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1.3.3 lokas

  Q: Can you describe what is time and how time relates to the different lokas?

   Time, is categorized by the basic function it serves and its relationship to witnesship and space. It is only in relationship to witness and spatial phenomenon that time may exist. Apart from these, it does not exist. So it is characterized by its relationship to these factors. It is also characterized by a sequencing of events. Therefore there can be no time if there is no movement. It is the measurement of movement. So time is a measurement of movement. Without movement there is no time. Without a witnessing entity to perceive the passage of time, it does not exist and without a place it also does not exist. So there must be a spatial configuration, a sense of movement and a witness to the passage of time.

  Time is the measurement of movement. You may measure movement through space or you may measure movement through time. So space is the horizontal measurement, time is the vertical measurement, making the two planes. The intersection of those two planes is the present moment which is witnessed by the cognitive entity. So when these two planes (the movement through spatial awareness and the movement through time, such as a horizontal and a vertical dimensional plane) intersect, the witnesship exists and witnesses their intersection. With these factors all together, you have what is known as the present moment. So you see the swastika represents the two planes, the vertical and horizontal planes of the cross. This is time and space. It is the world of duality and for duality to exist there must be movement. For when there is no movement, when consciousness is quiescent, when mind does not move, when all of the waves have ceased to undulate and there is no wave movement in the universe, then there is no mind, there is no space and no time. All of these come into existence with the initial development of the undulation of manifestation. So waves exist within the intersecting planes fashioned from time and space and those planes come into existence because of the development of movement.

  Time, as I have said, and space are strictly governed by the associating witnesship. So the witnessing consciousness is the controlling entity of time and space. Therefore if the witness is the cosmic entity or the witness is a created being, still the witness is the controller of time and space.

  If the witness perceives from manomaya kosa, time will function in one fashion. If the witneship is in atimanasa kosa, time will develop and operate in a different fashion. This is because in the different lokas or planes of cosmic expression there is a different relationship between time and space. The causal planes exist in a fusion. That is to say time and space are fused together in a kind of holistic non-directional self fulfilling whole. They have not reached the full development of a dual relationship until the causal expression is fully manifest in the imaginative realm of svarloka. Thus time and space in the causal realm exist in a somewhat unformed potentialized manifestation. That is why in this realm you will find that time and space are interchangeable. That is to say there is no space and no time that is not now. They are convergent and the witnessing entity is only in the present. To that witness there is no past and no future, only the present moment. But there is a present moment. So time and space exist but they are convergent and in the realm of possibilities and potentialities they are not only convergent but they are expressing an infinite number of existences simultaneously, without spatial or time differentiation. They are convergent possibilities, all occurring simultaneously. So that what is for you the past, may be the future or the present or the past. It does not matter. It is all the same. It has all occurred, it is occurring, it will occur and it has never existed. Because time and space only exist within the realm of the manifest universe and within the expression of potentialities and possibilities they are convergent. Alright?

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   There is no past, there is only the present in the causal dimension. Though in the realm of possibilities, (maharloka) takes the potential of form and therefore there is more distinguishment. But still all of those forms are in the present moment, they are not sequenced. You see, there is not the measurement of movement horizontally or vertically. Still, the movement is only in the realm of possibilities, it swims in the present, in the potentiality to exist. Once it takes expression, then the full linear development of time and space begins to unfold so in the realm of imagination (svarloka). The cosmic mind becomes sequenced and there begins to be the development of linear perception of time and space, so that in this realm there may be perception of past and future, though again they are imaginative perceptions and they are far more fluid. The witnesship is still in the present, but there is the chance of the existence of something that was imagined in the past and something which will be imagined but has not yet occurred. This feeling is there in the witnesship of this imaginative realm although it is far more subdued. There is primarily the sense of creation of manifestation.

  So in this realm (svarloka) the primary focus is creation but in this creation there is the feeling of something that has been created, something being created and the potential of numerous other creations yet to exist. In this realm, time becomes filled with the feeling of movement, as the cosmic mind takes upon itself the imaginative creation. So time begins to move, and also in this imagination there begins to become some spatial dimension and so space begins to move. Thus the two intersecting planes of duality come into scope and the fins that are demonstrated on the swastika begin to whirl so that the planes begin to intersect. In the moment is the present witnesship, but there is a sense of spatial elongation and dimensional time elongation. Then those two begin to move, they begin to move into each other, the circle begins to turn and the manifest universe is in full swing. Then in the next plane it takes its mental expression. Is it clear?

Q: From your perspective, does that mean that our future is already known completely to you or is the future constantly being created in the present?

   Very good question. The future exists, it is created here and now. This question cannot be answered, it is not yes, no, this or that. It depends upon which stratum of cosmic expression you wish to speak about. In the expression of cosmic imagination, the future exists, it is a multitude of possibilities which may be realized depending on the vast interweaving of the cosmic net of creative expression. But in the realm of potentiality and possibility, the future is already existing, as is the past, in the present moment in infinite numbers of possibilities. But in janahaloka and tapahloka the future and the past have no existence at all, even in potential. So if you ask what is my perspective, I would have to say, it is all of these and none at all. For I exist in all of these spheres and will take my expression through the expression of these realms.

  Now, if your question is can I know the future, I will say this much. In the realm of possibilities and potentialities, the future and the past are being created endlessly so that in that creation there is a joy in the expression of self and in that joy there is a pattern and in that pattern there is a wave and in that wave there is a name and in that name there is a place and in that place there is a time and in that time there is a consciousness which exists and may be known. In this way I know each of you very well.