Is time also not an illusion?
What is the time?
What is the definition of time?
What is the correct form of time?
Is time also not an illusion?
Is not our time also an illusion?
What is the relation of time with us?
I am a little late today, and I apologize for the same. My mother tongue is Punjabi, and I also speak Hindi. In whatever way I communicate in Hindi, I do so for you only. If I speak in Punjabi, I will only reach out to Punjabi-speaking people and not everybody else. However, if I talk in Hindi, then I will connect with everyone. If I speak in English, then I will connect with everyone. If I communicate in Silence, then I am sure I will connect with the universe.
I came to know that the realization of time is only with the 'I', then the speed of time is only the speed of awareness of 'I'.
In whatever I speak, I want you to know that I do it for you only. If I cannot express or say certain words correctly, then please kindly forgive me in advance for the same. I experienced something at night - we read words written by the Sages and Saints but, we never understand the reason, purpose, and the meaning or purport behind their penned accounts.
Buddha has said, 'As one thinks, so is human's deed or
Karma.' One can recognize a human being by his/her thoughts. Alternatively, one can identify a person's thoughts by his/her Karma. It is through thinking that one accumulates his/her Karmas via actions performed. I had known this fact, but I was not clear about it.
So at night, I prayed to God earnestly to understand the purport behind Bhagwan Buddha's words: 'As one thinks, so is man's deed or Karma.' We are constantly blaming and angry at life for not being fair and kind to us. How we had intended life to treat us seems not to be the case at all. Where then does this complaint and dejection for life arise? If we had understood Bhagwan Buddha's remarks, 'As one thinks, so is man's deed or Karma,' then the conflict would never have arisen, but we failed to understand the purport of Bhagwan Buddha's words.
Words alone can not bring understanding, but experiences in LIFE allow one to discern and understand its meaning and purpose. I had a thought which I wish to share with you all. I could not even think of having such a thought running through m mind. It was a sad thought, and I could sense that my mind also felt sad at the time.
I was observing both my thought as well my mental state of mind from two different angles. Thus, I noticed that both my thinking and mental state of mind were affected directly and proportionally. I see this entire event from a third perspective as a witness while keeping tags on the two facets of the mind - including its activity (action), be it good or bad. I was shocked to discern all this unveiled before me in its color, form, and shape inclusively.
Life then shows me in sleep lasting forty-five minutes how sadness befalls me and the thought that brings the sorrow, and in sleep, I rebuke a person responsible for the sadness I am experiencing in the dream. The dream I am having is seen from two standpoints - the first being that I am sad, and the second is the effect this sadness has on my mind. The third being that I am generally a happy person in life - yet in a dream, God presents a situation where I am sad and mentally perturbed by it.
What I am experiencing as of late is quite astonishing. I do not think that anyone has heard anything quite like this or even seen anything like this. I shared this with Davinder and told her unusual things are happening in my life as though there is a fruit tree before me, and I can do anything I want to the fruit tree. I can pluck its leaves or even its flowers and fruits also. I can break the twigs and branches also.
There is such closeness with LIFE. What God has shown me in the dream is something that happens in the life of a human being. The wonderful thing about this was that while there was a stream of thoughts bubbling up - my mind seemed to take delight when thoughts of happiness arose vice versa. Of course, the other thing was how my body was reacting to these thoughts. We have heard words and read the material, but we have never dissected these words to understand their implied meaning in the laboratory of life.
You can see as I pan the camera two men are walking along with a dog. The camera has captured this moment, as you can see. Our Consciousness compels the mind to click and capture a moment, but we fail to comprehend and appreciate these precious moments of the clicks. The mental faculty is akin to a camera that is constantly taking snapshots one after another, grabbing the moments via the clicks that are in sync with the thoughts and deleting the remaining. We fail miserably to recognize and give due importance to these precious clicks, which have a close relationship with our thoughts. It is just like Facebook - we appreciate some posts and images by giving them likes with a comment like blessings, beautiful picture while ignoring and discarding the remaining that do not appeal to our taste.
As the mind clicks away, we acknowledge it by accepting it as a yes or rejecting it as a no. What we fail to recognize is whether our thinking or the click of the mind is correct. Often we think, why isn't life good, or why isn't life happening the way I had intended it. I am sharing this experience I had at night.
Now I will discuss TIME - so what is time? Yesterday I spoke about SPACE, SILENCE (Chup), and LIGHT (Prakash) - these three are ONE. The definition of TIME is ambiguous, and you will not find its altruistic meaning via Google. The suggestion that you will come across will be about the changes that happen in the world.
Before I explain the definition of TIME, I will talk about 'I AM' or Mei in Hindi. 'I AM' is a reflection of TIME. In deep meditation, I was not aware that I am Jinder, nor did I know that I am in my room. I was lying on the bed in deep meditative Silence, also known as Jada Samadhi, where there is no awareness. It is more or less like deep sleep. A state where we forget ourselves akin to when we are born - much like the first 6-12 months of our life post-birth where there is no awareness. I recall that I somehow regressed in time - to a period when I was one month old, and I could sense my mental disposition during this phase.
About Four to five hours had elapsed in this state of unawareness before I wake up. Upon waking, a question arises, 'Who am I and where am I, why am I here, what place is this?' I glance at the empty room for almost twenty to twenty-five minutes. I am not aware of anything around me, including the country. Thus, this was the beginning and indicative of the mind gradually waking up. I started recalling that I was in a deep meditative state, lying on my bed falling to sleep. My name is Jinder, and I am in Canada. Indeed, I am Jinder; I had cooked and also eaten food.
I thought to myself, asking, 'Is Monika here or not, and the twenty or twenty-five minutes that had elapsed, does that mean I had forgotten myself - what exactly transpired?'
The pair of eyes that had glanced the room - what or who was that? How come I could not remember who I was when this was happening? How come I forget I am Jinder when this happened? Innumerable questions plagued my mind. What had happened is that I had reverted to a time phase when the mental faculties of the mind have not started to develop.
So does this signify that a one-month-old child is in a state of Jada Samadhi? On the contrary, the fact is that I was in Jada Samadhi and not the baby Jinder. I am thirty-two years old, and I had regressed to a timeline when I was a month old. So the blankness that I had experienced, what was all that? Who was it that asked, who am I during this experience? I was eager to know these facts as I was in utter dismay as to what had just transpired! Mixed emotions were arising within me of both a sense of alarm and gladness. I am never fearful because I am not scared of death. I have always been ready to play Kabaddi (a popular sport in India) with life.
It shows that a one-month-old has no concept of time, nor is there any understanding of his/her surroundings or who s/he is. Believe it or not, this experience tells me that even today - you have no idea of who you are? When you remembered that you are Jinder and lying in a room was not the REAL YOU. It was your body that was lying on the bed. Your Consciousness was AWAKE, but the memory stored was ruffled - thus reminding you that you are Jinder and you are from Canada, etc.
When there was no recollection of anything, be it a time or even memory, there was ONLY CONSCIOUSNESS. However, when I remembered I am Jinder, I was lying in a room in deep meditation, and so on was nothing but my mental faculty as memory reminding me all the facts. Thus, upon the memories flooding my mind, the concept of TIME also sipped in simultaneously. In a nutshell, when we realize that we are - it is there, and then TIME also reveals itself. When we are blank and void, then there is no concept of TIME. In Gurbani, this is described as AKAL or beyond TIME and DEATH. The mutual emergence of TIME and I AM signifies SAMSARA. So what is TIME? It is the collection of our memories - in essence, there is no such thing called TIME or YUGA, but these words hold meaning when the concept of 'I AM' arises. TIME is the shadow of I AM.
I want my experiences to reveal the mystery beyond Brahmand (Universe) through the allegiance of Maha Chetna (Higher Consciousness). The experiences of Rishi's, Muni's, Pir's, and Paighambar, including Spiritual and Holy Texts, will never afford me direct experience. However, my personal experience is the only means through which I can taste TRUE REALITY. There is no doubt that the Sages can become a source of impetus, hope, and courage in my journey to embrace direct knowledge, but they can never reveal the TRUTH. To experience the inevitable TRUTH, I will be required to walk the talk, as the saying goes!
This Mei or 'I AM' is Energy and Consciousness, and one can only connect with IT via SILENCE (Chup), Void, SPACE, or LIGHT - a vast field of immense KNOWLEDGE. The only means to access this beautiful LIGHT of SPACE called Consciousness is by being in the PRESENT NOW. In MEDITATION, our mind becomes PRESENCE. The present mental faculty or mind (90%) signifies our PAST more than our future (10%).
In deep Silence, the following becomes apparent, which is astonishing. The FUTURE has an activity and speed threshold of one percent, and the past has a threshold activity and speed of one percent. The liveliness in the PRESENT is 98% with regards to its connectivity (CLICKS, as mentioned previously, standing at 1%). The addition of 1% Conscious Knowing into 98% PRESENCE allows us to experience the phenomenon called TIME TRAVELLING. When there is such immensity of beauty and MAGIC in LIFE, what am I doing with a camera? Am I mad or what?
You can ask Ravi regarding my current state - a 6-year-old child who promptly woke up each night at 2.00 am to recite the Holy Book (irrespective of my age, I remain God's child). I felt old though I was only six years old. I would ask Mother to wake me up early to recite God's name and read the Holy book as I could hear a Divine voice daily in deep meditation and Silence. The house we lived in had one and a half acres of land surrounding it. At night around 2.00 am I would make my way running to have a quick bath. It used to be very cold, and I would sprint back the distance being about 100 meters.
That child is present in me even today. I pan the camera just like a child plays with a ball. Today I do not do anything - I have told the children that I do not feel like doing anything these days. I do not feel like cooking, let alone eating. When I observe the Present being 1% and having activity and speed of 98% - can you even imagine what potential we have to achieve all the great things if only we can utilize the present moment appropriately?
Do you know that I have only studied up to class 10? I was about to begin the 11th class, but then I got married. I moved and settled in Canada, and I was about seventeen/eighteen years of age. I was interested in education. I would question the examination papers that would ask, 'How many times did Humayun attack India?' My reply sarcastically would be, 'He felt the need to attack, so what am I supposed to do!'
I was interested in History. However, I was not keen to know about the number of times Humayun attacked India or who was Akbar or Babbar, how many battles took place in Panipat, etc.,? I was much rather interested in why there were arguments and fights in the house? I was eager to know why Mother and Grandmother quarrel? Why is Mother so angry all the time? Why is Father enduring everyone's words? I was keen to know and learn about people near and dear to me. As far as the History subject is concerned, we can learn a lot from it. I have imbibed from spiritual texts the lives of the Sages and their historical accounts because I keen to learn about their lives.
The desire to live in the PRESENT became my goal and a yearning since childhood. Life turned into a series of questions, and I was eagerly in search of answers. I remember being asked by psychologists at the University of Vancouver in Canada if I am acquainted with psychology? They were impressed with my level of writing. I have been asked in India if I have a Ph.D. in the Punjabi language? It seems as though God has gifted me with the ability to write well. I have neither studied psychology nor have I got a P.h.D. There is no psychology or philosophy greater than embracing a Spiritual Life (Adhhyatmik Jivan). You will never gain a better understanding than you can via Spiritual Life.
All I can say is that in LIFE, the path that I chose filled me with BLISS and FREEDOM. The PRESENCE is the KEY and the GATEWAY to ABSOLUTE FREEDOM! The understanding of which Science has called Time-Travelling and Religion has called it Telepathy. The rejection of past and future brings one the TIMELESS PRESENCE - the doorway to BLISS. In the NOW, there is no 'I AM.' It MUST be our goal to achieve 100% ONENESS and connectivity from the present 1%. At such a stage of accomplishment, we become AKAL ATIT or TIMELESS and DEATHLESS. We assume the TRUE NATURE, which we call God, Samadhi, Sahasra Dal Kamal, and Nirvana. Science has called it Time-Travelling, and Religion has called it SAMADHI or NIRVANA. One overcomes the cycle of BIRT and DEATH.
Tomorrow we will discuss SPEED. Be happy!
मैंने जान लिया कि वक़्त का एहसास सिर्फ 'मैं' के साथ ही है, तो फिर वक़्त की गति सिर्फ 'मैं' की जागरूकता की गति जितनी ही है।
Translated By Paresh JIvanji