Time is essentially a measurement, a human way of organising change. In the physical world, it appears linear. At the level of the body, life unfolds through recognisable stages of birth, growth, ageing, and death. Cause follows effect, and movement seems to proceed in one direction. Time is often described as the fourth dimension, which gives the impression that we live within time. For daily living, this understanding is practical and necessary. Yet time does not reveal itself only as a straight line. Nature moves in rhythms and cycles. Day returns after night, seasons repeat themselves, the moon waxes and wanes, and life moves through phases of emergence, sustenance, and dissolution. Long before modern thought, Indian philosophical traditions recognised this rhythmic nature of Kāla , seeing existence not as a one-time event but as a continuous unfolding. What appears linear at one level reveals itself as cyclical at another. Our inner experience of time is even more fluid. The bo...
Human beings live their psychology. Psychology is nothing but a blend of unconscious patterns that express themselves through behaviour and action. Much of human suffering, therefore, does not arise from life itself, but from the unconscious ways in which we respond to it. Long before modern psychology articulated this truth, spiritual traditions across the world hinted at it in different forms. In the twentieth century, psychiatrist Eric Berne offered a strikingly simple yet profound lens to understand this inner conditioning through what he called Transactional Analysis. Berne began with a radical assumption for his time: people are essentially “OK.” They are not broken, sinful, or fundamentally flawed. Yet, despite this innate wholeness, many lead constrained lives, repeating emotional patterns that no longer serve them. His work sought to answer a quiet but persistent question: why do intelligent and capable individuals continue to suffer in predictable ways? According to Berne,...