Help on the Quest for Self-realization-Reminders-18

July 2, 2006

>From Surging Joy

By Dr Sarada Nataragan

Take any thought and examine it, it is bound to be connected with

the past in some manner. The secret is that it is impossible to

think of the "now". The moment one thinks, the past, the "then" has

already entered.

Thus the "now" is absolutely free of thought, it is free of

identity. If one can savor the "now" from moment to moment that is

the experience of infinity. "Now" is "forever". Past and future are

limited in time. This is quite obvious to us. The past is that which

is already over, finished. Hence, it has met with its limit. The

future is yet to begin, so it has a limit at this end. But can

anyone tell where the "now" begins and where it ends?...Yes

the "now" is eternal, it is forever, outside the realm of time

itself. (77)…There can never be an actual experience of the past or

the future. They are only mental concepts….Can I think of anything

other than in the present? So, thoughts of past and future also

belong only to the present. That is why Bhagavan declares that there

is no time other than the present, just as there are no numbers

apart from 1. 9 is only 9 ones…To dwell in the past and the future

without paying attention to the present , says Bhagavan, is like

counting without 1…Our lives are equated with great ones to a dream,

because we are ever divorced from the reality that is only present,

ever present. (78).

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