Daily Inspiration: The Sands of Time

I remember my Gurudev, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, once said: “Time is Mind; when the Mind stops, time stops”. At that time, it seemed so fascinating to simply listen to these words…and to try to imagine what it would be like to experience that timelessness.

Fast forward a few years since then and suddenly a few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to experience a tiny fraction of a timeless moment during my daily meditation practice. It was then that the realisation dawned about how futile it is to hold on to events whether they have been pleasant or unpleasant because in the current present moment, they simply do not exist!

Whenever a pleasant event occurs, the human mind tends to retain the pleasant memories thus created and same with the unpleasant events. However, at a future moment, when we decide to bring on those memories either pleasant or unpleasant, it is simply a remnant of something which no longer exists. As a result, a pleasant memory brings desires and an unpleasant one brings regret, anger, sadness, guilt or a host of other negative emotions.

Such a freedom it is to not get entangled into any of these and simply live in the present moment accepting all that it brings with it. Only when one is free from past regrets and future worries can one truly live in this moment being open to all dimensions of it.

The question that comes next is how to achieve that state….and again, Gurudev has said that the only way is through meditation. There are layers of subtle dimensions that we simply cannot perceive through our senses but when we meditate, so get connected to our very Source, our Origin; which is also the origin of the entire universe and thus get access to the subtle levels of consciousness which remain inaccessible otherwise.

So I believe the point of this whole article is to inspire you to meditate and open up channels of energy within yourself that you probably never imagined existed! And for those of you who already meditate, please do share your experiences and ideas here so it will inspire others as well.

Xoxo