Sree Krishna, the Lord of LovePremananda Bharati, Baba
Religion
Sree Krishna, the Lord of Love
Premananda Bharati, Baba
Krishna (Hindu deity)
It has been shown how Nārāyan is the Seed-Manifestation and how the
Universe is the materialized Will-Force of Nārāyan and Brahmā. I will
now deal with this Motion-Manifestation—Time.
"I am One, and I wish to be the Many." The Lord was One, and the moment
He wished to appear to be the Many, then this wonderful creation of
vastness and variety sprang into existence. From the moment of the rise
of that Will in the Divine Mind down to this moment, that Will is
undergoing the process of its execution. It is a rush from the One
towards manifoldness. This process of that manifoldness is called
Creation, and the rhythm of its motion is called Time. The whole
Creation is nothing but motion of Changes. Time is nothing but the
cognition by our mind of events and ideas which are phases of changes in
internal and external Nature. If we had no notion of events and never
had an idea within ourselves, we would be in Eternity. So long as we are
conscious of the kaleidoscopic changes in us and Nature or are conscious
of their impressions on our mind, we live in Time. And the moment all
impressions of the mind are obliterated and we become, through any
process, unconscious of human and natural events, we lose all
consciousness of existence; that is to say, we go behind the veil which
enshrouds these physical phenomena, and we enter the realm which is an
undisturbed calm of Absolute Life, Light and Bliss, the Trinity which is
Eternity.
These changes in Nature and human society, starting from the beginning
of Creation, move in cycles; that is to say, they have a cyclical
process of motion. In other words, some events, natural and human, that
occur within a certain period of time, are reproduced in their principal
features in the next period of time of the same length. Creation
proceeds towards ever manifold variety at this cyclic pace.
The smallest appreciable Cycle of Nature's change-process is the Day.
Twenty-four hours, called one day, are divided into two parts, called
day and night.
One Day is a Cycle embodying natural and human events which are
reproduced in the following day, and so on. So that every day and night,
in their principal features, are but a reproduction of the previous day
and night. One day, therefore, is the smallest cycle of time or events,
for events are but the phases of natural changes, and time is but the
cognition or consciousness thereof.
The next cycle of time or events is the Month, in which two events which
occur within twenty-eight lunar days are reproduced in the next
twenty-eight lunar days. These two events are the fourteen days of
waxing and waning moon, and the bright fortnight is the day and the dark
fortnight is the night of the month.
The next larger cycle is the Year, in which the four seasons mark the
principal divisions of events and are reproduced in all years in the
self-same order, their uniform changes of weather and Nature bringing
forth fruit and crops.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account