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Vol. 14, No.-2-3, 2002, 91-97
ARHAT VACANA Kundakunda jñānapiha, Indore
KD Theory of Time and
Consciousness
Dilip Suraana *
I start this paper with a very general idea.....that of Time Machine.
The concept of time machine is as open as it ever was. Can one travel back in the past (or for that matter transport into future)? Well, some say yes, it is possible, but they do not have any means to justify it. Some say no, as, if it is yes then you would be able to prevent your own birth. Logically correct it seems.'
Actually past of the future is always present. And this aptly represents the truth. It has to be explored further - how?
It is possible to know the past as well as the future as both these are present in a relevant sense. One cannot say that the past does not exists nor can one deny the existence of the future. If the three altogether exist then the first solution first premise is the one to get the support. But at the same time I would say one cannot see the time as it has no form. If one has to know time in the sense of physical knowledge then the answer must be no as we can neither touch nor hear nor taste nor smell nor see the time. None of our senses are capable of knowing time in that sense.
Taking the first hypothesis first, if one exists then one must be able to locate it and may be see it. No existence can be there without a location and an existence is always knowable. We see shapes but we cannot see existence. Which has no shape cannot be seen either. Time has no shape even though it is relevant to space which has a shape. It must then be somewhere.
The effort is to be directed to find that somewhere.
The universe is grandest not finite but infinite. So the past and future must exist within this infinite. Infinite past has been there and infinite future would be there. Both these infinites should co-exist in the infinite universe along with the finite present.
How to locate it?
If we do not know what the past is or the future is then we cannot locate it. First we have to know this. Even if we know it today we may
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