Property and Fame are but for a Fleeting Moment

An old grandfather of seventy was asked by his seven-year old grandchild, "Grandpa! How old are you?" and the old man replied, "Two!" The child was struck with wonder and looked a picture of doubt. The old man replied, "I have spent only the last two years in the company of the Lord, until then I was plunged in the marshland of pleasure seeking." 

Only the years that you have lived with the Lord have to be counted as life, the rest are not worth counting. Know that all this wealth, property and fame are but for a fleeting moment. Develop attachment for the Lord, who will be with you wherever you go.

Baba (thought for the day)

 

How do we spend in company of the Lord? Are you constantly in meditation repeating a mantra in your thoughts, what is actually not possible? 

After my first interview with Sai Baba and after he said that TM was not the right path and that I should only think about God, I wondered how to think always about God and I tried to never forget the OM. My first reaction was, I repeated the mantra in my thoughts, but of course, that didn't work.

Even if we meditate with Soham, the sound of the mantra is OM and that is what remains during deep sleep if we wake up in consciousness. Always thinking of God means we have to wake up in our consciousness, it is not on thought level. 

If we are constantly with the Lord we live in the present.

We have to discriminate between passing by values and reality which is always the same. The present is always present, we are constantly living in the present every moment new. If we think about the past and go for future projects we are not in the present, but in the mind. 

Past and future go together and reflect the state of duality, unity or total non-duality is a state of presence.

If we live in that state, our past is just a reflection and our future we don't know, we just do the best now.

People in the mind never really wake up, constantly occupied in their thoughts with a future project what is based on past experience, and living in the now is all different.

If we live in the mind, we are never really in our own self, because it is just not present, too occupied with finding new projects. And if we live in the mind and die, we have never actually lived and the soul takes a new body to continue the same journey again. 

The mind level is not real, it is like living death, because there is no value and meaning in it. One day it is gone and nothing is left, not even the memory of it,, because there is no light in it. Our inner self remembers the light and therefore, if we live in the light that is real, but if we are in darkness, there is nothing to see but darkness and nothing to be remembered but the dark. The light of the future we are on that level always looking for is small like a star at the sky, far away and not in our present state.

That is the environment of the soul and the inner view.

There is a big difference on that inner level if the light of the self is shining or if we are in the dark.

We should be aware of it and go from darkness into the light.

 

The Lord is the light, he is an ocean of light.
If we get attached to the Lord we have to go into the light.