Sir, we have desires, but one cannot demand more than a form. If someone imagines the infinite, they use things like the ocean or the sky, which are forms in themselves. Even the concept of the formless is an attempt to give it a form. The poetry of poets is also in these forms; it attempts to express truth, beauty, love, and everything else within these forms. Sir, can we desire something beyond form? For that, we first need to know of its existence; and if we know that it exists, it will take on a form because we have a mind, is that correct🤔?

Yes, to arrive at the Formless we have to go through the doors of form. To arrive at the infinite we have to go beyond the limits of the finite.  But this is because the two are always together.  Take for example love. It takes different forms in man and animal and plant. But in its formless essence it is everywhere, in stones and sky and beyond. It is there in these as a power of union, as beauty and joy that is not limited to the form but uses the form to express itself.  So also with everything.  Existence, even one’s own existence can be experienced without any reference to the body or any form but simply as an I not limited to the personality, not even to the sense of time and space.  So too Consciousness is everywhere,  Ananda is everywhere but it is limited by the forms it takes. Form is always a means of expressing what exists in creation independent it. 

Affectionately,

Alok Da

Original question asked in Hindi: सर, हममें मांग होती है, लेकिन कोई रुप से ज्यादा कुछ मांग नहीं सकता। अगर कोई अनंत की भी कल्पना करता है तो वह सागर या आकाश जैसी चीजों का प्रयोग करता है जो एक रुप ही है। Formless की कल्पना भी एक रूप देने की कोशिश है। कवियों की कविता भी इसी रुपों में होती है, इसी में सत्य, सौंदर्य, प्रेम सबकुछ बोलने की कोशिश करते हैं। सर, क्या हम रुप से परे किसी चीज को चाह सकते हैं? इसके लिए तो हमें पहले उसके अस्तित्व का पता होना होगा कि है और यदि पता होगा कि है तो वह एक रुप ही ले लेगा क्योंकि हमारे पास मन है। 

Sir, is time formless? Not the mental time, which only seems like a journey in memory. I have tried to understand time, and I found that I always live and exist in the present; only the events around me are changing. There is no next day; we have become trapped by making clocks according to the sun, living based on the mental values of minutes, hours, days, months, years, centuries, and millennia. But what is time, and is it formless?

Here too the same principle applies. The Infinite and the Eternal is everywhere but its movement through the fields of Space creates Time. This time too takes different forms, at least is experienced differently based on the state of our consciousness. It may slow down or go fast depending upon the perceiving consciousness. 

Affectionately,

Alok

Original question asked in Hindi: सर, क्या समय रुप हीन है? मानसिक समय नहीं, जो सिर्फ स्मृति में यात्रा करने जैसा लगता है। मैंने समय को जानने की कोशिश किया और मैंने ऐसा कुछ पाया कि मैं हमेशा वर्तमान में रहता हूं और हूं, मेरी आसपास की घटनाएं ही बस बदल रही हैं। कोई अगला दिन नहीं आता, हम सूर्य के अनुसार घड़ी बनाकर उसमें कैद हो गये है और मिनट, घंटा, दिन, महीना, साल, सदी, शताब्दी के मानसिक मूल्य पर जी रहे हैं। लेकिन समय क्या है और क्या वह रुप हीन हैं?