The Eternal, Timeless Now
6 August 2022 (with subtitles)
We are doing so many things,
like we are called to so many things to do, so many things.
We have to be also called to wake up to who we are.
If you're doing all these things,
running after all these things, to try to fulfil all these projections,
and to reach all these dreams, and so on, you don't find your Self ...
I say this is madness!
It's madness.
Yes, it's a part of the dream, it's madness.
Madness is a big part of this dream.
You're running around
putting in all this energy, all these dreams,
all these projections, all this fire,
for just transient things.
They burn up, you know.
Nobody can reach back
and bring anything from yesterday here.
Nobody can do it.
It's only an impression, like the clouds, they are passing.
If this morning there was a beautiful sunrise
and the sky was just heavenly,
it's gone.
You can't put 'pause' on it. It's gone.
All of life, experienced through the senses and the mind, is like that.
And the madness is that we don't seem to see that.
We're constantly reaching, reaching forward,
to fulfil the next projection.
I was saying, yesterday, that
life is only about now,
the quality of your now,
the quality of the consciousness that is your self and source;
it's only about that.
There's no such thing as tomorrow.
No one has ever experienced tomorrow.
Whatever we think tomorrow is, it has to be experienced in the now.
And it is the quality of the now,
how rich, how pure, how lived, how true is the now,
that becomes the fragrance of your presence.
Of course, when we fill up the now
with our projections about it,
that also creates something inside the now,
but it's more like anxiety and expectations,
projections and dreams get infused in your now-ness.
And it doesn't have any weight!
It has more a sense of displacement,
of waiting, frustration, projection.
These are not real values.
But if you spend time with your Self,
be rooted in that experiential understanding
of what beingness is ...
Because the now has no history.
Now has no history.
It has no biographies in it.
It's not about what we've done ...
It is just the purity of them.
The quintessence of all that is, is in you,
exuding itself.
And its qualities, you may say its perfume,
is peace and love and wisdom and harmony.
That is the true fragrance of what we may call human expression.
That is it.
It cannot be anxiety, hurry and haste
and frustration and disappointment,
because that's what we will exude
if we are not present in the now, as the now.
It's only been in the now, not the now of time,
not the now which is a break between the then and the was.
It's not a time quality.
Now is eternal!
It's timeless.
How can people understand that?
By the mind it's not enough.
It might give you a little sense,
but in meditation you come to the now.
In real prayer and surrender,
you're surrendering into the now, into now-ness.
That's why you have to go to those people for,
for a taste of real life,
people who are anchored in their own peace,
who are not living in a projection about the future,
or in reminiscing about past,
they are just resting in their own awareness, their own beingness.
They are the good examples in the life.
And not just human beings.
Most of the life on Earth you see,
of the animals, the birds and insects,
they are just manifestations of the now in form.
Of course they have activity.
They do the activity, but they're not so attached to it.
Their activity is practical, restful, peaceful.
Sometimes they have to hunt, to do things,
but they don't have the quality of anxiety
that comes through expectations and projections.
I don't think a lion is sitting in a jungle or a forest,
thinking about next week.
They don't have such days of the week
like we have in our concept of the world.
If I could really get this thing across,
'now', the now beyond time,
and the 'here' beyond place or geography,
is pointing only to the presence,
which I call the presence of God,
which is the true nature of human beings.
That.
Thinking about a future, planning a future,
is robbing yourself of the beauty and completeness of your now-ness.
Now is not concerned about the future nor time.
It is like,
it's like a taste of the eternal.
Now is eternal, actually.
It never passes. The now never passes.
It doesn't come. It's just here.
When we remove or just leave aside all the things of the mind,
you're here in the now.
It's not boring. It's not stagnant.
It's total completeness.
That is the opportunity of a human birth.
What supports the entire manifestation, all the galaxies,
what supports them is the perfection of this.
I'm using the word 'now'.
It can be a synonym, also, for harmony,
for naturalness, for God,
for life in its purest...
For essence, for happiness, for existence.
'Now' is the same word as love,
or bliss, or joy, or silence, or the wisdom of God, truth.
They're all synonyms.
One day, actually, if by God's grace you come to that understanding,
you'll see that every word that exists in your language
is a synonym for God.
Like this.
Thank you.
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