146. Riding a Photon
I t is said that every morning we are born again which is a rebirth from a ‘time’ point of view. In this regard, Krishna says that Brahma (Creator) too has a day and night but of a different time scale (8.17). At the dawn of the day, all manifested (creation) appear and dissolve back at the dusk of the night of Brahma (8.18). This is invariably a cyclic process (8.19). Anything under the influence of time is cyclic. Krishna says that there exists higher than the unmanifested, yet another unmanifested, eternal, the absolute, which remains untouched by the cycle of cosmic dissolution (8.20). A seed is the best example to understand this verse. Inside a seed an unmanifested tree is hidden and the cycle of seed-tree-seed continues. But there is a creative force beyond both which makes this cycle possible, and Krishna is hinting at this creative force that is beyond time. Understanding something beyond time is a difficult task for our mind. Scientifically, the theory of re...