Time
Kartik Subbarao
insightful commentary on the nature of time that he has permitted me to
repost here. Reflecting on these thoughts, I know that I'll be able to
look at Yogavashishta in a new light.
Regards,
-Kartik
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Forwarded email from Naga Narayana <nagana...@gmail.com>:
The time is actually a conjecture brewed within our minds. In a way,
that is the parameter that is essentially used to draw boundaries in the
otherwise monolithic existence creating multiplicity in our notions. As
I understand, YogavaasishTha tries through out to defy the authority of
the time that our minds have accepted beyond any denial. We develop the
sense of existence and living only through the time's framework.
Obviously, all the images we borrow through the medium remains captive
within the dominion of the medium as such. As a result, all the images
we hoard through time remains as transient as the time as such.
Therefore, all we know of life and all we believe to be living is
defined in terms of only one thing - time. The life we perceive is hence
captive within the time. Therefore, time remains the sole reason for the
ignorance we hoard in terms life, living and ourselves (identities). For
the same reason, we fail to acknowledge the unity beyond as we have
become incapable of defying the dictates of the time.
On the other hand, it is the same time that threatens us as it counts
the precious days and years we continue to loose. We develop the sense
of ageing as the time lapses and fear the death of the identities we
have hoarded within its framework. No identity we acquire can withstand
the perpetually transitory nature of the time and get washed away in the
flood of time as soon as they are fathomed. The very transience in the
self-recognition mechanism we are used to reminds the very perceiver the
momentary nature of the very experience. The perceiving fellow is just
helpless but to be threatened knowingly or unknowingly.
Thus, it is the time that weaves the web of desires in terms of images
and identities we gather as well as of the fears in terms of the same
images and identities we loose sooner as we gather them. The heart of
spiritual seeking is to break through the web of the conflicting
polarities of desires and fears, obliterate the ignorance that masks the
self-recognition mechanism we have adapted into, and facilitate the
self-experience beyond.
Therefore, VaasishTha uses a unique technique of belittling the sense of
time and ageing to teach the seeker of oneself beyond these. Therefore,
it is a little hard (rather quite formidable indeed) to appreciate Yoga
VaasishTha.
Try it again :).
Respects.
Naga Narayana.
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