Words from the Master

By going behind the past or thinking about the future, you miss the present. Spirituality is all about dropping the past and living in the present. Right now, you are accumulating the past like anything. Your burden is becoming heavier and heavier day-by-day. You feel bogged down because of this.

You don’t know how to unload your past; you only know how to carry it with you. You feel that you have to carry it with you. Society has taught you that you have to carry it with you. You are taught to feel guilty if you try dropping it.

Society tells you that you are ungrateful if you drop the past. I tell you: It is simply nonsense. There is absolutely no need for you to carry your past with you. The people who tell you these things don’t know that gratitude is something that you have to feel continuously in you towards Existence and everyone as a whole, and not something that you feel towards isolated incidents in life.

When you drop your past, the present will take you by surprise. Society always teaches you to enjoy the present as past, never as present. It teaches you to make everything a past and then enjoy it.

I have seen people who go out on holidays – they are all the time with their still camera and video camera. In the most scenic of places, instead of enjoying the nature surrounding them, they will be scrambling with their cameras to capture all the scenes through their camera lens.

They will then go back home, wash their film rolls, sit on their sofa inside four walls and enjoy the same scenery through the photographs and video camera. They have simply missed, that’s all. And all the photographs are taken and shown to family and friends just to tell them that they have visited the places seen in the pictures. But they never enjoyed the places when they were there! They missed it like anything.

You all the time enjoy the present after making it a past. That is why people say, “Those were the golden days.” When the days were actually there, you would have surely not thought they were golden. At that time you would have been saying that the earlier days were golden days, that’s all! This is how you delude yourself with your worries.

You totally miss the beauty of the present. When you are in tune with the present, every moment will become a celebration and you will not be searching for past incidents to celebrate. When every moment is a celebration, you will continue to be in the present because you are celebrating every moment. You will never go to the past for celebrating.

Also, it is such a waste of time dissecting the past for worries because you are a new person every moment! Every moment, you are evolving; every moment you are getting updated. You are a part of Existence and Existence changes every moment. Then how can you dissect past incidents with your updated intelligence? It is totally irrelevant.

Never analyze the past with updated intelligence. It is a totally foolish thing to do. It will only lead to more worry and more guilt. Every moment you are dying and becoming a new person. This is the Truth. Just try to understand.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.