Patience is not about accommodation, adjustment, or tolerance. The patience we know is suffering. Real patience is timelessness—where you don't even feel time. Like when you're deeply immersed in a book in the late night, and suddenly it’s dawn with birds chirping—that is patience. Real patience is love, where time simply disappears.
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Questioner: Sir, what is patience?
Acharya Prashant: Question is, ‘What is patience?’ Well, Nothing. What you know as patience is just toleration of time. You are tolerating something, and you call it as ‘patience’.
Patience is not about accommodation, adjustment, tolerance. Patience is attention. Patience is timelessness. Patience is not when you say, ‘I can be patient for the next three hours’. Real patience is when you do not even know that those three hours have passed away. Patience is timelessness. You know patience of somehow tolerating time. ‘I tolerate time. I tolerated those restless moments, and I call that patience.’ No, that is not patience.
Real patience is when you do not even feel time. Real patience is love. In moments of love, time disappears. You do not even know that there is time. You forget about time. That is patience. When you are deeply immersed with your book. You started at 11 p.m. and you raise your head and find that it is dawn, the birds are chirping. Then it is patience. You did not even come to know when six hours passed. You started at 11 p.m. and now its 5 a.m. You didn’t even have any thought about time. It is patience. Patience is beautiful.
