A Sabbath Moment

The world is quite capable of existing without you. See this. Just for a moment, step back and repose in the Sabbath of Pure Awareness. The infinite cosmos happens without your attempt to improve it. And you too are infinite, whole and wonderful, without any effort to improve yourself. Drop the world, just for the duration of a breath, even for the space between heartbeats, and let your attention rest at Home.

A subtle ineffable sound arises from the empty bell that was ringing in your solar plexus prior to creation, the unstruck music that soothes and heals before any wound was made. In this humble sabbath from all entanglement, you discover that you are the radiance of Being, the fragrance of divine light, already containing in your Seed the fruit of every right action. Through one blessed moment of boundless non-doing, you transform the cosmos into what Is. This is the real revolution.

So if you cannot meditate for half an hour, then surrender for one moment. This might happen many times during the day, or in the middle of the night. Such a moment becomes a portal to everlasting life, the whole blue sky in a heartbeat. Soon you find it very easy to meditate for half an hour or longer, though there is no need for more than a brief cleansing dive into the ocean of eternity. An hour of meditation is just a strand of such diamond moments.

Then you will understand that the mantra, the prayer, the divine name you've been repeating, was never intended to be a repetition at all. One pulse of the mantra is the vibration of an energy continuum that has no end or beginning, the sound stream that sings the universe out of silence. The mantra is a ripple of all-pervading grace. And grace is not given from above: you Are grace.

The mantra resonates every atom of your flesh, attuning you to God very naturally, effortlessly. Thus your moment of surrender becomes an hour, and you find yourself asking, "Where did the time go?" It didn't go anywhere. There never was any time. Jai Guru Dev.