Absolute Present

Present. Past. Future. I know that the three aren’t in order, but who cares? People will definitely notice that these three factors of time aren’t in order. But have they ever noticed that if the three are in order in their real life? Ask me. I’ll say NO. No one would ever notice it, for at least if human doesn’t become a time traveller (for the sake of second postulate of the special theory of relativity). For those who don’t know what special theory of relativity is, have you ever tried to know what Einstein is famous for? I mean i’ve seen and met many people who know that Einstein was a great scientist. But if they’re asked about his inventions, they dip. Actually this we can say as the biggest achievement of him, that everybody knows him not for what he’s done, but for him being Einstein (‘everybody’ excludes the people who are aware about it.). And those who know, they are fond of him. Though this thing was not dedicated to brag about him, but you can see, it occured because of him being him!

Getting back to where this initiated, we generally don’t notice the present moment. No, I’m not gonna motivate you that please try to live the present moment. Others might have told this to us many a times, yet we always fail to achieve this. No matter how much we try, we tend to move towards past or future (mentally, ofcourse). But if you’ve ever tried to remain in present, people term this as meditation I guess. It is a right thing for the wrong reason. No, I’m not going to tell you the benefits of meditation, you can google it. For the wrong reason of a right thing I meant that, those who preach and practise meditation, think of it as a process of finding peace and connecting to consciousness (own consciousness, ofcourse). The basic process of meditation is to focus on your breath while your eyes are closed and you being in a noise free place. And by achieving this state, you tend to lose your senses from outside world, and your whole concentration unknowingly focuses upon your own self, what we call as consciousness. In that state, you have no thoughts circulating in mind, so no recording of past playing in mind, neither the imagination of future. Bingo! What you’ve achieved is the state of absolute present!
Those who practise meditation remain calm and chill (though I don’t, but still I am) . So basically, meditation is a way to achieve absolute present.

No, this isn’t over yet. If you’re giving up then I recommend you to give up now. Because some serious science is following now.

Earlier I mentioned about the postulate of the STR. It says that speed of light is a constant, 3,00,000 kilometers per second approximately. You might have heard this saying, ‘the farther you look in space, you look into the past of universe’. Yeah it is true because the distances up there are so great that it takes time to travel there, even for the light itself. Since we see everything because of light, we see the past of anything distant enough for light to take time to travel from there to our eyes. That’s one of the reason why we are uncertain about distant happenings in universe. Also meditation helps us achieve absolute present by disconnecting our senses from the outer world. In our social life, we have friends, family, relatives, acquaintances, and strangers. We have a particular mental distance from each of the category people. Family and friends are our closest, or our best friend, or any person who is closest to us, we try to keep touch with them. If we tend to lose regular communication with them, their category changes with time, slowly moving from friends, to acquaintances, to strangers. At this stage of total disconnectivity due to increase in distances, we become unaware of their present condition. What remains with us is only the past of them, and with them, our past. So emotional distance leads to the pastness of a person. And not only people, but anything which was with us, and now is distanced from us, becomes our past.

Sed. Well it was not intended to make you feel sad about the people who aren’t in touch with you now. But what more important is, the above discussed things might be related. The limitation of speed of light and looking into the past because of it; the effect that the process of meditation creates to isolate our mind; the pastness of people who are distanced from us now.

Yes! The three phenomena/processes/or whatever you call them, might be related with each other. Although the process of meditation itself doesn’t share a big part in their relatability, it was important to mention it because I don’t know any other process by which connection to consciousness can be described effectively. The farness of people/object/or anything which was close to us leads to the pastness of them with us at present, due to the limitation of speed of light. For obvious reasons, if someone is physically distant from us, then we may not be able to contact properly. And if someone is nearby us, the communication will take place some time. And ofcourse, with whom we communicate frequently, we share the present of ours. And with whom we lose communication, we share only the past of ours, individually. This also leads to a conclusion that the one which is closest is closest to our absolute present, mutually. With including the fact that meditation brings a state of absolute present to us, by making us completely focussed on our own self, it can be further concluded that our consciousness, that is, our own self, is our absolute present. We can never be in present if we are somehow in connection with something other than our own self. We are the absolute present. You are the absolute present. To experience it, we might have to gain control over our consciousness first, since it is distance wise, both emotionally (people and memories) and physically (limitation of speed of light), closest to us. Thus, we are the absolute present.