Friday, March 7, 2008

Limits

What is the beginning of time, or end for that matter. Or is such a concept is beyond human comprehension? But maybe Time is not a straight line after all. It could be a loop. Or even a fuzzy shape ? Without a beginning or end ? This is not so amazing, as the clock does go in a circle, so why cant time do so as well ? Of course there is a difference between Time and the way we measure Time. We see things in terms of past present and future. So what happened in the “pastest” time ? ie, in the beginning ? And what happened before that ? If we define the beginning as the point of time at which everything began, then by definition, nothing happened before that. And that is unimaginable. And could there be an end to Time? And after that nothing would happen ? Or is it that if we are not there, it doesn’t matter ?

And what about space ? If we keep moving in a straight direction out to space, of course going around planets and other obstructions that may get in our way, where would we reach in the end ? Again the concept of end. If we have all the time in the world, chances are we would keep going. But what IS out there ? Out thoughts can move fast enough. But our mind cannot comprehend what it could be like out there. Maybe it’s a fuzzy loop too ? Difficult to believe ? After all, not so long ago people could not believe the world was round. Their depth of knowledge and experience at that time made the concept of a round world an absurd concept. What if by traveling long enough, far enough, we would actually reach back here, where we started. Of course the place would be unrecognizable by then, so it would be just another “new” place, and we may not know we have arrived. After all, what defines this point of space ? Only a relative positioning is possible. But if everything is changing, in the large units of time and space we are talking about, then even the concept of “here” and “now” are meaningless anyway.

What if it is really true that all this is just Maya…. And just exists in our conscience ? In fact all you people don’t really exist. Its just me, imagining that I am writing this blog and that all of you are reading it. And that would at least explain why I am unabashedly confessing my ignorance to the world. Its all just a figment of my imagination.
And the final question : why ? What is the point of all this anyway ?
And in all this, where is God ? The Brahman…. said to be the unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality which is the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this Universe. Is this all His dream then ? Is he able to dream for all of us, in such a way that the interplay of our dreams and “existence” and everything is really His dream ? And what about Him ? Our limits tend to think of Him as a being, in fact, we even have to consider Him a male, using the term “Him”. In fact Brahman is just the Dream. Like it is said . He is the dreamer, the dream, and everything in the dream.

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