HERE and NOW

As a child, we were taught always to live with a factor called TIME. And we also keep track of the Time effectively - so that we have come to a stage in human evolution that we have courses for Time Management.

Really, Evolution ??

Do we really know what time is ? Isn't it just a tool devised with a standard rules followed by the whole of people in the world for better understanding of events and better communication.

NOW is the reality. When you stop the clock which is running in your mind, you suddenly blossom. This action is so beautiful that you cannot just express in words. The experience of NO TIME, will bring an immense relief to you, that you feel FREE from a bondage. Yes, then comes the opportunity for you to understand that TIME had been a crippler. It had been binding you all the while in your life, and your mind has used TIME to keep you enslaved.

There comes an opportunity to realize that you don't need this external measure called time, to LIVE. Even if your mind doesn't understand this concept of TIME, you would still continue to breath, and continue to LIVE.

For the first time, you taste FREEDOM.

You may ask me how can you call me enslaved? That too a slave of My Own Mind?

A Simple Exercise.

Sit simply for TWO minutes.

Not necessarily you have to close your eyes, or hold your breath etc. Just sit simply and just watch around for TWO minutes. Also, watch all those that comes to your mind.

Now, take a piece of paper.

Write down all those that came to your mind.

Say you can definitely jot down a minimum of Five things - say you might have had a place in your mind, a food, a vehicle, a girl, or a boy, or a song, or a future tour, or next week's cinema tickets, or last year temple visit, anything that came to your mind.

Now next to every item, just try to write down the time or year in which that thought had sourced from.

Say if its about a girl, just write down what was the thought exactly about that girl, and when it happened. Or if its about next month's tour, write down the month of it. Similarly every thing you write down the Year of Sourcing.

Now take up a time line and jot down all the five events based on the TIME.

Today - the day i am writing this page is - March 27 2009 12.04 PM.

Say your Five events have timeline of - 1999, 2009 Jan, 2009 Jan, 2009 may, 2010. You can see that you were never in this NOW. Your thoughts were wandering in the range of 1999 to 2010. This is just an example of TWO minutes of watching. Just imagine - till date from your Birth, how many thoughts would have hijacked you and in what all frame of time references.

Am I right, that your Mind has enslaved you?

There would have been hardly a very few moments that you have realised NOW. Coz, in NOW, Mind freezes. When you have an hair raising experience, you are in NOW. Say you are driving the car, and suddenly there is another car coming fast towards you in the opposite side, and you act spontaneously, to take a sudden twist and save yourself, that moment your mind would have frozen and it would have stood silent, stood still, and you just act to save yourself. That Moment is one of the examples where your mind stops. And that is Living in NOW.

When you are in NOW, you have options to LIVE. Say in the morning, when you start to office or school or college, your mind is full of the options on how to reach the place before hand of the specified time. Your mind is engaged. If you are in NOW, you understand that - I AM HERE AT MY HOME NOW. I have an option to go to the office / school or also an option to take a break. Now, you can decide If i am going - How I can go to that place. Now, you start to enjoy the travel. You are no more worried about the Goal / destination. You will reach it happily.

The destination is bound to come when you travel in that road. But mind is occupied with the tension so that you miss the travel and rush to the destination in a hurry. Calm down. Live NOW. And enjoy the travel. If you are not in NOW, your mind will be wandering from - Origin of Life on this earth to the end of life on this earth, as i showed you in the exercise above. Your Mind has so much of potential to create a superbly crafted separate universe for you, that you will be hijacked so easily. Then, You miss the travel. And LIFE is not to reach a destination. In truth there is no destination. Its just a TRAVEL. And in this travel, there are people travelling with you.

This travel, or a train journey -

You have boarded the train in the point called C.

Some one has been travelling from point A.

Your father has been travelling from B.

Your friend boarded at D.

Your Dad gets down at E.

Your wife / husband boards in F.

Your Mom gets down at G.

Your children boards in H.

You get down at I.

Even after you get down the travel is going on.

Your spouse and children continue their travel. They don't get down of the train as soon as you got down. or you dint get down of the travel as your dad got down. Just a travel. And this travel can be understood only when you are in NOW. If you fix up the goal of getting a samosa before reaching the destination G, then you will be busily working on it and meanwhile you may not notice that E has crossed by and you dad has got down of the train.

This may sound a simple example - But this is LIFE - A TRAVEL

If you Live NOW, then Death is HERE.

I can see my Death. Its very far, yet very nearby. Coz, I dont see anything between from where I stand NOW, and where the DEATH is.

Its only pure vacuum.

Or Is it the Death is HERE, NOW?