Verses on time

Time

Varied and not unique is nature of time, like Divinity

Time and Divinity are equally incomprehensible but understandable too;

                                                 

Time is the flow of events minding its own business

It does not wait or care for us

Movement is time; revolution of earth round the sun is time

The rise and set of The Sun and The Moon is time

The series of happenings in the universe and cosmos is time;

Change is time; water changing to steam is time

Liquid solidifying is time

Energy at rest is time; energy in motion is time

Change relating to energy is time;

Becoming is time

Plant becoming tree is time

Greenwood tree becoming dead-wood is time

Flowering becoming vegetable is time

Vegetable becoming fruit is time

Ripe fruits falling on the ground, is time

The onset and change of seasons is time

The infant becoming little girl is time

Girl becoming youthful is time

Youthful woman becoming mother is time

Mother becoming grand-mother is time

Onset of puberty and cessation of ovum release is time;

Learning knowledge and gaining experience and insight is time

Recollecting, aching and forgetting is time

Things happening and their cessation is time

Becoming indebted, achieving laurels and getting fruits of action is time

Judging is time, judge is time;

The phases of moon is time the exhilaration and pains of heart is time

Memories, awareness, fears, anxieties

Forming past, present and future is time

The noise of actions is time

The poison of mental torture is time;

Is time’s passage a Straight Line?  A Circle?

The cosmic dance of Lord Nataraja with Parvathi is time

The recline of Maha Vishnu at the end of creation is time

The creation by Chaturmukha Brahma, its sustenance and dissolution is time

The transformations of Goddess Sakti are time

Her volitions, urges, desire and Her Divine-Play is time

Just as Divinity is comprehended and experienced

Through plain and pure heart so is time experienced

And comprehended through pleasant and calm mind

Else time is half-understood incomprehension;

Personification of Peace, Silence and Bliss

And their nature is time

Intelligent Awareness is Divinity

Divine Observation is Time 

A Time-Unconscious Flow of Vacuum

My mind is my beloved,

My identity and my essence;

When it is missing

I am perplexed

Am experiencing vacuum within

Friendships and passions no longer are delighting

Humor and sweet chats with dear ones are gone;

Pains, aches, disappointments in love

Are no more wrenching my heart;

Heart’s sweet rhythm and fast beats too are missing;

Gay abandon with my sweet hearts

Is no longer desired;

Their bewitching beauties

No more are angling;

The rise and set of thought forms

And flow of joys and blissful experiences,

All have ceased to happen

Now, when my mind has disappeared

Am deaf to sounds

Blind to sights

Insensitive to

Smells, sweet and bitter tastes,

Amorous and loving touches,

Cooling and warm hugs;

Am not able to differentiate between

Full-moon and new moon nights;

Among loving, indifferent and piercing looks

Perceptions, intuitions,

Languages,

Sciences, philosophies,

Experiences, insight, understanding

Contemplations, remembrances

Gained, stored and recollected

Have vanished in the absence of my mind,

The facilitator and companion of my life

Now I am,

 Lord Krishna unable to play on flute

Lord Nataraja sans cosmic dance

Frozen Ganges devoid of flow and current

A lover who lost his sweet heart

A flow of vacuum

Unconscious of Time and its flow

Silence 

Silence is

Not merely

Refraining from speaking;

But also

Refraining from feeling,

Thinking, recollecting. aching, apprehending

Fearing, being anxious, imagining, doubting,

Functioning mentally;

And in short and essence

Silence is

Being always

Peaceful and Blissful

A Bird's Eye View of Time-Keeping   Same date extends over two days After the moment it dawns in the east Before it sets in the west; Date in the east changes West still the same date follows; Time keeping is Relative to geographical location And is not general or common to everywhere on globe. At the Oval, England and Australia play Pre-lunch session cricket; At the same instant Sri Lanka and New Zealand play Post-tea session cricket in Sri Lanka We in various countries view both at different time schedules; We must here note that spaceships and space-missions follow Local times of respective earth stations As there is no universal time to be kept or being kept The same instant is not the same time When we simultaneously observe having bird’s eye view And our time-keeping has no relevance, use or significance Outside our planet earth. What is the actual or exact time of an instant? Same instant is differently kept in various places on the globe; Time-keeping is unique to humans And is a ritual followed religiously; The counting of time is Religion-, Culture-, region-specific Almanacs, calendars, follow respective faiths and traditions; What we are measuring when we are keeping time? Is it the revolutions of earth round the sun, Or, the period since the big-bang took place? Are we measuring anything real at all? All counting is human creation and invention Disappears with human civilization The myth of existence of time Separate from the process, event, happening, has Pervaded our psyche; Illusion is time’s physical existence Influencing our lives and activities; Non-reality is measured as reality Non-existing thing is counted and kept ceremoniously Celebrating events accordingly Creating our past, present and future From which whirlpool we come out never; Time-keeping is civilized human activity Imprisoning them in past, present and future. And timelessness, The state of bliss, peace, silence and unoccupied awareness, When the ego, related and other mental activities abstain themselves, Is never allowed to be experienced Time-keeping and adhering to it is stressful and strain-causing activity, Transcending time sense is calmness To wriggle out of this quagmire Is difficult and confusing; Sense and passage of time is absent for infants, kids and other animals;  Let us be infant- or kid- like sans of ego; Of course transcending animal nature but not the instincts; A bird’s eye view of time-keeping thus Makes us understand time sense and timelessness.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Sleep

Sleep is calmness within

When ego rests in The Self

Sleep pervades into

Inner recesses of consciousness

And the awareness recedes

The sleep is silence

To happenings

Within and without of the body

Conscious but unaware

The sleep is the experience of the Self

And The Self is the sleep’s seer

Guide and terminator

The sleep is cessation of

Mental activities within

And is free from interference of self-consciousness

Is tonic to mental ailments and malfunctions

The sleep is the bliss, the peace

And the tranquility of mind

   

 

A Flow of Tranquility

When my mind merges with my SELF

Who am I? What is my Being?

Friendships and passions no more stir

Grief and aches no longer grip

It’s neither dream nor deep sleep

No sense of time but am aware

Nothing is in the awareness

Still completeness pervades

Within is like a serene lake

Without thought waves I am awake

Mind that has engulfed within

Disappeared as river in to the ocean

And as the youthful girl loses herself

In the embrace of her beloved

Streams of sense move in and as silence

When the mind dissolves itself in the SELF

Am an intuitive seer

A dynamic loving Being

A blissful awareness

A flow of tranquility  


The Secret of Time and its Passage!

Memory defeats passage of time

Hurts and pains enliven passed times and events

In the form of aches, and rarely are enlivened pleasant experiences had;

Anxiety, fear, apprehension constitute the future;

Past and future are thought forms

In the present continuous,

Arising out of earlier experiences,

And doubts and imaginations about the imminent,

Are mere mental projections

In the present;

The present continuously changes

Every one tenth of a second

As a pulse series of awareness

Replacing past dissolving into future;

Events took place and the ones we imagine may happen

Respectively create memory,

And doubts, fears and expectations;

Thus the egoistic mind drawing us into the past or future

And seldom allowing us to live in the present

And enjoy current bliss, peace and silence

Creating whirlpool of time and its passage

Never lets  us transcend the notion of time

And its passage;

But the reality is,

Present continuous being

One-tenth of a second,

The past over and the future yet to dawn;

Realization of this secret of

Passage of time, past, present and future

As mere thought forms in the present,

Sets in us peace, bliss and quietude

And we face life cheerfully

Transcending mental suggestions

And enjoy the present in calmness,

Peace, bliss, silence, in unoccupied awareness

As contented and content-free state of mind