Time and Mind

Yesterday, somehow i got entangled with the idea of time. Not being a physicist i started to wonder.

Our notion of time (as loosely used by all of us) is built around the movement of the earth around the sun. Would it have changed if we presumed that it was the sun that went around the earth, probably not (assuming that the sun took almost the same time to complete one revolution. The moment i say this i get into cyclicality of using time to define time. Therefore, may be a better way to define time would be the relative position of objects with respect to our position (say the sun, the stars etc etc), and it changes as these 

objects move or we as objects move relative to them.

So, is time something really external to us? Should it be? We grow older, we age but then physics says if we travel faster than the speed of light we could age slower. What exactly do they mean. Could our body processes slow down? If yes how are they linked to something outside the body. What is it that is external to the body and that makes it move at the pace it does? More interesting is that an individual is separable from this external force (assuming that time dilation in physics is correct) and we could reduce/ remove the effect of this external force. 

The only thing that we know which moves with a speed needed to slow the processes is light and light has the character that it travels as packets of energy or photons and these packets do not have mass. The other interesting thing is that light also exhibits particle nature. This dual nature resides in the same light, can be a wave can be a particle. Now, the only thing that i can think of to connect to this analogy is that of a mind. Physically lets call it brain which has a mass and lets call thoughts the wave nature of the mind. What is the speed of thoughts (don't know)? Can it be measured (don't know)? But what could be said more solidly is that thoughts do not seem to have mass and are just packets of energy (arising out of our brain).

So where does this lead to? Am i trying to hint that we could move with the speed of light if we could somehow exhibit this wave nature? Probably yes. How? 

May be its time....

लकीरे (Lekeerein)

हाथों मैं मेरी भी लकिरे हैं
कुछ गहरी कुछ हलकी
कुछ टेढ़ी कुछ सीधी
कुछ कह्ती हैं मेरी भी रेखाएँ

कभी हाथ में हथौड़ा
कभी टेबल साफ करने का कपड़ा
चंद सिक्कों के लिये
मैने ना जाने क्या क्या ना पकड़ा

साफ करते करते कार के शीशे
कितने ही रोज़ बीते
सावन संग सपने भीगे
गर्मी सर्दी के भी मौसम बीते

कह्ते हैं बदल जाती हैं लकीरें
बदल गयी अपनी भी तस्वीरे
अब रेल का सफर है
चाय- काफी हमसफर है

a b c अगर मैं भी जानता
क ख ग जो मैं लिख पाता
लिखता इन लकीरो की कहानी
लफ्जो में बाँध अपनी जुबानी

ਏ ਤੇਰੇ ਮੇਰੇ ਦਾ ਖੇਡ (Ae Tere Mere Da Khed)

ਤੇਰਾ ਵੀ ਤੇਰਾ ਤੇ
ਮੇਰਾ ਵੀ ਤੇਰਾ ਹੈ
ਮੈਂ ਵੀ ਤੇਰਾ ਤੇ ਮਨ ਵੀ ਤੇਰਾ
ਏ ਤੇਰੇ ਮੇਰੇ ਦਾ ਖੇਡ ਚਲ ਬਸ ਕਰੀਏ ਹੁਣ

ਧਰਤ ਤੋ ਜਨਮੇ ਹਨ ਤੇ ਐਥੇ ਹੀ ਮਿਲ ਜਾਣਾ
ਕੀ ਤੇਰਾ ਤੇ ਕੀ ਮੇਰਾ ਪਿਛੇ
ਚਲ ਲੜਨਾ ਚੜੀਏ ਹੁਣ
ਏ ਤੇਰੇ ਮੇਰੇ ਦਾ ਖੇਡ ਚਲ ਬਸ ਕਰੀਏ ਹੁਣ

ਕੁਛ ਤੂ ਕੀਤਾ, ਕੁਛ ਮੈਟੋ ਹੋਯਾ
ਮੇਰੇ ਤੇਰੇ ਕਰਮ ਨੂ ਚਲ ਇਕ ਕਰੀਏ ਹੁਣ
ਏ ਤੇਰੇ ਮੇਰੇ ਦਾ ਖੇਡ ਚਲ ਬਸ ਕਰੀਏ ਹੁਣ

ਤੂ ਮੈਨੂ ਆਪਣਾ ਲੈ, ਮੈਂ ਦੁਬ ਜਾਵਾਂ ਤੇਰੇ ਵਿਚ
ਮੈਂ ਏਕ ਬਾਰਿਸ਼ ਦੀ ਬੂੰਦ ਵਾਂਗ ਸਮਾਂ ਜਾਵਾਂ ਸਮੁਦ੍ਰ ਵਿਚ
ਸਮਾਂ ਲੈ ਮੈਨੂ ਜਿਵੇਂ ਅਗ ਚ ਲੌ, ਜਿਵੇਂ ਸ਼ਰੀਰ ਵਿਚ ਰੂਹ
ਏ ਤੇਰੇ ਮੇਰੇ ਦਾ ਖੇਡ ਚਲ ਬਸ ਕਰੀਏ ਹੁਣ

ਤੇਰਾ ਤੇਰਾ ਤੇਰਾ, ਮੇਰਾ ਨਾ ਕੁਛ ਮੇਰੇ ਵਿਚ
ਹੋਰ ਕੁਛ ਨੀ ਲੇਣਾ ਹੁਣ, ਦੇਣਾ ਵੀ ਸਿਖੀਏ ਹੁਣ,
ਅਜ ਤੇ ਬਸ ਹੋਣਾ ਸਿਖੀਏ, ਕਰਨਾ ਚੜ ਹੋਣਾ ਸਿਖੀਏ
ਏ ਤੇਰੇ ਮੇਰੇ ਦਾ ਖੇਡ ਚਲ ਬਸ ਕਰੀਏ ਹੁਣ

Transliteration:

Tera vi tera te
Mera vi tera hai
Main vi tera te mann vi tera
Ae tere mere da khed chal bas kariye hun

Tharat ton janme hun te aithe hi mil jana
Ki tera te ki mera pichhe
Chal ladna chhadiye hun
Ae tere mere da khed chal bas kariye hun

Kuchh tu kitta, kuchh maitto hoya
Mere tere karam nu chal ik kariye hun
Ae tere mere da khed chal bas kariye hun

Tu mainu apna le, main doob janva tere vich
Main ek barish di boond vang sama janva samudar vich
Sama le mainu jiven aag ch lauh,jiven sharir vich rooh
Ae tere mere da khed chal bas kariye hun

Tera tera tera, mera na kuchh mere vich
Hor kuchh ni lena hun, dena vi sikhiye hun
Aj te bas hona sikhiye, karna chhad hona sikhiye
Ae tere mere da khed chal bas kariye hun

तू

सफ़ेद पन्नो की काली स्याही मैं कहाँ तू समझ आता था,
अँधेरी रात में दिए तले कहाँ तू नज़र आता था,
बाज़ार के शोर गुल में कहाँ तू सुनाई देता था,
में तो बस तुझे अपनी धड़कन में महसूस करता हूँ,
और उसे में हरदम साथ लिए चलता हूँ.

random lines

इस छोर से उस छोर तक
समंदर ही समंदर है
समंदर में लहरें हैं और
लहरों में समंदर है
हवा में तेरी खुशबू है और
खुशबू हवा का एहसास दिलाती है.......

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कल रात की गहराई में कुछ छूट गया था
चाँद भी था और चांदनी भी
तारों की जगमगाहट भी थी
पर कुछ तो साथ नहीं था
वजूद भी मौजूद था
बस "मैं" ही छूट गया था

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कल रात लंग्या सी ओ मैनु
मुर के केहा " चल आ चल मेरे नाल"
अप दो ही कदम चले सन की तू छड गया मेरा साथ
पर राह शायद सही है.
शायद असी फेर मिलिए
थोड़ी नेहीं ता थोड़ी जयादा दूर

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मैं मुस्कराया , मेनू देख ओ वि मुस्कराया
हसदे हसदे कुछ समां बीत गया
सुबह हो गयी सी ...
मैं देख्या दो जन मुस्करा रहे सन
इक मैं ते इक मेरा अंतर
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Floating on water

I was with my cousins and they had asked me for a science experiment that they could do for their exhibition? I thought for some time and recollected one that I had done during my school days. Floating a needle on water.

Yes this is possible; but only if we have a bloating paper. The paper absorbs water and can slowly be made to settle down. The reason as most of us know is because of the surface tension of water.

No matter how many times you try it without paper; the experiment fails. What is the reason for this; the surface tension of water still exists be there paper be there no paper. So what is the difference that makes the experiment a success in one case and failure in other.

As I understand this the paper provides the needle time to be stationary. We need to be patient to see the result. Surface tension of water is quite a weak force but o exploit it one need s to be patient and calm. Some of the greatest forces in nature open up once we are calm and open. Well we often say science and nature cannot go hand in hand. Science is nothing but understanding of the nature.

This whole experiment taught me apart from many things two important lessons.

1. However hard we may try sometimes there is a need for external agent (I am leaving this agent unnamed because it could be guru in some case, consciousness in other and something else for somebody else)

2. The way you approach a relationship is very important (the more it is for a cause the less are the chances for it being successful; in this case the surface of water and the pin are indifferent towards each other)

I will complete this post with a zen story a read shortly;

Once a Zen guru pointing towards a heavy rock, where is this in the mind our outside it?
The student says that according to Buddhism “everything is a projection of the mind. So it is in the mind.”
The Zenmaster replied aren’t you tired of carrying this load?

Rain Drop

Just loved the wordings by Kabir; could not wait to share the same

Translated verbatim into English the doha goes something like this

“ Boond padi jo samudra main , tahi jane sab koi;
Samudra samana boond main , wirla bhooje koi”

How many of realize the ocean in the rain drop. We go on searching for the ocean but never realize the same in the droplet of water. We like to look at things that are huge not in character. A rain drop has the same character as the ocean but how often do we realize this? Maybe, its time to change the outlook. Let’s look deeper and realize bigger things.