What is time? Does it have a beginning and an end? How to measure it?
These are some of the questions we often ask ourselves but with no success. Or may be the question asked itself is senseless. May be there is nothing like time or it might be possible that it has a true existence. If it exists, then the natural question arises that what are it's traits and how can we control it.
Whenever we think of time , picture of a clock runs naturally on our mind screen. But it is not time itself. It is just a measuring instrument. But what does it measure?
May be it is measuring continuity of events. But events are defined in memory. Without a memory
events have no existence. Suppose, somehow you loose your memory. So, now your don't have definition of things nor any events 'recorded' in mind. You have also lost ability to distinguish as ability to distinguish comes with experience.
What is time for you then?
We see that we will loose our sense of time. We see that time is a platform in memory where events are woven. When we recall or when we 'run our tape of memory in mind, a sense of continuity
is made parallel to which time runs'. When we bring our consciousness 'in' these events, time seems to hold a reality although temporarily.
It follows that memory itself is temporary and without consciousness memory has no meaning.Loss of memory would cause loss of countinuity of events and make events distinct thus sense of time vanishes.
So, we conclude that from a perception of temporary things time is a reality but from the perspective of eternal-which is our true nature, time is meaningless.
These are some of the questions we often ask ourselves but with no success. Or may be the question asked itself is senseless. May be there is nothing like time or it might be possible that it has a true existence. If it exists, then the natural question arises that what are it's traits and how can we control it.
Whenever we think of time , picture of a clock runs naturally on our mind screen. But it is not time itself. It is just a measuring instrument. But what does it measure?
May be it is measuring continuity of events. But events are defined in memory. Without a memory
events have no existence. Suppose, somehow you loose your memory. So, now your don't have definition of things nor any events 'recorded' in mind. You have also lost ability to distinguish as ability to distinguish comes with experience.
What is time for you then?
We see that we will loose our sense of time. We see that time is a platform in memory where events are woven. When we recall or when we 'run our tape of memory in mind, a sense of continuity
is made parallel to which time runs'. When we bring our consciousness 'in' these events, time seems to hold a reality although temporarily.
It follows that memory itself is temporary and without consciousness memory has no meaning.Loss of memory would cause loss of countinuity of events and make events distinct thus sense of time vanishes.
So, we conclude that from a perception of temporary things time is a reality but from the perspective of eternal-which is our true nature, time is meaningless.
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