A Revelation

When I sit in meditation, I believe I am in the present. It is the truth. I am indeed in the present. Every breath is new. Every out breath is an invitation to the next new breath. I am in meditation now.

I continue to be in meditation for several moments. It is beautiful. Blissful moments of peace surrounds me. Slowly and in the most subtle way, the mind steals the moment and plays the passed moments of breath awareness into a loop.

I don't even realise I am stuck in the past. I simply lose myself from the moment and into the past. I am feeling happy, blissful and joyous. Yet, I am not in the moment. Everything is there. The joy, the bliss, its all there.... except the freshness of the now moment.

I have now come to know "Repetitive experiences of joy and bliss cannot satisfy you. The newness of your being in the moment only can fill you.™"

- Mahesh Krishnamurthy

Love is God-God is Love

Love is God - God is Love. Its that simple. Everything is simple in this world. Nothing is impossible Everything in this world has a process to it. If you want a passport, you have a process to get one. If you want a house to buy, rent or lease, you have a process. The process may be different in different cities and countries, yet, you have a process.

If you want to experience God....., then, you have to be a child once again. And, there is no process to it. The only thing in this world that does not have or need a process is to know God, to be God. Its the simplest of all. And, its not easy. Its not easy because, to be a child once again means to not care about anything that's happening around you. Its to let everything be as it is. To see perfection in everything. Its that simple. To be God and to know God, just ask a kid what being a kid is like. Don't ask a kid what being God is like! They wont understand your question. If I asked you to explain what being hungry is like, can you answer? You know it, but you just can't put it into words, right? Being God is just like that. You know it, but you just can't explain. A kid cant explain.

So, what stops us from being God then, if it that simple?

The answer is us. We stop ourselves from being God, from knowing God, from experiencing God. We are too important for ourselves and for the rest of the world. We believe, we need to know what is happening around us. We believe, to be unmindful of the happenings around us is being ignorant. We need to be 'well informed'. We need to be connected to the happenings around us, not to God.

We read about simpllicity, about simple living. We read Mahatma Gandhi, Aristotle, Confucius. Yet, when it comes to practice, we practice being of the world, not of God. We have discussions, seminars, workshops and what not, on knowing God and being God. None of them are wrong. They are a stop in the process. Read the previous sentence again. They are not a step. They are a stop in the process.

All we need is to stop living in the mind and for one moment, only for one moment, stop. Stop right now wherever you are, whatever you are doing. just be. Don't do anything, just be. What do you feel like? Empty? nothing? silent? Continue this feeling of whatever your feeling is like for a few more moments. Now just be, even while reading the rest of this article. Are you still being? Practice just being. This is being God. Its that simple.

In this simplicity, all the greatest truths are revealed. All that you need to know is known. The unknown is a myth here. In this simplicity, nothing matters. Its just being. Now you know what a kid is like! Just be. Knowing God, Being God is... Just Be, And you are - being God, being Love.

-Mahesh Krishnamurthy

What is Time?

Our daughter was 3 years of age when we registered her into a play school. The school opened at 9am everyday. It was just then that her mother had taught her how to bathe all by herself. Our daughter took such liking to the exercise that she would keep bathing until we had to go into the bathroom and tell her, bath over and wipe her dry.

We watched her a few days without knowing what to do because the school would open at 9 and she would keep bathing completely unaffected by time.

One day, I told her, 'get ready in 10 minutes. You are getting late to school.' She looked at me completely lost, not able to understand what I had told her. 10 minutes later... the concept was very new to her.

Do you know, children always live in the present. They have no future and definitely do not live in the past unless their parents keep talking about it.

For children, time is the present moment. So, what is time for us? We have grown out of our infancy and are growing up or grown ups. What is time for us? Have you seen time?

This is way I see it!

The Sun, rises every morning and sets every evening. This is a fact we all know. And the Sun doesn't set for you, me or for anyone else. The rising and setting just happens everyday. However, if and when you or me or anyone are present at that location at the given moment of rising or setting, we are in time. We are then a witness to the rising or setting of Sun. This moment is called time. And time cannot be replicated. It cannot be even replaced. You could be somewhere else, witnessing something else and you are still on time. Just the place, situation you are witnessing is different. But, you are still on time.

That's why the elders say, 'Time doesn't wait for us.' The fact is, nothing waits for us. Everything is just a happening. If you present yourself in the moment, you are a part of the situation. You are a witness.

Disciplining yourself to be on time is very important. If you did not learn from your lessons of not being timely, you risk missing the moment. When anything and everything can change in a moment, is the risk of absenting yourself from the moment worth taking?

Unlike the television, in life, there are no replays. Time is everything.

--Mahesh Krishnamurthy