Present moment

When it is realized that you live in the present moment, that you are indeed the present moment, (the what-is here and now) and that therefore apart from this there is no past and no future, you cannot but relax and taste to the full, the pleasure or the pain, His will - the present moment. And then everything becomes obvious: why this universe exists, why sentient beings have been produced, why sensitive organs, why space, time and change. The whole problem of analyzing and justifying nature, of trying to make life mean something in terms of words and lateral thinking - all this becomes meaningless. Obviously, it all exists for this moment, this kshana. It is a dance, and when you are dancing, there is only the dance, not any intent of getting somewhere.

- Ramesh S. Balsekar, 'A Living Gem from Ramesh’ - Advaita Fellowship Newsletter, August 2010

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Jnani

CONVERSATIONS WITH ANNAMALAI SWAMI

Q: The jnani appears to us to have a form. Do the gunas affect the functioning of this form? 

AS: The jnani does not regard himself as having a form; he only regards himself as the Self. If we limit Bhagavan to a form, that is our mistake, not his. The form we mistakenly regard as Bhagavan may appear to be governed by the activities of the gunas, but from Bhagavan's point of view there is no form at all, there is only the Self. 

So long as we identify ourselves and Bhagavan with particular 
forms, we cannot be aware of him as he really is. 

Bhagavan once said to me, 'All forms are God and all activities are His’. This does not mean that each separate form is a manifestation of God because in the Self there is no such thing as separateness. All people, all things, and the gunas which cause them to appear to react with each other, are just inseparable appearances in the indivisible and unmanifest Self.

- Living by the Words of Bhagavan