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Some people may seek to realize other powers, even the devil, engaging in practices like black magic. Yet, at the end of their life, they too wish to realize God; they will join the God-party, for He is our origin. You may not understand, but God is also the inner reality of the devils. The devil exists due to bad qualities, a bad nature, and a bad society. But the real truth within is the light of God. It is said that when Kṛṣṇa was a young boy, His uncle, the brother of His mother, Kaṁsa, was known as a devil. Kaṁsa knew that the sixth child of his sister would be the cause of his death, his enemy. He searched and searched—who does not know this story should read the Mahābhārata. Kaṁsa was a mighty, strong man with a powerful army. When Kṛṣṇa was very small, just a few years old, He said, "I am going to Mathurā. Why? Because I want to see my uncle." They told Him, "He is the devil; he will kill you. We are hiding you all the time, constantly. Why do you go?" Kṛṣṇa said, "I must go because day and night he thinks of me." Kaṁsa could not sleep, thinking so much. I think no one here thinks so much about me. And when someone thinks of me, I must go. When you are jealous and do not like a person, you are still thinking so much about them. Though you do not like them, that person is within you. So Kṛṣṇa said, "Anyone who will think of me, I will appear, and I will liberate that one." Even if he is a devil, it does not matter through which thoughts he is thinking of me. The reality is that he is thinking of me. I will go and liberate him. In this way, God will appear to you in the way you think and feel Him. But are you sure that you wish to see God? "My Lord, I just dedicate everything to you; my life belongs to you. God, please, I only live for you. You, my Lord, take me to your divine kingdom, to your divine light." You say this when you have problems, when you are disappointed. Suppose you are crying and say, "Only you are my prāṇa-ādhāra." What is prāṇa-ādhāra? The source of my life. "You are my life; do what you want, Lord. I am yours, please come." The Lord is merciful; He comes to you, takes your hands, and says, "Let's go." Then you say, "I didn't mean this. No, no, Lord, I have my wife, my children, my job, my money, my house. I didn't mean really that you will come; just bless me and go away." That is why God doesn't come. Are you ready to see God? Will you accept Him as He is? As one bhajan says, "What will I do with that face, the face of God which I never saw in my life? How will it be, and what will I do with that?" How you imagine God's face will look is not how it is. Even if God comes in a beautiful form as you like, after some time you will doubt: "Is this God? God cannot come like this." Again you are in doubt; God is not that. Humans are never satisfied: if this, no; that, no; like that, yes, but not this, not that. But God is the Father, meaning the source of our life, the light of our life. It is that which is living within us, and it is that one who is experiencing happiness, unhappiness, love, misery, freedom, and what not. Your body does not experience anything. You think your body is enjoying, but when that prāṇa goes out of the body, your body does not enjoy anything more. Your body becomes entitled to be burned or buried, or other creatures will eat it. You do not feel the fire, you do not feel the heaviness under the earth, nor do you feel other animals biting, tearing, and eating your body. Therefore, this experience is not a bodily enjoyment; it is something different. So God is happiness, God is wellness, God is ānanda.