This vast creation is but one aspect of the Lord's form. Now let us look at another of it, that is, Time. If we consider the past, our knowledge of history goes back atmost to ten thousand years. Of the time before that, we know nothing. While historical time is of the order of ten thousand years, our individual life's length is not even a hundred years.
Time stretches without beginning or end.
It is impossible to measure or count the time that is past. It is equally impossible to conceive the time that is to come. Just as our world is so tiny as against the vastness of space, our 10,000 years of history is as nothing in the infinity of Time, the past is without a beginning and the future without an end. And as for this brief present, even as we are speaking, it slips into the past. Even as we try to describe where the present is, it has become the past.