Past, Present and Future: Which to fret about, which no longer!

Article by means of Dr Raghuram Y.S. MD (Ay) & Dr Manasa S, B.A.M.S

A quote from Vairagya Shatakam says ‘Kalaya Tasmai Namaha’ because of this ‘Oh time, I bow with respect to you!’.

This observation says so much in regards to the ‘time factor’.

Everything occurs in time. Time controls the whole thing. There is a metamorphosis going down in the whole thing, all over, each second and those adjustments and transformations are because of the impact of time issue. No one escapes the timeline of time. Our delivery, existence and loss of life also are destined over a timeline, which is other for various other folks. We want to appreciate the time and pay attention to it.

Some other folks say that point is an phantasm and we’re at other issues on its line at other issues of our existence.

We are in an technology by which we discuss time-loop and time-travel.

Kala – A Dravya

Time is known as Kala in Ayurveda. Kala is one in all the 9 dravyas – components. So as in step with the guideline of Dravya, Kala additionally has embedded in it the gunas – its personal qualities (an important one is ‘to change’) and karma – motion or transformation (as occurs with time), in an inseparable dating. By citing it as Dravya, Ayurveda has given due significance to the ‘time factor’.

Kala, its significance in Ayurveda

Going deeper, Ayurveda has discussed ‘kala’ in lots of contexts together with the time taken for samprapti i.e. pathogenesis of illness to broaden thru a series of occasions known as shat kriya kala – six levels of formation of a illness, which on a good observe additionally manner ‘six kalas or time periods’ by which suitable kriya – remedy can also be executed. Kala as in time required for expansion and building, kala as in time required to regard a illness, kala as in time frame for which the indicators of right kind oleation must be awaited for, kala as in time required for the enema drugs to go back from the colon or kala as in the appropriate time of the day to do sure actions and likewise to start up the remedy procedure. Time is the whole thing and the whole thing must be executed as in step with time.

‘Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future’ – William Wordsworth

Kinds of Kala

Kala is of 3 sorts –

–        Bhuta kala – previous

–        Vartamana kala – provide and

–        Bhavishya kala – long term

So, which is vital – previous, provide or long term? Which one must we be extra fearful about?

We will talk about this with the assistance of a quote from Acharya Chanakya.

Past, Present, Future: What Acharya Chanakya Says?

गते शोको न कर्तव्यो भविष्यं नैव चिन्तयेत्।
वर्तमानेन कालेन वर्तयन्ति विचक्षणाः॥चाणक्य नीति १३.२।

Acharya Chanakya, speaking in regards to the previous, provide and long term says – ‘One should never grieve or repent about the past and never worry about the future. A wise person is the one who has learnt to live in the present and will keep doing the same.’

This is the most productive quote on time issue, ever. This is the reality as smartly. This used to be acceptable then, is acceptable now and can be acceptable even in long term.

Forget the previous

See, we can not do a lot in regards to the previous. ‘Past is past and it has gone’. It won’t ever come again nor are we able to return within the timeline. So, the products, bads and the whole thing we’ve executed up to now can’t be modified or erased. So, what’s the that means in dwelling up to now, to stay considering and being concerned about what has came about up to now, feeling responsible, regretful or ashamed?  

So, is it smart to overlook the previous and transfer forward?

In some way sure, since we can not do a lot about what has been executed up to now. It provides us immense tension. This is the supply of hysteria, fear, grief, melancholy and plenty of psychological issues. This is as a result of we’re glued to our previous and imprisoned within the prison of our previous reminiscences. We want to detach ourselves from the bonds of the previous. Else we see no that means in provide or long term. We have met the useless finish and don’t see or decline seeing the sunshine on the finish of the tunnel.

Get just right issues shipped from previous to offer, depart the dangerous issues up to now and shut the ‘past’ doorways

But we will right kind the similar issues within the provide. We can right kind ourselves and check out to not make the similar errors within the provide. We can take a look at not to put ourselves and others in the similar zones of discomfort and ache as soon as once more. We can say ‘sorry’ and kind out issues and relationships. The certain factor about all that is that we will take the teachings learnt from the previous into the existing. We can paintings at the items and dangerous issues we’ve encountered up to now, improvise and nurture the great things and keep away from doing the dangerous and flawed issues. This will make us higher folks and stay us wholesome and glad and likewise revered within the society. Not dwelling up to now is a treatment for our psychological illnesses and emotional turmoil.

To accomplish that, one must are living within the provide.

Should we overlook and erase the previous?

Yes, if it used to be very anxious and painful. If the previous had candy and just right reminiscences we will shipping them into the existing and likewise into the long run and are living with them.

Should we grieve or repent of the issues that have came about up to now?

It relies. Example – we will every so often grieve for our family members whom we’ve misplaced. They are a part of our candy reminiscences and to grieve for them is a wholesome tribute. We want to repent at the dangerous issues that we’ve got executed up to now. Repentance is ok firming ourselves and by means of doing so; we’ve learnt to be truthful with ourselves and to just accept our errors. This will assist us to make fewer errors within the provide, keep away from the similar errors or improvise ourselves by means of heading off the ones errors.

Many people are living in guilt. That is destructive for well being. Guilt must mildew us, no longer wreck us. 

What will occur someday?

Many people are living with this query. We won’t ever in finding a solution for this. This could also be an invited bother which is the supply for a wide variety of worries and tension. Future is unpredictable and it makes no sense to fret about it. By being concerned in regards to the long term, we will be able to overlook to are living luckily within the provide. We suppose we’re incomes and amassing identify, popularity, other folks, wealth, the whole thing for the long run, which we’re securing our long term, however we don’t understand that we may not be there to benefit from the culmination of what we’ve executed. We depart again the whole thing and that’s fact. Past is a fable and the long run is an phantasm. Present is the truth.

In the similar approach, the next day to come would be the new provide once we achieve there, if we achieve there!

So, is it flawed to suppose and plan for the long run?

Certainly no longer, making plans is at all times just right and excited about the long run could also be just right. We must have objectives to succeed in and locations to succeed in. Dreaming and making plans in regards to the long term is a special factor, being concerned and being wired as a way to what our long term beholds for us is other and that is flawed and bad. It depletes us mentally, emotionally and sensually.

When we fear about our previous, we’re being concerned about one thing which has long past and we can not right kind. When we fear about our long term we’re being concerned about one thing which is but to return, no longer in our palms, unpredictable and which we can not form it up as we wish. We can simply plan and hope that we can execute them in long term.

Live within the provide!

This is what smart other folks do as in step with Acharya Chanakya. And all people must make ourselves wiser to relatively are living within the provide, benefit from the moments, lead existence luckily and unfold happiness, love and affection to as many as conceivable. Our previous must be a lesson for the existing. Our provide must create just right blueprints for the long run. Ultimately, be it previous, provide or long term, it’s the just right deeds, ideas and speech which make us just right human beings. Living by means of the behavior of existence is vital. For this we must inculcate Achara Rasayana and Sadvrittas in our lives and go at the batons of the similar to our subsequent technology.

In the entire 3 time zones of Kala, our center of attention must be against attaining dharma, artha, kama and in the long run moksha – the 4 objectives of existence, the purushartha chatushtayas. All our movements must be against them and we must are living in awareness against them, all the time. This could be the name of the game of glad and wholesome dwelling in all 3 time zones – previous, provide and long term.