What's wrong with the present moment?🔗

Understand, incompletion can never exist in the present moment, because Life happens in the present moment. At the moment of happening, there is no reference point to measure whether you are less or more successful, less or more wealthy, less or more happy. Against what can you measure all this in the present moment? All references and inferences can be made only from the past. That is why all your negativity is rooted in the past.

Past, by its very nature, does not have life. But if you indulge continuously in the past, it swallows the future also. All negativity is rooted in the past. Negativity cannot grow in your inner space if your past memories are not supplied as evidence. Each of us is dragging along a precious bag of memories filled with our past perceptions, our past beliefs, and especially our past failures.

Life opens up new possibilities for you at every moment. But no, you are happy to be stuck with your past record! At each point of Life, who you are is a reflection of what you cognize of the future! Yet you think you are a result of the past.

Why? Because the past is not sitting in the past - you carry it forward into your future!

Make a list of 5 incidents from the past which leave you with an emotion - sweet or painful.

All these memories are incompletions, and create a pattern in you.

Trace the pattern linked to each incompletion.

For the next one week, whenever the pattern comes up, bring awareness that you are responding from incompletion due to the past memory. Very soon, you will see that you have the awareness to catch your pattern before it catches you!

Any action performed from a state of incompletion will only lead to more incompletion. Anything done from a state of completion will lead to only completion in others also.

If you feel disturbed by a woman outside, understand: the disturbance is not from the outer woman. It is from the inner woman - the fantasy called ‘woman’ you carry inside. It is nothing but an incompletion inside you.

There is a beautiful story in the sage Narada’s life. Before he was conferred the honored title of ‘Chiranjeevi Deva Rishi’ (Immortal celestial sage), he was offered all possible pleasures in wide varieties and wild quantities - beautiful women, rivers of soma rasa (the drink of the gods) and what not! Because he was not touched by any of it, he was given the title.

So, completion lies inside you, not outside you. If you are complete, no outer event can cause incompletion in you.

When a happening disturbs you, look in and see: you have a choice not to let it make you incomplete. Do you want to make that choice?

The Sanskrit world poornatva means ‘the state of completion’.

Completion is the state which leaves nothing left to be desired, either in the inner world or in the outer world.

In completion, there is no space for fear, greed, anger, doubt, envy or any of the hundreds of low-energy emotions and conflicts you create for yourself. Completion is an unclouded inner space. In such a space, irrespective of what is happening in the outer world, completion alone remains.

What we don’t realize is that completion is our innate nature. The shanti mantra (peace chant) drawn from Hindu Upanishads says that the whole cosmos resonates with completion:

Om poornamadah poornamidam / Poornaat poornamudachyate Poornasya poornaamaadaaya / Poornamevaavashishyate There is completion here, and there is completion there. Completion is born out of completion. If you remove completion from completion, completion alone remains!

Completion is a state of positive choicelessness. It is destroyed when