Time is this grand, unfathomable, overwhelming entity we can never truly grasp. Mysterious and all-encompassing, it forever eludes our attempts to understand it. Even when we think we are near to grasping a part of its nature, we usually find it attached to some other entity that is more easily comprehended by us. In physics, we understand and study time only when it is related to space or motion; in philosophy, time has been understood to be one of the noetic categories through which we comprehend the world of phenomena; in psychology and neuroscience, it is related to our subjective modes of experiencing duration; in painting, it is suggested but never portrayed; in music, it is the basic building block of every composition.
Still, mingled as it is with other things, Time (henceforth with a capital T) has throughout the centuries been one of the symbols of the created universe itself. In the Vedas, Time starts the Creation and Time will one day end it: “From time all beings emerge, from time they advance and grow; in time they obtain rest.” …