Brandeis University; Waltham, Massachusetts, USA

26 March 1969

Good evening. Sisters and brothers, let us know that good morning is God’s
morning, and good evening is God’s evening. Good day is man’s day, and good
night is man’s night. God’s morning and evening say to man, “We do nothing but
think of you.” Man’s day and night say to God, “We can do nothing but pray to
you.”
God and myself. God is my Father. God is my Mother. This is what I know.
Also, I always know what to do.
When I say I know what to do, I am afraid you will misunderstand me. There
is every possibility that you will doubt my sincerity.
Let me try to defend myself. Let me tell you my inmost secret: I know what to
do, precisely because God does it for me. You may then ask me why God does
everything for me and not for you. If such is the case, God is unmistakably
partial. To be sure, God is not partial. He is anything but that.
I know what to do, for God does it for me. I know that I do nothing and can
do nothing. God is the Doer. God is the Action. God is the Fruit thereof. My life
is an eternal experience of God.
Unfortunately, there is a slight difference between your approach to God and
my approach to God. Do you remember what the Son of God said to humanity?
He said, “I and my Father are one.” I believe in the Son of God. I try to live this
truth. I also believe in our Vedic Seers of the hoary past. They said, “Aham
brahmasmi—I am the Brahman. I am the One without a second.” I also have
implicit faith in Sri Krishna’s teaching, which I have learned from his Gita, the
Song Transcendental: “A man is made by his faith. Whatever his faith is, so is
he.”
I know that God can be seen. I know that God can be felt. I know that God can
be realised. I know that each human being, with no exception, will grow into
God’s Transcendental Vision and His Reality Absolute.
You are apt to cherish a few striking ideas in the inmost recesses of your
heart. First of all, you get joy in telling the world that there is no God. There can
be no such thing as God. Even when you feel that there is a God, you tell your
near and dear ones that God is for them and for others, but not for you. With all
the ignorance at your command, you proclaim that God does not care for you. You
feel that God is terribly angry with you, for ten years ago you told a fatal lie, or
deceived someone in the street. Poor God, as if He has nothing else to do than to
get angry with you and punish you mercilessly.
Believe it or not, I tell you that God has many, many significant things to do
with your life. To you, your life is nothing, a perfect zero. To God, your life is
everything—to be precise, His everything. You are His unparalleled Pride. You
are His only Dream. You are His only Reality. With you, He sings the Song of
Immortality. In you, He sees the embodiment of His Existence-Consciousness-
Bliss. For you, only for you, He exists through Eternity. He moulds you. He
shapes you. He guides you. He transforms you into His very Image, His Life of the
ever-transcending Beyond.
Dear students, dear professors, dear sisters and brothers, you are now in the
same boat as I am. Together let us sing: “I know what to do, for God does it for
me.”
Let me sing one more song. And I do hope that you all will learn it soon. This
song tells me what to say and what to aspire for:
Lead me from the unreal to the Real.
Lead me from darkness to Light.
Lead me from death to Immortality.