Time and atoms by Swami, Vedas and modern science

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Light and Love From ancient time to today the humanity has searched the

answer: what is time? On the view of Cosmic Consciousness every minute, second,

day is always new. In the stream of the time it is Atma, which is ever remains

the same. The time is as a link to measure lives, deaths, events,

aspirations... The timeless Atma is as a dumb dispassionate witness of Divine

Cosmic play, characterised by time, space, atoms, whatsoever expressions of

life and energy vibrations.

 

"The Cosmos is controlled by God; God is subject to Truth That

Truth is subject to the authority of sacred and noble beings." (Sri

Bhagawan Sathya Sai Baba. The Divine Discourse: "Transform Yourselves and

Transform the World." 01. January 1998, Prasanthi Nilayam). From times

of the deep past the humanity measures time. Various methods based on the

motion cycles of planets, moon, sun as though comparing to their movement

with humans lives which are parts of the Uniform circulation of fields of

Nature on the arena of Creature. Modern science does not exactly know what

time is. In fact, one of the hottest themes in theoretical physics is whether

time itself is illusory. This standpoint is so near to the Vedic wisdom and

Swami's Teaching). There are many hypotheses about time. The last of them is

that time consists in atoms. (Lee Smolin. Atoms of Space and Time Scientific

American.com. Jan 2004). From ancient times some philosophers and scientists

had supposed that if matter were broken up into small enough bits, it might

turn out to be made up of very tiny atoms. The granularity is the

characterisation of whatsoever matter. In recent decades, physicists and

mathematicians have asked if space is also made of discrete pieces? Is it

continuous, as we learn in school, or is it more like a piece of cloth, woven

out of individual fibres? If we could probe to size scales that were small

enough, would we see "atoms" of space, irreducible pieces of volume that cannot

be broken into anything smaller? And what about time: Does nature change

continuously, or does the world evolve in series of very tiny steps, acting

more like a digital computer? Not finding the clear answer what is time and

space through many scientific theories science at last reached to the atoms of

time.

 

Here is significant to remember Swami's explanation, done earlier than

scientists have reached to their hypothesis.

"Today scientists are propagating various theories to the world.

Spiritualists are also propagating about divinity in various ways. However, the

mankind is not able to understand what the scientists and the spiritualists are

saying. Ultimately, we can conclude that the world is made up of molecules and

atoms. There can be no world without the atoms. ...The universe is a

combination of atoms. The Vedantins (Vedic scholars) say: Anoraneeyan Mahato

Maheeyan (Brahman is subtler than the subtlest and vaster than the vastest). It

is because of the coming together of the atoms that we find the five elements,

human beings, various objects and activities in this world. The atoms are all

pervasive. The world is composed of atoms and nothing else. Brahman does not

have a specific form. Brahman is subtler than the subtlest, vaster than the

vastest. He is the eternal witness and pervades the entire universe in the form

of atoms." (Excerpts from: Sri Bhagawan Sathya Sai Baba. The Divine Discourse:

"Atom - The Subtlest Form Of Divinity" 23 October 2001, Prasanthi Nilayam).

(Certainly these atoms are not the same that chemical elements by Mendeleyev

have. They are the subtlest particles as carriers of energy, vibrations).

American physicist John F. Wheeler explains that matter (atoms) is like

'Quantum foam'. It likely floats as quanta (vibration) of energy on the surface

of an underlying ocean of the cosmic energy (Atma, Brahman) from which all the

five kinds of energies* have been born. (*five elements by Vedas and Swami). On

this primordial level it is impossible to differentiate among light, matter,

space and time. By my views such is core of Atmic reality through the

expressions of modern science. It seems that essence of time and space

is hidden in spiritual awareness what brings a human being closer to Atmic

unity. Below is a tiny collection of Swami's quotations about time:

"All things happen according to the dictates of Time; Both good and

bad depend on Time; Prosperity and poverty likewise depend on Time;

Time is the determinant of all things, There is none who is not subject

to Time In this entire world; that's the Truth." (Sri Bhagawan

Sathya Sai Baba. SSS. Vol. 24. Chapter 1).

 

"What you think exists, is not real. What you think does not exist,

is the Reality. God is the only Reality And there is nothing in the

world Which is not pervaded by God..." (Sri Bhagawan Sathya Sai Baba.

SSS. Vol. 24. Chapter 12).

 

"Of all the gifts of God, Time and Love are the most precious. Man has to

make proper use of time in order to experience Divine love. But today everyone,

be it a student or a householder or an ascetic, is wasting three-fourths of his

time in worldly pursuits. Then how can he expect to have noble thoughts!" (Sri

Bhagawan Sathya Sai Baba. The Divine Discourse: "Glory of Womanhood." 25 Dec.

1999, Prashanti Nilayam). "All things in the Cosmos, moving and

unmoving, are permeated by God. Hence. God is characterised as Kaalagarbha (the

One who holds Time in the womb).... The word Kaalam (Time) is derived from

Kaa+alam. This means that God, embodiment of Time, is the One who rewards

people according to their deserts. God does not submit to worldly offerings,

worldly authority or worldly power. He responds only to spiritual aspirations."

(Sri Bhagawan Sathya Sai Baba. SSS. Vol. 24. Chapter 1). Veda describes

Kaalam: : Kala (Kaalam)

 

AV XIX, 54

 

1. From Time came into being the Waters, from Time the Holy Word, Energy,

and the regions. By Time [each day] the Sun arises, in Time he goes to rest

again. 2. By Time blows the cleansing Wind, through Time the vast Earth

has her being. The great Heaven has his post in Time. 3. Their son Time

long ago engendered the things that were and that shall be. >From Time came

Scripture into being and formulas for Sacrifice. 4. By Time was Sacrifice

inaugurated, inexhaustible oblation to the Gods. In Time live the spirits ant

the nymphs. Upon Time all the worlds repose. 5. In Time are set this

Angiras and Atharvan who came from Heaven, both this world and the world above,

all holy worlds and holy interspaces. 6. Having conquered the worlds by

Holy Word, Time, the God supreme, goes on.

Reference:http://www.himalayanacademy.com/books/vedic_experience/Part2/VEPartIIChA.html

 

Swami characterises the Vedas: "The Veda is the Mother of all the

Sastras. The Veda emanated from God Himself as inhalation and exhalation. The

great sages, who were the embodiments of the treasure gained by long ascetic

practices, received Veda as a series of sounds and spread it over the world by

word of mouth from preceptor to pupil." (Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Sathya

Sai Vahini. Eternal Truths).

 

Jugas are as pinpointers of time by Swami and Vedas for humans.

Characteristics of jugas by Swami are following.

 

"You have heard about four aeons called KritaYuga, Treta Yuga, Dwarapa Yuga

and Kali Yuga. These are not distinct from each other.... According to the

conduct of the people at the time, the name is given for the Yuga... Hence one

of the names bestowed on God is Yugadi (One from whom the Yuga begins)." (Sri

Bhagawan Sathya Sai Baba. SSS. Vol. 24. Chapter 1).

 

"In giving the duration of the different yugas and estimating the life of

Brahma (the Creator) in terms of the yugas, the scriptures have given the

life-span of Brahma as extending over many crores of years.... The scriptures

have described Brahma as Anaadi (without beginning).... God has been envisaged

as the embodiment of Time. He is the source of Yugas. He persides over Time. He

is the Time-Spirit and the Kaalagarbha (container of Time). Time is the devourer

of the physical. The Lord is the devourer of Time itself. When there is faith in

God, man transcends the physical." (Sri Bhagawan Sathya Sai Baba. SSS. Vol. 24.

Chapter 4).

Poetical Vedic hymn to time what proceeds all jugas.

 

Purnah kumbhah AV XIX, 53

 

1. Time drives like a horse with seven reins, a thousand-eyed unaging

Stallion. Him the inspired poets mount. All beings are his chariot wheels.

2. Time draws this chariot with seven wheels. Seven are the hubs; its axle is

nondeath. At the head of all beings Time proceeds unceasingly, the first among

the Gods. 3. Above Time is set a brimful vessel. Simultaneously we see Time

here, there, everywhere. Set face to face with all existences, Time is throned,

men say, in the loftiest realm. 4. Time has gathered together all beings

that are; he has passed through all the gathered beings. He who was father has

become their son. There is no glory higher than his. 5. Time generated the

Sky above and this vast Earth. The passing moments present and future, by him

set swinging, are reckoned out in due proportions. 6. Time brought forth

fate-filled chance. In Time the Sun shines and burns.In Time the eye spies from

afar. In Time all existences are. 7. In Time is consciousness and life, In

Time is concentrated name By Time, when he draws close at hand, all creatures

are with gladness filled. 8. In Time is energy, in Time the highest good.

In Time is the Holy Utterance. Time is the Lord of all that is, the Father, he,

of the Creator. 9. Sent forth by him, from him all this was born . On him is

it established. So soon as he has become Brahman, Time supports the highest

Deity. 10. Time created the creatures. Time created in the beginning the

Lord of creatures.From Time comes the Self-Existent. Energy likewise from Time

derives.

 

Reference:

http://www.himalayanacademy.com/books/vedic_experience/Part2/VEPartIIChA.html

 

Poetically by Reet time for human being is as a Divine black box, what

gathers together all existed and existing humans' and cosmic activities,

actions, experiences as a basis for the next cycle of Creation... continuation

of the Divine Play. To look into the box and to enjoy the Cosmic Truth through

Beauty of Harmony and Order (for human senses as Love, Peace in mind) is

possible through glasses of Divine Love alias through Swami's Teaching, His

Message to humanity. Namaste - Reet