Advaita SE Meditations - Time Is A Mental Construct

Listen to Ektaji guide you through an Advaita self-exploration meditation on the inquiry, "Time is a mental construct." Notice thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions appearing and disappearing in the present moment. Can you ever step outside the NOW into the past or future, or are they simply mental assumptions? Discover the continuous sense of I Am that gives the present its reality, revealing the eternal NOW beyond the illusion of time.

Transcript

Beeping Let's do a self-exploration meditation. On Nisargadatta Maharaj's book. I am that. Chapter number three Living the present. Reality. We will explore How time is a mental construct. And does not really exist. Let's sit comfortably. Let's close our eyes. Observe that in this present moment, There are thoughts arising and falling. There are feelings arising and falling. Data. Physical sensations arising and falling. There are perceptions arising and falling. These arisings appear. And disappears. Notice the perception of sound of these words. Appearing and disappearing. Notice the perception of touch of the body on the chair. Appearing and disappearing. Notice thoughts appearing and disappearing. Notice feelings. Appearing and disappearing. Notice any physical sensations. Of purity. And disappearing. Where are they appearing and disappearing? Don't they appear and disappear in the present moment? Can you ever know? Anything other than what is in the present moment? Can you ever step out of the present? Into the past, Can you ever step out of the present? Into the future. In your own direct way. Experience. Can you ever prove? The existence of the past. Or the future. By going there. Where does the memory of the past appear? And disappear. Where does the imagination of the future? Appear and disappear. Do the past and the future really exist? In your own direct experience. Or are they simply a mental assumption. Is time simply a mental construct? Let's explore our direct experience. Where is my direct experience always happening? Experience always happens in the present moment. What makes the present moment so special? Isn't it the existence of the sense of I am? I am. In the present moment. That is how. The present, Gets its stamp of reality. That is how the present Okay. It's living myth. That is how. The present, Yet. Actuality. I am in the now. That is what makes the present moment. Really. The sense of being. Horne ka ehsas. Is always in the now. Everything always happens in the now. And everything that happens. Is known by the sense of being. In fact. The meaning of the present moment. Is the sense of being. The sense of being is so close to us. That most of us miss it. We misrecognizing the permanence of the sense of being. We miss recognizing. The continuity of the sense of being. The continuity of the sense of being. Is the truth. Honika Esas. The sense of being. Has always been and will always remain. That is eternal. The mind misses this truth. The mind feels the need to now establish a continuity. Because it misses the truth, It finds gaps in its understanding. It cannot find a continuity. It fills up the gaps with an assumption called time. The mind says that. The distance between two events is time. It labels the first event as passed. And the second event as present. And the third event. As the future. But the truth is. . . That in. Our own direct experience. All three events are experienced only in the now. There is no real past or future event. There is simply the Now. And the now is special because of the sense of being. The sense of I am. I am. Is equal to the null. That is only the now. There is only. I am. There is only the sense of being. Time is simply a mental construct. Everything changes. The body changes. The mind changes. Thoughts change. Feelings change. Which is now. Has always been real. And the now has never changed. The reality of the now-ness. Has never changed. Not even in dreams. What is now is reality. Examine. Since you were born, Has this sense of now being real. Ever change? It has always been the same now. It is the same now. It will always remain the same now. It is an eternal noun. What is it? That makes the now eternal. Everything changes. But the sense of I am. Is continuous. This continuity. Of I Amness. Imparts reality. To the now. And makes the now eternal. I impart reality to the now. The sense of I am. The sense of being. Is continuous. The sense of I am is equal to now. Now is equal to the sense of being. Time is simply a mental construct. Fall.