Celebrate the Day

It is indeed foolishness to single out a particular day in a year and celebrate only that day with great joy. Everything in this objective world is impermanent and unreal. Hence we must contemplate on the eternal truth and reality. We should not waste our time brooding over the past or anticipating the future. It is great foolishness to worry about the future or the past, forgetting the present. The present is only real. Past is past, you cannot get it back, however much you pray for it. The future is hidden in the womb of time. Unable to internalise this truth, people worry about past and future. Hence, from now, give importance to the present. It is important that you consider every minute of your every day and celebrate it with new joy! Indeed, for a true devotee, every day is new; every day is a festival day!

Every day should be a new day to celebrate and we should do it with even great joy. What is around us is the impermanent and unreal world and we should contemplate on the eternal truth and reality. We had been living in the US and when coming back here I began to remember that I am not this and not that, it was a kind of constant contemplation on what is not real. 

When driving to work in the bus not matter what was coming up I was just thinking, 'not that' and with time I began to notice that I forgot it and I noticed when I forgot it, it was really forgotten. It felt nearly like becoming invisible, I was not present when I thought, 'not that' or I was present, but it was not the mind, not the body and a different level. And with time I began to enjoy it. 

In that time I went dancing. When my daughter turned into a teenager, there was a different energy needed and that is how I just adapted to it. 

After a certain time he was in the meditation state and said I should stop dancing and then he gave me a different job and the contemplation and thinking it over began and he said to use his words and that is how I began with the thought for the day and contemplate about it, that means reflect on his words. If something in the past was not quite right or based on not right action, the reflection of his words made come up and it was presence again and in thinking it over it changed and was seen in a different light. 

The past is past and the future is not yet, but it doesn't mean if the past is coming up for some reason that we ignore it. 
By thinking it over we get a different feeling about it and it is not about forgetting it, it is about realizing it when it had to do with conflict that were not seen or not addressed or avoided and when there are pictures in our dreams, he said he is in the dream to awaken and it is closer to existence than the waking state. 

In the study circle we notice that people don't understand it if we don't reflect on it, so someone said last time that the mind is as well God, and it is really a stupid statement trying to show us that she is thinking actually, but not thinking it over. 

The logic in that sentence is that everything is God made, but the mind is the result of wrong identification with the body and Swami calls it often as well the body mind complex and by thinking it over and using his words, we get aware of it. When thinking neti, neti, not this and not that, we get aware of the mind and what is pure consciousness. We get aware of the mind by practicing it, it doesn't mean we are not present, it means we are fully present, what is going away is the wrong identification. At that time I read books about negation, also in the West we have people who were thinking it over and getting to the insight that with negation we can get to that what is true and after thinking constantly not that, what is there is nothing but 'that', it is life itself or pure energy. 

If someone tells that the mind is as well God, it shows that there is no reflection and no thinking it over and that kind of logic is mind and not true and something else is there, she doesn't know the difference and how getting to truth. It means after all that time of thinking it over there is no result, they didn't learn the lesson even if we talked about it always, it means they didn't learn to think it over. 

If we don't listen and we just read, people get to wrong conclusions and think, the past is past, what was my mother's philosophy focusing on the present, but she was avoiding to look at things which came up in such a way that we still live in the family in that pattern of it and that is not ideal, but it turns into tamas, we make out of a virtue a vice and out of a vice a virtue. 
The thought that the mind is as well God is in that sense tamasic and it wants to show the others that she is thinking, but there is no wisdom in it and it is a wrong conclusion, a mind logic and she is not even that aware of it that she gets to a right conclusion. 

But what really is not there is listening, if there would be listening to his words, we would be more careful in our words. 

If there is no listening and that means as well reflecting upon it and thinking it over, there is no understanding and that is what Swami is telling us, if we don't see it in our own life, we cannot understand it, but nobody is doing it. 
If we think about eternal truth in that quote as God is everywhere, great and that is only one sentence, we should be aware of the eternal being, it starts with knowing the difference between mind and atma and in such statements like the mind is as well God, we are on the wrong track. 
It is just beginning it when we think, God is absolute, therefore, everything else is relative. 
That is a right conclusion, but we have to see it in our own life to understand it and how do we see it, with neti, neti, that is getting aware of the mind and a way for example to see it and when thinking it over it expands also over the past and that is just a way of seeing it in our own life. We don't get to completion in avoiding it, but in knowing how to think it over. That is how we get aware that his words are not about avoiding what happened in the past, but it is about not avoiding it and living in the present. 

If we have the man coming in our dreams to awaken and it is something that happened in the past by thinking it over it is present again. 

Therefore, he is not telling us to not think it over, he is telling us only that we cannot change the past, but by seeing the past in the right light, it can change the present. 
If the past is coming up there is something wrong about it and when we see it in a not right light, it creates disturbance and there is no way that disturbance will go away as long as we don't have the right insight.

If I get aware of it in my own life and he is telling me in the dream or insight that I had been let down by the family, he is making me aware of it, it is a wakeup call, because I am for some reason not aware of it and when thinking it over it means not brooding over the past, it means getting aware of that I had been let down by the family and that includes the fact that I am unaware of it and why I am unaware of it and why we have a conflict in the family just because of that reason. 
We have to face the fact that there is conflict and it had been ignored in the past and we cannot change it, but we have to get aware of it, it has consequences in the present and in the pattern of the family. It didn't get the conflict to the point, it had been avoided and therefore, it somehow has expanded. 
It means we have to get aware of it and every detail of it and it is presence again, because it was avoided and it comes up in the dream, the reason for it is in the past, it is no more past, but it is present again, there is the challenge of having to wake up and therefore, we have to get aware of it. 

When we begin to see things in the right light what was avoided in the past by the family or whoever, we have to see it in the right light and by setting it right we get aware of it. To think that it is past and that we should not brood over it would create in that moment an obstacle as we would avoid of thinking it over. 

As he said in the dream that I should use his words, I began to think it over and by thinking it over we get aware of it and we just have to learn to think and know the difference between brooding over the past and thinking it over to be able to understand it. 
If people understand it on the mind level and don't think it over they misunderstand it. It doesn't mean we should not think it over and we can therefore ask what is meant over brooding over the past? 

We cannot change the past, but we have to get nevertheless aware of it. When I see my mother in the light I had seen her before, she was my mother and always somehow perfect and I idealized her as mother is God in the sense that it was easier living with her when she was idealized than finding faults, because on a certain point about everything felt wrong and I didn't know what it was and there was no way to address it. 
But it felt wrong and not right and when looking at it as it was reflected by the inner view and Swami's dream as the man coming in our dreams to awaken, my mother has a different face, she is not anymore the idealized mother she had been or she wanted to be for us, but she is the person who has avoided to look at the past by all means and in a way it sounded nearly the same like Swami's words here. 

But Swami doesn't talk about avoiding the past and not addressing conflicts and avoiding truth and how it really had been, if we don't address the conflict in the past it expands and in a sense it is not even past, it is still present and it needs to be addressed, it has to be set right. Therefore, the mother I see today is not just idealized and a picture of a mother, but it is as well that person who has avoided by all means to face what came back from the past and by avoiding it a conflict was created which is as pattern still alive in the family, therefore, that is not past, that is present and the past was not handled properly, it was avoided and therefore, it is still here in the present and nothing of it is past. 

It is not the same as brooding over the past. The past cannot be changed anymore, but by addressing it in the present, we can get aware of it and not right action in the past has consequences in the present and Swami by telling us don't brood over the past as we cannot change it anymore, doesn't tell us by that to avoid the conflicts and the present and the awakening and that we should not see it right and get aware that the avoiding it had consequences in the past as well as in the present. 

It never felt right and today we know why it never felt right in the past and it still doesn't feel right, because the conflict expanded in the family as it had been avoided in the past. 

It changes the life feeling, it feels better when we know why it felt not right in the past and why we have to face the problems in the present, but it still doesn't feel okay on the family level. 

He is telling us we should not brood over the past, but he doesn't tell us to avoid conflict and to be able to do that, we have to know the difference, we have to know what is conflict and what not and it needs to be addressed and we should be aware of the difference when it is about brooding over the past. 

The present will make the future. We should not worry about it, but live in the present and be careful to live right action and to not separate truth and right action as he is telling us if we separate truth and right action only pieces will be left. 

If we think it over or if we don't think it over makes a difference. If we contemplate about it there is a big difference in his words as it is always about truth and we have to reflect on truth and if someone tells something like the mind is as well God, what Swami never said, we know, that person is not thinking over his words, but getting in the mind to wrong conclusions and that is not great really and it means as well that she doesn't know the difference between thinking it over and getting to her own mind conclusions, she is expecting everybody to understand what she is telling and she is expecting logical thinking and mind reasoning to be true and that is the basis of untruth and not truth. 
She probably doesn't know the difference between mind and not mind or Atma, she has as it seems never been thinking it over and she doesn't uses Swami's words and truth, but she is just using the mind. 

And the other one was even worse when she said that Swami's words are painful and suffering putting the room her insecurity and her not knowing sharing with us the agony of it asking me how do you know and I tell her Swami's words not mine and she answers it is pain and what to tell her, okay it is pain. I didn't answer, we just made the difference between conceptual and non-conceptual and when we are talking about it that is conceptual, when we are meditating or singing, it is direct experience and we are practicing.     

It is a different experience to expect the mind logic of getting to a right conclusion and to be understood by all others is not right, it is just arguing about it and with other words, they are not even able to be right about that and to make the difference between thinking it over and argumentation, not that much aware about it. 

That is not the joy he is talking about it here and it is not the enlightenment in his words, we know and experience as joyful, it is something else. In the mind and with arguing we always get to a wrong and not right conclusion in thinking we are right when it is not right. 

Kind of tricky and who is telling it is all clear, we read his words and think, right we contemplate about the divine and the eternal and the only way we know how is either repeating a mantra or thinking, he is absolute, everything else is relative that means we have to see it in our own life, a way to see it is not this and not that, what remains is celebration and joy because we live in the present only and should be happy if we are not disturbed by the brooding about the past and the worry about the future.