Its the same with God: if you're asleep, you do not feel him, & you say he does not exist. But if you wake up, you will feel that God is ther

"It is quite pointless arguing about whether or not God exists! It is quite simple, actually. For the non-believer, it is true, God does not exist, for it depends on us whether things exist or not. When you are asleep, even if all the treasures of the world are heaped around you, since you are not aware of them it is as if they didn't exist. That is the way almost all humans are, deep in sleep, the sleep of unawareness. Only the initiates, because they are truly awakened beings, see the splendours all around them and delight in them. Everyone else has the same riches around them and within them, but they are unaware of it.

So it all depends on one's state of consciousness. When you are awake, certain things become a reality, but when you fall asleep they are erased. It is the same with God: if you are asleep, you do not feel him, and you say he does not exist. But if you wake up, you will feel that God is there, alive within you and around you."