TIME AND SPACE
SANJIVA DEV
Now, here
Then, there
When, where
Whenever, wherever
Ever, everywhere
Are the symbols
Of time and space:
‘Now’ is the temporal
counterpart
Of the spatial ‘here’.
A mile
Is a spatial year
An year
Is a temporal mile;
Infinity
Eternity
Is temporal infinity.
Time moves
Space stays
Time is dynamic space
Space is static time;
Static space
Is mere an appearance
Dynamic space is
reality;
Mere surface of space
Seems not to move
The interior of space
Does always move.
Moves
The surface of time
The interior of time
Does not move
The interior of time
Is static,
Surface of space
Is static,
Interior or space
Is dynamic,
Surface of time
Is dynamic.
Movement
And stillness
Are never absolute
They are ever relative;
Movement
And stillness
Interpenetrate each
other;
Movement
Is dynamic stillness
Stillness
Is static movement
Both are mere passing
phases.
Time is abstract
Space is concrete
Space
Is tactile
Visual and auditory;
Time could not be
touched
Could not be seen and
heard,
Time is perceived
Only through
The disguise of space;
Time relies on space
For its revelation
Space depends on time
For its evolution;
Evolution is revelation.
In space
One could move
To the front
To the middle
To the back;
But in time
One could move
To the front, the future
To the middle, the
present
But not to the back, the
past
It is only the memory
That could go to the
back.
In space
Are visible
The foreground
The middleground
And the background
But in time
The present alone
Is visible,
The future and the past
Are obscure,
The past
Is invisible and yet
known
The future
Is both invisible and
unknown.
Space is ‘being’
Time is ‘becoming’
‘Being’ exists
‘Becoming’ lives
Space exists
Time lives;
In space
Creatures have their
being
In time
They have their
becoming;
‘Existing’
Is a bud;
‘Living’
Is a flower.
The origins
Of time and space
Remain in obscurity;
When the time emanated
Where the space
originated
Is still unknown;
Space is a great mystery
Time a greater mystery;
Time is the vehicle of
eternity
Space is that of
infinity.