Lobsang Rampa About Time Relativity And Srimad Bhagavate

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An interesting quote from Lobsang Rampa.


All this about time was readily understood by the wise men
of centuries ago. There is a very holy book, one of the great
‘Bibles’ of the Far East, which is called the Srimad Bhagavate,
in which appears this:

Once a great king took his daughter to the home of the
Creator, Brahma, who lived in a different dimension. The
great king was most concerned that his daughter had arrived
at a marriageable age and still had not found an acceptable
suitor. The great king was anxious to find a good husband
for his daughter. After arriving at the home of Brahma, he
had to wait for just a very few moments before he could be
escorted into the Presence and thus make his request. To his
intense amazement Brahma replied, ‘Oh king, when you go
back to Earth you will not see any of your friends or relatives,
your cities or your palaces, for although it seems to
you that you arrived here only a few moments ago from the
Earth you knew, yet those few moments of our time are the
equivalent of several thousand years of your time when you
were on the Earth. When you go back to Earth you will find
that there is a new age, and your daughter whom you have
brought here will marry Lord Krishna's brother, Balarama.

Thus, she who was born thousands of years ago, will be
married to Balarama after several thousand more years, because
in just the time it takes for you to leave my presence
and journey again through Time to Earth several thousand
years of Earth time will have passed.’

And so the bemused king and his daughter returned to the
Earth which, according to their own estimate of time, they
had left but a few minutes before. They found what
appeared to be a new world, with what appeared to be a new
civilization—a different type of people, a different culture,
and a different religion. So, as he had been told, several
thousand years had passed in the time of the Earth although
he and his daughter, traveling to a different dimension, had
seen but a few minutes pass.

This is a Hindu belief which was written in the holy books
of the Hindu faith thousands of years ago. One cannot
help wondering if this is not possibly the foundation of some
of the things that Dr. Einstein produced as the theory of
relativity.

Probably you have not fully studied Einstein's theory of
relativity, but very very briefly, he explained Time as a fourth
dimension. He also taught that Time is not a steady, unvarying
flow of ‘something’. He realized that a second ticked on,
after sixty such second ticks a minute had passed, and after
sixty minute ticks an hour had passed. But that is convenient
time, that is mechanical time. Einstein considered Time as a
sense, as a form of perception. Just as no two people see precisely the same colors, so Einstein taught that no two people
have precisely the same sense of time.

We call a year 365 days, but it is just a trip around the
Sun—an orbit around the Sun. So we upon the Earth do an
orbit of the Sun roughly every 365 days, but compare this with
a person who lives on Mercury. Remember that Mercury completes
its orbit around the Sun in eighty-eight days, and during
that orbit it rotates just once upon its axis, whereas, as you
know, we upon Earth rotate once in twenty-four hours.

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Something else for you to ponder; do you know that if a
clock be attached to a moving system it will slow down as that
moving system's velocity increases?
Supposing that you have a rod made of some material—
metal, wood, ceramic—anything you like, but it is a definite
measuring rod of a definite length. If you attach that to any
moving system it will apparently shrink in the direction of its
motion according to the velocity of the system. All these
things, such as changes in the clock, or the contraction of the
rod, are not in any way to do with the construction of the
things, nor are they of a mechanical phenomenon. They are
instead to do with the Einstein theory of relativity. You may
have your metre stick (let us say that our metal rod was 1
metre or 1 yard long), so now if it goes through space at 90 per
cent of the velocity of light, it will shrink to half a metre and,
in theory, if its speed is increased until it moves at the speed of
light it would, according to the Einstein theory of relativity,
shrink to nothing at all! And if somehow you could tie a clock
of some kind to that metre stick, its rate of time-keeping
would vary so that as the metre stick approached the speed of
light the clock would go more and more slowly, or would
appear to, until at the speed of light the clock would stop
completely.
You must remember when you criticize this by saying, ‘Oh
well, I have driven the car, and I haven't seen the car contract,’
that these changes can be detected only when the speed
of the moving article approaches near to the speed of light. So,
if you have a brand-new car and you race along the road, it
doesn't mean to say that your car is going to get any shorter,
because, no matter if you can do 100 or 120 miles an hour;
that speed is still all too slow to make any measurable difference
in the length of your car. But it does mean, according to
Einstein, that if a spaceship should be sent into space and it could approach the speed of light, then it would contract and
disappear.