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Hindu mythology of creation
talks about how the Universe is created each time the Creator Braham blinks!
Sages of
ancient India measured time through the concept of kshana. Kshana is not
chronological time. It was not measured as the amplitude of a pendulum or
the frequency of an electronic chip. Kshana was not generic time, but
individual time. Kshana is the time between two thoughts. My Kshana and your
Kshana are different.
In the case of the average
person, in whom the mind is constantly active, desires and thoughts pour out
without a stop, the time between two thoughts is very small, very very
small. In the case of an enlightened being, who is a no mind state, in whom
there are no thoughts, Ksana is infinite.
Kshana is the time between
two thoughts. It is the space between two thoughts. This is the time and
space that Buddha referred to as sunya, and that which Sankara referred to
as purana. It is the no mind zone, the mindful zone, in which you touch base
with yourself.
Kshana is that present moment
in which you come face to face with the divinity within yourself, recognise
the cosmic energy that you are part of.
When you are in that Kshana,
you are truly aware; You are energised and refreshed. Meditation takes you
into that awareness.
When you are in front of an enlightened Master who is in a no mind state
without thoughts your own thought level comes down, and Kshana becomes
longer. Without even trying you become calmer, more peaceful, and more
aware.
The same experience occurs when you are in the energy field of an
enlightened master who is no longer in body, as in a Jiva Samadhi, where the
master's body has been buried. Many of our great temples such as Tirupati,
Tiruvannamalai, Mantralaya and Palani are built around the burial spots of
enlightened masters and that is the reason why we feel the sanctity and
peace giving properties of these locations.
Contrary to what western
philosophers say the idle mind, if it is silent, is not the devil's
workshop. It is God's workshop! it is the busy mind that is truly the
devil's workshop. Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." That is a mere
fact; an irrelevant one. Vedanta says, "When you stop thinking you are."
This is truth; the cosmic truth.
Be still and you will be God. |
