When you touch this Shakti, at first you will feel it in a subtle way. This faculty of feeling is not the last step—actually it is a starting point only—but I will dwell upon feeling at the moment. Next to thinking there are feelings, which are like machinery within you but higher than any machinery.
      You have to put exertion somewhere to bring that idea into focus. After that, feelings are born in a proper way. Feelings are not only when you hug someone. This faculty gradually, when it becomes a natural habit, you will use everywhere, in whatever way you relate or do things. Once you are able to use feelings, it will make you rise to a higher level. This faculty, given to us all by God or by Nature, is available to everyone. There is no difficulty to arrive at feelings except if you fail to contact or bring in that idea and focus.
      Without focus or concentration you cannot achieve anything. Make one idea number one: the Light within you or God’s Presence. Put the horse before the cart and deal with it daily with efforts. It will give you self-control and make you consolidate your energy. It will make your thoughts focused into one direction, so much so that it will begin to give you success in many matters. What you call blocks, resistances, temptations and impediments are due to lack of focus. This is the key point or formula, the secret to any success. When you are lethargic, when you are disturbed or confused, try to feel the Presence of God. How is not a question. Feel, in the sense that there is something in between you and your relations, something between you and everything around you, even between you and an enemy.

HESE FEELINGS ARE GIVEN unto us in a very abundant way. Everybody has them, as a dynamic force, but we are not using them that way. That is unfortunate. We are so tied up and identified and involved with many other things that do not need so much focus that we miss the very central point on which we stand. Work on that point: feeling God’s Presence—everywhere, with you, wherever you are. It does not take Him time to reach you. He has more speed than Light—instant! He is present with you wherever you are, if your faith and love are intact. But if those feelings, devotion or focus are missing, then even if you were physically near God, there might be an insurmountable wall in between. Otherwise distance is a fiction. Between you and God there is no distance.

RING IN THIS CENTRAL FOCUS ALL THE TIME, and if you do this, you will get all the secrets and mysteries and knowledge of the universe. While you relax, feel that God is always there. Do not try to do this. When you are trying to do something, you are proving actually that you are trying not to do it. Just do it. Bring in this positive thinking. It works but it needs daily practice. In times of disappointment, when you are disturbed, when you are lazy, confused or frustrated, and in your happy moments too, bring in this focus continually. Afterwards it will become your habit. When genuinely these feelings are born, you will feel very blessed. Though it is not the highest stage, but alone by this you will feel: “My life is worth living. It’s holy, blessed.”