Time - The Mightiest of All

 Time- The Mightiest of All

 Time is the most powerful factor influencing human life. No one can stop the passage of time, and people, places and circumstances change as time goes by. Also, there is an appropriate time for everything, and when we act according to the time, we get the desired results easily.

          As farmers know, there is a time to sow, a time to water the crops, and a time to harvest the produce. If one plants the best of seeds at the wrong time, one will reap disappointment. Similarly, from the moment we are born, we act according to time. A baby wails, blabbers, plays sleeps a lot and does little else, but that is perfectly alright, for the infant is not expected to do otherwise.

          But as the baby grows up, its behavior and activities change. It starts going to school, learns to interact with others, and becomes more aware of the world. As time passes, the child matures, enters adulthood and learns still newer things, including how to manage his or her feelings and deal with the emotion of others.

          At every stage of lie, we face situations that are particular to that stage. Some of the experiences of an earlier time are never repeated later in life, a they were specific to a particular time or place. We cannot relive those experiences even if we want to, as that time has passed. An old man cannot become his infant self again, just as tree cannot become the sapling it was years ago.

          However, time is cyclical, as shown by the cycles of nature, whereby day turns into night, only for a new day to dawn, and the seasons occur one after the other, each playing its role in sustaining the ecological balance of the planet. When summer gives way to autumn and then winter, we cannot hopeto have summer during winter. But summer will arrive again at the right time, after the cold winter has passed, followed by spring.

          Often our attempts to set things right fail to yield results because we ignore this fact. We attempt to stop time moving forward or to bring back an earlier time that was more desirable, but it is impossible to bring back the past as time always movies forward, and never backwards.

          An old building can be repaired to extend its life, but it cannot be made re as everything in it suffers the ravages of time. But once the building has reached the end of its useful life, it can be pulled down to construct a new one in its place.

          Similarly, a tree cannot become a sapling, but it produces seeds from which a sapling will emerge and grow into a new tree.

          An old man also cannot become a youth in the same life. But after the old man’s death, his soul will take birth in a new body as a baby, which will go through youth, adulthood and old age before passing away to be reborn again.

          The world we live in has similarly passed through various stages in the cycle of time, which begins with the Golden Age, when everything in the world was super perfect and humans lived in harmony with each other and nature.

          Gradually, as time went by, the quality of human souls, and consequently their actions, deteriorated. The newness and goodness faded, reducing the joy of life. As souls became weaker still, vices began to influence them, and they began to experience unease, sorrow, guilt and fear. Now, in the final epoch in the cycle of time, called the Iron Age or Kaliyuga, souls are at their weakest, and are in bondage to vices. Their actions, selfish, cruel, and dishonest, reflect this bondage, and the result of those actions is the world we see around us, with its myriad woes.

          Universal peace, prosperity and happiness cannot be brought about in this world when the consciousness required for that does not exist in the majority of the people in the world. This world can again become the peaceful and happy place it once was, but only after undergoing a process of renewal.  Just as dilapidated building needs to be demolished to build a new one, everything that is old will have to be swept away for this world to be made new. Temporary fixes and piecemeal solution s can only extend the life of the old world with all its baggage of problems, and not create a new one.

          This renewal will happen as the wheel of time turns, ending the Iron Age and starting a new cycle with the dawn of the Golden Age once again.  So, instead of making futile attempts to perpetuate what and prepare to eater the Golden Age by acquiring the qualities that will create a new world of purity peace, love, truth and bliss.

 

Thought :-

Life is not meant to see the closed doors but, instead, to see the open doors.