Mandukya_Upanishad

structural difference is an effect of the interference of spaceand time in existence. There is what is called ‘space-andtime’which is something difficult to understand and whichseems to be playing, a very important role, if not the mostimportant role, in the interpretation of the things of theworld. We do not merely see things in space and time. Thisis a very important aspect of perceptional psychology. Wealways engage ourselves with things, ignoring the fact ofspace and time involved in things. We may be under theimpression that space and time are some non-entities, as itwere, which can be ignored, and we are concerned onlywith things or solid objects. This is a misconception.Modern scientists will tell us how space and time areequally important, as important as the substantiality ofobjects, if not more important than their substantiality.The substance and the structure of an object dependupon various factors associated with space and time. Thelocation of the object, the observational centre of thesubject and the relationship of the object to other objects;all these determine the structural nature of any single givenobject. Here I would advise you, if you so like, to studysome of the discoveries made by modern science, especiallyphysics. The objects are organically involved in space andtime. They are not merely dove-tailed into space and time,externally or mechanically. It is not that objects are hangingin space, unconnected with space. No, says modern physics.Space and time are regarded as one, these days. It is not thatspace is one and time is another. They are two names forone continuum, called space-time continuum, and thethings of the world are only modulations of space-time.41