self

Everybody lives in the past and that is why they are in trouble. There is no time within the Self and that is why it is peaceful. Nothing to do, nowhere to go. 

Everything else is just your imagination, like a mirage. You go into a hot desert and you see a river flowing in the distance. You run towards it to because you are thirsty and need to cool down. 

When will you arrive to the river? 

The water in the mirage is just imagined, yet everybody is running towards this river to quench their thirst. 

And what is this river? 

"I want to enjoy this and I want to enjoy that." 

Name and form itself is a mirage. If you touch any name and any form, it is going to bite you because it is not Eternal. It is not Eternal. Wherever there is a name and a form, there is going to be trouble. 

Every night when you go to sleep, you reject all names and forms and you are in peace. Names and forms are a mirage and you cannot be happy with them. So when you do not touch name and form, you are peace itself. It is only your imagination that makes you think that there is something worthy to be attained. You imagine that you have to do do something, that you have to become wise and enlightened within this life span. Take this thought and place it in your heart. Then you will see that peace, that freedom within your heart. 

When you don't hold anything in your mind, you are free. Like when you sleep, you have nothing in the mind. When you sleep, everything returns to the heart and you are happy. Everything returns to the heart and then vanishes. All intentions disappear. When you look into your heart you will see that you are the Self and nothing else. Falling in love with the Self is very wonderful. Having known the Self, you have known everything.

-PAPAJI. PEACE  IS  ALWAYS  EVERYWHERE