the secret of time

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-hat is time? If "ou anal"se the nature of time, time is alwa"s construed b""ou in terms of past, present, and future. This is all good for grammar andalso for loo$ing for "our ban$ balance. $ you really analyse the nature otime, the past itsel when it existed it was present.

-hen past was, it was present. It was therefore all along present. Future,when it comes to e3ist, it will be present. /ow the future is purel" a &gmentin "our mind. It has no real e3istence apart from its coming into being astime. So when future comes to pass, future will alwa"s come into being in theform of present. So, the past was present. Future will be present. 4resent ofcourse is present. So, 4ast was present in its own time when it e3isted. )ndfuture will be present and present is present. )nd therefore if "ou want to$now reall" what is time, "ou should $now what is present.

So we can consider the present as the soul of time 5 what we call as now. Thisnow, present, if "ou want to $now what it is all about, "ou ha'e to understand

the length of time in'ol'ed in the present.

-hen "ou thin$ of the present, what length of time can "ou impute to thepresent?%resent means time. Time means a length must be there. -hat wouldbe the length of time in "our understanding the present?

It is a 'er" contro'ersial thing. The present kalpa. vetavarahakalpa1namealso we ha'e got, the -hite 4ig 6alpa2 and then the kalpahas gotman" manvantara1vaivasvatanow2 then we ha'e got "ugas. !aliyuga.Thenin the kaliyugaalso there are man" centuries. /ow we are in the twentieth

centur". %an we sa" centur" is present? This twentieth also is from the stand0point of ).7. 4roblem. This is not the case. There are man" centuries 1not89th2.

Therefore "ou can sa" the present centur". But that is also not present. Thereis present decade, present "ear, present month, present wee$, the presentda", the present noon 1after or before2. The noon is just within a second. Itlasts onl" a second. It stri$es twel'e: it is noon. If it is a second before orafter, it is forenoon or afternoon, it is called abhidhita $ala. The present isnoon.

;et us sa", an hour. 4resent hour. If the present is an hour, an hour has got


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just to gi'e an idea. Suppose there is a ower bud with thousands of petalsand "ou ta$e a neat sharp needle, a clean needle. @ou ta$e the bud and sendthis needle through the bud: and what time does it ta$e? a split second. )nd"ou ta$e the needle out. Then afterwards "ou see, e'er" petal has got ahole. #hat time does the needle take to make one hole$That is time. -hat

time does it ta$e to ma$e one hole? That is all time. This is how the" used tothin$ of time. So the Indian mind has thought about time so much. So the"went all the wa" to ages, digits, hundreds of digits and then the" came to thisalso. -hat time does the needle ta$e to ma$e one hole in a thousand0petaledbud? ;i$e this, what is reall" time, present?

If "ou anal"se it mathematicall", "ou can alwa"s go 00 di'ide 00 so "ou can goon di'iding and di'iding. So thus "ou can sa" 9.999,999,999,999,9( andagain put one more Aero before the (. The problem is 'er" $nott". @ou can goon endlessl". @ou wont get to the present.

Then when will be the present, tell me. The present is when thereis no length o time. That is the present. There is an observer otime. There is an awarer of time. &o the awarer o time, when he has no

length to be aware o, then what do you have' Awareness. -hich iswhat? -hich is present.

So, awareness is present. The soul of time iswhat? Awareness5 (onsciousness.

So "ou are what? @ou are the soul of time.)ou are timebound or you areadhisthana o time'

So, it is something li$e shirt and cloth.

The shirt is, cloth is.

Time is, awareness is. Time resol'es in the present and what is there?)wareness is.

Therefore there is no time without the basis of awareness. Awareness is notbound by time. This is called timelessness. This is what is, we sa",

eternal. +ternal is not hanging around in time for some time.

&o that which is the very basis o time, that which is the content otime, on which time has its being, and itsel not bound by time that timelessness is *present*. )nd that present ne'er grows to becomepast or to become future. It is the soul of time the truth of time. Thereforee'er"thing else is e3isting in time and the whole uni'erse is e3isting in timeand times nature is awareness. Times nature is awareness. Time isawareness. -hether length of time is there or it is not there, it is awareness.;i$e wa'e is water, time is awareness.

Time resolves, awareness is. In deep sleep time does resol'e. It is not that"ou dont ha'e the e3perience of this. Time does resol'e in deep sleep. There


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is no time in sleep. The moment "ou go to sleep, time also is gone. Timegone, place gone, all situations gone.

=nl" the thing that doesnt go. -hat is that? Awareness. +'er"thing gone.

#ow man" hours did "ou sleep without dream last night? %an "ou sa" that?=ne fellow said, I went to bed at ten =cloc$. I got up at si3. So I slept eighthours. @ou are telling me how man" hours "ou were in bed. That is not m"question. I as$ed "ou how man" hours "ou slept without dream. %alculate.

%wami&i, who takes all this into account$ I did not take into account.%

kay, today you take into account. Tonight, when you go to sleep, make anote, how many hours you are going to sleep. (or this you have to make sureone thing. To )nd out how many hours you slept, you must know thebeginning of sleep and afterward when you wake up you must note the time.

Then you can easily calculate. *ou are a very good calculator. o you can,you have to only register the beginning of sleep. #hen exactly the sleepbegins. That time you should make a note. Tonight take a piece of paper and

pen and keep by the side of you. The moment you go to sleep, immediatelymake a note. +on't ask somebody else to make a note. ecause somebodyelse, how he would know that you have slept or not$ only you know.

wami&i, if I sleep, others can )nd out.%

%I can't trust- that becomes something you sleep without snoring. ometimesyou snore without sleeping, too. And therefore I can't really believe that.

Therefore the only thing you have to note, the moment you go to sleep.%

ot possible.%

The obser'er of time has gone to sleep meaning the mind has gone to sleep.-ith reference to mind, "ou are the obser'er. The mind has gone to sleep.

There is no time either. Therefore sleep is a state when "ou e3perience notime. In dream "ou e3perience time. That also tells what the time is. In dream"ou e3perience 8C "ears in 8C seconds, "ou become old and all in dream. )llthat is possible. =ne second D one "ear. It is a time series. That is the natureof time. So when "our mind sets itself into a t"pe of time series, that is the

time e3perience that "ou ha'e. That is the reason wh" sometimes when "ouare waiting for someone, time hangs on. -hen "ou are absorbed insomething, time ies. So that is the relati'e nature of time.

Therefore time is. It all depends upon "our attitude, mind etc., that time is.+'en the chronological time, the time ta$en for the light to tra'el distances,that time, e'en that chronological time, the earth to go round the sunspinning on its orbit, what time does it ta$e to ma$e one spin, this time 00 alltime whether it is chronological time or subjecti'e time, all time is nothingbut present.


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%resent is nothing but the presence o awareness alone.The awareness is the svarupa of kaalam, time. )nd therefore awareness doesnot come into being.

Suppose let us sa", awareness begins. Then how do "ou $now its beginning?

@ou can $now the beginning of a thing onl" when "ou are aware of itsabsence before its beginning. Swami enters, "ou can sa". @ou can $now thatonl" when "ou were there in the absence of Swami, "ou must be there. Theobserver you must be there beore the beginning o an event. Thenonly you can arrive at the beginning o an event.

Any event, any beginning, presupposes the observer!sexistence beore the event!s beginning.)nd similarl" an" departure can be registered onl" when "ou see the laterabsence. Then departure is clear.)ou the observer must be there.

Therefore the beginning implies prior absence, the end implies the laterabsence. Both the absence "ou must be aware of.

/xample 0 ) pot is born. There is a horoscope for the pot. So "ou can ma$e itif "ou are an obser'er. Eust when the pot is ta$en out from the wheel, "ouma$e a note of what the time is. So, pre'iousl" it was not. The fellow wasstanding there. That now it has begun.

So the ghatapragabhava,the pots prior absence or non0e3istence, which "ouare aware of it, "ou are obser'ing it. )nd therefore "ou $now ghata began,the pot was born. Similarl", pot is destro"ed: @ou see what? The later non0e3istence of the pot. Therefore the begining of the later non0e3istence of thepot is the beginning of the pot. 4ot means D namarupa.

Another example: Thin$ of a pot. -hat is there in "our mind? 4ot0thought.-hen did this pot0thought begin? Eust now. /ow, how do "ou $now just now itbegan? Because "ou are aware of the prior absence of pot0thought. 4ot0thought is gone: #ow do "ou $now? Because of the later absence. )fter thethought has gone, I am there. Therefore I am sur'i'or of the pot0thought.

Therefore I can sa" pot0thought is gone. Therefore there is awareness of thecondition before the pot0thought. Therefore I can sa", 4ot0thought began.4ot0thought is gone, because there is awareness of the absence of pot0thought after the departure, the absence of pot0thought I am aware of. )ndtherefore there is an awareness prior to the beginning of the pot0thought,there is an awareness after the pot0thought.

So too for awareness to begin "ou must be aware of the prior absence ofawareness before awareness began "ou must be aware of the absence ofawareness. That means there must be awareness o that . he" that isthe awareness I am tal$ing about. The awareness because of which "ou areaware of all beginnings, all ends, all departures, and all arri'als, thatawareness has no beginning and no end.

So what is eternal? +ternal is thereore timelessness. That which is notsubject to birth, growth, death, aging, etc. )sti, 'ardhati, First ja"ate. It is.


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It is growing. It is old. It is gone. All these are registered by what'ecause o awareness. That awareness is not subject to birth etc.

-hat is that awareness? $t is $. /ot elsewhere. That I, what "ou sa" as GI,happens to be awareness which is not bound b" time. Therefore the

conclusion GI am mortal is due to what? 7ue to ignorance and error.

*ere ignorance is o$a". In sleep "ou ha'e mere ignorance. There is noproblem also. 7o "ou ha'e a problem in sleep? /o. That is wh" e'er"bod"lo'es sleep. -hen "ou are sleeping what problem do "ou ha'e? +'er"bod"else around "ou ma" ha'e problem. Therefore ignorance is not a problem.

In sleep there is mere ignorance. @ou dont $now an"thing about "ou there. )tthe same time, there is no error. =nce the mind is up... So the enlightenmentis for whom? +nlightenment is not for awareness. For whom is it? *indonl". 1anasa eva anudrastavyam. B" mind alone "ou ha'e to resol'e the

problem created b" the mind.

Therefore one good thing about awareness is that it is very much withthe mind all the time. =nl" we ha'e to remo'e the notions. -hat we aredoing now is we are remo'ing all the notions... Time notion, GI am the mortalnotion, is remo'ed. -hat is there then is pure simple awareness. )nd thisawareness is not subject to time. Therefore sat"am. Sat"am is satandchaitan"am is cit.

/ow who are "ou? I am sat cit. In fact, when "ou sa" GI am what do "oumean? )m D sat, and I is cit. I is alwa"s citbecause I is the subject. )bout

that citI understand something.

G!nderstand means I am no more ignorant about cit. That means, cit, I, isnot subject to time. That it is subject to time 00 I no more ha'e thisconclusion. Therefore citbecomes sat. I understand citas sat. -hen "ou sa" Iam, awareness is. )m D is. I am D in fact I is, "ou is, etc. $s is the nature ofawareness. It e3ists all the time. It is not sun"am. It is not G= or non0e3istent.It is the content of time itself. )ll e3istence is in terms of time. This issomething, that content of time itself. Timelessness is called sat and cit.

=ne more word is added here. That is aanandahmost confused word. This

awareness is not subject to time therefore not subject to death. )gain, it isnot spatiall" limited it has no spatial limitation.

GSpatial limitation means what? ) particular form. This room is spatiall"limited. This table is spatiall" limited. *" bod" is spatiall" limited. It means if Iam here, I am not there and if I am there, I am not here.

Sometimes we want to do two things at the same time. If we ha'e twobodies, it would ha'e been nice. =ne bod" "ou can send here, and one bod""ou can $eep there also. Both "ou can manage at the same time. That if "ouare here "ou are not there, and if "ou are there "ou are not here 00 "ou ha'e

to all the time choose. @ou ha'e to go for priorities all the time. Therefore thatis spatial limitation. The bod" is spatiall" limited.


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/ow, what is the form of awareness? -hat is the height of awareness? @ouare aware of heights. @ou are aware of space itself. Awareness has got noorm. -ie even the light has got no orm. Therefore it has no height, ithas no width. Therefore it is not formful. It is timeless, as well as formless.

/ot only it is ormless, it is something on which space depends upon.@ou are aware of space. Space is not aware of "ou. Space is accommodated inawareness.

So tell me, what is the siAe of awareness, spatiall"? -hat is the distancebetween awareness and space? If there is a distance between awareness andspace, then what is in between space and awareness? There must be a lot ofspace inside "our headH There is nothing else. That is called inner space, it iscalled hardakasah. Between space and awareness there is nothing else, li$ee'en between time and awareness there is nothing else.

Time is mithya, depending upon awareness space is mithya, depending uponawareness.

Space is, awareness is.

Space gone, awareness is. That is the thing.

%hain is, gold is chain gone, gold is.

In sleep what space is there, tell me? Sleep is a wonderful e3periencere'ealing so much to us. In deep sleep, space gone. So %I am in +ehradun%is

not there. 7esah 00 earth, solar s"stem 00 gone. The whole thing gone. But"ou are there. #a'ing de'oured e'er"thing including space, he remains. Timeand space he has swallowed, and therefore all situations.

Between an object in space and awareness also there is no distance. er"simple: Between these two hands what is the distance? @ou can sa",appro3imatel" two feet. /ow I ta$e awa" one hand. -hat is the distancebetween space and the hand? /o distance. -h"? )ll distance is between twopoints in space. )nd therefore between space and a point in space, there isno distance. #and is mo'ing all the time in space. -here'er it is, it is in spaceonl". It is nil distance. Between space and hand here 14(2, space and hand

here 1482, ... there is no distance.

Similarl", between awareness and a thought I ha'e in m" mind, what is thedistance? In awareness is this thought. There is no distance. Betweenawareness and the hand in front of me, what is the distance? I am aware ofthis hand. #and falls in m" awareness. Between awareness and the handwhich falls within awareness, there is no distance. )wareness and the starsthat "ou thin$ of, there is no distance.

-here are "ou then? Because G@ou means awareness. In Sastra G"ou meansawareness. Between "ou awareness and the stars $nown and un$nown, there

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distance. #ea'en is in space. Space is in awareness. Between "ou andBrahmalo$a there is no distance.

So, "ou are what? Sarvagatah, all-pervasive. &o, the reedom romspatial limitation, ormlessness, is the nature o awareness "which is

the# content o space itsel.That is wh" it is sat. It is the 'er" soul of timeand the 'er" basis of space. Space is, awareness is. In awareness is spaceand time and e'er"thing.

Therefore awareness is called limitless. +esatah aparicchinnah. Thatis aanandah, spatial limitlessness is aanandah. Time limitlessness is sat. Thisananta belongs to what? )nantah is what? Cit. I is cit.

Therefore cit is the one that we understand. %it is the truth about which weunderstand. #ow? It is not bound b" time and space. #ence aanandah.

Thereforesaccidanandah means not e3istence0$nowledge0bliss, it is

e3istence0$nowledge0limitlessness.

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