CHANGE: A USELESS SPECULATION

We live our lives in a perpetual state of uncertainty, as everything, including ourselves, is forever changing.  Who we are at this heartbeat is not who we are at our next heartbeat, for example. 

Impermanence causes us considerable anxiety.  We do not know how to plan.  We cannot relate to what we have experienced in the past, anymore than we can imagine what we will experience in the future. 

But now how could the changeless God create a world that never stops changing, that is forever becoming something else?  One thing we do know is that God’s “Big Bang” created time, and with time comes flux, movement, transience. 

There is no solution to time so all we can do is embrace it, celebrate it, make it an object of devotion.  Nothing is beyond devotion, bhakti yoga, Vedanta teaches.

Time will kill all of us, in time.  At the very least we simply will run out of it.  We have an expiration date.  God does not want us, the world, the universe, to exist forever, it is obvious now.  He wants us to peter out so He can get on to something else.