What is the Present? || Acharya Prashant (2013)

Speaker : What is the present? We keep on talking of the present, what is the present?

The present is the source, present is nothing but the Truth.

The present is that from which everything emanates. The present is all, there is nothing but the present and the present is not this moment where you are sitting and doing something. All this is sheer memory and movement in time.

Present is not a moment at all and to say that live in the present does not mean that do what you are doing right now and think of this and that. All that is a very limited way of looking at thing. The present is what ‘is’ . It is the Truth itself, the source itself.

‘वर्तमान’, the root word from Sanskrit is ‘That which is’. वो जो ‘वर्तता है’, ‘वर्तने’ का अर्थ ही है ‘होना’, ‘That which is’.

And ‘That which is’ does not mean this room and the bodies sitting here.

The present is not a moment at all, it is not a part of time.