Once a person came to Me and argued that there was no God and he was not
prepared to believe in one. Well. I asked him, "Have you faith at least in
yourself? Which is your self? Your self is God. You have faith in your
judgement, your intelligence, your ability, because God within you tells you
not to falter or fear. That assurance wells from within, from your basic truth,
which is otherwise called God. It does not matter if you do not call it God; it
is enough if you believe in Yourself; that is the real test of theism," I told
him.
I say the same thing to you also. The body is the temple of God; in every
body, God is installed, whether the owner of the body recognises it or not. It
is God that inspires you to good acts, that warns you against the bad. Listen
to that voice. Obey that voice and you will not come to any harm. A lady wept
that her necklace was lost or stolen; she searched everywhere and become
inconsolably sad. Then, when she passed across a mirror, she found the lost
necklace around her neck. It was there all the time. Similarly, God is there,
as the inner dweller whether you know it or not.
- From Bhagawan's Divine Discourse in Udumalpet on 27 February 1961
