TIME (Revisited)

    Everything in this universe comes within the grip of Time. Time is an illusion since it varies from situation, Latitude to Latitude, and varied over space, and is variable. In fact, Time only creates space as it moves over distance; space is the inherent, hidden aspect of time that manifests! This also involves the aspect of causation, as if the space is the cause of movement of electromagnetic waves (LIGHT) from the Sun creating Time. There exists nothing when time and space are united as ’nowhere’. When Time moves, it creates Space and, material objects occupy the space! Time begins with the radiation of the electromagnetic waves, solar radiation (with relation to earth), light, and we have the days and nights of different durations over different parts of the earth! ‘Light travels at 186000 mps. In fact, time, space, and intelligence are inherent properties of Light. If anything moves at the speed of light it ceases to exist in time! Even if one travel at the speed of light that person are reduced to ‘nothing’! This ‘nothingness’, unity in time and space, is brahmn. In fact, that which is measurable, or that which comes within the grip of limitation (niyati) of time and space is ‘Ma-ya’. Hence, everything, including Time and Space, is ‘maya’. Illusion, maya, is the manifest form of the unmanifest ‘brahmn’. 

   As already stated, for all practical purposes, for us here on the earth, ‘time’ and ‘space’ are virtually created by the sun rays (radiation /electromagnetic waves). A number of qualities, such as, light, heat, life-force (actinic rays), rajas, tamas, and sattva and their combinations of qualities dictated by the colors (violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red), as well as, many an invisible powerful rays, such as, the infra-red and ultra-violet, the alpha, beta, gamma, x rays are inherent within the electromagnetic waves. The three prominent ones that represent the qualities of nature are the tamas (dark), the rajas (red), and the sattva (white) are depicted as the basic qualities of nature, prakruti. All life-forms are supported by the subtler waves of life-force (actinic rays), and energy (like Vitamin D), The sound and syllables (alphabets), words and their meaning producing the phenomenal gross objects are all hidden in the electro-magnetic waves of solar radiation. The scientific view and the scriptural statements regarding this are the same.

    Thus, the factor of ‘Time’ (kaal) holds everything within itself! Both electricity and magnetism are involved in Time. Time is energy. Time creates and destroys objects. Thus, the ‘time-space continuum’ is the basic tenet of science. Time is indeed illusory since it does not exist outside the forces of rotation of the earth! Hence, time is illusory, and, so also, the space that is created by it! If both time and space are illusory, the physical objects that occupy the space and endure in time are also illusory! This is the concept of maya. Thus, everything in this universe is governed by this maya- the limiting factor (time, space and causality).