You remember what happened in the Garden of Eden? God set a trap by saying: there is that specific tree, and you mustn’t eat the fruit of it. If he had really not wanted them to eat the fruit, he wouldn’t have said anything about it. But by drawing attention to it in this way, it was obvious they were going to eat it.
There have been many people in India who knew they were God in disguise. Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Krishna himself, Buddha, everybody. They discovered it. Because it’s not an exclusive claim—“I alone am that”—but you all are. And as I look into your eyes, I see the universe looking back at me.
We say in popular speech that “I came into this world.” You did nothing of the kind. You came out of it just in the same way as the fruit comes out of the tree, the egg from the chicken, and the baby from the womb. We are symptomatic of the universe. We are its nerve endings.
The meaning, the goodie about life, is exactly here and now. We’re not going anywhere. Could you get this point of view? Look out in the street and you will see people frantically thinking they’re going somewhere, that they have important business. And they have a far-out look in their eyes and their noses stick way out in front of them. And they are going somewhere! They are on purpose! They have something to achieve! Here and now, sitting around here, you realize we don’t have to go anywhere.