DON'T BE A PROFESSOR🔗

You see, if you are a professional in your professional place of work, there is nothing wrong. But when you bring your profession into your life and home, then things can go seriously wrong.

Here is a small method to find out whether you are a professor or not, throughout the day. If you see a rose, immediately the word 'rose' comes to mind. You start thinking about the roses you may have presented to someone or the roses presented to you by someone. The next thought will be how he reacted or how you reacted to it. The third will be the loving moments or disturbing memories which are associated with that incident. The fourth is how you related with that person, lovingly or not so lovingly. The memory goes on and on, till ultimately you miss the real rose. You missed the real rose, which was smiling at you, which was welcoming you to appreciate it, which was giving its being to you to enjoy.

Sigmund Freud says beautifully, all our thinking is through association; it has no logical clarity. The moment you start arranging the words in sequence, the moment you associate thoughts continuously, be very clear, you are a professor twenty four hours. When I say you are a professor, I mean that you continuously play with words, not with reality. When you stop doing this, you start seeing things as they are; as reality.

THE TIME SHAFT

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Time shaft. Consider time as a shaft which is continuously moving, moving from the right to the left. The future is constantly flowing and becoming the past. The time shaft represents the incidents, memories or the cosmic intelligence. If you can go back in time and get any information, then you have the cosmic intelligence. All your past is available before the present moment - left side of the time shaft. All the future is available after the present moment - right side of the time shaft. The present moment is where the future and the past meet. Usually your mind wanders between past and future, jumping back and forth. If you decide not to think about either past or future, you cannot have thoughts, because a thought is nothing but a jump from past to future or future to past. If you take 10 jumps in one second, you are having 10 TPS - Thoughts Per Second. A person who is restless, say who has 100 TPS, is very far from the time shaft. If you are continuously jumping between the past and future you cannot become truly aware of your past or your future. To become truly aware of your past you have to be in the present moment.

When you are in the zone of 80 TPS instead of 100 TPS, jumping back and forth of the mind reduces, meaning you are less restless. Then you move closer to the cosmic intelligence. And if the TPS reduces further to 60, you will be even closer to the time shaft. The closer you are to the time shaft the more clearly you can see your past and future.

Ashramites get involved in building the Anandeshwara temple at the Bangalore ashram. Paramahamsa spent many hours in a day supervising the work in that period of time - Dec 2006.

People may ask: even if we are restless we remember the past; how do you say that with less TPS you see the past clearly? When TPS is more, you may see the past as you want to, but not as it is. You see only a few incidents in a few moments and you try to connect them and judge your past. As the TPS comes down, you will have a clearer idea of your past. For example, if you have a party in your house, when the party is over, you will create a file about all the mistakes you made and remember only those so that you don't repeat them. You won't remember all the joys you felt and shared. If your TPS is too much, you will remember only the files not the whole incident. The moment you can remember the whole incident or past, you can learn wonderful lessons. This will also show you your future, because the past and future are nothing but two dimensions of time.

If you have clarity about the past, you will have clarity about the future. If you don't have clarity about the future, be very clear that you only remember fragments of past, as you want, and not as it happened. If you bring down the TPS and become calmer, less restless, naturally you will be able to see your past and future more clearly. I don't mean the past in this life alone, but your past in all the lives you have lived. Whether you believe in reincarnation or not, you have had many births; that's the truth, and that intelligence is there in you. The farther you are from the time shaft, the narrower is your view.

Through techniques like meditation, you can bring down your TPS to zero. Here, you are completely in the present moment; you touch eternity. Past, present and future put together is eternity. You can't touch it in the past since it's already gone; you can't touch it in the future since it's yet to happen. You can touch it only in the present moment. If you can totally relax in the 'here and now', be totally aware and totally conscious, you can touch eternity and become aware of the whole past and whole future.

I can say honestly that whatever I'm speaking is from my experience. I have no other investment in promoting this concept except to inspire you to understand that it's possible for you.

Whenever you experience intuition, or have déjà vu like experiences, it means that knowingly or unknowingly your TPS suddenly comes down and you are very calm and relaxed, and you get a glimpse of the future without your knowledge! When you are blissful, your TPS comes down. That is why when you are with a good friend or your beloved, time seems to fly, but when you are with someone boring, time seems to crawl. When the TPS is high and you are restless, you feel time is moving slowly.

People who are time conscious will be in hell. They may achieve whatever they need to achieve in life, but inside they will be in hell. Time bound awareness is good discipline socially, but I call it bondage. Whenever you are attending a business meeting, you need to be time bound, as you need to be socially responsible. But whenever you can, when you finish your business, relax from the time bound awareness. Just as you relax when you remove your coat and shoes, learn how to relax from the time bound awareness after you complete what you have to as a time bound responsibility. You will see and enjoy a different dimension of life, the low TPS bliss, only when you drop out of time bound awareness. Being time bound is good for business but not for living, because life is more than just a business.

Pictures from the Los Angeles ashram taken on different occasions.