Live in present. Why worry?
I had met some wealthy businessmen of Ahmedabad. While sitting down to dine with me, they would be lost in their textile mills. The wife [of one such man] came and sat before me. I asked the wife, “Why have you come and sat in front of us?” She responded, “My husband never eats his food peacefully.” So I understood. When I asked the businessman, he replied, “My chit (inner component of knowledge and vision) wanders over there.” I told him, “Don’t do that. When your plate is present in front of you, first enjoy what is there, do not worry about what is not present. Enjoy whatever is in front of you at present.”
If worries arise, then do you need to go to the kitchen to eat? Then do you need to go to the bedroom to sleep? And what about in the office, at work?
Questioner: We go there too.
Dadashri: Those are all departments. So if there are externally induced problems in just one of the departments, then you should not take them [worries] to another department. Complete all the work that needs to be done in the one division that you are in. However, when you have gone into another division to eat, then leave the troubles of that other division over there, and when you go to eat, then eat without a worry. When you go to the bedroom, then leave those other problems where they are. When there is no such setting, a person is doomed. When he sits down to eat, he begins to worry at that time, ‘What will I do when the boss scolds me?’ Hey, deal with it when he does! For now, just enjoy your meal!
What God has said is, “Enjoy what is present, do not worry about that which is not present.” This means that whatever is present, enjoy that!
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