 | 1 Now we will discuss time. Time is a specific material element that is
independent of the three modes of nature. It consists of past, present and future, and it has simultaneity, delay, speed, and other aspects. It is the cause of the material universe’s creation and destruction. It is like a turning wheel, a wheel that has spokes beginning with second and ending with eons. It is described in the following words of the Sruti-sastra:
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| jñah kāla-kālo guṇī sarva-vidyaḥ
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| “Lord Visnu is the controller of time. He knows everything. He has all transcendental qualities.”
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| In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.3.26) it is said:
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| yo ‘yam kālas tasya te ‘vyakta-bandhos
ceṣṭām āhuś ceṣṭate yena viśvam
nimeṣādir vatsarānto mahīyāṁs
tam tveśānaṁ kṣema-dhāma prapadye
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| “O inaugurator of the material energy, this wonderful creation works under the control of powerful time, which is divided into seconds, minutes, hours and years.This element of time, which extends for many millions of years, is but another form of Lord Visnu. For Your pastimes You act as the controller of time, but You are the reservoir of all good fortune. Let me offer my full surrender unto your Lordship.”
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| In the Smrti-sastra it is said:
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| kāla-cakraṁ jagac-cakram
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| “The material universe is like a wheel. Time is like a wheel.”
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| Time is powerful and eternal. In the Sruti-sastra it is said: Before the
material universe was manifested, time existed.
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| deva saumyedam agra āsīt
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| “O gently one, before the material universe was created, time existed.”
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| Time acts everywhere. In the Sruti-sastra it is said:
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| na so ‘sti pratyayo loke
yatra kālo na bhāsate
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| “There is no place in the material world where time is not present.”
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| Time controls the material world. Still, time itself is under the control of
the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is confirmed by the passage beginning
‘jnah kala -kalah’ in the Sruti-sastra and also by Srimad Bhagavatam 10.3.26, both passages quoted above, ime has no power in the spiritual world. In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (2.2.17) it is said:
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| na yatra kālo ‘nimiṣaṁ paraṁ prabhuḥ
kuto nu devā jagatām ya īśire
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| “In that transcendental state of labdhopasanti there is no supremacy of devastating time, which controls even the celestial demigods who are empowered to rule over mundane creatures.”
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