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God Is Seeing Me (Contd)
In the interim period, bouts of loneliness and depression are not uncommon. The feeling of loneliness is overcome easily if the devotee tries to remember that he is not alone and so he can never be lonely. Is there any place where God is not? Is there any time when God is not? No one can ever be alone anywhere. God is the devotee's constant companion. Never mind if He is not visible this moment. Visible or not, He is present. Just because the stars cannot be seen during the day it doesn't mean they are not there. The devotee may not see God right now. But that need not prevent him from remembering 'God is seeing me.' How can the devotee be then lonely? Why should he be then depressed?.
One thought may—or should we say 'must'? —depress the devotee, however. And that is the thought that God is seeing him but he is not able to see God. This type of 'depression' is not only welcome but also essential. All depressions are weakening except the 'depression' caused by the thought of one's inability to see God. This depression, coupled with the faith that says 'God is seeing me,' is, strengthening, because it pushes out all other depressions. A tremendous vigour gets injected into the devotee's spiritual practices. It revolutionizes his entire approach to God. 'Don't seek God, see Him,' Swami Vivekananda taught. God is not hiding anywhere that the devotee must move heaven and earth to search Him out.
God is here, right before us if we open our eyes, and in the depths of our heart if we close our eyes. The devotee must see Him. If he is not able to see God here and now, there's no possibility whatsoever of his seeing God somewhere else some other time. The devotee may wonder, 'Why don't I see Him then?' The answer is obvious. The devotee's vision is defective. He is suffering from cataract. The lens of his inner eye has become cloudy, dusty and sticky due to desires and attachments of all sorts. This lens must be cleaned. All spiritual disciplines are, in fact, direct or indirect ways of cleaning this inner lens. The devotee has to perform a kind of spiritual surgery through which the cataract is removed and his vision becomes clear. It is through the cleaned and purified eye-Sri Krishna called it the divine eye in the Gita (11.8) - that the devotee sees the Lord.
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