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one.' God is infinite patience, that's why He goes on creating. He is never frustrated; otherwise He would have stopped long ago, at least in creating man. Man does not deserve to be here. He has been a continuous nuisance in existence but God is not frustrated yet.
A great Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore, has written a small song: 'Whenever I see a new child born I thank God, because I know He still hopes. He is not yet tired, He still believes and trusts, He is not finished with man yet. He will go on creating and will go on hoping.'
It is one of the most beautiful names for God. Sufis have ninety-nine names for God; this is one of the most beautiful: 'Sabur.' And it has a message for you also: if you want to attain to God, you have also to learn infinite patience. In some measure, we have to be like Him. Nothing hinders more than impatience -- and that is one of the greatest problems for the modern mind. Never before has man been in such haste, in such hurry; people want everything instantaneously. They think God is also coffee or something like that. God needs infinite patience, absolute patience, because He can happen only when you are in an absolute let-go. If you are tense, if you are in a hurry, if you want to do it right now, you cannot be relaxed. Your very expectation will excite you and any excitation is a kind of fever.
God is possible only when you are utterly at peace, at home. If He comes today, good; if He comes tomorrow, good. If He comes in eternity, good; or if He decides never to come, that too is good because all that He decides is good. This is surrender, this is patience, and in such a state of mind He comes immediately, instantly.
The more patience you have, the faster is the happening -- the less patience, the more delayed.
So think of God as patience and create patience in yourself, because only patience can meet patience.
[A sannyasin says: Ohh... so much has happened here. I feel so good! I feel like I want you to take me and swallow me up.]
Right! You have been swallowed already, you are inside me now. And that is the only way to let me in: if you are inside me only then can I be inside
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