How to accept yourself for who you are?

Dear, 

"Don’t fight the mind; just relax in realisation". 

Look at the deceptions of the mind. Come what may, the mind cannot stay in the present. Even when it recognizes that the past is a load; the future is a load, yet the recognition is very superficial, very theoretical. You know what it means to stay in the present? You won’t even be thinking about the future or the past. Not thinking about being a slave of the past, and the future and also not thinking about being free from past and future. Even to think about the freedom from the future is to yet be thinking of the future. 

In real freedom, where you don’t even think of freedom. The free man is already free, what has he to do by thinking about the freedom. He is a slave, who has thoughts of the freedom. The free man has no thoughts of freedom, it is a strange thing. The free man has no thoughts of freedom; he is already free. 

Past and future do not exist except, in the mind. There is no question of gaining freedom from them. Were they real, one could have fought with them and gained freedom. How will you fight something which is already in the mind and only in the mind? You cannot fight it. You can only understand that it is imaginary, it is gone, finished. 

We said that the past and future are in the mind. When the mind is roaming here and there, just realize that it is roaming and there is nothing to fight and illuminate the way, and all those things. There is no need, just realize that these are unreal things. 

The beauty of intelligence, that it doesn’t need to fight, it needs to realize. Realization is sufficient, effortlessly done. No need to fight; I am free. Without moving a step; I am free. Standing where I am; I am free. Right now; I am free. No time consumed, no effort needed; I am free. That is the beauty of realization; that is the beauty of intelligence. Sharp, attentive realization and very joyful, let me assure you. At times you may just laugh out; nothing serious, not at all. 

‘Oh! it is back to its old ways and starts thinking what will happen two years later, ten years later’. That is what it keeps doing, it is unreal. The only reality is what is happening right now and I am into it; enjoying it; fully immersed in it, nothing more, simple. 

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