MahA-kAla

MahA-kAla

                           ---M. Mrithika Santhoshini

 

Humans value time as we depend on it for work, routine and healing. What we know about Time is in hours. For a lucky few, Time is calculated by moments too. Having lethargically got used to looking into the wrist watches and mobile phones, to know Time, we forgot every living being is blessed with a clock within. Yes our hearts are the inbuilt clock and pulse, the time!

When they say we are made of life i have wondered what it is. Is it my soul? Where inside my body can I find and so on... Life is not something that is present inside an individual only. Like three fourth of this Earth is made of water, the Earth actually is entirely made of life. The forms of life took shape according to the rate of pulse within; to say according to the time it follows.

Before I elaborate it, I would like you to remember the days where our ancestors looked up to the sky to know time. Spiritually, it makes sense that it is the common thing, so belonging to the whole world than a rain or wind and the five elements. Time, I would say is the father of five elements. Now coming back to the explanation, i observed in my recent times and have come to an understanding that Snow is the slowest form of rain and rain is the faster form of snow.

With the luxury of controlling the speed of anything digitally, when I slowed down the speed of rain, it looked like snowfall. This drop of minute was enough for me to quench the brain nerves: We get snowfall in colder countries because they are only rain unable to pour quickly, but "delayed" to reach the ground due to the freezing cold. Teaching physics or chemistry or geography here isn’t the idea. The time taken by each element on earth to flow, decides its form or shape in this world. Perhaps amoeba's clock within is the slowest and humans' fast enough comparatively. Because the species that run by mediocre count of time cease to physically evolve and thus remaining as birds or animals in figure.

Since I said that the whole earth is made up of one life, people or any living beings becoming

parents, siblings, children, cousins, relatives, friends and lovers, everything depends upon the hands of clock running inside all of us. Lo, isn’t this why one palpitates when falling in love? And that love gets reciprocated "only" by someone whose heartbeat matches, infact synchronizes at that moment! Ahem, thus when the elders say Marriage can't be forced before Time nor can it be stopped by anyone when the time comes, they didn't mean the mere toy time played on the walls or in calendars. They meant the synchronicity of individual's time with another.

Our time must match like for example how all Indians share the same clock and American’s differ from us to belong to specific lifestyle. We all are related to one another as the elements of Nature connected to each other, all decided by the time inside us. Hence Time is the soul, freezing and melting in some accordingly.

-M Mrithika Santhoshini M.A

Coimbatore