Existence

Pujya Gurudev Pt. ShriRam Sharma’s Kripa

Timeless Existence

(Akhand Jyoti,Sept.oct.2006)

The volume of air inflated in balloon remains confined to a fixed size. The moment this sheath is removed, it spreads freely and unifies with its gigantic expansion in the open space (in earth’s atmosphere). The same is true of the human self. Till it lives in the gross body and is attached to the experiences of the latter, its identity is bound by that of the body and remains limited to that of a living toy of flesh and bones. However, as this bondage of attachments is freed, its existence evolves in the subliminal realms and eventually transmutes it into its infinite origin. Nothing would then be unknown or beyond its realization. The state of sublime realizations is referred as that of timeless existence. In the normal case, we experience our selves and the existence of the world in the present tense. The past and the future are beyond our reach. 

Although the present contains the past and the future in its continuous flow, we do not realize this because of the subliminal existence of the latter two phases of time. But, sublime does not mean false or non-existent. Whatever we utter from the mouth or whatever sound is produced near us appears to be lost the moment we have heard it. But the physicists know that sound is never lost. Whatever we can’t hear exists beyond our audible frequency range. Kindling of fire generates (thermal) energy; this energy would continue to exist even after the fire is extinguished. By the universal law of conservation of energy, this ’invisible’ energy would be never lost. The gross (physical) body dies and disintegrates into the basic elements of Nature that constitute it. But the soul, the eternal flow of life (consciousness) never dies.

The same is true of every incident or experience. Whatever we perceive or experience in the present phase of time is only a manifestation of the unexpressed (what ’was’ existing in the ’future’ until then) or the subliminal into a form that could be grasped by our conscious faculties and sense organs. The same continues to exist as it is but in a time-domain that becomes ’past’ for us. As discussed earlier, the division of time in the past, present and future is only relative with respect to the experiences or activities in the physical (gross) world perceived by our conscious mind. Scientific theories define time as a continuous, complete unit. The past, present and the future are not disjoint in reality. In linear dimension, the present is a continuous interval with the left end opening in the past and the right in the future. Mathematical physicists have analyzed the possibility of realization of the past and the future in the present under several nonlinear, multidimensional models.

Thanks GOD,Thanks Sadguru,

Shiv Sharma