On Time

Some of us might be more preoccupied with time than others and it is to those that this article is particularly dedicated.

Time — the fourth dimension and what Robert Grudin would call a container for thoughts and feelings. Quite literally. It is time, he wrote, which gives us form and allows us to become what we seem to be in the mirror. In his exploration of identity in time, he tasked the reader with drawing a temporal picture of themselves and suggested that what they would likely see was “a veritable blob, shaped mainly by external pressures and, where no such pressures exist, swelling out amoebically into the void.”

And with that delightful visual, we will travel to medieval Kashmir and unpack the concept of kāla tattva, a limitation in terms of time, according to Pratyabhijñā philosophy.