The falseness of the so called 'Power of Now' || Acharya Prashant (2015)

Question: Sir, people these days emphasis on the idea of the ‘Power of now’. But you say that the present is different from the now. Please elaborate.

Speaker: This whole talk about the power of now is a great sham. It is deep materialism disguised as spirituality. The present is not the now. The now is a point in the stream of time. The now is that which is preceded and followed by the past and the future. *The present is that in which the past,* *the now and the future,* simultaneously co-exist. The now is a point in the stream; the present is the vast infinite land, in which that stream is flowing.

The present contains the stream of time from the beginning till the end. That is why the present is beyond time. The present is an infinity that contains the stream of time from the beginning till the end. The past is there in the present, the now is there in the present and the future too is there in the present.

And it is not one stream of time. There are as many streams of time as there are minds. The past is not one object, the future too, is not one object; even with the so-called person, the past and future keep changing. So, infinite rivers of time keep flowing in this vast land called the present. The present is that which is present; it is the Truth