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...