The mind has two abilities – one is to focus, the other is to expand
and relax. When you put a thread through a needle, the mind is
focusing. When you are looking at the empty sky, the mind is expanding.
This ability to focus and expand should come simultaneously in the
consciousness – all the confusion is between this focus and
expansion.
Continue doing whatever you are doing. Be at peace in your mind. Let
go of everything. Put away all your worries; they are nothing. When you
let go, you will realize you are peace. What is stopping you from
knowing that you are at peace? You are not letting go; so let go. You
know when you watch the sky and move at the same time, it appears as
though the sun is moving. It looks as if the moon is moving, but
actually it's the clouds that move. Have you experienced this
illusion?
You are the background of all the phenomena, like a movie screen.
Whatever happens on it, the screen is untouched in the background. So
you are the background on which different phenomena move – they
happen and vanish!
Tomorrow is another day – another morning, afternoon, evening,
midnight, and then tomorrow's gone. Some days you have highs, some
days you have lows. But where are they all? All gone! Till this
moment, all is gone. Right now, right now, right now. This is
awareness; this is knowledge.
What's happening now? There is some `yes' and `no'
going on is your mind, with awareness of thought like, "Oh! I feel
good!" and other such things, you are lifted to a completely
different level of existence. Much higher than thinking, "Oh! So
and so said this, so and so said that". "That person is jealous
of me" – all garbage. The whole game is happening inside you.
In that space, time rolls.
The mind is part of Time; a reflection of Time. One is born out of the
other. That's why, when you are happy, time moves quickly. If you
don't know how time passes, then you are happy. Somebody is in the
hospital; then even half an hour seems so long. You are waiting for a
train, or there is delay in your flight. You are all alone and you have
read the entire newspaper and still you don't feel time passing.
You can see this on the railway platforms in India. People lean over to
see whether the train is moving. I once saw an old lady doing this and
told her, "Mother, the train is very big! If it moves you can't
miss it; but if you lean over, you will fall down. Sit in the train and
relax. It makes a big sound, it's not an ant."
I remember an incident in school. A classmate had difficulty in walking
and I would accompany him home. His house was situated before mine.
About a hundred feet away from his house, he would run. I would say,
"You will fall down, don't run," but he would not listen.
He would eventually fall on his doorstep. There was no use in my going
with him all the way. Time appears to be very long when the house is so
near. It would hardly have taken him three or four minutes more if he
walked normally. Time appears to be very long when the mind is not
here.
~~~ Sri Sri
Jai Gurudev
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