The illusion which most aspirants find it difficult to shake is the belief that the infinite Truth is an object which has to be attained in some distant future, and that all life is just a means for this attainment. But if the Truth were to be confined only to the future and not to the past or present, it would not be infinite; it would at once become limited as an event which has its origin in time.
All that life is and has is at once deprived of intrinsic significance if it comes to be regarded as merely instrumental to some far-off event. This is definitely a false point of view.
Life is not meant to be rich in spiritual significance at some distant date, but is so at every moment, if only the mind is disburdened of illusions. It is only through a clear and tranquil mind that the true nature of spiritual infinity is grasped as something which is not yet to be, but which already has been, is, and ever will be an eternal self-fulfilment.
When every moment is rich with eternal significance, there is neither the lingering clinging to the dead past, nor a longing expectation for the future, but an integral living in the eternal now. It is only through such living that the spiritual infinity of the Truth can be realised in life.
It is not right to deprive the present of all importance by subordinating it to an end in the future; for this means the imaginary accumulation of all importance in the imagined future, rather than the perception and realisation of the true importance of everything that exists.
There cannot be ebb and tide in eternity, no meaningless intervals between intermittent harvests, but a fullness of being which cannot suffer impoverishment of a single instant. When life seems to be idle or empty, it is not due to any curtailment of the infinity of the Truth; but it is due to one's own lack of capacity to enter into its full possession."
~ Meher Baba c.1942, India, Di v5 p14-15
大多数求道者发觉很难动摇的幻相是，相信无限真理是一个必须在遥远的将来实现的目标，而全部的生命仅仅是实现这一目标的手段。但是，如果真理只局限于未来，而不是过去或现在，它就不会是无限的，它将立即成为起源于时间的一个有限事件。
生命的全部，一旦被认为仅仅是对某些遥远事件的工具，就会失去内在的意义。这绝对是一个错误的观点。
生命并不意味着在某个遥远的日子里具有丰富的灵性意义，而是每时每刻都是如此——只要思想能解除幻相。这只有通过一种清晰而平静的头脑，心灵无限的真正本质才会被理解为一种尚未存在的东西，但它已经是，并且永远是一种永恒的自我实现。
当每一刻都充满了永恒的意义时，就不会有挥之不去的死寂，也没有对未来的渴望，而是永恒的永恒。只有通过这样的生活，真理的精神无限才能在生命中实现。
剥夺现在的所有重要地位，使其在未来走向终结是不正确的；因为这意味着假想的未来中所有重要的东西都是虚构的，而不是感知和认识到所有事物的真正重要性。
在永恒中，不可能有潮起潮落，也不会有断断续续的收获之间的间隔，而是不可能在一瞬间遭受赤贫的充沛。当生活似乎变得懒庸或空虚的时候，并不是由于无限真理的任何缩减，而是由于一个人自身缺乏进入它全部领地的能力。——美赫巴巴
版权1942年，印度，《语录》, 第五卷. 第14 - 15页
