Present is your very presence

MANY masters have spoken of being in the present. They teach you how to be in the present. Many of you have many ideas of what it is to be in the present.

When you are in the present, there should be no need for you to announce that you are in the now or in the present. If the need arises to announce this fact then be sure that you are not in the present. Your very presence will disturb others, will confuse others and will threaten them. Your inner chatter will be so loud that though you cannot hear it, others will want to run away.

You may become like some meditators who insist on everything around them being silent and undisturbed. They create chaos around them so that they can be centred and be in order. This does not work. It is your own mind that you need to bring to order, not other people’s minds.

People should smell you if you are in the present. They should be able to smell and feel your very presence. If they don’t you are not. Your very presence will centre them, calm them and move them into their present moment when you are yourself in the present moment. You have no need to advertise that fact.

If you are one of those who constantly have to keep telling people how much in the present moment you are, be sure you are not where you think you are. You are caught in your own inner chatter. You are caught in the greed of your speculative future and the regrets of your unlived past.

The more you are caught in your past and future, the higher the frequencies of your thoughts are and the louder and faster your inner chatter is. You have read about being in the present. You wish to be in the present. You feel guilty that you are not. So, you need to announce to the world that you have arrived, though you have not even started.

Presence and being in the present does not happen through seeking. It just happens. It happens when you do not seek, when you do not try, when you relax into it, when you let go. Understand that your thoughts are not logical or connected as you think. No one thought leads to another. Each is independent. We connect one thought with another and create shafts of pain and pleasure, of fear and greed. Instead of witnessing the thought in the present moment and letting it go, we extend it to either the past or the future.

Once you understand this truth, you move naturally into the present. I call this being in the unclutched state, the state of nithyananda, eternal bliss.