Bhagavan: The illusion of time and space

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The Illusion of Time and Space

>From Conscious Immortality

 

We talk of attaining the Self, or of reaching God, in time. But there

is nothing to attain. We are already Self-existent, nor will there

ever be a time when we shall be nearer to God than now. We are

ever-blissful, Self-existent, the infinite now. Our Consciousness is

unbroken, continuous an eternal. It is all maya, self-hypnotism, to

imagine that now we are otherwise. De-hypnotize yourself! It is ego

which deludes itself that there are two selves, one which we are

conscious of now (the person) and the other, the higher, the divine,

of which we shall one day become conscious. This is false. There is

only one Self and it is fully conscious now and for ever: there is

neither past, present nor future for It, since It is out of time.

 

Editor: I said to the Maharshi that a certain appointment I has was a

waste of time. He smiled.

M: There is no time. How can you waste it?

Q: If we want to reach the goal quickly, what can we do?

M: Time is a concept in your mind. The goal always exists. It is not

something new to be discovered. The Absolute is our nature. The

trouble comes when you limit your self.

Q: I am going to stay in the East for three or four years this time.

M: Jesus said, `Don't think of the morrow.'

Editor: The Maharshi was presented with some new calendars.

M: You bring a new calendar to help me remember the days when I often

have serious doubt as to what year it is. Time is all one to me.

Q: Does distance have any effect on the guru's grace?

M: Time and space are within us. Time is only an idea. There is only

the Reality. Whatever your opinion, that is the way it appears If you

call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence.

And some, after calling it time, divide it into days, months and

years. The reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does

exist. There is in that state, no present, not past, not future. It is

beyond time. It is ever there.

 

Sri Krishna says, `I am time.' Can time have a shape? Even the

universal vision shown by Krishna to Arjuna on the physical plane is

absurd. The seer is also in the seen. Even a mesmerist can make one

see strange scenes. You call that one a trick, but the other divine.

Why this difference? Anything seen cannot be real.

That is the truth.

Q: I may no be able to return here and so I request Bhagavan's grace.

M: Where are you going? You are not going any where. Even supposing

you are the body, has your body come from Lucknow to Tirunvannamalai?

You simply sat in the car, or one conveyance or another, and it moved

, and finally you say that you have come here. The fact is that you

are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it.

You are only what you are. There is no change in you. So then, even

after what looks like departure from here, you are here and there and

everywhere. The scenes alone change.

 

All scriptures are only for the purpose of investigating whether there

are two consciousnesses. Everyone's experience proves the existence of

only one Consciousness. There is only one Consciousness, but we speak

of several kinds - body -consciousness, self-consciousness etc. With

Consciousness, time and space do not exist. They appear in

Consciousness. The absolu