How to overcome Maya

Each one of you wants to feel the Love of God all the time, so why is it so difficult? So, why is it so difficult to love unconditionally? Is the mind too busy with the world outside? How long will you look for love in the world outside? As long as you look, you will get trapped in it, because you have to realize true Love here [Swamiji points at his heart] and feel it first here. If you realize God first and then step in the world, how joyful and peaceful it will be…

But people choose the opposite. They like to step in the world first, then they want to realize God. Once you step in the world first, you get trapped in the grip of Maya and it’s quite difficult to get out of Her grip. Her grip is so strong: once She grabs you, it’s only by chanting the name of God that you can get yourself released; only by saying, truly from your heart: “God I want you, I surrender completely to you. Do what you have to do with me” then She will let go of you. Don’t think that Maya just acts only on normal people. She acts also on spiritual people. I think there are more attacks on them than on anybody else, but if the spiritual people are aware of it, they know whenever She is playing Her game and they know how to go out of it. And each one of you does know.