How does time disappear in the present?
What is it like to live in the present?How can we live in the present?What do I need to do to live in the present?Why is it important to live in the present?Why is there no time in the present?How does time disappear in the present?
Not only is the weather pleasant, but Our Life is also pleasant. Not only is Life beautiful, but every moment is delightful. Not only is every moment wonderful, but our existence is majestic. When we mention EXISTENCE, then the entire UNIVERSE (Brahman) is charming. In this quiet atmosphere of SILENCE, I am yet again in a small park in the gorgeous city of Los Angeles. Today it is the 15th of June 2021 and, the lockdown is finally lifting. Eighteen months have elapsed, and for the first time, Los Angeles breathes freedom. The pandemic or Covid-19 has affected many ordinary people's mindsets and thinking patterns.
Life has taught that whatever has transpired is for the good of all. The race that humankind had entered was stupefyingly monstrous - one that could not allow us to slow down the momentum. If, however, we understood how to slow down - we would attain victory over Life and the mind. Nature taught us how to take Life easily. In pursuit of wealth, the race of madness had begun - we had already suffered amnesia anyway, but the current rush to procure wealth further aggravated the loss of memory!
It is the age and era of technology and wealth accumulation, so why would we not pursue the rat race? When we forget to reduce our speeds for the endless pursuit of wealth Nature, intervenes by requisition to teach us a perfect LESSON. The Covid-19 pandemic brought many families closer, though I am not sure about India - here in the USA children, and adults who wanted to stay away and live separately from their parents and those parents who wanted their children to move out are united.
The system and culture here in the USA prefer to live separately, but the effect Covid-19 had on people was devastating as they lost their jobs and houses were auctioned compelling, them to reunite. The shift occurred both ways as children and adults returned to their parents vice versa, thus reestablishing family values.
Due to Covid-19, this understanding has dawned which, is a plus point. Despite shocking post-Covid consequences, there have been positive accounts also. LIFE always brings about a perfect balance when we forget to abide and live in poise. It is necessary to slow down, and this should be one's Dharma. Be it your Karma, wealth issues, relationship problems, thinking, and disjointed feelings, Life will somehow find a way and the means to compensate for the disparity, even when slowing down or stopping escapes, your attention.
Death is a natural phenomenon that will eventually bring a stop or an end to us. It is an inevitable LAW in itself and, it is inescapable. Suppose if slowing down or stopping emerges from our BEING itself? Why do we get tired? Why do we get bored? It is because we do NOT know how to slow down in LIFE - we constantly run hither and thither for thirty to forty years, whether we achieve something or not is irrelevant, but run we must!
Kids today are doing the same thing using technology or video gaming - a race no different. At least, in our times, we walked to the temple or a mosque and, we walked to see our relatives and friends, and during arguments or fights, we would run to confront the individual(s). What has today's technology conferred to the younger generation? The younger generation spends most of their time in front of television sets playing video games. Technology has come to a standstill, just like Dharma has until now. Dharma has no doubt taught us how to meditate, do yoga, and recite Mantras like Waheguru, Ram Ram, Aum Namaha Shivaya, and Allahu Akbar, but has it alleviated our worry, stress, and fear? Dharma has failed to refresh and renew our lives.
Whomsoever I met when I traveled in India, I could sense the shadow of death, disease, and distress on the people. There is no LIFE, luster, aliveness, and freshness in any of us - so where can this NEWNESS come from us? It can only come from within us.
Today's generation is tired and frustrated. The parents advocate Dharma (one's spiritual duty) and advise their children to go to places of worship, be it Temples, Gurudwaras, and Mosques -because this is what the parents have done throughout their lives. However, don't children notice that their parent's lives have remained bland despite years of worshiping and frequenting places of worship? The parents who attend the Gurughar and Churches - are they happy?
We derive the greatest pleasure when we are out, shopping, or going to a cinema to watch a movie - why can't we derive the same joy visiting places of worship? The happiness the younger generation is deriving from computer games today will become a nemesis leading to untold misery and disease in times to come. Why hasn't Dharma procured the happiness that shopping fulfills? I know some women in their forty's and; fifty's who do not leave their houses without lipstick. They want new clothes which are their form of freshness and newness - but they lack the same freshness within as their hunger and thirst for aliveness and freshness comes from the mundane things!
The search for aliveness, freshness, and newness can only arise from within your BEING. People are setting up meditation and yoga camps, left-right-center the world over - and these camps certainly offer peace and rest to people, but it is short-lived. Their problems and diseases remain rooted. We fail to spend TIME to see to our illnesses because we are too busy attending to TIME itself - we become prey to TIME. I AM, is a reflection of time by paying attention to TIME do, you think you will acquire happiness? Will your BEING or SELF attain BLISS? However, by attending to the SELF, our mind-body complex will automatically be renewed.
We seek to find peace and happiness through all the following means, namely, frequenting places of worship, shopping, playing computer games, and so on, but these joys do not appease us. This want shall never be satisfied until we slow down and STOP in LIFE. In a frenzy to SEARCH for Freshness and Newness continues - and if we acquired this newness and freshness, not only our SEARCH but our very ACTIVITY or MOVEMENT would cease.
Someone advised me to recite Waheguru, and in two months, I became despondent, and I wanted to end my very existence because the word did not go down too well with me. It seemed as though my existence decided to remove the Mantra Waheguru from my system entirely just, like when a person suffers from an allergy. At the time, I felt like chopping my neck as well as my tongue. In two months, LIFE forewarns me to become QUIET. I despised the word so much that I felt like retching, and I did not want to utter or hear anything, be it Waheguru, Ram Ram, etc. No matter how Dharmic or Divine a word may be, the SELF discarded every word.
An indescribable sense of QUIET descended - this experience shows that even Dharmic words become defunct and futile, and one becomes tired and fed up eventually. The greenery you can see in the park is nothing compared to the SILENCE that one can experience. As we both see this beautiful greenery, the foliage I observe is purely emanating from the depth of SILENCE of the SELF Here and, Now that is, in the PRESENCE.
In a moment, everything around me, as you will see, will come to a standstill just like the tree. My eyes, my LIFE, thoughts, senses, feelings, experiences, the I AM within me has come to a halt, and in this QUIET and STILLNESS, one door opens - it is the gateway to BRAHMAN. In such a situation, there is no past and no future at all -there is ONLY the PRESENT.
In this PRESENT, the three phases of TIME have no existence. We have heard that Bhagwan Brahma's moment is equivalent to thousands and millions of years - how can this be so this may seem puzzling and strange? It is because of PRESENCE only. LIFE or EXISTENCE becomes instilled in the PRESENCE. It means that SPACE and SPEED co-mutually support and enhance the Divine attribute of PRESENCE. At the mind-body level, this juxtaposition allows us to discern our past and future accurately - there is the birth of knowledge with this knowing. We have never learned to live or see LIFE the way we ought to see it.
Both Davinder and I went to meet somebody, and the person told me that you are a seer and that you can prophesy. I told the person one thing a worldly person will intervene in other's lives! We tend to interfere and intervene in people's lives, be it via thinking and Dharma - but a Divine Soul will give up his/her Self let alone the feelings of interfering and intervening anyone.
Rishi, Muni, Pir, or Paighambar (Dharmic) will never change anybody's thoughts, feelings, emotions, Dharma, and action. Such individuals are well-wishers, and they will pray for you, despite knowing everything about you because they are gifted and omniscient. These Divine Beings live in the PRESENT only. It is because the depth, length, breadth, and area of PRESENCE are INFINITE.
When I request you to join me to experience the beauty of LIFE - then one can say that only those among you who appreciate and value my presentation will be touched and therefore take appropriate action in joining me. It is because my words have positively impacted your Conscience. However, I would never wish to change your persona and character - I have no intention nor inclination to do so. Why would I change anybody? God has created the person perfectly as per His desire.
Let us take Ravi he, asked me, 'Maa, what must I do?' I offered him advice saying, 'Do this or that.' However, Ravi never listens and, that does not even bother me, to be frankly honest. I never question why Ravi did not take heed of my advice. The fact is Ravi asked me a question, and I offered him advice is what matters most to me. His Soul (Atma) has decided not to pursue and follow up with my advice which is his wish and not mine - after all, it is his Karma. He is my son, and I must support him - it is not my desire to change him.
It is easy to say that we are one, and we acknowledge this, but we fail to understand its import. In other words, we believe in what we know. Each to their own, as the saying goes. Suppose an event transpires which takes us by surprise just like a déjà vu, then this shows that what we were thinking at the time was apprehended in the PRESENCE.
As I revealed to you a few days back - I could somehow foretell what was to happen to a person in the next six months. For example, once I told a doctor that on the 11th of November, a daughter is to be born. I told the family that I am to get married in due course - and the person I marry will have such and such amount of money, and that he lives abroad and is in building construction field. How could I profess these things? It is because I was LIVING in the PRESENCE (Akal in Hindi).
The Sages of yore have come to know and understand the REAL TRUTH of LIFE - hence they rejoice and LIVE in the PRESENCE freely without meddling with God's Divine CREATION. I noticed that SILENCE gave me the incentive to know and realize the TRUTH by willingly offering freedom to my children such that I do not interfere in their lives at all. If the second step enabled me to provide help and support, and if the third step allowed me to appreciate God as the MASTER of CREATION in whom one has fully surrendered with dedication -how can that person speak and interfere or intervene? How could I interfere or intervene in the lives of Monika and Ravi?
The Divine personages will never interfere because they know that God's CREATION is taintless and each individual is unique and special. When EXISTENCE itself adorns BEAUTY, and a person understands this TRUTH, then how can he/her impose his/her will on anyone?
If Ravi approached me and asked me, 'Maa I, need your help?' I will inquire into the problem and ask him, 'Is it a physical or mental problem?' undoubtedly, I will offer him the right advice, and if he heeds my advice, then all well and good. It will help him and save him from wasting 6-12 months of his time. If he does not follow my advice, then Nature will take its course of action as per Ravi's requirements and needs.
Meditation binds us to SILENCE. Whatever the means, be it reciting a mantra or performing yoga and meditation, suppose if we become still in the PRESENCE itself directly, can you imagine the time we will save?
The Sages of yore work like an injection for us as they help remove our difficulties. In other words, the result will be prompt. The NOW will turn us into time travelers - our Presence is much like a Yuga (time). At the level of Consciousness, there is no TIME - which means we are BRAHMAN (Totality or UNIVERSAL) and this, shows that we are ideally speaking TIME TRAVELERS.
Would you not want to know how to LIVE a TRUE LIFE purely from the perspective of PRESENCE? Would you not want to LIVE in BLISS, without PAIN and SORROW? Why don't you wish this? Would you not want to embrace this beautiful LIFE and attain FREEDOM? The PRESENCE is our umbilical cord, just like a neonatal in the womb is connected to the mother via an umbilical cord - the PRESENCE is an umbilical cord that connects us to BRAHMAND (UNIVERSE). It is then that we realize we are in the womb of Brahmand. If Chetna is to take birth and we exit the womb of Brahmand then, what will happen? The next question is, what will be the next phase of Consciousness (Chetna) following its birth? That which is beyond BRAHMAND is not known even by science. If I were to say that I know what is beyond Brahmand? Will you trust me? If Chetna has shown me glimpses of this Divine phase, will you trust me?
The SILENCE in the trees is so deep that the Silence itself merges in Maha Chetna (Higher Consciousness).
What is beyond BRAHMAN? It seems I know what is beyond it.