Waqt, an old BR Chopra movie, has a song written by great
poet Sahir Ludhianvi
Aage bhi jaane
na tu, peechhe bhi jaane na tu
jo bhi hai, bas
yahi ek pal hai.
The song
implores us to live in the present, the current moment, makes full use of it to
the best of our ability. Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything.
With it, all is possible, without it nothing.
Writer Lydia K,
while emphasizing the power of now says -
“There is
nothing that powerful, with so many opportunities, that can change a life in a
matter of seconds, so fleeting and yet with a lifetime of consequences, like
the present moment.
Now is where
you’re supposed to be and thinking about the past or future prevents you from
living this moment, which is the only thing you truly have. And if you can’t
live this one, you’ll miss out on many more. And having in mind that life is
made of moments like that, you don’t live at all.
But if you take
control and focus on your current activity, on the people around you, on how
you feel right now, if you look around and breathe deeply, you might just feel
like the happiest person in the world.
And no one is
able to take that from you. Because this moment is your present.
This moment is
yours.”
Old Sanskrit Subhashit says –
न हि कश्चित्
विजानाति किं कस्य श्वो भविष्यति ।
अतः श्वः
करणीयानि कुर्यादद्यैव बुद्धिमान् ॥
No one knows
what will happen to whom tomorrow. So a wise man should do all of tomorrow’s
tasks today
Same thoughts were translated in easier colloquial
language by the great social reformer and iconoclast Kabeer -
काल करे सो आज
कर, आज करे सो अब ।
पल में परलय होएगी,बहुरि करौगे कब.
Loosely translated it means, do
today what you intend to do tomorrow and do it now what you wish to do today,
the time would fleet very fast and world might end the next moment and you may
never get a chance to do what you wish to do.
Sometimes we are aware of the poet who dwells within us and registers every previous
moment of our lives. More often, however, we move through our days in a fog or frenzy
– until we’re started into consciousness. Noted motivational speaker Norman
Vincent Peale tells us “We should be building our lives, causing time to become
real. Passively drifting through time allows time inexorably to dissolve life.”
By building its
elements, consciously and actively in harmony, causes time to transcend into
eternity and ourselves to become one with that great music.
The supply of
time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one
examines it and when a moment is properly used and its potential is fully
realised, it is adorned and crowned with glorious splendour.
See every moment
as a new “now” with its own potential and that it will never come back. The next
moment has its own mission. If we waste “now” when can we ever make up that
loss? There is no way to get back that “wasted now” and fix the squander. There is nothing more tragic than a backward
look at wasted days, months, years, or a time that was spent without having
purchased sixty minutes on the hour.
French poet,
novelist Victor Marie Hugo rightly said – “He who every morning plans the transactions
of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will will guide him
through the labyrinth of the most busy day. The orderly arrangement of his time
is like a ray of light, which darts itself through all his occupations. But
where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the
chance of incidents, all things lie huddled together in one chaos, which admits
of neither distribution nor review”.
It takes clarity and peace of mind to recognize and
reorder personal priorities. Maybe that is why so many of us procrastinate.
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