This Moment is the only Reality

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This Moment is the only Reality

Human beings live like robots, almost like machines. We go through so many actions, but mechanically. We may go for a morning walk but we will not listen to the birds, we will not see the trees, we will not look at the sunrise, we will not be aware of the beautiful colours that are changing in the sky - and still we have been for a morning walk. We will go and return home.

In fact, we went just like machines, a proxy, not ourselves. We may have been somewhere else, the whole time we were on our morning walk. We may have been preparing for the night, for the dinner that we were going to attend, the party or the movie or the girlfriend that we were going to see - all kinds of fantasies and dreams were there. We were not there; we were somewhere else.

Rarely do we find a person at the exact point where he/she is physically; we can find him/her somewhere else but not where he/she is. There is such a disparity. No one is in this moment, here and now – and this moment, here and now is the only life, the only reality.

The meditator has to learn the knack of being here and now, in the moment, because moksha is either now or never. Enlightenment happens now or never, either it happens here or nowhere else… because existence knows nothing about the past or the future. Its only way of being is the present. The present is the only time, now is the only time, and here the only space.

So, we have to bring ourselves in this moment, here and now. The mind will go on clinging to its old habits, it is very persistent, but we have to pull it back again and again. Whenever we see it going astray, we have to bring it back to this moment. The whole question is how to get out of the old habits. It takes perseverance, effort and the trust that if it has happened to somebody else then it can happen to me too.

Everybody is potentially a self-realised person. Meditation under the guidance of a realised Master is the process of becoming awakened. The seed is there, but we have to work to bring it to a point where it can blossom. And it is always spring, so the opportunity is always available. Something is only missing on our part.

So, we have to learn. There are lots of techniques available here to become aware and alert, watchful. Learn all those techniques and find the right technique that suddenly starts ringing bells in your heart. It always happens and that’s the only way to choose. It is not a question of logic, that we decide that this device will fit with us. When we come across the right device our heart starts pulsating in a new way, it dances. Listen to the heart and follow the heart.