Now is the moment
Aage bhi jaane na tu, peechhe bhi jaane na tu jo bhi hai, bas yahi ek pal hai. The song implores us to live in the present, the current moment, makes full use of it to the best of our ability. Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. Writer Lydia K, while emphasizing the power of now says - “There is nothing that powerful, with so many opportunities, that can change a life in a matter of seconds, so fleeting and yet with a lifetime of consequences, like the present moment. Now is where you’re supposed to be and thinking about the past or future prevents you from living this moment, which is the only thing you truly have. And if you can’t live this one, you’ll miss out on many more. And having in mind that life is made of moments like that, you don’t live at all. But if you take control and focus on your current activity, on the people around you, on how you feel right now, if you look around and breathe deeply, you might just feel like the happiest person in the world. And no one is able to take that from you. Because this moment is your present. This moment is yours.” Old Sanskrit Subhashit says – ? ?? ??????? ???????? ??? ???? ???? ???????? ? ??? ???? ???????? ???????????? ?????????? ? No one knows what will happen to whom tomorrow. So a wise man should do all of tomorrow’s tasks today Same thoughts were translated in easier colloquial language by the great social reformer and iconoclast Kabeer - ??? ??? ?? ?? ??, ?? ??? ?? ?? ? ?? ??? ???? ?????,????? ????? ??. Loosely translated it means, do today what you intend to do tomorrow and do it now what you wish to do today, the time would fleet very fast and world might end the next moment and you may never get a chance to do what you wish to do. Sometimes we are aware of the poet who dwells within us and registers every previous moment of our lives. More often, however, we move through our days in a fog or frenzy – until we’re started into consciousness. Noted motivational speaker Norman Vincent Peale tells us “We should be building our lives, causing time to become real. Passively drifting through time allows time inexorably to dissolve life.” By building its elements, consciously and actively in harmony, causes time to transcend into eternity and ourselves to become one with that great music. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it and when a moment is properly used and its potential is fully realised, it is adorned and crowned with glorious splendour. See every moment as a new “now” with its own potential and that it will never come back. The next moment has its own mission. If we waste “now” when can we ever make up that loss? There is no way to get back that “wasted now” and fix the squander. There is nothing more tragic than a backward look at wasted days, months, years, or a time that was spent without having purchased sixty minutes on the hour. French poet, novelist Victor Marie Hugo rightly said – “He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy day. The orderly arrangement of his time is like a ray of light, which darts itself through all his occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, all things lie huddled together in one chaos, which admits of neither distribution nor review”. It takes clarity and peace of mind to recognize and reorder personal priorities. Maybe that is why so many of us procrastinate.