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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.
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