11.Relax Into Enlightenment

A small story:

Just the other day, one of my close, inner circle of devotees asked me, 'Master, how is it possible for you to be in joy all the time? You are so casual, innocent, and playful all the time. Yet, any word you utter simply becomes true. How can so much intuition and intelligence happen continuously?'

Before coming to the discourse I was playing chess with the host's daughter. It was time to leave and we had not finished the game. I told her I would come back and play. 'How you can be so playful, so joyful? Your words are so clearly coming to reality!' asked one of inner circle of devotees.

Understand! we are unable to experience that intuition, intelligence and joy because we are not able to fall into the present moment. We are always pulled by past or future. We either worry about the past or worry about the future. Something or the other is continuously going on in the mind.

The first step to fall into present is simple. Accept all the events and situations of the outer world; accept the doubts and dramas of the inner world. Simply accept whatever problems we have in the outer world and whatever problems we have in the inner world. As long as we don't accept, it remains a problem. The moment we accept, it becomes a part of the solution.

From the moment we accept, just try this small experiment. Just try it.

Totally relax just for 3 days- not a day more or less- just for 3 days. Both in the inner world, or outer world, simply accept everything that happens . Accept everything we experience. If your life so far has been satisfactory, will we lose all your wealth in 3 days? Surely not!

Why don't we give a trail? Just 3 days, with deep sincerity, let us be utterly truthful; give it our 100% effort. Stop wandering from past to future in mind, ignoring present altogether. Drop everything we hold on to and accept everything that comes by. If we are not able to accept something 100%, accept 'I am not able to accept 100%. What can be done?' Even this acceptance will make us drop from the rut of being pulled between past and future.

If we accept, anything, then we will simply fall into the present moment. When we fall into present moment, the time is our servant. Bliss our true nature will express itself.