Time, the old gypsy man,is a restless wanderer. It never tarries even for a while . Empires rise and fall. Sea -bed deposits or flung up as mountains and river-beds become sandy stretches. Time marches on unconcernedly . Heroic Figures enter and exit on the stage of world -theater , time marches on with a stance of I care two hoots, like the brook of Tennyson it says,' for men may come and men may go but I go on for ever . Yes Time is the only permanent reality. it is the eternal flow without a beginning and without an end . And yet time changes Times Change . This change is manifest not only in the bigger segments of seasonal flux or comparatively small rotational moves but in the awareness of the sentient beings who people time . For without the spectators and recorders of the time march there would have been no History. The Tantra concept of the never-ending flow of time seems to be at conflict with the present view-point which regards present times as the progressive culmination of the undeveloped phases in the past . From primitive tools and barbaric sets of social principles man is moving spirally towards an egalitarian society by bringing the causative energy in nature under this control and the day is not far off when he will become the supreme master of the universe. This view point continued to dominate man's thought till the forties in the twentieth century . But the discovery of the inseparable oneness of matter and energy has put a brake and now new explanations are being offered and the role of intelligence has come under a challenge. In Tantra parashiva, the transcendent reveals its -one-two the energy matter combine by initiating the spanda process . This process stratifies parashiva into Shiva and Shakti . The creative movement starts and the universe is created . But still by and large the scientific approach sticks to the view that modern age is the most progressive stage in human history and for the first time in known existence man has the means to feed ,clothe and shelter all living humans. The globe is a village now and space -travels have greater mysteries and thrills in store than the miracles contained in holly books. There is much truth in these assertions and it would be cynical to deny the phenomenal progress. ,Technical ,material and civilliztional that modern age has registered what however modern world lacks is the moral will to go the ladder of spiritual awakening and without moral will there is little chance to the emergence of global consciousness . The end result might be utter chaos-a return to wilderness and primitivity. And who knows man may disappear from the universal stage altogether because some of the evolutionary trends indicate that man has not in the central scheme of evolution but came only as a product. So when studied in depth the concept of time -march in Tantra Shastra is not as unscientific as it looks. Rather it is science with a deeper sense. It does not say that Kaliyuga has less less of technical or manufacturing skill. It simply states that in Kalyuga Dharma is only a quarter of what it was in Satayuga. In Tantra there was tree quarters of it and i Dwapara only a half of it. This seems a perfectly valid observation in the light of things as seen today. Indian tradition accepts the view -point that each age has its scripture,yuga sastra, governing and leading the life of people in the rightful direction> In the Satyauga (Golden Age )says the Kularnava Tantra ,the scripture is Sruti ,the revealed word in veda , in the Treta (Silver Age ) Smritis ,in Dvapara (Cooper Age ) the purans ,treatises which convey the doctrines of the Vedas and Smritis in a popular garb,myth and story. ......................
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