SATYA YUGA IS HERE🔗

THIS is the golden period

When I say Life is an eternal celebration, the word... 'is' has to be properly understood. Life 'is' an eternal celebration. Life was never an eternal celebration. Life will never be an eternal celebration. Life is an eternal celebration. We always have an idea, almost in all religions, in all philosophies that there was a golden past. In Hinduism they call it Satya Yuga. In Christianity they call it the Golden Past - The Garden of Eden. In Buddhism they call it the age of dhamma. In every religion, in every sect, in every culture, they have an idea that there was a time when life was an eternal celebration; that there was a time when everything was as it should be. Every religion, every cult has an idea that long, long years ago...once upon a time, things were going perfectly alright...

The idea of Satya Yuga, Garden of Adam and Eve, age of dhamma, are just your ideas.

Let me tell you a small incident:

6000 years ago in the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, they found a stone inscription. If you read that you will be amazed...it almost looks like today's newspaper, today's editorial! The inscription says, 'Once upon a time, people used to be moral, people used to be disciplined. Now, no son listens to his father, the wife disobeys her husband, husbands are not faithful to their wives. This is a time when all morals are lost. We should do something to revive morals. 5000 years ago the Bhagavatam says, Kali injustice has entered the world. Now, a father tries to misbehave with his daughter, a mother tries to have a relationship with her son.' Just imagine! What we are claiming today, happened during the so-called Golden Age also!

There was never a time when life was heaven. It was always as it is now. But we have a feeling that life was a celebration. Even in your life, you apply the same belief. When people reminisce they always say, 'We had a golden childhood.' When you were a child, did you feel that way? No! That's exactly what I am saying.

One more thing: do you know why we always take photographs? Because we are always used to making things past, and then enjoying them. Only in photographs we enjoy life, never when we are in the moment. I always find, where ever we go, people continuously take photographs. Then, when it is past, they look through their album, remember that moment and only then enjoy it. They say, 'Oh, it was so nice. We went to that place, this place. It was so joyful, so happy, see how we are.'

You have lost the habit of enjoying the present. When you are there, you don't have time to enjoy. When it is past, you enjoy the past moments. The mind is habituated only to enjoy the past.

Psychologists say, for nine months when you were in your mother's womb, you never had any responsibility, you never had any work, you never had to do anything. You were totally taken care of - alone, joyful, independent of all bondage and responsibilities… blissful! The imprint, engraved memory, samskara, hang over of that period in the garba, your mother's womb, makes you feel the past is great! That is the real Golden Age past you are referring to!

The past was never any grander. There is a beautiful word in the Pali language - thathata. It means 'is'ness - being in the present all the time. Only the present can be lived.

So understand: life was never an eternal celebration. Life will never be an eternal celebration. Life is an eternal celebration. It is the present 'is' which makes you happy or sad. You see both ways, either joy or sorrow can be experienced only in the present, never in the past or the future. In the past or the future, you are enjoying only hangovers. You are living with ghosts.

The 'is-ness' or thathata is lost. This is a beautiful word. Buddha is also called thathata, the man who lives in the is-ness. When you live in the is-ness, things are totally different. To live in the is-ness you need sensitivity. You need life.