PRAYERFUL

GREETINGS

As we enter the New Year

here is a ‘Priceless Present Prayer’

just for you

Well! I do not wish a happy future for you

but do pray for your great, fulfilling & eternal

Present

I do not wish your fulfillment to be somewhere far off

beyond the horizon

but pray it to be right ‘Here & Now'

I do not wish your fulfillment to be an illusion

but something which truly is

Future is yet to comeand will come one day as a present

Past is dead & goneit was one day a present

Present alone is

Awareness of 'past or future' is to be in the realm of Time

To live fully in the present is to be in the Timeless

Time is when the goal is far off

Time stops and timeless alone iswhen you revel in

contentment in yourself

Time is an effect, its first unit is thus called a 'second'

Timeless is the cause, it is obviously the 'first'

To wish for future is to live in an endless dream world

To pray for reveling in the eternal present is to awake to the

timeless truth

Time is a product of our minds

Timeless is even when the mind is asleep or transcended

Ultimately Time is not there

Timeless alone is

May you always revel

in the expanse of timeless

in that which alone is

in that which is really You

and

discover why is Present

called a Present

To prompt a person to keep his/her eyes on the future is basically a

thoughtless act

It merely amounts to wishing a person to remain eternally on a trip

No wonder such people have to keep wishing such things endlessly

year after year, after year

If you truly wish to give someone a Priceless Present

then motivate the person to wake to the Timeless Present

Send this ‘Priceless Present Prayer’ to all thoughtful people

you truly love

Sarve Bhadrani PashyantuMa kashchit dukhabhag bhaveta

Thy own joyous ever-present timeless Self

Swami Atmananda Saraswati(www.vmission.org)

Om Tat Sat