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King Manu

The burning desire is to see the formless God with physical eyes. He is endless and everlasting, yet imperceptible to our senses. Only pure souls and knowers of the Supreme meditate on Him. We lack that knowledge, which takes a long time to attain. Yet, the desire persists. We resolve to perform spiritual practice relentlessly until God must appear. The scriptures describe Him through negation, as the source from whom all beings manifest. We want to see that One.

"Endless, everlasting, and formless, but for us, it's nothing."

"We will not give up! God has to give up!"

Filming location: Vép, Hungary

Day by day, the desire grew in their hearts to see God. When and how can we see the saguṇa form of that nirguṇa God with our own physical eyes? He is nirguṇa, formless. How is it that He takes form just to show us? He is the formless, He is the endless, and He is everlasting. Only the pure souls and the Brahmajñānīs who know the Supreme One meditate on Him. Brahmajñānī tattveta—those who know the tattva of the Supreme One. But our eyes are not satisfied. He is endless, everlasting, and formless. Now, what should we do with this? How to begin with something? We can't even touch Him, we can't smell, we can't hear, we can't see; for us, it's nothing. Endless, everlasting, and formless, but for us, it's nothing. We want to see, but we cannot see because we are not tattvajñānī. And to get this tattvajñāna, to get the knowledge, is a long, long time. Tattvadarśī Gurudevika Anubhava Paramparā. Mahāprabhujī said, "Those who have the knowledge of this tattva, their experience is limitless also." But we want to see Him with these physical eyes. It doesn't matter what happens. We will only do sādhanā and sādhanā and something so that He has to come. We will not give up! God has to give up! What does He think? That was their intention. That was the burning desire in their heart. The Vedas and Neti, all are telling this: "This is not, this is not, that is not, and this is not." Who is without form, blissful, above everything, beautiful, but without form? By Him, or through Him, or from Him, man, Śiva, Brahmā, and Viṣṇu were created, or were born, or manifested. And through Him, numerous Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva manifested themselves. Many manifested themselves through Him. Who is that One? Him we want to see.

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The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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