Ben Dhyan
Veteran Member
Haha...there is no time, except as a mental abstraction from the eternal.Have you heard of the fallacy of infinite regression? If we live in a universe that is constantly changing from one state to another, then we live within a framework of time. So if there are events that are happening right now as we speak, these events are proof that the universe had a beginning. If the universe had no beginning, meaning that the universe had an eternal and infinite past, then time as we know it would never get to where we are at.
There is an analogy for this. If there is a bird sitting in a tree and I was getting ready to shoot it, the only way for me to shoot it is if I ask permission to shoot it. So the person whom I ask permission to shoot it also needs to ask permission to someone else for him to give permission to the guy who will allow me to shoot. So this line of people keeps going down, with people asking the next person in line for permission.
If this line keeps going and going infinitely, will the time ever come where I will shoot the bird? It won't.
If a time comes where I am able to shoot the bird, that means that there was one guy all the way at the end of the line who did not need to ask anyone for permission. This means that the universe had a beginning.
Now God is synonymous with eternity and infinity. Once the human mind has abstracted a sense of his personal existence from the One God of which he is an actual indivisible aspect, he then sees himself as being separate from the eternal God, then the error of duality and finiteness arises in the mind.
Next he sees the relative movement of other apparent separate aspects of the one God, and measures the patterns and cycles and abstracts the concept of time from what in fact is the eternal ceaseless movement of aspects of God.
But from the Divine perspective, there is no duality, there is no time, there is only the eternal oneness aka God in which all apparent conscious entities live , move, and have their being.
Btw, you didn't respond to my questions to you about the state of your creation from nothing God.