Time and Eternity

 

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Time and Eternity

When we are in the ‘Now’ we move beyond time into eternal space. Time is the world and eternity is God; the world is horizontal, God is vertical. Both meet at a point - that point is here and now. From here and now you can go on two journeys: one journey in the world, into the future; the other journey into God, into depth. Become more and more aware, become more and more alert and sensitive to the present.

How can it become possible?  As we are fast asleep, we can make that a dream also. We can make that itself a thinking object, a thinking process. We can become so tense about it that just because of it we cannot be in the present. If we think too much about how to be in the present, this thinking won’t help. If we feel too much guilt… if we sometimes move into the past we will; it has been such a long routine and sometimes we will start thinking about the future - immediately we will feel guilty that we have committed a sin again. Don’t become guilty; understand the sin but don’t become guilty — and this is very, very delicate. If we become guilty, we have missed the whole thing. Now, in a new way, the old pattern restarts: now we feel guilty because we have missed the present. Now we are thinking about the past because that present is no longer present; it is past, and we are feeling guilty about it — you are still missing.

So, remember one thing: whenever we remember that we have gone to the past or into the future, don’t create a problem out of it; simply come to the present, not creating any problem. It’s okay! Simply bring back the awareness. We will miss millions of times; it is not going to happen right now, immediately. It can happen, but it cannot happen because of us. It is such a long, long, fixed mode of behaviour that we cannot change it right now. But no worry, God is not in a hurry; eternity can wait eternally.

Don’t create a tension about it. Whenever we feel we have missed, come back, that’s all. Don’t feel guilty; that’s a trick of the mind, now it is playing a game again. Don’t repent: “I again forgot.” Just when we think, come back to whatsoever is being done in the moment. The moment we feel we are not here and now, come back — simply, innocently. Don’t create guilt. If we become guilty, then we miss the point.

The more we come back in the moment, simply remember, not with a very serious face, not with much effort; simply, innocently, not creating a problem out of it, because eternity has no problems. All problems exist on the horizontal plane; this problem will also exist on the horizontal plane. The vertical plane knows no problems, it is sheer delight; without any anxiety, without any anguish, without any worry, any guilt, nothing. Be simple and come back.

In a dream everybody is like a child, trusting whatsoever happens. One sees his wife coming in a dream — suddenly she becomes a horse. Not for a single moment does one say, “How can this be possible?”

Dream is trust, it is faith. We cannot doubt in a dream. Once we start doubting in a dream the rules are broken. Once we doubt, the dream starts disappearing. If even once we can remember that this is a dream, suddenly this will become a shock and the dream will shatter and we will be fully awake.

We are taking the whole existence as a screen, and then we project our own mind on it, and we see things which are not there, and we don’t see things which are there. And the mind has explanations for everything. 

If we raise a doubt, the mind explains. It creates theories, philosophies, systems, just to feel comfortable, that nothing is wrong. All philosophies exist to make life convenient, so that everything looks okay, nothing is wrong — but everything is wrong while one is asleep.