Time Shaft Theory🔗

“This is a time shaft diagram. Consider time as a shaft which is continuously moving from the right to the left. The future is constantly flowing and becoming the past. The time shaft represents the incidents, memories, or Cosmic Intelligence. If we can go back in time and get any information, then we have the Cosmic Intelligence. All our past is available before the present moment - left side of the time shaft. All the future is available after the present moment - right side of the time shaft. The present moment is where the future and past meet.

Usually our mind wanders between past and future, jumping back and forth. If we take 10 jumps in one second, we are having 10 TPS (Thoughts Per Second). A person who is restless may have 100 TPS and is very far from the time shaft. When TPS is more, we may see the past as we want, not as it really was. We see only a few incidents in a few moments; we try to connect them and judge our past accordingly. As the TPS comes down, we will have a clearer idea of our past, as it really happened. For example, if we have a party in our house, when the party is over we will create a file about all the mistakes we made and remember only those mistakes, so that we don't repeat them. We may not remember all the joys we felt and shared.

If our TPS is too much, we will remember only the file of memories we chose to store, not the whole incident as it happened. The moment we can remember the whole incident or past, we can learn wonderful lessons. This will also show us our future because the past and future are nothing but two dimensions of time.

Vivekananda says: if you know a handful of clay completely, you will know about all the clay available on earth.

If we have clarity about the past, we will have clarity about the future.

Through techniques like meditation, we can bring down our TPS to zero; we are completely in the present moment; we touch eternity. Past, present and future put together is eternity. We cannot touch it in the past since it's already gone; we cannot touch it in the future since it is yet to happen; we can touch it only in the present moment. If we can totally relax in the 'here and now', be totally aware and totally conscious, we can touch eternity and become aware of the whole past and whole future.”