In plain words
When the Walls Called Ahaṅkāra and Mamakāra Are Taken Away, the Vision of God Comes
God Himself gives everything. We must give no room to Ahaṅkāra. How witless it is to grieve, ‘The sun, who gives light to the whole world, has not entered our house’! ‘He gives light to the whole world. But why does he not come into my house?’ To fret like this is foolish. Then even the sun, they say, burst out laughing! ‘O mad man! You have built yourself walls called Ahaṅkāra and mamakāra. You have put on a roof called abhimāna. How am I to come into your house? Knock down the walls called abhimāna and Ahaṅkāra. Take off the top called mamakāra. I shall come straight down inside. You need not call me. You need not send me an invitation. You need not pray to me. It is my duty, I will come; I shall surely come,’ he says. In the same way, God is in your heart too. But you think, ‘He has not come.’ What is the reason? You have held on too much to this Ahaṅkāra and mamakāra and to dehābhimāna. You have put on a big top called mamakāra. You have shut God up inside. How will God appear to you? He is right within you; but He does not appear. Rāmadāsu too said it.
I will not let You stir a step beyond; till You give me abhaya I will not let You go. (Rāma…)
‘I will not let You go even one step forward,’ he said, and held on tight. ‘Where will You go, leaving me?’ he demanded firmly. Then God says, it seems: ‘Mad one, only if I were outside would there be any leaving! I am right inside. I am in you yourself. Being you, I am just Myself. Being Me, you are just yourself. So this leaving and going is your delusion,’ He said. God does not leave anyone. He does not go anywhere. He is right where He is. He Himself is everywhere. I spoke of this once, the other day. ‘The door that will not be shut.’ The jīva fears, ‘Alas, I am alone, and someone may come and get in here’; and from within, a kind of delusion of the jīva says of ‘the door that will not be shut’, ‘Shut the door.’