The Three Faces.

Of Reality. 

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Earlier (subject to the assumption that there was nothing, -not even the 'time', before the existence happened.) there were only the existence, knowing and the knowledge.

The three faces, - namely the existence, the knowing and the knowledge are / were / will be the only whole, unique, principle, and the three aspects or the faces, interdependent of  each-other.

With the arrival of the knowledge, appeared the fourth : the mind.

(Knowledge survives in the absence of mind, while the mind could not in the absence of Knowledge)

In the mind again emerged the face that was the individual.

The mind, as the, individual, as the collective and as the existentiak, took the form of Time and Space. 

Time that is fundamentally the timeless-ness only, reflected again in the mind in terms of the past and the future.

These 3 faces of time are Timelessly there in the mind, be it the individual, the collective or the existential.

With the arrival / emergence of knowledge,  The past and the future are / were so visible but the one, - the past, formed the memory, while the other, -the future but was merely a reflection of the past, in the mind. Again this reflection seemed to have its own existence,  independent and other than the past.

The Time stood still though. The individual mind that is a playground for the assumed past and the imagined future, was there yet quite unnoticed and even if one thought of it, it remained in a form that pertained to memory and imagination.

The past is synonymous with BrahmA, the present with ViShNu while the future with the Shankara.

Creation happened by and through BrahmA, in the past, how-so-ever distant or eons ago, survives / sustained by ViShNu, in this very  moment, or the present or and is expected to be annihilated in some very far distant or a near future.

Though we might not know if the BrahmA, the ViShNu and the Shankara are really the individuals, we could understand beyond suspicion or doubt, for certain, that these three aspects of the working / functioning post the Reality could never be denied nor refuted.

The Terminology :

Existence : सत्

Knowing : चित् 

Knowledge : मनस् / चित्त,

Knowledge-potential - बीज,

Knowledge-Dynamic - सक्रिय मन, चित्त 

The Creator aspect - ब्रह्मा

The Protector aspect - विष्णु

The annihilator aspect - शंकर / महेश

Though the creation, the preservation and the annihilation of the existence is again in the mind, in imagination only, this working principle BrahmA, viShNu, Shankara, are supposed to work in a cycle. Because what is, was never created, nor could be annihilated / destroyed.

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