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if he said a word, I would find and entry. At least to utter that word he would have to open himself a little bit.
It would not have been so wrong if it had been an open silence; it would have been tremendously beautiful. But it was not an open silence, otherwise he would have come close. I was calling him to come close, and he wouldn't come. I wanted to touch him -- because if words cannot reach him, maybe my presence can. But he would not allow that either.
God is trying to reach you. And when you are in the presence of a master, God is trying very hard to reach you.
HE INTRODUCED HIMSELF says Sanai TO US
OUT OF KINDNESS...
Because Sanai was not going to search for God, he was going on a journey of conquest with the king. It happened from nowhere, out of the blue. That singing, that dancing, Lai-Khur's music -- he was caught unawares. Just see it: there were many people there. The Sultan was there but he missed; he was not open. Hakim Sanai GOT IT. He was open, he allowed it to happen, he did not resist.
HE INTRODUCED HIMSELF TO US
OUT OF KINDNESS...
Remember it: God does not come to you because you are worthy. What worth can you have? Not because you have earned it, not because you deserve it, but only because he is kind. He is Rahim, he is Rahman, he is compassionate. These are the Sufi names of God. Rahim means compassionate, Rahman again means compassionate, merciful, kind. he comes to you out of his kindness. It is not out of your efforts that he comes; he comes out of your surrender.
... HOW ELSE
COULD WE HAVE KNOWN HIM?
Sanai says: now I can say that there was no way to know him. I had tried hard in every possible way; in every rational way I had searched for him. If you cling to reason, you are bound to become and atheist sooner or later. Or you will become a hypocrite. These are the people around you.
Those who are trying to reach towards God through reason and the mind are bound to fall into these two categories: either they become hypocrites, the so-called religious -- these people you will find in the churches, temples, mosques and GURUDWARAS, reading the Koran and
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