I am not sure if I got it right with the understanding of the concept of cyclical time.
Two main points I think I got right are:
1. Krsna is again and again appearing in material universes, with some differences each time.
2. Material universes are again and again being manifested and withdrawn.
I concluded that for the jiva it is cyclical time in two cases of its existence:
1. While it is in Cycle of Birth and Death.
2. When it is a.) eternaly-nitya siddnha, and also b.) when nitya baddha jiva becomes perfected and enters the Cycle of Eternal life in Krsna lila.
Still, I wonder how to look at life of a sadhaka, or maby better to say the life of the jiva,
from the point of some ajnata-sukriti act, up to the point of entering the krsna lila.
I understand this particular period of time, to be in the linear time. Or is it so?
I am not sure if I got it right with the understanding of the concept of cyclical time.
Two main points I think I got right are:
1. Krsna is again and again appearing in material universes, with some differences each time.
2. Material universes are again and again being manifested and withdrawn.
I concluded that for the jiva it is cyclical time in two cases of its existence:
1. While it is in Cycle of Birth and Death.
2. When it is a.) eternaly-nitya siddnha, and also b.) when nitya baddha jiva becomes perfected and enters the Cycle of Eternal life in Krsna lila.
Still, I wonder how to look at life of a sadhaka, or maby better to say the life of the jiva,
from the point of some ajnata-sukriti act, up to the point of entering the krsna lila.
I understand this particular period of time, to be in the linear time. Or is it so?
There is linear time within cyclical time. It's important to note that cyclical time has no beginning or end, unlike linear time that at least has a beginning and from the Christian perspective has an end. But this does not mean that there are no beginnings or ends within cyclical time. The universe begins and ends and begins and ends and lila begins and ends and begins and ends, and in each case there is no beginning to the beginning and ending. But since this is beginning to sound circular, I will end here.
There is linear time within cyclical time. It's important to note that cyclical time has no beginning or end, unlike linear time that at least has a beginning and from the Christian perspective has an end. But this does not mean that there are no beginnings or ends within cyclical time. The universe begins and ends and begins and ends and lila begins and ends and begins and ends, and in each case there is no beginning to the beginning and ending. But since this is beginning to sound circular, I will end here.
Thank you, Guru Maharaj, for your kind explanation.