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Bhagavan said:

Truth never changes through the ages. If I tell him (a three-year-old child), ‘I going,’ it will be bad English. It should be, ‘I’m going’. Like this, Truth never changes. I have to say that I am God.

God blooms in front of his devotee. He gives evidence to his devotees. He got up and stood. He said, come and touch me. A boy touched his feet. He said a long time ago, Swami Shankarananda touched me and could not go back to his life. He got a new life. So what will happen to you?

When you have become empty, thinking of me as much as possible is good for you. Observe yourself all the time. Be independent all the time. When you work under someone else for money, you are also losing your independence. Always be free (indicating himself).

Commentary by Koji:

Truth is eternal and never changes because someone says it is something different. Truth bows down to no man. If someone wants to live an elevated life, he or she has to bow down to Truth. Bhagavan has to say he is God because it is true.

Bhagavan does not hope that devotees simply believe that he is God without any proof. He does not want to make an army of sheep. He wants people to follow him through knowledge, not through ignorance and blind faith. Therefore, he gives proofs of his divinity to his devotees. The majority of proofs are samadhis. Those that receive proofs are those prepared through devotion, discrimination, sincerity and having a clean and open mind. Different people need more or less time depending on their condition when they come, and their progress. It is necessary to have patience and determination at a profound level, and everything will come to pass.

One day Swami Shankarananda was a boy that knew nothing. He touched Bhagavan, and some time later, entered nivikalpa samadhi. He became completely enlightened. This normally happens to one or two people in the whole world in a cycle of twelve years. That is a proof. He could not return to his materialistic activities. That does not mean he could no longer enjoy anything in the world. It means that his ignorance had disappeared. He knew he was Brahman, that everything is One. With this Knowledge, his egoism disappeared automatically and he always felt realised, so he began to do things for others, full of love, instead of for himself. Spirituality and materialism are attitudes towards life. If one has Knowledge from realisation, one lives in a spiritual way, feeling and projecting love, as one is no longer under the sway of ignorance.

You, too, can realise the Highest, and project Love always. Only in this way is life truly enjoyed.

To be empty refers to the state in which no uninvited thought enters, like the state of Krishnamurti we were discussing a few weeks ago. It is in that state when we are truly masters of the mind, and not its slave. When we have reached a state in which the mind is more disciplined, we should try to remain in that state, and not invite any old unnecessary thought in, which would risk compromising that state. Spirituality is not meditating once or twice a day, but being in a state of meditation all the time. There is nothing good about being a slave. We should decide when the mind moves, not the mind, just as the driver decides when the car should move, and not the car. The roles of the mind and of a car are those of an instrument, and not to behave themselves like wild things. We should observe to make sure that the mind and ego do not act in a naughty manner.

We must have the mind on Bhagavan! Through having the mind on Bhagavan Sri Krishna, the worst people in the Bronze Age realised themselves.

If we work for money, which is only for our own ego, we lose our independence. We would be embittered if we lost the money, as something belonging to the ego has been lost. If only the body has been lost, and we are full of love, conscious of being neither the body nor the mind nor the ego, we do not lose our independence. We would not be disappointed if we lost our money as it was never for us. In any case, where did the universe, money and everything in the universe come from? They came from God, not from us. Through the grace of God, his things sometimes fall into our hands, and our role is not to gather them up for ourselves, but to think, “what does God want me to do with his things?” and then do what the answer says.