Partha Story

Hello..! My name is “Partha”. Today.. I just wanted to share with you “The Power of Now”. Related to time.. now is all about time.

Yoga as a subject.. if you see.. time.. space and the five elements. These seven things actually cover the whole subject of yoga. So, you can understand.. how time becomes a very important parameter in our lives.

The power of now.. is the best understood by the way of a small story.. which I always share. In fact.. I tell everyone please remember this story.. once every day because it’s all happening in the now.

Slide- Life is happening to us in the now.. in this moment and in this particular breath.

Let me share this beautiful story with you.. which you must have read before. Let me share it with you today. It’s the story of the pregnant deer.. because you know.. what happens to the deer is something that is happening to us on an everyday basis.

The power of now is something.. which is going to contribute to your thought process. The way you approach life.. the way you approach time.. you being available in that particular moment. It will shift that spiritual paradigm of yours.. your spiritual connectivity with life.

Let me quickly tell you this story in a couple of minutes. A particular day.. there was a you know.. there was a pregnant deer.. it was pregnant. It would give birth to the fawn any time. That day it was very dark and there were very dark clouds and it would rain any moment.

It was so dark. The deer was considering.. it was in very rough territory. It thought.. “Let me go to that part of the jungle.. where the water is also nearby.. and let me give birth to my child over there.” The deer walks a couple of miles. As it gets closer to the point.. where it wants to deliver the child.. it sees a lot of smoke.. a lot of light there.

Then it gets further closer and it realizes that part of the forest.. there was a fire.. a fire caught on. The closer it would get.. the fire would get closer to it. There was no way it would deliver its baby over there.

It wondered.. Oh my God..! I walked a few miles and it was all stones and very rough territory.. and this part is full of fire right now. I can’t get closer to the forest. “What do I do..?”

It turns left. The moment it turns left.. it sees that there was a lion readily sitting. The lion was just sitting silently.. “ The deer is coming this way.. let it come” and it’s just waiting for the deer to get closer.

Now the deer is in trouble. It understands.. it’s a rough territory. It’s not in a condition to run. To the left.. there’s a lion. In front of it.. there is fire. It was in a mess. “What do I do..?” It looks to the right side. When it looks at the right side.. it sees there was a hunter ready with the gun.. to shoot the deer.

Even the hunter was waiting for the deer to come closer. Now another problem. It was stuck from all ends. It was just wondering.. “How will my child live..?”, “How will it die now..?” The moment it is born.. it will die. Either the fire will burn it off.. or the lion will take it off.. or the hunter will take it off. Oh my God..! My child is never going to see the light of the day”.

That moment.. the deer was enlightened. Please understand.. it’s not important to know the right things in life. Sometimes it’s more important.. to have the right questions in life. The right questions came to the deer..

“What is certain..?”, “What is not certain..?”, “What is in my hands..?”, “What is not in my hands..?”

The deer realized.. what is going to happen next.. is not in his hands. Whether it’s going to be the lion.. the fire.. the hunter.

It did not have any control over the situation. So, it is uncertain.. “What is going to happen next..?” The future is uncertain. What is certain.. is the now. That is.. the moment the deer came back to the now.. and it took a decision.. “I will not think about the future.. let me do what I must do now”.

The deer decides.. “Let me deliver the child right here.. where I am..” and the deer takes a decision. The moment the deer takes a decision.. please understand in life this happens most of the time to us.. we are travelling and we come to the Y Junction. “Should I go to the left..?”, “Should I go to the right..?” and until I make a decision.. I’m stuck at that point. “Doesn’t that happen to us all the time..?”

Only when we take a decision.. “Does the moment happen again..?” So, the deer took a decision that.. “I’m going to deliver the child”. The moment it came to the now.. “What happens..?” Life should support you. Life always will find you in the now.

If we are scheduled in the past.. we are fragmented into the future.. life will never find us in the now.

Slide – The greatest support life can give us.. is in the now. Life delivers to us what it can deliver to us.. if we are in the now.

It’s like a courier. The courier is coming and you are not there.. it can’t be delivered. Life can deliver to you.. what it has for you in the now.. if you are there in the now. So the deer came back to the now. It was there in the now.

So, “What should happen..?” Life should support it. I told you there were dark clouds. So, what happened.. the moment the deer came back to the now.. there was a huge thunder and it began to rain very heavily.

Due to the thunder.. the hunter loses a shot. It goes and hits the lion. The lion falls dead. Due to the rain.. the fire is doused. It was raining so heavily.. the hunter was not able to see anything at all.

The deer happily delivered the child and took away with it. See what happened in one moment.. it was future mongering and everything was lost for the deer. In the very next moment.. the moment it came back to the now all of life’s support came back to the deer.

My dear friends.. this is one of the best stories.. I have ever heard or have ever shared with people. I tell everyone to remember this story every day.. so that we are always remembering that..

Slide- Life will deliver to us what it has for us in the now.. if we are there in the now. The past has gone. Future has not come. What is available to us.. is the now.

If you are in the now.. you will have entire support from life.. just like the deer did.

The power of now.. is the most important thing to know.. because we are in there in the now.. and life is available to us only in the now and only in this breath. I hope you will remember this story every day.. and for a lifetime and share it with your friends.. and with your family.. so that the importance of now.. reaches them.

Thank you so much..! Have a good day.