If I ask you this question \u2013 where is the Sun \u2018Now\u2019? Then you may look at me strangely and then point to the sun in the sky. The next question therefore becomes quite inevitable-are you sure? We know light takes 8 minutes to reach us from the sun, so the sun we are seeing is a (now \u2013 8 min) sun. It is not a \u2018now\u2019 sun. It just cannot be the \u2018now\u2019 sun, because for the finite time taken by the light to reach us. It is a \u2018dated\u2019 sun and not a \u2018now\u2019 sun. You cannot deny this logic. So, I repeat the question\u2013 where is the sun \u2018now\u2019? The sun cannot be in the current location, because in 8 minutes the sun has moved from its current location. The (now \u2013 8 min) sun is at the current location, but the \u2018now\u2019 sun must be somewhere 8 minutes away. But where do we locate the sun \u2018now\u2019? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It may be easier to understand\nthis for the sun, because in 8 minutes the sun could not have moved much. It may\nbe somewhere near its current location. What about the faraway stars? Some of\nthe stars seen through the powerful telescopes are more than 1 billion light\nyears away. One light year is the distance that light travels in one year. So,\nthese stars are very far away. Since light has taken 1 billion year to reach\nus, the star we are watching is the (now \u2013 1 billion year) star. At this\nlocation we do not see the \u2018now\u2019 star, but we see the (now \u2013 1 billion year)\nstar. Once again, the same question \u2013 where is that star right \u2018now\u2019. It is just\nimpossible to answer this question. It is so, because, after the passage of one\nbillion year, this star could be anywhere. It may not even exist \u2018now\u2019; it could\nhave collided with a meteoroid. It is true; no one knows where that star is\nright \u2018now\u2019. All this may sound strange, but it is a fact that nobody knows\nwhere any of these stars out there are right \u2018now\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Science has a knack of\nconfusing us. When science discovers a new planet, say 5 million light years, scientists\nand researchers announce this new planet. In this announcement, they give an\nimpression that the new planet is at that location right \u2018now\u2019. It is incorrect.\nIt is the location of the (now \u2013 5million years) planet. Right \u2018now\u2019, nobody\nknows where the planet is. 5 million years have passed for the planet. You\ncannot be sure if the planet even exists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, I repeat the same question\n– where is the sun right \u2018now\u2019, where is this star which is 5 billion light\nyears away or the planet which is 5 million light years away? Where are any of\nthe objects right \u2018now\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read on, you will be surprised\nby the answer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Sun Must be at the \u2018Now\u2019 Location<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The \u2018now\u2019 sun must be at the\n\u2018now\u2019 location, but where is this \u2018now\u2019 location? Is there a \u2018now\u2019 location.\nYes, there is a \u2018now\u2019 location in which there is no place for the (now \u2013 8 min)\nsun or the (now \u2013 5 billion years) star or the (now \u2013 5 million years) planet.\nEverything in this location only has \u2018now\u2019 objects. So, how to discover and\nunderstand this location?<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is not difficult. Let us\nanalyze a typical scene we see every day. Light takes 8 min from the sun, so we\nsee the (now- 8min) sun. Light takes 3 seconds from moon, so we see the\n(now-3sec) moon. Light takes 10-3<\/sup>sec from a plane flying at 30,000\nfeet, so the plane we see is the (now \u2013 10-3<\/sup> sec) plane. Light from\nthe tree outside the window takes 10-6<\/sup> sec, so the tree we see is\nthe (now-10-6<\/sup> sec) tree. The light from the laptop takes 10-9<\/sup>\nseconds, so the laptop I see is the (now \u2013 10-9<\/sup> sec) laptop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you see any trend in the\nscene described above? The objects which are nearer to us are closer to the \u2018now\u2019\nversion, than the objects which are far away. So, as we move inward, there must\nbe a location which is (now \u2013 0 sec). At this location, the ray of light will\ntake 0 seconds to reach us and that location must be the \u2018now\u2019 location. So\nwhere is that location? The only logical location must be within us. Vedanta\nteaches us that the Observer within us is the location for the \u2018now\u2019 objects.\nAt this Observer location, not only the sun, the plane, the trees or the stars,\nbut all the objects in the universe are within us as the \u2018now\u2019 objects. At this\nlocation, only the \u2018now\u2019 objects exist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sun and \u2018Now\u2019 Sun<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n To support the above finding,\nlet us look at this from a different angle. Let us do a thought experiment for\nthe sun. At its current location light takes 8 min to reach us, so we see the\n(now-8min) version of the sun. If for whatever reason, the sun could move and\nit we see a (now-4min) version of the sun. What does this mean? It means that\nlight will take 4 minutes to reach us and the sun will be located at halfway\nmark, which will be nearer to us. If the sun moves even closer and we see the\n(now \u2013 10-3<\/sup> sec) version, it would mean that the sun is only 30,000\nfeet away. As the sun comes closer to us, the only place where we can find the (now\n\u2013 0sec) sun is within this. This also shows that the \u2018now\u2019 sun must be within\nus. It is in the Observer within us. This logic and reasoning apply not only to\nthe sun, but to every object in the universe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Wow, what a conclusion \u2013 all\nthe \u2018now\u2019 objects in this universe are within us. The Observer or Sakshi within\nus is the location for these \u2018now\u2019 objects. There is the \u2018now\u2019 universe within\nus. What is more interesting is that there is a \u2018now\u2019 universe within you,\nthere is a \u2018now\u2019 universe within me and in the same way, there is \u2018now\u2019\nuniverse within every living being. In this \u2018now\u2019 universe there are only the \u2018now\u2019\nobjects. It is quite difficult to imagine the full universe within the\nObserver. It is impossible to have the physical objects within us. So, what is\nthe format of these \u2018now\u2019 objects? Vedanta teaches us that these \u2018now\u2019 objects\nare made up of mental waves or \u2018vrittis\u2019. Each object has its unique mental\nwave. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Projection of the Sun<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We just concluded that the\n\u2018now\u2019 location is the Observer within us. The Observer has two functions<\/p>\n\n\n\n How does the \u2018now\u2019 sun, which\nis a mental wave in the Observer become the (now-8min) physical sun out there? The\nsimple answer is that the sun and all the objects in the universe are projected\nby our mind. It is like the projection of the movie in a theatre. We project\nthe (now-8min) sun and place it 8 min away in space. In the article \u2018The Science Behind the\nProjection of the Universe<\/a>\u2019, there is a detailed\nexplanation about how the projection works. Here we will give a quick summary.\nThe \u2018now\u2019 sun combines with the time waveform in our mind, and we get a\ncombined (sun + time) mental waveform. When the \u2018now\u2019 sun waveform combines\nwith the time waveform, magic happens. Since the time waveform is involved, the\ncombined waveform has the complete linear history of the sun from the day it\nwas born to the \u2018now\u2019 moment. Each time the moment of the sun is available in\nthe combined (sun + time) waveform. Not a single time moment is missing. For\nus, the sun is 8 minutes away, so our mind chooses the (now-8min) version of\nthe sun and projects it out there. If someone was living in Mars, their mind\nwould choose the (now \u2013 13 min) version of the sun. Light from the sun takes 13\nminutes to reach Mars. They see a different version of the sun. In the same way, if someone from the planet 5\nmillion light years away sees the sun through a telescope, they will project a\nsun which is (now \u2013 5 million years) old. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the same way, each \u2018now\u2019\nobject will combine with the time waveform. Depending upon the distance of the\nobject from us, the appropriate version of the object will be projected by the\nmind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The sun we see as a part of the\nMilky Way is the (now-8min) version of the sun. The \u2018now\u2019 sun is within us and\npart of the Observer or Sakshi. Not only the sun, but all the \u2018now\u2019 objects in\nthe universe are present within each one of us as mental waveforms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If I ask you this question \u2013 where is the Sun \u2018Now\u2019? Then you may look at me strangely and then point to the sun in the sky. The next question therefore becomes quite inevitable-are you sure? We know light takes 8 minutes to reach us from the sun, so the sun we are seeing … Continue reading Where is the Sun \u2018Now\u2019?<\/span>