Responding to Renuka's question in the G.D. thread:
Renuka,
I said past is an illusion and future is a spiritual reality.
Past, present and future divide the time into three different types of reality. One test for reality is that everyone sees it in the same way. The test for higher reality is , only some are able to see and everyone will eventually be able to see it. The test for illusion is, nobody sees it.
Given that , Present is seen by everyone in the same way it is the normal or mundane reality. But truth of future is seen only by some , so it is a higher reality or spiritual reality and past is not experienced by anyone. So it is an illusion.
To think of it, everything of the physical world eventually becomes an illusion once we enter the spiritual world.
Makes sense?
Dear Sravna,
The present is just split seconds actually.
Everything just moves rapidly.
How long does NOW last?
By the time I finish typing this..its already in the past.
For me I prefer to relate time with the human body cos signs of aging is evident.
We can compare parameters of the past and present or should I say Now.
Future is technically only a perception with references made to past evidence.
Even when seeing a patient we take detail past history to get a picture of the present or now.
So that means the PAST is to a great extent the storage of data from time immemorial.
Past karma determines present life.
It all seems that the Past plays a more important role.
To understand even human evolution we need to dig up the past.
The mind goes into reverse gear to find out why we are even existing right from the Big Bang.
So why only the past has answers?
Is the Past actually just History or it is The Timeless State that holds the secret of entire existence and its we humans that have called it the Past becos our mind needs an axis called Time to relate to events.
If one explores deeper into this..it would just seem that everything is a State that never had a begining nor will have an end but just an ever existing state that is being discovered by us humans in a play so well written that the audience are actually in a slumber though awake.
When you put all these togather..the past..present and future surely seems like an illusion.
I will log in later to reply..need to attend a seminar.