When asked, “What is the power that brings down God’s Presence in all our actions?” Sri Chinmoy replied:
“There are two powers that bring down God into all our actions and multifarious activities. One power is our gratitude-power. Always we have to offer our gratitude to God for everything that we do, for everything that we have become. The other power is the power of seeing God in others. If we don’t see God in others, if we only see God in ourselves, then we will not be successful. We have to see divinity inside everybody, even inside our worst enemy. Let us see inside our enemy the Presence of God. God’s Presence is everywhere. But if we deny His Presence inside a particular thing, then that thing will eventually attack.
“Right now God’s Presence is not sufficiently operating in the mind, whereas inside the heart it is operating most powerfully. So from where it is operating most powerfully we have to carry it elsewhere. Everyone and everything has a soul. Even a bench has a soul. If we can feel the presence of the soul inside the bench, then we will never feel that we are without God.
“So there are two powers that can keep us always one, inseparably one with God’s Reality. One is our constant offering of gratitude. The other is the power to see in others the things that we see inside ourselves. If we see and feel that we are God’s instrument, then we have to feel that he and she are equally God’s instruments. In this way we can feel that God is constantly operating in and through us. Then we remain in the same highest level of consciousness while participating in God’s cosmic Game.”
– Sri Chinmoy