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Is travelling in past and future possible?
Travelling in time,
from one point of time to another is the most fascinating topic of science
fiction from last one century. A vehicle called machine in which we can sit and
ready for adventures in the past and able to see dinosaurs or travelling in
future and to see over great-great grandchildren and lives on other exoplanets.
It was H.G.
Wells who gave a novel based on science fiction the ‘Time Machine’ in which
Wells opened the idea of time travel in a machine and then there were movies
and serials or comics on time travelling. And there were different paradoxes
related to time travel and theories of warm hole in a fabric of time in which
one can move from one place of time to another. And these theories also forced
theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking to think on travelling backward and
forward in time and then he reached on conclusion that time travel is not at
all possible.
Generally, the
perspective of Albert Einstein that advanced the theory of relativity of time
and space and therefore Einstein cleared that space and time are one and thus
nothing can travel faster than speed of light. The matrix of Einstein bound all
scientists that no one can travel faster than light and time travel is
therefore not possible.
Who travel in time?
But who travel
in time, it is not the body or particles or matter that is travelling in time.
A man when a boy, is totally different, then when he is young, and similarly, totally
changed when he is old, in term of physical. The cell or matter or the body of
myself is totally different and the cells which I had in my body changed to new
cells when I am young and again the cells and my body is changed when I grow
old. Therefore particles and matter or my body is not travelling in same time
and in same space and therefore it is not possible for the different particles
to travel in past or in future, because the participles in my body have no past
and no future.
Then who travel in
our past and who will travel in our future, It is our consciousness which
remain same when we are born, or we are boy or young or when we grow old. An old
man can remember his childhood because he possess same consciousness and
therefore he remember his young days, and remember his young body which left
him far behind. The consciousness travel in space and time and throughout one’s
life but not the body and matter and proves that Einstein is right that
particles or matter cannot travel more than the speed of light in the space.
And, if
consciousness travel throughout one’s life then can it be possible for a
consciousness to travel back in past or in future even with the speed of light
or more than a speed of light. It is not possible, that my body sitting in New
Delhi can travel to New York within a fraction of a second or in a minute
because it violates the theory of relativity of time and space of Einstein.
Consciousness travel faster than light
But it is
possible for my consciousness that it can reach to New York from New Delhi
within fraction of second and unable to follow the theory of relativity of
space and time. I, while sitting in New Delhi, physically, can think and feel, walking
at Jones Street, Manhattan of New York. For me, it is possible that sitting in
the heat of Thar desert in India physically but consciously enjoying the cold
of Switzerland. My consciousness can travel even faster than light in space and
time and proving that consciousness is having faster speed than light.
There are
incidents when science unable to explain theories and such incidents become
mystery and fantasies for most of them when they found that some hundred years
old saint living in the harsh cold of Himalayas without eating food from many
years but his body remain warm and he feel healthy even without eating food for
years. This is called mystery and scientists wanted to experiment such saints
and unable to explain them.
Consciousness travel in past & future
And there are
incidents, mostly everywhere but if we talk about India, then people are
talking in different languages and remembering some place where they have not
traveled. They narrate some stories which were verified as true and thus when
science unable to understand such phenomena they are put in the shelf of
paranormal experiences. Such incidents can be the science of travelling of
consciousness from one place to another but we commonly people took it is ghost
stories or sciences took it as abnormality of brain functions or psychological
disturbances.
And there are incidents, people generally
share, that they saw what is going to be in future. Usually, people talk that
they knew already that such person is going to meet in coming days, or such
incident is going to take place. They were already aware about an incident or
accident and science to not have explanation of such phenomena but here the
consciousness travelled in future and not the body and therefore consciousness
knew what is going to happen in coming days.
Consciousness is energy
Broadly,
sciences fasten to matter, (though quantum physics is coming rapidly to
understand that everything in this universe is energy and no matter) and
therefore the science of consciousness is left unattended. If, consciousness is
taken as the product of body, then too, there should be study of consciousness
as energy and not as an orthodox soul or Atman.
Unfortunately,
we are unable to study the Indian philosophical treasures in a right direction
for the acumen of Human races but usually we took such philosophical thoughts
as waste or something as a literary work. If, one can go through the studies of
Indian and Buddhist philosophy they it emerge as an science of energy and the
energy of consciousness is literary taken only as a soul or atman. But see the
beauty of Vasubandu in Vignaptimatra Siddhi (Principles of faculty of
consciousness) where the consciousness is taken as pure energy and having
inherent power. This energy- consciousness- have potential attribute and have
force to perform modification and that modification is explain in threefold
way. The first is the store house of
consciousness which is universal consciousness. There is no bondage or limit to
this universal consciousness to think and experienced the unlimited space. The
matter has to travel from one point of space to the other point of space but
when the matter travel it changes with the time and changes in the attribute
and energy.
The matter is
bound to follow the law of motion of Newton that every object moves in a
straight line unless acted upon by a force but for consciousness- the energy-
there is no need of force to move only in straight line. The matter, again,
accelerate directly proportional to the net force exerted and inversely
proportional to the mass of the object but for consciousness- the energy, the
second law cannot force the acceleration and thus equal and opposite reaction
for matter is also not applicable for the energy of consciousness.
Space & consciousness are eternal and infinite
And When Jainism
came out with a beautiful theory of infinite and eternal and imperceptible and
condition of extension, it include both the space and jiva- the consciousness.
Jainism says that space itself is not extension but it is the locus of
extension and there are two kinds of spaces in the first, motion is possible
and contains all worlds where life and movement are possible while the other
space is of liberated energy of consciousness. Matter does not have consciousness
and atom is the smallest part of matter which cannot be further divided and
matter possesses the qualities. Such philosophical thoughts, never ever denied
the presence of matter but also boldly announced the energy which is called as
consciousness and this consciousness, unfortunately, taken only as soul or
atman and rejected it by science.
Consciousness is force
Rig Veda in
chapter X, 16 stated Suryam Kakshuh gakhatu Vatam ataman (Eyes to sun, breathe
to wind) here breath is taken as self, atman and consciousness. The breathe is
self and is free as wind and if men died, the self, the breath, which is
consciousness is free, as free as wind and in some texts it is parana, the
life, and Apastamba Sutras- 1, 8, 23 said that the Brahman (universal self) is
wise and recognizes all things to be the self who does not become bewildered
when pondering on it. Now Upnishads
describing consciousness, (which is generally taken as soul or ataman and
rejected as useless)- “Consciousness means pervades all, which is
the subject and which knows, experiences and illuminated objects and which
remains immortal and always the same,”
Katha Upnisad, 2,1,1.
Need
to study
Practically, at present, our education system
is studying and also providing training to our physical body and mental logical
power to develop the human race but unfortunately the energy of consciousness
is not so much studied to find the new dimension of life. Though, some studies
like psychology emerged to understand the human nature and there are some unrecognized
sciences like hypnotism, that heal human soul by taking the consciousness in the
past where the consciousness is attached with some incidents. The time travelling
is possible for consciousness and therefore there should
be some scientific or rational way of studies that can understand the energy of
consciousness.
David Hume said, “There are some philosophers who
imagine, we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our self,
that we feel its existence and its continuance in existence,-- for my part,
when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some
particular perception or other of hear of cold, light or shade, love or hatred,
pain or pleasure, In ever can catch myself at anytime without a perception and
never can observe anything but the perception.”
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