22 Aug 2021
[Ms. Lakshmi Thrylokya asked:- We know that God created this entire creation and also created time. He is beyond time and can control time. A soul (Jiva) is within the creation and struck in time. Any human incarnation of God is omnipotent and can do everything including time-travel. Can a soul also travel in time? Is time-travel possible for the soul?]
Swami replied:- It is possible for the soul in cinema in which the concept of time machine was used for entertainment. The entire creation is four-dimensional space-time model. When the soul itself is a specific work form of inert energy, how soul can transcend space? The fourth co-ordinate time is inseparable from three-dimensional space. Only unimaginable God is beyond space. The fundamental material of the creation is inert energy, which can’t exist without space. Due to this, soul can’t be beyond space. When space is absent, time cannot exist. Hence, that which cannot be beyond space can’t be beyond time also. Time is expressed in the units of space like the distance of Sun and Moon from the point of horizon. In the war of Kurukshetra, God Krishna could stop the time so that the time taken by God Krishna was one minute time for others so that He could explain 18 chapters of the Gita to Arjuna in 18 hours while in the same time, the time was one minute for others. This was possible for God because time itself is a relative reality. Hence, two times of two relative realities were created, which could not contradict each other. Many years in the dream co-exist with few hours of external dream time side by side because both are relative realities. This example helps to understand the nature of relative reality.
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