The Greek mythology, has a story of Sisyphus, rolling up a stone and it rolling down again, for eternity.
It's taken as a gruesome, unending anguishing punishment.eternity, timeless.operating words.
A book written by Albert Camus derives a whole philosophical thought from this idea.
Life is meaningless. Suicide is an option, we are not in control.
Hindu philosophy is on the basis of karma. We born and reborn till we exhaust our karma. Time is just a dimension, for a yogi, or the enlightened one, samadhi is the goal. And once he reaches samadhi, time does not exist. This all is Maya. As there was no beginning, there is no end. Till we don't realise ourselves, we will continue to be trapped in maya, doing what we are doing, which has no point, ion is of no consequence till eternity. Timeless... Same operating words.
Similarly, the Hindu texts talk about yug. We swarn yug. Dwapar yug,treta yug and Kal yug.
We are in this endless cycle of yug, where things keep getting bad, we keep getting away from God, or the source of power, or the centre or our centre, and then we will come to a time, when we can't expand anymore and then we will slowly start coming back in the reverse order till we meet the source again. Once we are with the one, we start expanding again. A never ending process , timeless. Eternity.same operating word.
Does the above ring a bell?
The Big Bang theory, indicates to the same phenomena, scientifically still identifying the centre.
It is just that the Indian philosophy talks about us humans, and the Big Bang talks about the universe.
Indian texts are considering the world within us, and the Big Bang theory is concerned with the world outside us. But aren't they both related?
It is interesting to understand the commonalities in these different schools of thought by the great minds, and how in the end TIME, becomes the binding factor, which all are adamant to prove that it does not exist. The take on time by all does lead to think that there is more common in all available knowledge than we know, think or want to believe.
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