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by rramadass 441 days ago
Live in the present, with your consciousness externalized momentarily but without any effort; when the mind stops linking itself to the past and to the future, it becomes no-­mind. If from moment to moment your mind dwells on what is and drops it effortlessly at once [just before moving on to something else], the mind becomes no-­mind, full of purity.

-- Yoga Vasistha (Chapter: The Story of Gadhi) translated by Swami Venkatesananda. You can get it from https://archive.org/details/swami-venkatesananda-vasisthas-y...

Some more details on the above verse can be seen at this blog Power of Present Moment – Yoga Vasishta - https://krishnapriya22013.wordpress.com/2019/04/02/power-of-...