The Total Solution to the Total Problem - 7. Swami Krishnananda


7.
23/12/2016.

1.
If that which we consider as the sum total of the values of life or the reality of existence is something that is present, there would be no incentive to do anything in the world.

All impulse to action and incentive for what we consider as progressive evolution of humanity is an insignia of the notion of the futurity of an end that is yet to be achieved, and the history of mankind is again a vindication of this outlook of mankind as a whole.

2.
Thus, our relation to reality seems to be a kind of relation between the present and the future.

Here we are not in an easy position.

Even if we scratch our head a thousand times, we would not be able to give a correct definition of the relation between the present and the future because of the difficulty in knowing where exactly the present passes into the future, where the future commences.

3.
We do not actually know where we are in the process of time.

Are we in the past or are we in the present or are we in the future?

The moment a thought arises in this direction we will find that we cannot offer a definition because the moment we put forth a psychic effort in the direction of the solution of this problem, the present has become the past and the future has become the present.

We are swimming in this current of a flowing river of time which hurries forward incessantly in a direction towards an end which is not, at the present moment, within the ken of human perception.

This is a simple, homely analogy before us of a difficulty that is facing everyone.

To be continued


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