Who Is Experiencing This Flow of Time? - 1st January 2018

Wishing all of you a wonderful, wonderful New Year. This year will be the most auspicious, filled with Guruji's grace and blessings in your lives, your families, your friends, and the entire world. I am quite intrigued; even in the greeting 'Happy New Year,' I find a certain clue. So if the year is new, who is it new for? A new year is here now, and the new year was here last year also. A new year was here the year before that was, and before that was, and before that was, before it was not. At no point is there no experience of the new year. So the one who's had these new year experiences over the years is which one?

So if time is—if the year is a measure of time, and time seems to present these new possibilities for us at regular intervals, then you who are tasting this flow of time, are you subject to this time? If it is the year that rejuvenates and there is a new, you know, that comes for you—a new year it comes for you, a new minute it comes to you, a new second which comes for you—is the 'you' for whom it comes subject to it? And on the other hand, if you are not here, would there be this next minute, next moment? You are here only in imagination? Even if in imagination, you have to be. So you are actually the substratum.

So this is another one of the mind's convictions. She will say that you are the one that is subject to time. Actually, you are the subject of time; time is the object. So in this wonderful new year, appearance is appearing to all of you. I hope you glide through this flow of time in this year. And of course, as with every year, it can be mixed with some sugar and spice, so don't expect it to be only as we know that. Although in this world of duality all the ups and downs will come, but more and more we are starting to see that you are not oppressed by time. You are not controlled by it. Even for time to exist, you must be.

If there was no such thing as time, one thing we would not have to do is wish each other 'Happy New Year,' but also you would experience yourself in your entirety. You, in just this moment, a dynamic aspect also, is being stretched out seemingly with that which we call time. But actually, nothing is moving. It is all already here. It is visiting it with our attention. The movement of this attention leads to what we call this time and space. What is the screen on which all of this is? You might feel like it is outside you because you might believe that you are this body and the world where all this is happening is outside of you. But actually, you're just experiencing all of this on the screen of your own being. That is why whether you call it internal perceptions or outer perception, there's only one space in which you are perceiving them.