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back any time and I would not like you to be asleep when I come." He did not tell them when he would be coming -- tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, this month, next month, this year or the next year. The servants had to be continuously alert because the master could come any moment!' Jesus said 'Like that, god can come any moment into you. Be alert!' In fact, by being alert you send an invitation to god.
By 'god' I simply mean all the energy that has already become conscious in existence. I don't-mean the christian god, one who has created the world -- no, all the energy all the buddhas. Christ is a buddha, so is mohammed. The energy of all the people who have become enlightened is there in existence... goes on increasing. Each enlightened person pours his being into it; that's what god is. The total consciousness that has already happened in existence -- that's what god is.
If you make efforts to become aware, that awareness starts flowing towards you because the same attracts the same. If you are unconscious then the unconscious flows towards you because the same attracts the same. So just a small effort to become conscious and you will find more is happening than you are making effort for... and that's where you start feeling god's help, never otherwise.
When you make a small effort and you see that the result is too much, more than the effort made, something plus, then for the first time you become aware that god is flowing towards you. Your effort brings something, but something more is happening for which you have not made any effort at all, that's what is called grace. When the ultimate happens it is not mathematically proportionate to your efforts; your efforts are very tiny. You had asked only for a drop and the whole ocean pours into your being.
And one thing more about buddha that will be helpful to you.... Buddha is the only enlightened person in the world who has not given any outer structure to be followed. He has given total freedom. He is not like moses; he has no commandments. He never says, 'Do this, don't do that.' Those dos and don'ts may be good for school children but not for grown-up people. And the world has really
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