A person who is standing close to me may be thinking that Swami is far away from him. We can examine this statement on the basis of the laws of physics. If the distance from a person to me is small, the distance from me to that person cannot be different and larger. Similarly if I hit a piece of wood, I say that I have hit the piece of wood but that is not all. The piece of wood has also hit me equally hard. This is in the nature of a reaction. It can never be that the reaction is unequal to the action.
In the same manner, in the spiritual aspect as well, there is no question of your thinking that you are going close to God and that God is going away from you, or your thinking that God is keeping at a distance in spite of your getting closer to Him. As close you are to God, so close is God to you. If you understand this truth, then you will realise that God is everywhere. There is no such thing as God being far away from you when you are close to God. Individuals who recognise the truth in this statement and realise that God is omnipresent will recognise that God is close to them. - From Bhagawan's Discourse in Brindavan' May'1974.
