Time or Kaal is an integral aspect of the Universe in which we live. Everything happens here relative to time. There was a time when this Universe was born, there was a time when our galaxy was formed, there was a time when our sun was formed, followed by our solar system, there was a time when our earth was created, and there was a time life started on this earth. There is a time when we get born, and in the linearity of time, we wake up and sleep, we play and work, we suffer and enjoy, and we pass through the stages of the life cycle like infancy, childhood, adolescence, youth, middle age, old age, and senescence. There is a time when we die. From birth to death, we are entangled and enmeshed with time. Over time, we are delivered or destroyed; we make ourselves or break ourselves, succeed or fail, do good or bad, make friends or enemies and ever remain immersed in the game of time. Since life is a game of time, have we ever pondered what we should do or how to play the game of time?
From the time of birth to death, are we only supposed to play the game of indulgence, remain lost in temporary relations and attachments, eat, drink, procreate and enjoy without any bother about where we have come from and what should be our destination? Having witnessed the partial game of life wherein some enjoy and others suffer with unbearable intensity, did we ever question why such inequality and vagaries of enjoyment or suffering? We spend our time pursuing success, glory and position, pride, desire, wants, craving, jealousy and so on.
The correct use of time would be to engage in ultimate transcendence and meditation and seek eternal salvation, of course, by doing the necessary worldly chores of earning by righteous means, keeping the body healthy, practising duty-bound love, and discharging duties accordingly. That is the ultimate purpose of human life, supposedly a special creation. Unaware of it, humans lead a mechanical life of playing, earning, marrying, producing children, bringing them up, getting them married, playing with grandchildren and one day, leaving the world worrying and thinking about money, children and family. A grand recipe indeed for coming into this world, again and again, to satisfy unfulfilled desires and going through the same routines with a different set of people and relations as per karmic deeds of past lives.
O’ humans! Awake and arise to the realities of the game of life and time and get out of the cycle of birth and death, the purpose for which you are given the human form.
