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“Do you have anything in your pocket?” He took out a guinea. “Now put it on the word you've written. Now then, can you read God: Can you see Him: You have obscured your vision of Him. If you want to see Him, all you have to do is sweep away that guinea.”
What was it that suppressed God from this man? His guinea, his gold. Such men aspire to divinity and think that they can attain it by prayers, while all the time they bury it under the pressure of gold. Merely to pray, without making an earnest endeavour, is futile. If you want to see God, hear God, if you want to fill your being with Him, then make the effort and cast aside this layer of gold. When your heart is empty of gold, of the greed for gold, it will soon be filled with divinity. After all, what is charity? It is freeing your heart of the burden of this worthless metal. I truly believe that you are all deeply indebted to Sadhus, for they, by teaching you to give away in charity, help you to lighten this burden. Yet there are so many, even in this gathering, who refuse to become burdenless. They cling to this burden, no matter if it weigh them down and bend them double spiritually. And then they pray to God and call upon
