What Is "TIME"?

Discovering The Essence Of Time.

Science, Mathematics and Philosophy has tried best to understand and find out the essence of Time, but looks like they would never succeed in that endeavor.

However, The Yoga / Yoga-Sutras of Maharshi Patanjali point out the error in such attempts of finding out the truth of Time.

Time as such is basically a वृत्ति / vRtti or a प्रत्यय / pratyaya. as it is defined in the grammar of Sanskrit -

वर्तते, प्रतीयते, विधीयते वा विधेयो आभासो च वृत्तिर्वा प्रत्ययः।।

In this way I have tried to define TIME.

TIME is such an unresolved puzzle for Science, Mathematics and Philosophy.

The first four aphorisms of the Yoga of Patanjali are :

अथ योगानुशासनम्।।१।।

योगश्चित्तवृत्तिनिरोधः।।२।।

तदा द्रष्टुः स्वरूपेऽवस्थानम्।।३।।

वृत्तिसारूप्यमितरत्र।।४।।

वृत्तयः पञ्चतय्यः क्लिष्टाक्लिष्टाः।।५।।

प्रमाणविपर्ययविकल्पनिद्रास्मृतयः।। 

प्रत्यक्षानुमानागमाः प्रमाणानि।।५।।

विपर्ययो मिथ्याज्ञानमतद्रूपप्रतिष्ठम्।।६।।

शब्दज्ञानानुपाती वस्तुशून्यो विकल्पः।।७।।

अभाव-प्रत्यययालम्बना वृत्तिः निद्रा।।८।।

अनुभूतविषयासम्प्रमोषः स्मृतिः।।९।।

In the next aphorisms the Sage Patanjali describes the five kinds of what might be called a वृत्ति vRtti / प्रत्यय / pratyaya.

TIME and MIND are essentially one and the same something incomprehensible for the THOUGHT. 

Only after waking up from the sleep state, THOUGHT, MIND and TIME  appear to have emerged out together as and in a singular form of an activity on the part of the individual, that is again the Sense of being the SELF.

The same Sense of Being is again the Sense of Knowing, that is synonymous with consciousness / Being conscious   of  something that is Known in Being. only.

Teachings of  Sri Ramana Maharshi -

उपदेश-सारः  / The Upadesha SaraH 

is of great help in finding out the essence of  वृत्ति / vRtti, प्रत्यय / pratyaya.

As THOUGHT, TIME and MIND are but different names of the same thing that is essentially :

वृत्ति / vRtti / प्रत्यय / pratyaya,

Again, THOUGHT, TIME and Mind fall in the category of 

विकल्प  and / or विपर्यय kind of  वृत्ति  / vRtti.

The following verses of this text :

वायुरोधनाल्लीयते मनः। 

जालपक्षिवद्रोधसाधनम्।।११।।

चित्तवायवश्चित्क्रियायुताः।।

शाखयोर्द्वयी शक्तिमूलका।।१२।।

लयविनाशने उभयरोधने।।

लयगतं पुनर्भवति नो मृतम्।।१३।।

प्राणबन्धनाल्लीनमानसः।।

एकचिन्तनान्नाशमेत्यदः।।१४।।

नष्टमानसोत्कृष्टयोगिनः।।

कृत्यमस्ति किं स्वस्थितिं यतः।।१५।।

दृश्यवारितं चित्तमात्मनः।।

चित्वदर्शनं तत्वदर्शनम्।।१६।।

मानसं तु किं मार्गणे कृते।।

नैव मानसं मार्ग आर्जवात्।।१७।।

वृत्तयस्त्वहंवृत्तिमाश्रिताः।।

वृत्तयो मनो विद्ध्यहं मनः ।।१८।।

However, finding out through the help of the above verses we can discover how to transcend the THOUGHT, TIME, and the MIND together and in one stroke.

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