Breaking the Bondage of Time

I am sure each one of us has seen this image once in our life. This image reflects a masterpiece from Sistine chapel and is painted by Michelangelo. Its one of the most famous painting and holds a very close place in my heart because it’s the day and space where God reveals Himself to us, His children, and gives them the knowledge of singularity.

The first thing anyone ever notices in the painting is that God is reaching out with a finger and Man is receiving the reach by reaching out himself. Although the painting holds many secrets, which can be discussed later, this specific contact brings the knowledge of Bapdada in an emerged form.

Many questions arise when one notices this contact, why did God reach out just with a finger? Why didn’t He hug his child?

To begin the series of answers, one can see its not an ordinary reachout, after all its God who is reaching out and so only a touch is enough. But then the touch, the zap has another significance here. The zap translates singularity. God is trying to teach His fallen children after singularity. Singularity means ekagrata. Sticking the mind and intellect in just one thought.

But what is so special about singularity? What is not! At singularity time stops.

The way time is portrayed to us is like ticking clock and that all is we know about time. Because modern science fail to see other aspects of time. When we are asleep, we know that we see many dreams in one night and in each dream, we spend almost a lifetime but each dream only last about 10 minutes. So, what does this mean? Does this mean time is different then what we know about it?

There are two answers to this question –

Firstly, as explained by Baba many times, time is relative. We know from Baba’s knowledge that there are three types of thoughts – positive, negative and neutral and He has mentioned that each one of them have different speed. Meaning a physical hour can include hundreds of hours for a person who is filled with positive thoughts and can fill up the abundant energy from those positive thoughts but on the other side, an hour can mean a minute to the person who is filled with negative thoughts and by the end of that hour he would feel drained. This specifically tells us that time is relative, its faster when we are stuck with negativity and slower when we are inclined towards positive.

But then it has another angle, which is the angle of God

What if we are stuck with just one or none thought? That brings to the second point, where there is no existence of time at all. Time doesn’t exist in Paramdham because there are no thoughts. Even Baba doesn’t have a though there which results in the production of a place which is timeless. When we reach to this second point, its then we experience singularity.

The view from singularity is very beautiful because there you are not seeing each passing moment but the entire movie all together. It might be difficult in the beginning to wrap our brains about it but lets just imaging we have the physical film of a movie, the round black one, in our hand. We do not need to watch the entire movie; we do not need to live through the entire movie to see the scenes of the movie because we have the entire film in our hands.

What this means is more incomprehensible, but we can try. This means that time does not actually exist but is felt through out thoughts and if somehow, we break this bondage of time, we would start experiencing something very different and magnificent.

Because

Then our consciousness would have the power to link itself to anyone and anything at any given moment and would have the power to influence it. We have many times heard that when Baba is speaking the murli, He is not speaking for just the people in front of Him or present Brahmins but for those too who are yet to come. Meaning, He is not bonded by time. Meaning His consciousness is connected to everyone because He can access any part of the film whenever He like. When we become like Him, when we make an effort to break the bondage of time, I feel we become connected with the entire movie in one go. And by being connected and by even being in one location at one time, we are able to influence what is about to come and what has already passed. The way past events and future has an impact on us, we also have the same impact. But we are unaware. Even if our consciousness is not that developed to witness this impact, that doesn’t mean we are not impacting. We are impacting at all times because there is no time. Each scene in the drama is related to every other scene not in a sequential manner but one on one. But when we put an effort to break the bondage, we start seeing the impact.

This is Soul Consciousness, because Soul is timeless. We often thought that when Baba says Soul is Avinashi, He just meant nothing can destruct the soul, but He probably also meant that the vibrations, impact and existence of the Soul is timeless, that the Soul is always connected to the entire drama.

This is the power of Singularity. At singularity only information exists and nothing else. With this knowledge we can work to bring this concept in an emerged form. As a practice we can do a self-talk that I am bounded by Time; I am connected to everything and everyone at all times; I can use this Avinashi connection to influence people and provide them with what they need even before they started needing it; I am seeing everything as a whole; I am above all the energies created by Baba because I am master almighty.

I think the only key is detachment i.e. Baba.

Thank you, Michelangelo, for constructing such a beautiful piece, it is thought provoking.

Om shanti