THE PRESENT IS ALL THAT IS

THE PRESENT IS ALL THAT IS

The past has ever been an enactment in the present. All our heritage is a historical early enactment in the then present which has been handed down to us by way of the relay of momentary generations shifting the load, the legacy unto their successors.

It is ever the present that is the reality of the world, although it encompasses memories and hopes spanning the past and the future. The relativity of time notwithstanding, where every spatial point is a distinct point in time as well, the present, nonetheless, is all that exists in phenomena in terms of relative perception, and even beyond phenomena in the realm of the Absolute, it is an eternal frozen present, the Presence of consciousness and existence absolute. So, it is ever the present, in the past as memory, in the present as experience and in the future as imagination of what may perchance come to pass. But all of it is in the present moment in its varying stretch which is termed 'backwards' and 'forwards' but essentially is this moment's experience.

The shifting of time is illusion even as time itself in reality is. And this inscrutable, inexplicable reality of sorts which is but a facade, an appearance, has in exasperation been duly termed 'Maya'. We are trapped in its wondrous web, seemingly hopelessly, and must seek our way out. That is our mission, to escape from the clutches of Maya into absolute freedom. The transcendental realm beckons us even as the temporal holds us in its death-grip. And we must fly to freedom to be in the Presence of the Being that is the Brahman.

The undulating moment, rocking up the tenses in its swing, disappears and eternity unfolds in all its frozen solidarity of existence and consciousness absolute, the whole without parts. The pendulum stops dead in the middle. The clock vanishes and the clockwork vanishes, too.

Written by Sugata Bose

18Sharmistha Chatterjee, Riya Bhattacharya and 16 others

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