The relative time

You cannot understand something unless you experience it.

Rishi Vishwamitra, who was a king before becoming a brahmarsi, has meditated for thousands of years as described in Ramayana. The immediate question which would come to anyones mind is how can a human meditate for such a long time, and the question of food follows. The food thing is clear like surviving on fruits initially and then on air and then on nothing (not even the breath). Lets address the time part of it here. 

Einstein's general theory of relativity which states how time is different based on space is accepted and proved experimentally. "When spending few minutes in a very strong gravitational field (planet close to black hole) is equivalent to years in a weak gravitational field (Earth in relative scale) the same can be extended to the deep state of meditation." 

Let's come to the actual experience part. Meditation during a solar eclipse is considered powerful. You can get more information here (link). The last Solar eclipse which happened in June was a time wherein I desired to get more spiritual knowledge. Whenever I have meditated I was never able to go beyond 25 minutes. On the day of eclipse, I started with mantra chanting an hour before the core eclipse time and reserved meditation for the specific time window. I meditated during that time window and by the time it ended I felt like the usual 20-25 minutes have gone by, but the time elapsed was 45 minutes.

The connected Universe

Sleeping during the daytime has always been a fulfilling experience. During moonrise on March 6’th, I could feel this surge of energy coming from the top of my head into my body. I felt this should be the healer for my body. As I woke up these thoughts came up in my mind.

The Universe is a singularity as per the Vedas. Duality starts with the idea of myself and the rest of the Universe. If both were connected well enough then whatever happens in the other half should have it’s reflection in the first half. Let's try to understand this through my recent experience of illness.

My last visit to a doctor before 2020 was some 11 years back. I never had any illness except for mild cold and cough at times. December of 2019 during the Solar eclipse time I had the urge to chant health mantras. Any chant during eclipse is considered to multiply its effect. I chanted health mantras as I wanted to get the perfect health, which as I look back does not seem normal as I was always healthy throughout. Around the same time, I had a mild cough which looked different from the earlier ones I had. 

The year ended and 2020 started normally. January 5’th was the date I had a fever with cold and cough. Just took a pill and expected it to go in a day. Fever and cough persisted for two more days. I visited a doctor and got an X-ray and it seemed to show some fluid accumulation in one of my lungs. Got advice to get admitted which I ignored and took the medication as prescribed, later in the day. The fever subsided in a few days but the cough persisted. Whole of January ended with multiple tests and doctor visits only to find nothing pointing to the root cause. The covid thing was catching up and getting noticed meanwhile. Towards the end of January my lungs ached and it continued to February. 

The second bout of fever happened the same day a covid case was detected in the city I live in. It lasted 2 days. The healing was slow and continued through March and April. The whole timeline seems to match with the macro covid pandemic. As I feel fully healed I see the virus is not as strong now and the world is opening. 

Let's come back to the two halves. Let one half be the Earth and the other half the rest of the Universe. What was happening to the rest of the Universe (let’s consider the immediate solar system) starting December 2019. We had a Solar eclipse and all the planets between Rahu and Ketu. Eclipse is an important event in Astrology. For naysayers who do not believe in Astrology the pandemic was predicted in August 2019 itself. The whole point is, within the one universal entity where you draw the boundary. Is it me and everything else, is it the Earth and the rest of the Universe and so on.