A View of Time & Space

Those who know (the true measure of) day and night, know the day of Brahma, which ends in a thousand yugas, and the night that (also) ends in a thousand yugas. We have a timescale in India that is extraordinary, with extraordinary vision of the infinity of time, as also the infinity of space. We were never narrow and small in thinking, that the world began in 4,000 BC. Our minds went beyond millions and millions of years and, in modern cosmology, we accept the same idea. We are on a tiny planet, earth, and we measure time watching the rotation of the earth on its own axis and the revolution around the sun. So, we have a day, night, a year, but we don’t think that it is the same thing everywhere. What you call a day and night here, might be just a second on another plane. So, we call this terrestrial time. Then we move on to celestial time. The earth goes around the sun in one year, but the sun itself is going around the galactic system. That takes 200 million years. This kind of perspective was developed by Indian sages. Our time unit is very ordinary, just one year, and our lifetime is maximum 100 years. Brahma also has 100 years, but his 100 years are different from ours. Consider his one day: the day is divided into two halves, a day and a night. In Brahma’s day, the universe begins to evolve. And for the whole day, the evolution proceeds and when Brahma’s evening comes, evolution returns to its original source. Human life is a little extraordinary but this also is ordinary when you deal with the cosmic timescale.

Source: Economic Times, 8/02/2019