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are trying to be and in trying to be, we are not being ourselves. I am not playing with words. I want you to see the full meaning of what I am saying. The sense of being is very important because none of you has the sense of being but only of not-being. So you want this, you want that, and you want the other! And if you get that, you think you are yet less than others because you measure the quantum of property you have; the quantum of power that you have; where is the sense of being? That is why we are restless. We have no sense of being but we are asking for being. And we are moving in the wrong directions. We ask for wealth, we run after power, run after certain desires thinking that by getting those desires we be. Of course, I leave it to you to find out the instances for yourselves. And then everything is chaos, and we are not having any sense of being in this world or everything is insecure, in a state where everything is going away, slipping out of our grasp, what we hold we lose. Now all this shows that we have no sense of being. And that is why we must get the sense of being. And we are struggling for it. And this the Master CAN give, because the ultimate reality is, in a sense, the being of which all these are non-being.
Why do I want God? Just because He can give me this sense of being. And he who cannot give this sense of being but urges us on to another thing, a farther thing, is only a transition, and not being, and not God! That is why the ancient scriptures in our country stated "God is existence and to know him is Satya, Sat-ya! One who creates the sense of being in you is God. That is truth. That is why, the Sanskriti is very nice when he uses the word Satya-'ya' is the 'krit' suffix-making 'Sat ' that which makes 'Sat', makes you exist, is God. So the ultimate is 'Sat', is Reality. Firstly we must earn the sense of reality of Being. And that is the Goal to which we are moving. Now this sense of Being, therefore, firstly announces the essence of our Prayer-the Goal of my being, of my existence, of my life, is Being.