You must have heard people talking about the power of now, and how it gives one an immense sense of strength and joy. But the power of now, i.e. living in now is not that easy to achieve as told by people who have experienced it. In fact the people who have experience the power of now is not by trying to live in now, instead living in now happened to them as a natural side effect to something which they did. Hence one can’t live their life just by telling oneself all the time that one has to live in now, and then after sometime forgets about it. One needs to realize the hidden principle that works behind, which leads to a simultaneous and spontaneous state of living in now, without even you or someone reminding you to live in now.
Do you know what that great principle is? It is the initial power, which you have to show first, which will lead to the so called infinite power of now in a very easy and natural state, without struggling to achieve it. And that power is the power of complete acceptance and total surrender. Only if someone who dares to completely accept his/her situation in life including his miseries, sorrows and pains that they have experienced so far, as an inevitable and inextricable part of human life just like so called happiness and joy , will they have taken the first step towards living in now. When I say total acceptance that acceptance is of the totality of life and yourself as an individual with varied personality.Total acceptance of everything which is offered by life without any unnecessary struggle to fight against the so called vices in them and negativities of life, will give you some sanity and clarity to your mind.
The situations appear to be good and bad from your own subjective and personal frame of reference, hence for you to accept the situations as they are you have to accept your personality, your, beliefs, attitudes and ego as it is, and be more objective and show willingness to transform your life.Once you accept yourself as person as it is , love that person, feel good and comfortable living with the person within you without having any conflicts and confusion on your inside, you would have taken the second step towards living in now.
Now the third and final step of living in now is total surrender. Now who will surrender to whom? I am not asking you to surrender to any Guru, God or Religion or some philosophy of life you find inspiring.The surrender is on the inside and an attitude of your inner being. It is the person who you think yourself to be, who is struggling, suffering, at the mercy of outside circumstances and people around, that has to surrender, to; who you really are.
Surrender is not for the one who are weak , selfish and living in ignorance. Only an individual with real courage, burning desire to set himself free from all the miseries and sufferings, so that he/she could spread and share true love and joy to others, can surrender one’s egoistic person to ones true self. And this surrender leads you to see things with much more clarity and in a fearless way, since the person who was scared, suffering, confused and hurt, now is in the company of someone who is much greater, powerful than the person itself. And that person is in your mind, it is all over your mind, and hence total surrender means surrendering your self with the spirit and attitude of allowing your mind and that person to be taken care by its right and duly care taker and creator.
One can never take care of ones mind by handling and controlling it with mind itself. It will definitely resist and fight it with more power ferociously. Your mind will fight against your own mind, your beliefs and thoughts will be at clash and conflict with your own beliefs and thoughts. In fact surrendering is sheer science. It’s a science based on the flow of energy and it’s dynamics. Energy always flows from a state of high concentration to low concentration. It is only when there is an energy gradient between two entities will the energy flow from the entity which has more energy to the entity with lesser energy.
The mind does not belong to the person. The person itself is the creation of the mind which is all worried, confused and suffering, because the way you have fed your mind has been all wrong, hence the wrong outcome. So the best thing to do is to surrender that untrained and unclear mind along with faulty and un-groomed person, in the hands of the right one under whose guidance and mighty power it will get transformed and renewed into a mind which will be full of clarity and peace. And this is the first requirement to have a glimpse of your true self which will be reflected by that clear and tranquil mind, which will lead to the lining in now stage in a very spontaneous and natural way.
So don’t try to live in now. Accept and surrender, for it to happen on its own.
Always in your Faith
Love peace joy blessings
Sakha-The Eternal friend
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