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In one sitting, throwing light from the spiritual point of view, on
Time and Space, Qalander Baba Auliya said, "Every creation is dihedral and
exists in the form and shape of two sides. Thus, life also has two aspects. One
is its wider aspect or the Unconscious and the other is the limited or the
Conscious aspect." "The wider aspect; Unconscious is the Time and
Eternity is its limit whereas the limited aspect; the Conscious is the Space,
which, in fact, is division or part only. Now the question is what the Time is
actually? And, what is the division of Time or the Space is and how does it
come into being?" "Normally it is considered that Time is passing
whereas, in actual effect, time is a record (Past). Present and Future do not
exist separately rather these are the components of the Past." "It is
the statement of Holy Prophet (PBUH), "Pen dried after writing what was to
happen."
Then explaining this quotation of Holy Prophet (PBUH) Qalander Baba Auliya
said:
"There is book that has been written i.e. the Past is a record.
There are different ways to study that .book. If the book is read from
beginning to its end, word after word, line after line and page after page, in sequence
and order. Now this manner of studying the book is that of wakefulness or the
Conscious. Man's conscious experience is that one moment is followed by another,
one day is lived then the next and thus days become weeks, weeks become months,
months become years and years take the form of centuries that pass in an order
and sequence. Thursday cannot come after Tuesday unless the Wednesday is not
lived by, Similarly, March cannot come if the proceeding months are not live
by. This very way of living is the Conscious way of life. In Spiritualism this
way of living is termed as Serial Time or the Wakefulness."
Then mentioning the dreams, he said, "Other way of studying the
book is that works during sleep or dreaming. A man sees in a dream that he is
in London and the very next moment he sees himself in Karachi. This manner of
living is termed as Non- serial Time or the Time of Unconscious, which is that
manner of studying the book in which the order and sequence are ignored. During
dreaming, the speed of the human
Senses increases to that extent whence he enters into the
Unconscious and all that is witnessed in the dreams is mostly related to with
the Future. "Sometimes man is warned, in his dreams, about the accidents
and mishaps which are about to take place in the Future and after adopting the
precautionary measures one can avoid the accidents or the mishaps. Sometime,
during wakefulness, one’s sixth sense warns him about the future accidents.
Such events are quite common for people at large. And, these all have only one
explanation that mind enters into the Non- serial Time (Unconscious)
momentarily leaving the Serial Time (Conscious) and perceives that is about to
happen. But this happens involuntarily and, if this activity could be
controlled and associated with will using the Muraqba Technology then, one can
observe and study the events that are yet to happen, even during one's
wakefulness. Because, all that will happen tomorrow (in the confines of Serial
Time) already exists today (in the Non-serial time) and as it existed yesterday
(in the past). Thus it becomes clear that Time is only the Past. Present and
Future come into being only due to the difference of the ways of the study of the
Book."
"It is just as if a person is watching a movie in a cinema
hall. Scenes of the movie are appearing before him in a sequence. He considers
the scenes that are before his eyes as Present and the scenes that have passed his
vision as Past and the scenes that would come later as Future, though the
entire movie is the Past. Since the past and Future are not present before his
Conscious he thinks time is passing. It means that Time is Past (A Recorded Film).
Difference is only that of the ways of perusing the Time. In the first way,
there is an order and is sequential and is called Serial Time. In the second
way moments do not take place in a sequence, one after the other rather the
mind jumps and enters a moment skipping the mediatory moments. This is termed
as Non-serial Time. As I have stated that entire Time from Eternity to Eternity
is Past (Record) and the moment that encompasses the Time in its entirety,
Spiritualists term it Real Time. This very Time has been referred to in the statement
of Holy Prophet (PBUH); 'The Pen has dried after writing all that is to happen.'
That means everything has happened in Timelessness or the Real Moment and all
that is happening is a part of the Past."
Qalander Baba Auliya: An Introduction
Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi
Dedication
To that young generation that would 6ring an end to the dark shadows of grief and fear by acquainting mankind- with peace and tranquility after equipping itself with the teachings of Qalander Baba Auliya…. and man would-able to enter the heaven after reclaiming his eternal distinction.
