Nowadays, the way people are talking about God is, if you don’t go to his temple, church or mosque or whatever, and give him his weekly “pay-off” he will get angry. He will make your children unhealthy and turn your business upside down. Anybody who has any sense will not want to go anywhere near that sort of man. We have presented the Divine in such a juvenile way.
Do not become a God-fearing person. This is not something that you seek with fear. If fear is the basis of what you are doing, definitely it will not bring wellbeing to you. What you will come to in the end will not be good. If fear comes to you, look at it and handle it. What is the basis of your fear? Your limitations are the basis of fear. “What may happen” is the basis of your fear. What can happen to you after all? At the most you will die one day. So live your life totally and do the things that you really want to do. Who knows what is going to happen in the end? Anyway you will die. The question is just whether it will happen today or tomorrow, that’s all.
Because of this fear, if you do not do what your heart longs to do, if you do not create what you want to create in your life, then your life is wasted before it starts. So do not pray to the Gods, “Nothing should happen to me, nothing should happen to me.” Pray and ask, “Let everything in the world happen to me.” Let everything happen to you. Let life happen to you.
(Sadhguru is a yogi, mystic and visionary, and a prominent spiritual leader. An author, poet, and internationally-renowned speaker, Sadhguru’s wit and piercing logic provoke and widen our perception of life. isha.sadhguru.org)
