What Actually Are The 3 Worlds? And Is Maya Limited Only To The Physical Plane?

Whats "Time"...imho..only a human who can avail himself of a clock/calendar has some notion of time passing by...There is no time for prisoners in solitary...I very much doubt Bhai Maharaj Singh who was buried alive in a deep dungeon for 16 years and DIED BLIND due to no sunlight...knew how time passed by...outside the walls above his dungeon...people in solitary always mark crosses on their walls to keep a semblance of time...and imho animals have no sense of time either...???
so TIME is just human invention...

in the whole of MAYA three types of consciousness is at play, waking state, sleep and dreaming, and sleep without dreams.. in all of them there is time running.. only in the 4th stage the true soul will manifest and no time and space here.. maya has a physical form and it also extend to etheric levels.. it is actually the play of 5 matters, from grosser-physical to subtle etheric levels-- shadow part of maya. thanks

You have been asked many times to explain what content in red (specifically the "etheric/astral" material has to do with a) sikhism? b) this thread?) Fact of the matter is it has nothing to do with Sikhism and is misleading unless you declare the context in which you are writing. spnadmin

I know this is a bit old... but reference the illusion of time...

Quantify the term 'NOW'

One would say the present correct?

But by the time you finish the word, the first part is already in the past. The future has not happened yet. And 'NOW' is can not be quantified... any 'chunk' of time would automatically incur a beginning and end meaning there is no 'Now' in it.

So we can't quantify a time which is 'now' because it's always moving... we can't access the past OR the future... so we are in an illusion of time.

The best we can say about our awareness of 'time' is that it is an ever moving wavefront (something itself not exactly tangible as it's own thing) That wavefront is moving through something...

It's like a book. Taken as a whole, there seems to be no movement - no story line - the whole story is just there as one thing, the book. But when you start to read the story, you start to immerse yourself within it, and then the timeline in the story becomes apparent. Once you have read a book, the timeline is now outside of your experience. It's a book, closed on the shelf. And you have all of the knowledge of that story as one now, in your memory. You are essentially outside of time as far as the book is concerned. You know the whole story, at once.