousness in you, is the emanation of God. God lives through you. Everything that happens humans, God is suffering in humans. In a way you could say that's what the Christian teaching means. So it is a gradual emergence of consciousness and the suffering is more
like a dreamlike thing to God. It's like a bad, a bad dream as in the process of emergence of that God consciousness
into this dimension. So human beings are not
autonomous entities. It's not you, your consciousness, his consciousness, her consciousness. Every human is a temporary expression of the one consciousness. (waterfall splashes)
