"Time is the biggest healer" / "Nothing is bigger or greater than Time" / "Time is God" - these are some of the sayings we read or hear often. I have been thinking over it and the more I think, the more it becomes obvious to me that in reality, time does not exist. What exists is the continuous change in our lives and measurement of this change occurring outside and within is what creates the sense of time. So our sense of time is relative to the the action we observe. We have divided moments of our existence in a certain portion which we call a second or a minute or hour.
Imagine if the earth is still, the planets are still and so is the Sun, there is no air, no water, no movement. Or better still, there is nothing. No matter or energy - a complete void. What would we call the situation - timeless? Or beyond time? Because there is no change. Nothing moves, nothing changes and there is no one to record change because there are no observers present.
When the scriptures say God is beyond time or above time, what do they mean? Do they mean that this force which we call God exists in a state where there is no motion? Why is it all powerful? Because it has the power to generate the first planned action, which gives rise to a series of reactions which carry on indefinitely to create a series of experiences for the observer? It creates the stimulus - the first action and it creates observers of the chain of reactions it triggers. But it itself does not change ever and is therefore called the Almighty God. Why does it do that? A causeless play? No one knows or understands.
So, what is greatest in our lives? What is almighty? Is it the Time which is relative or is it the constant flux? I feel it is the chaos / the every second change that goes on in this universe that is the greatest. No one is bigger than this element of change and nothing will ever be greater.
The creator of this change (God) seems to be a force beyond the reach of this change. Is that the reason why all the Spiritual Forces / Godmen have described God as eternal, immortal, timeless?
What is liberation from the play of cause and effect which exists in this universe? How can one become immortal? In order to liberate oneself and immortalise oneself, logically one would have to go beyond time or the sense of motion and experience, because that which generates this change exists in an antiseptic place which is beyond the reach of this play of change. What leads us to experience the change that happens outside us? According to the Wikipedia - "The brain's judgement of time is known to be a highly distributed system, including at least the cerebral cortex, cerebellum and basal ganglia as its components. One particular component, the suprachiasmatic nuclei, is responsible for the circadian (or daily) rhythm, while other cell clusters appear to be capable of shorter-range (ultradian) timekeeping."
So in order for us to reach and experience the state which is "timeless" consciously (not in a brain coma state), there has to be something which would lead us to consciously supersede the brain nerve structures that are responsible for our cognition of the time. Only reaching and experiencing such a state may actually liberate our mind from this consciousness of change and chaos and give us an experience of immortality, if there is something like that at all.
Imagine if the earth is still, the planets are still and so is the Sun, there is no air, no water, no movement. Or better still, there is nothing. No matter or energy - a complete void. What would we call the situation - timeless? Or beyond time? Because there is no change. Nothing moves, nothing changes and there is no one to record change because there are no observers present.
When the scriptures say God is beyond time or above time, what do they mean? Do they mean that this force which we call God exists in a state where there is no motion? Why is it all powerful? Because it has the power to generate the first planned action, which gives rise to a series of reactions which carry on indefinitely to create a series of experiences for the observer? It creates the stimulus - the first action and it creates observers of the chain of reactions it triggers. But it itself does not change ever and is therefore called the Almighty God. Why does it do that? A causeless play? No one knows or understands.
So, what is greatest in our lives? What is almighty? Is it the Time which is relative or is it the constant flux? I feel it is the chaos / the every second change that goes on in this universe that is the greatest. No one is bigger than this element of change and nothing will ever be greater.
The creator of this change (God) seems to be a force beyond the reach of this change. Is that the reason why all the Spiritual Forces / Godmen have described God as eternal, immortal, timeless?
What is liberation from the play of cause and effect which exists in this universe? How can one become immortal? In order to liberate oneself and immortalise oneself, logically one would have to go beyond time or the sense of motion and experience, because that which generates this change exists in an antiseptic place which is beyond the reach of this play of change. What leads us to experience the change that happens outside us? According to the Wikipedia - "The brain's judgement of time is known to be a highly distributed system, including at least the cerebral cortex, cerebellum and basal ganglia as its components. One particular component, the suprachiasmatic nuclei, is responsible for the circadian (or daily) rhythm, while other cell clusters appear to be capable of shorter-range (ultradian) timekeeping."
So in order for us to reach and experience the state which is "timeless" consciously (not in a brain coma state), there has to be something which would lead us to consciously supersede the brain nerve structures that are responsible for our cognition of the time. Only reaching and experiencing such a state may actually liberate our mind from this consciousness of change and chaos and give us an experience of immortality, if there is something like that at all.
