Circular Predictability

Time - because of its circular – rather rotational nature; just like the seasons, assumes predictability. Which simply means, like the four seasons, or 12 zodiacal divisions or even 27 lunar mansions (nakshatras), life is a predictable entity. Does it not contradict the fact that a person is a maker of the person's destiny? Well, simply put - No, while fate is predictable, life is not. Fate was chosen; life is lived – there are always 'deltas' between what was desired and what transpired – all this not too deviant from the chosen karma.

Predictability is an immense assurance of what may happen. And, assurances lead to faith. Faith drives our ambitions. The chances that a person well versed in medicines will otherwise lead a life of doom is seldom the case – therefore predictability becomes an important aspect of determining the characteristic and personality of a person. Even chaos is predictable. Buddha classified the predictable life as that of middle path. The Middle Path Life is the easiest to lead as it also falls closely to the karmic choice of the individual.

Note – human professions (or professions created by humans) may not be the one chosen for a karmic life. Again, human rules are not astral in nature. Therefore, while predicting, it is important to determine whether a person chose the life to have the following characteristics – belief, faith, peace-loving, honest, water loving, land loving, nomadic or static life. Based on these characteristics, one can narrow down to the human created profession that suits the personality the best.  

Time is Circular and therefore predictable

Time is definitely not linear. The circular nature of time is explicit and inevitable. Incidents, history repeat. Therefore does life. The passage of time (as the expression goes) is well phrased – time is slow in propagation and yet directional. It is truly a passage. However, it is like a voyage in a sailing ship. It would almost be impossible to figure out the world is round, had it not been for faster ships and perhaps revelation.

Circularity is inevitable. Only then can be explained the theory of indestructibility. How about time in the other plane – the other dimension. The passage and units could differ and it probably does – that explains the uniqueness of every creature that is born or exists in this universe.

In the illustration N expresses Natality, M - maturity, D - Decay and inevitable Death. The return path seems to be a reversal of time - perhaps, perhaps not. The question - is life a choice or is it inevitable?

Parallel Universes

All matter defaults to parallelism. Parallelism in roles and actions is easily conceivable. A person on the phone, with a sandwich, coffee and newspaper driving a car is a rich display of parallel activities. The same lady in life plays a mother, aunt, daughter and wife. While watching all this, beyond a point our minds stop assimilating every other parallel other that exists. Its time we let the five senses and idiosyncrasy guide the mind. It's high time we went beyond the limitations of 'Maya - illusions' and (perhaps) try and understand the true parallelism. For convenience of understanding, let us adhere with just 'duality' a much smaller subset of parallelism as it is easy to fathom and decipher – simple - yin and yang; white and black.  The illustration on the left denotes duality. A with it's dual A~ complement. B with parallel B~. We will get to the attachments and fallen A in a while.

Simply put, all existence in this universe has duality with another one. By the way, the word used here is existence and not life. Life by definition is enjoyed for short time-spans by living organisms. Existence, however spans a much larger domain. It goes far beyond the short lifespan of macrocosms like humans, mammals, reptiles perhaps even insects and smaller creatures. The microcosm that we all contain within us lives on a time scale that is very different from us. Life in the micro-world occur for shorter spans measured at macro levels. Like the bacterial population ceases to exist in human conceivable micro-second time spans.  

It is not about duality between macrocosm, microcosmic or even super-macrocosm existence. These are all perceptive; limited by optical and other senses. They also tend to exhibit uniqueness. Where therefore is the duality – all religions have taught us it is beyond the perceptions – the question therefore is – is the existence form or formless? Religious power-stations have also deliberately confused the duality through visually perceivable artifacts – like 'heaven' and 'hell'.

Gods that came down on this earth and lived among humans exhibited traits that were the expressions of that era – pain, emotions, concepts of good, bad and evil. Through subtle parables they spoke about duality; about parallelism. Jesus, Buddha, Krishna shared this earth with humans and yet left in a incredibly divinely manner. Their communication with the parallel form was quite explicitly perceived by folks around them. Such an extraordinary exhibition happened only to a few – or was it simple exaggeration? Whatever happened then cannot be recreated – whatever was there made them different – divinity was profoundly expressive for the chosen few.