EXISTENCE

    In mathematical parlance, E = t, where, E is Existence and t is time. E is also Energy, in the sense, all existence is energy incorporate and inheres time since it radiates and creates time and space, too! Now, all that exists is in relation to time and space, as well as, causality. This is called the theory of  maya, where 'ma' and 'ya' are that which is measurable! time and space are both illusory! These govern the reality of existence. Our body is made up of just cells and every cell burns out and new ones are created and all information is instantly transferred and life goes on! But for the cells where is the body? The cells are a bundle of energy, due to chemical bonds.
   Etymologically speaking, the term "Existence" is a paradoxical one, in the sense, that it contains two components that are opposite to each other! It inheres in itself the factor of 'Time' in the component 'tenc(s)e', besides 'is' and 'Ex', that means past. While, 'Is' represents the present and 'Ex-' represents past! Both are components of time? Whatever is present just now becomes past in a matter of a second of time! Every second of time is fleeting into oblivion with no trace left. Morning flies off to give place to evening and the night follows day and, years roll on...! This prompted an English poet to exclaim: "Where is the time to stand and stare?" 

   This beautiful word "Existence" is exemplified in thh Rk Veda, Mandala X, 'nasadiya sukta'. It states: "In the Beginning, there was neither existence, nor non-existence!" "It is and It is Not", says the sukta. The God-given gift 'present' soon vanishes into oblivion, the past that never comes! This is what is presented as the Wheel of Time" (kaal chakra Sudarshana). Bhagavan Shree Krishna says, "I am Time" (kaalo'smi). What we normally experience is just a memory! Jiddu Krishnamurti used to reiterate on this point. He is used to say, "Discard all that is past, the memory, the nauseating dead horse." He used to ask us "Why carry dead horse?" Nobody understood what he meant by this! We all carry memories of not only the past from the day one of birth, but the memories of past lives, as well, in our sub-conscious mind! We are miserable creatures suffering due to these unwanted burden"

   Now coming back to our main issue of "Existence", it may now be stated that, "Our existence is a myth!" Time is a myth. Time does not exist! This is the reason why we qualify everything with the words- 'in point of time' . Everything is at a point of time? What is real or unreal is not discernible when it iscovered by the myth of 'time', kaal! We do not exist in any point of time as such and such as a result of this 'fleeting time' that brings changes with it! Childhood is soon past and the adolescent and the youth presents itself  and that too soon merges into old age and disappearance of the jiva in a flash of time! Then where is 'life' left" . All jivas are a flash of ex is tenc(s)e? After all, what a span of a hundred years of a jiva in a million years of history of life and billion years of life of earth so far?