“I'll just give a simple understanding about how the mind works and how…”

I'll just give a simple understanding about how the mind works and how exactly the Upanishad is going to help us. Let me once more explain the word Upanishad - just sitting. Maybe if I have to give the commentory for that word - sitting with the Enlightened being. Thats all is the Upanishad. Let's first understand how our mind works? With a simple drawing.

Uh.. Bhaktananda do you have a sketch? Oh alright..can you..

This cloth is created for renunciation,you can't hold anything! That's a problem, no packet or anything! You can't tie or hold anything in this cloth. I'm just giving you simple explanation on how the mind works. Your mind is nothing but making your future into past. Understand, what you call as life is nothing but swallowing your future and making it into past. Am I right? It is just every moment constantly you swallow the future and make it into past.

The future becoming past is what you call your mind or what ever you know as life. Nothing else. Just the time shaft, the past becoming, or the future becoming past. Future is entering into past. The space where this future and the past meets, that is what we call present moment. Future is constantly entering into past, becoming past is what we call your mind. Where the past and the future meets is the present moment, this moment.

Past; for explanation sake I'm just redrawing one more,once more time. The future is just disappearing into the past like a, this is the way it is going, it's moving. Understand every step you need to understand completely only then, you will be able to go with it. A little bit of introduction about the mind is good. This like a user's manual, owners manual for mind! Not even user's, owner's manual! Usually nobody, many people don't use that is different, but if you own better to have!

See even though you have a car, in that, when the moment you sit and put the seat belt, there is a big the information about airbag and it says for further details see the owner's manual. How many of us have refered the owner's manual about the airbag? At least with airbag it is okay, even if you don't refer because it is going to be useful only when you have the accidents, but if you don't have the owner's manual for mind, you will create accidents.. You will create accidents, and you will not even know that you are going through accidents every day! So better to have owner's manual for mind.

This is the present moment, where the future is disappearing into past. This moment, maybe we can call as a present. Ey Bhakta, spelling is okay? Spelling is right? Ah okay. Because the see in the law firms, there is a, the best kept secret is the senior lawyers have forgotten how to argue. Because they've, they have just started managing managing only juniors go and regularly argue, just like that I've forgot how to write because I'm not writing! I'm only speaking speaking!

Sometime I have to refer the spelling. Any how in the laptop no problem that spell check is there. No that creates all problem! When I type Devi and type for spellcheck it gives the option of devil! Because it can't read the Sanskrit words. That's another one problem! Any how, your mind; understand now these few statements, if you completely grasp you will realise the truth.

Your mind is nothing but jumping from past to future, past to future and past to future. Am I right? Thought is nothing but jumping from past to future or future to past. You can't think in the present moment. Try to create a single thought in present moment? You can't. The moment you come back to present moment thoughts will disappear. Thinking is happening means, you are jumping from past to future or future to past; means here to here, here to here, here to here... This is what we call thought. Am I right?

For Example, if you are jumping hundred time from past to future, future to past, you have hundred thought per second. Per second, how many times you are jumping from past to future, future to past, that many number of thoughts you have. Are you able to grasp? If any of you have any doubt, put it in writing, end of the session I will answer, because this needs to be completely internalized by you. Understand, only if the internalization happens, you will involve in the whole process. See, you will do all sorts of illogical things nonsensical things for any pleasure. But even to move one hand for spirituality you will have thousand question, and you think you are very intelligent! No that is the problem.

See, for other things you will do all sorts of things without even bothering and even if your logic says it is not good. Many people come and tell me that smoking is bad I know, but I'm not able to drop what to do? I have to give honey. Usually I energise and give the honey for de-addiction, any how; even if you know it is not good, your logic says you will do - when it comes to pleasure. But when it comes to any meditation or spiritual things even a small thing, you will have too many logical questions and you think because of that, because you asking all logical questions for spirituality you are very intelligent; or you have the pride “I don't believe in superstitious things.” And you don't understand how many thousands o f nonsensical,superstitious things you have. First the idea you, you are body is the first superstition you are carrying.

Instead of looking into those big big superstitious things you are carrying,the small small things you think as a superstitious things. Anyhow, now at least internalize this, so that you will be ready for the process, you'll be ready for the process. If you are jumping from past to future, future to past hundred times per second, you are having hundred thought per second. Lets call it as a TPS - Thought per second. Hundred TPS, for example, maybe, when you are having hundred TPS you will be away from the present moment Am I right? This is the present moment where the future and past meets. If you are jumping too many times tagadaga tagadaga tagadaga tagadaga tagadaga taga. That's what is going on now. Naturally you will be away from the past, away from the present. You will never be in the present moment, because in the present moment you can't think. There won't be any thought in the present moment, if you come back to present moment there will be only beautiful silence.

The more number of time you are jumping between past and the present and past and the future, past and the future, more number of thoughts. For example hundred TPS means you are completely away from the present moment. What is happening in the present, nobody bothers. Even if I'm standing and talking here you just pick up one thought and compare with what all you heard in your past lectures, discourses, classes, what you read, you will be now sitting and having a big comparison notes and you miss all other statements. No that is the problem.

See, I'm not saying what ever you heard is wrong or something, but now sitting and analizing is wrong. Because you are going to miss my next statement. If you are sitting here, and the problem with so called spiritual seekers is well read, well read and completely confused. Thouroughly confused, well read, and you can't do anything to help them because any statement I make, now this fellow will be sitting and having 10 dictionary, and 10 references. In that book it says like that, in that book it says like that. This guy will be doing two thing - either refering all these things and if all those books also says the same thing or if you find some relationship, he will say “oh what he is saying is right.” Or if he does find right quotation or matching, ”this is not right I think he doesn't know completely he is too young, after all he is young leave it.” That's the problem! See, whether you say yes or no, by comparing notes you are not going to grasp.

Even if you say yes, you are going to miss the other statements which I'm making.By the time you finish your analysis and come back, I have already gone 10 steps ahead. Now, just keep all the things which you read, studied, heard, one corner for two days; when you go back you pick it up. I'm not saying complete to throw away, just for two days. Go into it completely and understand, internalize. If you are jumping between this and that, this and that, you will be away from the past, away from the present. Maybe, fortunately, sometime you do some meditation or some pranayama or some kind of a technique, then may be if you bring your TPS down, means the jumping between future and past, future and past to 80 TPS, 80 Thoughts per second. 80.. Instead of jumping 100 time, you jump 80 times. You come down little bit towards the present moment. Am I right?

If you do something else and jump and the reduce the jumping to 60, you come down little more to the present moment. And if you reduce it to 40... Sometime, very rarely, the poweful techniques or the blessings of an Enlightened Guru can bring it down to 20, even 20 TPS.. See, this is just an example I'm giving. It's not that you are now in 100 TPS, you are maybe in 1000 TPS or 2000. I don't think you will be in 100 hmm. Maybe it, it maybe even million I don't know! One person is here in zero TPS ahaa! Sometime even silence people wake up, wake up call happens... Oh she is beyond that source also ok!!

See my talking sometime feels like a lullaby “Aaaaaaaaaaaa” so you feel nicely, nicely relaxed and taken care. When I give the break, suddenly you understand something is wrong, and you wake up, and the fun part is when these guys wake up first thing they will do is..Looking at others! If you are looking at others understand, you are person who slept, not the neighbor! No that is a fun part... And sometime these guys very, they will be just sitting and sleep.. First they will start with a “let me listen with closed eyes!” They will have the justification “I'm meditating and listening” and, the next person pokes, (Hand gestures like they are listening) They won't even open the mouth to tell I am listening because the sleep will be disturbed if you talk, they will say “you attend, you listen I am okay, I am listening!” These guys, what to do? I always tell people that meditative listeners are the people who are thinking something else, or lost somewhere.

Rarely by the presence of the master you come down to, or the some initiation or process can bring it down even to 20 TPS. When you come to the present moment, step by step, step by step, step by step... When you come, suddenly you will have the intelligence of seeing the future and the past clearly. Understand, from this place can you see the past or the future clearly? No! You can't even see the past, past or the future clearly.

When you come down, you may be able to see little better. See from here you can see only like a, this much maybe, maybe that also. From here little more your vision will improve. From here 60 TPS you may improve little more. From 40 little more, you may be able to see. When you, when our, when your TPS reduces, you will have the intelligence to see the past and future. One important thing.... Now it feels like I'm giving you a big promise. If you are, if you become, if you come to the present moment, you can see your future. So naturally it looks like a big promise or too good to be true.

Let us analise one important thing. Sometime when you are in a party, suddenly you will think that some person is going come in next few minutes and you will see that person is there! And, sometime when telephone rings, suddenly you remember somebody who, whom you did not remember for 2 years, and when you pick up the phone that person is online! When a door bell rings, suddenly you remember a relative who has not come to your home for 5 years, or whom you have not remembered, for, forgotten for 5 years. When you open the door, that guy is standing there. How many of you had this kind of experience at least once or twice in your life? Wow! Understand, if it happens, but where, when it happens you do usually in the mind ah coincidence.. Am I right? If it happens in one person's life once, it can be called as coincidence.. Am I right?

Practically now 98 percent of you show that you have this experience. When 98 percent of you had the experience, how can this be called as coincidence? You can't brush this aside in the name of coincidence.. Am I right? If 98 percent of the people are experiencing, how can that be called by the word coincidence? No! Then you need to change the meaning of the word coincidence. Coincidence means what? Rarely in some one or two persons life, which happens may, may not. But now, the evidence says 98 percent of the people; in 98 persons life, 98 percentage of the people in 98 percentage of the people are experiencing means, how can that be called as coincidence? There is something more than coincidence in this thing. We can't brush this aside just in the name of coincidence.

This is what we call Intuition means, when that door bell was ringing, or when that cell phone was ringing, may be sudden jerk or some reason your TPS dropped. When the TPS drops it can drop even by force sometime. When TPS dropped, you were able to see the future, next 5 minutes of the future clearly, you had the glimpse of time shaft. This is the time shaft, the future disappearing into the past when the TPS dropped, it can drop at any moment by sudden... When something suddenly happens, when your mind is not capable enough of processing that information, suddenly the TPS drops. When the TPS drops, you saw the future. Just you had the glimpse of the future next 5 minutes what is going to happen. I think you are able to connect with what I'm saying? Mmm? That is the reason, you are able to see or think who is going to come or what is going to happen. See suddenly a door bell ringing or the cell phone ringing or even if your really relaxed and happy; sometime in some parties, when you don't have your direct relatives, your in-laws, you may be completely relaxed.. Maybe suddenly the TPS has come down. That is the reason you had the glimpse of next 5 minutes of your future. If you are... See, if your TPS falls accidentally itself you have the glimpse of your future, if it can be brought down consciously, then understand the value. Understand the experiences, understand the clarity which can be added into yourself. If it drops even accidentally, you will have the glimpse of the future.

All of you able to see because I'm hiding.. Mm? Seeing this face won't help ma, this has to, later on that will help, first now, hahaha, only understanding this will help! This side okay? This whole program, is all about..(oh you are not able to) then I think okay?... Mm..Oh then I have to repeat the whole thing once more! Ok you understood? Alright, otherwise you will be doing something else! Better to understand all these things, because even if you miss a single statement, you may miss and mess the whole thing. This is a very step by step understanding which you need to go through, but it's worthy of understanding.

Now the next few statements which I'm going to make are very mystical ,understand. Now what ever I spoke looks very logical, and they are logical, the next few statements are going to be very mystical. Enlightened person is a person who is established in the present moment - whose energy is in zero TPS. He's nether lost in the future nor lost in the past. Understand, the first statement which I'm making - Enlightened person is a person who is established in the present. If you can bring down your TPS and establish yourself in the present, you are Enlightened. One more thing – Future, past, present; all these three put together only is called as eternal, am I right? Eternal means Nithya – eternal, you can touch the eternity only in the present moment.