The Eternal Now.

 

“Blessed, supremely blessed, are they who are installed in the eternal now,
transcending time and place and form and matter,
unmoved by weal or woe or wealth or want,
for in so far as things are motionless they are like eternity.”
~ Meister Eckhart, Sermon 16.

Life seems to be a necklace of days and nights strung together on a string called time. This illusion of movement, of progress, has mesmerised you so that you mistake the ever-changing illusion for the unchanging truth.

As the years flow by in an unstoppable stream, all that remains is a collection of random memories like pebbles scattered on the shore.Is this what you cling to so desperately?

O King of kings, by chasing the mirage, you lost your kingdom – you exchanged the radiant Real for a pipe-dream. You forgot to live.

Lost in the dead past and the unborn future, you squandered your most precious treasure : the moments of your life.

Wake up! Be who you really are.

Reclaim your divine, immortal birthright.

Take your rightful place on the lion-throne of Being and dwell forever in the love and light and joy of the eternal Now.

"My Guru told me — ‘Trust me. I tell you; you are Divine. Take it as the absolute truth. Your joy is divine, your suffering is divine too. All comes from God. Remember it always. You are God, your will alone is done.” I did believe him and soon realized how wonderfully true and accurate were his words. I simply followed his instruction, which was to focus the mind on pure being, ‘I am’, and stay in it.

I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the ‘I am’ in my mind and soon the peace and joy and deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared — myself, my guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained, and unfathomable silence.” 

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, on the teaching he received from his guru.