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The nature of I

Then, there still remains one important question. The individual and the world of objects both exist within space and time framework. Is consciousness located within time and space?

Again, the Upanishads declare that consciousness is not limited by time and space but is the truth of time and space. How is it possible? In order to understand this, let us analyze time and take an interval of one hour. That hour can be divided further in minutes which constitute one hour. One minute can itself be further divided into seconds, milliseconds, nanoseconds, etc. Then what is really this interval of one hour? What is the building block of time, its reality? Time looses also its seeming absolute reality. What is invariable in minutes, seconds, nanoseconds, etc, is existence which simultaneously appears as hour, minutes, seconds, nanoseconds, etc. What makes that existence simultaneously appear as hour, minutes, seconds, nanoseconds, etc., is intelligence, which again depends upon consciousness. That means, existence-consciousness is truth of time.

We can analyze in the same manner space. Space is generally measured in terms of distance between two points, for example one meter. This measurement of a meter can further be divided in centimeter, millimeter, etc. which ends up with existence as before. The intelligence which makes the existence appear in those units of measurements is consciousness.

Therefore both time and space depend for their being upon existence-consciousness, they are mithya, whereas existence-consciousness is satyam, not displaced or subject to time and space since it is the very truth of time and space.

Modern physics helps us to assimilate the relativity of space and time. Objects are not inserted in a fixed and eternal frame work of space and time. A massive object can also curve the space/time by the gravitational field it creates. Time and space are changing, collapsible in some conditions and relative to the speed and the location of the observer as the theory of relativity shows. It also shows that there is not on one side time as a linear one absolute dimension flow towards the future and the other side, an absolute space with its three dimensions. The space and time are not only relative but also not independent from each other.

To conclude, the inquiry into the nature of the individual, of I, led me to the discovery that I am limitless existence-consciousness, that is the truth of all names and forms, both sentient and insentient and not limited by space or time or any object in the entire universe ⁶⁶.
That means my conclusions that I am limited by space and time, subject to birth and death, confined to this body, limited in my knowledge and skills, subject to sorrow, fear, etc. are therefore wrong ⁶⁷. This sense of limitation is not real. It is just a notion. The notion that I am the body, the mind, etc., has its origin in my not knowing the true nature of myself. 

One by one, these notions are negated by the teaching which then makes me see that the entire space time framework and the objects and beings within this framework, exist in me alone. I am limitless consciousness-existence, free from mortality and not confined by space, I am the limitless whole that is the truth of the entire universe.

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