A Moment in Time

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Life happens, breath happens, and one day death happens. So how do we truly live while the breath is still happening?

Life is only ever this one moment. The moment we finish living it, it becomes the past. So how do we live this moment?

  1. Smile a lot.
  2. Hold life as a gift. Carry gratitude in everything you do and stay present while you do it.
  3. Learn about food and nutrition. Cook your own meals. Before you eat, take a few quiet seconds to give thanks and bless your food—no one else needs to see; it happens inside you. Chew slowly, really taste every bite. You will naturally eat less and feel more nourished. Sometimes eat with your hands; energy flows from them and blesses the food. Bless the water you drink too—give it healing, love, any good intention you wish.
  4. Celebrate other people’s success and celebrate your own.
  5. You have to work to earn a living, so work. Choose work that feels honest and kind to your own heart.
  6. Watch your emotions as they rise. Pause, feel, and choose your action. In time your being learns to meet every feeling in a way that helps you grow.
  7. Every expression of the Creator is unique. No two laughs, no two tears, no two dances, no two meals are ever the same. Each has its own secret flavor. Look at the apples on a single tree—every one is different. Never expect your experience to be like someone else’s, and never try to repeat an old moment. Let each one be new.
  8. Everyone you meet is another version of you, walking through different circumstances. Be kind. Do the best you can with what arises.
  9. There are experiences we all share—birth, love, pain, joy, wonder. These are the threads that weave our oneness. Even bliss tastes a little different on every tongue.
  10. See spirituality as the marriage between God and science, because science is simply studying the artwork of the Beloved.
  11. To know God personally, go inside yourself and study yourself. Until now, that has been the only door anyone has ever walked through.

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Going Deeper: Does Time Truly Exist?

If I say it is now 7:59:01, by the time you check, a few seconds have passed—so it is no longer true. We think of time as linear when we tell the history of the world. Yes, for all practical, societal purposes, time exists. But really, it is always only this instant—now—and then it is gone.

Let us see time another way. Let us see time as memory, or stored creative action—either already stored or in the process of being stored.

It took about 4.5 billion years to produce you. You are made of the materials of the universe—known and unknown, seen and unseen. With our five senses we perceive only a tiny spectrum of what exists. Scientists tell us there is far more. At the tiniest level, light-matter behaves as wave or particle depending on observation. Look deeply into us and we too are vibrating wave and particle—only we are not conscious of it.

It is within this wave and vibration that everything happens, changing matter into the forms we see, vibrating at different frequencies. There is an intelligence at work here. Sound, together with intention, can penetrate and shift those patterns.

So time “takes place” as creative action and becomes memory.

Going too deep?

Well, the challenge of this earth school is that we all know the world must change—but how? When I say we must change ourselves from within, it often doesn’t make sense. Yet we are all connected in this field of wave and particle. We vibrate at a certain frequency and we affect one another. Scientific experiments show how positive thoughts and emotions beautify the structure of water. The universe is a living thing, just as you are—everything simply at a different state of consciousness.

I have often said: our very thoughts affect things and people around us. Because we cannot see how, we brush it aside. But you know how you feel in a positive environment—with a loving friend, parent, or baby.

When we slow the breath and listen inward, we enter a place of no-time. It is the only place where no creative action is happening, no memory is being accessed or stored. Time does not exist here. We come out feeling the deeper aspect of our being—rejuvenated, perhaps with a shifted vibrational frequency. That shift ripples out, touching our own thoughts and emotions, then those around us, then further—because the network is there.

So when I say we should meditate to start changing things, it carries a greater meaning.

Besides, thoughts and emotions are also influenced by the planets, the moon, the sun, and particles streaming from the sun. This is why ancient Hindu rituals exist to harmonise these forces. When you learn to meditate and raise your frequency, these influences affect you far less.

All creative memory is stored within us; part of it is even written into our genes.

As we speak right now, the brain and nervous system are changing. We have to evolve, whether we like it or not. Some modern health issues—certain migraines, TMJ, fibromyalgia—have no clear physical cause; they are side effects of human evolution (not Darwin’s theory, but the evolution of consciousness). Sound therapy combined with exercise can shift the vibrational field and help those with depression.

Anyway, I’m drifting a little—let’s come back.

I once heard of a study where a few thousand people meditated together for a period and the crime rate dropped in that city. I cannot verify the exact figures, but I often see articles about children sitting in silence at school and their behaviour softening beautifully.

Another example: how do you feel when you enter a church, temple, mosque, or any place of true worship? It feels good, doesn’t it? We bring our love for God and share it. A field of high vibration has been built there over time, and you feel it. The architecture helps hold the energy a little. Time slows. For a meditator, an hour can pass unnoticed.

Some rare beings carry this frequency within them. If you are conscious enough, hours in their company fly by without awareness. This was my experience with my guru, Sri Nandini Maa. When I sat with her, time vanished—she actually had to chase us home sometimes! 😂 In those days I would think, “How fortunate I am to sit in such company. Is this how the disciples felt near Jesus, or the gopis near Sri Krishna?”

I am not saying drop everything and only do this. Many of us are drawn to act in the world—and we must. But the clearest, most powerful solutions still arise from inside.

I always say: develop yourself in every way and live a good life. I am simply expressing what I came here to express—a tiny ripple. Yet we are all expressions.

The intelligence of the universe creates what is needed—and sometimes takes things away, because that too is needed.

The only true constant is change. Adapting to change is the one constant skill.

Out of the hours in your day, spend more of them in positive thinking. Change your thought patterns—and you change yourself. 🙂

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Closing Reflection

We live not in years, but in moments. Each breath is a doorway, each glance a transmission, each choice a seed.

To honor life is to be present with it — not rushing past, not clinging to the past, but meeting each moment as it arrives.

In this way, even the ordinary becomes sacred. And time, instead of slipping away, becomes a companion on the path inward.

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