The greatest traitor and the biggest lie – Part 8

I hope the solving of the grandfather paradox in the last 7 parts was not very complicated.

An individual, after worshipping Shiva for many years, got a boon that proved to be a curse. So he wanted to be relieved from this curse/boon. A Sage suggested to him that if he sees one person in three forms, in one place and at the same time, then he would be relieved of this curse. This guy became even more desperate and perplexed. Because this condition was impossible to be fulfilled. Three forms: same person, same place and same time.

Devaki, the biological mother; Yoshada, the foster mother and Radha, Kirishna’s beloved, were debating on whom Krishna loves the most. All three staked the claim equally. Krishna had spent most of the time with Yoshada as an infant, as an adolescent with Radha and as a young man with Devaki.

So it was decided that the three would call Krishna at the same time, albeit loudly, as Krishna was not with them then. Whoever Krishna loves most will get to see Krishna in the form she identifies with him in that particular place. They yelled Krishna’s name. To their surpris,e Krishna appeared before the three of them in separate forms. As an infant for Yoshada, as an adolescent for Radha and as a young man before Devaki.

The man who was cursed by Shiva, being tipped by the sage, witnesses this and was relieved of the curse. There are many instances in Indian mythology where persons like Narada, Agyastya and Viswamitra have manifested in multiple places at the same time. Some recent spiritual accounts have also cited such examples that represent Yogic Siddhhis. But the story of Radha, Devaki and Yoshoda is a remarkable one. It is a spiritual challenge of Time  Travel of a very high order. Why?

1. One can travel huge distances instantaneously and can come back instantaneously as discussed in Part 4 (Timeless sages). It appears like time travel as two persons see the same individual in two places and interact with him over a period, say 15 minutes.
2. This can happen to more than two persons, say 100 persons. All the 100 persons were interacting with one individual in a hotel that has 100 rooms. This individual is interacting with all these 100 persons in 100 different rooms. Seems this individual has 100 forms of himself, or say clones. But that may not be the case. He doesn’t have 100 clones of himself. Rather, he has the ability to travel instantaneously. All the 100 persons in 100 different rooms feel this person was with him for say 30 minutes. But this individual was actually shuttling between 100 rooms. It appears that he has 100 clones of himself.
3. Now say, with one he had a moustache, with another he was bald and with another he had long hair and with another he had his eyes bruised etc. Getting complicated isn’t it! How about he meeting everyone in a different dress and accompanied by different persons?
4. In our story, the same Krishna was of different ages. This is a great spiritual Time Travel challenge because the same person is travelling to a particular place from different times in the same form that he was in, and meeting in one point of time, being witnessed by three different individuals in the same room. Three Forms of him have experienced different Time, started from different points of Time, and all three forms of him arrive at the same point of Time in the same place. What a scientific challenge! Astounding. Not possible if one is not at the centre of a non-dual existence.

I call it a scientific challenge because it is possible for everyone, it can be repeated, whys and hows can be explained for anyone who has dropped the EGO. Ego is not what it is being interpreted nowadays as with a lot of sentiments, feelings, emotions, pride and showmanship.

Ego is to see oneself vis-à-vis others as discussed in Part 7. Rather, the ability to differentiate or distinguish is the Ego. It is not bad or there is nothing wrong with the Ego. The ancient texts of India propounded dropping the Ego not because it is bad, but because this ability, and more so to cling to it, stops the soul and the body from experiencing many new and unexplored aspects of creation. It is something like a student has completed school but is unable to graduate from college because he is clinging to her ego too often, too long and unable to drop it.

Once this ego is dropped or one learns to drop the ego at will, she witnesses nothing except herself. Absolutely nothing else exists. She becomes the existence, and the existence is her. Nothing to distinguish from and nothing to compare with. Once one is in this state or beingness, she can manifest herself anytime, anywhere and in any form.

She can manifest herself as an infant, as a child, a young man or an old lady. She just needs to pull out her individual form from the whole creation (that is She) as many times in as many forms she likes. This, some of the Indian sages call the state of ADWAITA (non-dual). What is extremely intriguing is, somebody can be in both the duality form and the non-dual state at the same time? 

We are more concerned with TIME, other aspects withstanding. We so far have got an idea of how Time behaves in a duality state. But does time exist in a non-dual state? If yes…. how? Many of the ancient Indian texts say that in the state of Adwaita, Time doesn’t exist.  To me it is in this state that the Real Time starts to manifest. Until the non-dual state, it is the mirror image of Time that operates and is observed or sensed.

It is upon achieving the non-dual state or Adwaita that TIME manifests, and the real ballgame begins. It is here that the sublime soul also starts to manifest. From here, the material content of the soul gradually melts, and Time is understood and experienced. Until then it is the mirror image of Time that eludes us and it is this mirror image fo time that is the greatest traitor. It definitely ditches us. Upon so, physical birth and death is conquered. One not only becomes timeless (like The Gita being a Timeless doctrine) but also deathless.

Birth and death become just an event like sipping a cup of hot coffee in a cold winter evening and nothing else. Not surprisingly, when a child is born, she feels cold and has to be heated up and exactly similar, when one dies, the body becomes cold. It’s a hot relationship that gives life a birth. 

We will examine this in more detail using our multi-world model in subsequent posts.             

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