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Understanding past and future

Listen! Today I want to share a truth honestly with you.

Please understand, you are NOT given the power to correct the past!

Please listen.

You have no power to correct your past. You only have the power to build your future!

The more and more you think and brood about the past, the more suffering you will have, and the more powerless you will feel - because you have no capacity to correct it. And any struggle, any effort you put into correcting it, will only be a failure.

In the same way, you should also know that your past has no way of influencing your future!

You are hypnotized to believe that your past has an influence on the future. No! As long as you believe that your past can influence you, you are in delusion.

Please listen: even if somebody has been a sinner till this moment, he can become a saint the next moment. In the same way, somebody who has been a saint till this moment can become a sinner the next moment. That is the beauty of Mahakala – Time.

Your cognition about you and about life depends on what you think of as your time. You usually think of your time as, say, about 100 years. And you think of the past as your time, and of the future as your time. No! This is not completely right. The first cognition you need to have is that the whole of time is your time, not just 100 years. Second, whatever is past is not your time. Third, only the future time is YOUR time.

The past is not your time - it has no power over you, no influence over you. You think of it as your time based on the delusion that any time spent while you are in your body is your time.

No! The past is not your time, as it was perceived by you with your broken, beaten, confused and abused cognition! So you cannot plan your future based on the idea that whatever happened in the past is your time. The past has already dropped you, but you are still holding on to it!

The past has no influence on your future. Let go of it.