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Re: Present
Ravisankar S. Mayavaram (r0m6887@tam2000.tamu.edu) wrote:
: Past is in the memory and future is in imagination. Both of them
: has to do with mind. Once the mind is thrown out the window, both
: are gone! I am convinced, but I am far from realizing it.
: But what is present? To me it looks like a myth. All I can
: visualize is, in the time scale, future runs into past. Is there a
: sandhi, the great meeting point, the NOW? If the time is
: continuous, present is like a singularity. What is a point in a
: straight line.
: Does this all imply that everything is in the mind?
: Once you transcend it you are free!
: May be you folks can comment on this!
: --
Dear Raviji:
Thank you for posting your views. Is time really dependent on perceptions
in the mind? It does not appear to me to be so. You wondered about the
futility of clingling to the present, when it appears to you that now is
just a fleeting moment! Then you ask the merit of a single point in a
straight line.
Raviji, time is independednt of the mind. We may be measuring time
using our mental faculties, but time is not our doing. We did not say,
"let there be time, and there was time...". We merely found ways to
measure it.
In timelessness, there is no past or present or future. What you ask
the mind to accomplish is to understand timelessness, and if the mind
can do that, then there is no past, present or future. Imagine that
you are able to do that. Would you be able to see the flow of time?
You would not, because time itself is not subject to sense perception.
The events that happen around us, are not really time dependent, in the
sense, a mixture of Sodium hydroxide and Hydrochloric acid does not
produce salt because otherwise it would be late for making salt.
Events happen over time, not because time is passing by.
I would submit that every point in the grand scale of time is absolutely
necessary to maintain continuity. Take that one point of 'now' away, you
are stuck in the present!. The importance of present should not be
underestimated, since in timelessness, all moments are in 'present
time'. In the SBG, God says that creation is dissolved and recreated
following Lord BrahmA's ahorAtra. In the Bible, Jesus said that My
Father works all the time (John). There might not have been anything else
other than the 'present' before creation.
Our perception of time, is tied to events in creation, but that is not
MahAkAla. From a Scriptural point of view, everything is in the
Supermind, but not in our minds. Events are concieved there and executed
here.
With best regards,
Dhruba.
