Dear Ramji,
Please could you look this over.
We were talking about time as only useful for the transactional reality, a measure of the “distance” between start and fulfillment of a desire. Swami C. said in his Kaivalya talks, when time goes then the mind goes, and when the mind goes there is no time (I’m guessing he says it both ways because time is needed for causation). And without time, there is no change/action/movement and without change there is no birth or death (of thoughts, which is what birth and death is), i.e. immortality.
What I understand by this is that maya does not cease, the mind does not disappear but it is no longer seen to be Me or real. Because I am, with or without the mind, time or space (both constructs of the mind). All of us are this (that is how satya is non-dual). All human jivas “lose track of time”, “losing time”, there is no change, there is no birth or death, there is no pain or pleasure. Vedanta offers freedom by supporting the mind instrument to see the truth, this awareness that is unborn, ever-present, actionless is Me. There is nothing mystical about it.
Thank you.
Ramji:
