So how long is a galactic year, or one year, according to the sun’s unit of time?
As we know, one earth year is the amount of time it takes for the earth to orbit the sun.
One galactic year, then, is the time it takes for the sun to orbit the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. To orbit this point, from approximately 32,000 light years away, takes 255 million years of earth time. Therefore, one galactic year is 255 million earth years.
Based on this understanding, a person who dies on earth, at the age of 70, would have only lived 8.6 seconds according to their real dimension of existence. When this person disassociates from his biological body at the point of death and enters the Intermediate Realm, the platform of the sun’s orbit and energy, he will then realize what seemed to be a 70-year span of lifetime on earth was actually only a duration of 8.6 seconds!
This is just like the feeling one gets after waking up from a long dream that, in reality, only lasts 50 seconds. Try and remember the last time you had such a dream. Remember how long it felt during the dream and how it felt some time after you woke up. Now try and imagine the relevance of this ‘world dream’ in terms of the afterlife, where the sense of time is such that your whole lifetime will feel as if it were no longer than 7 or 8 seconds!
To sum it up, as conscious beings, we are citizens of a much greater dimension of existence and subject to the values and laws of this system. However, our brain’s capacity to evaluate this vast field has been hindered by the conditionings arising from our perception that we exist in physical form and thus that we are limited to the 5 senses. Whereas, ‘death’ will inevitably wake us up to this truth and force us to realize the fleeting nature of worldly life. We will then discern just how short this life really was and just how much our ignorance and inexorable opinions have impeded our potentials.
Let us now try to evaluate the saying of Muhammad (saw); “People are asleep and will wake up with death” and the following verses in the light of this truth:
“The day they see it, it will be as though they had not remained (in the world), except for a time of sunset or twilight.” (Quran 79:46)
“You remained there only a short while, if only you knew!” (Quran 23:114)
Since this world is the ‘sowing-field for the hereafter’, we can only reap in the afterlife what we have sowed in this world, and the total net time we have to sow our seeds is only 5-6 seconds! If we eliminate the fragile and vulnerable periods of childhood and old age, we really only have a few seconds to sow our seeds and acquire our capital… a few precious seconds in contrast to the infinite hours of life awaiting us!
If this is the case, let’s take a moment to reflect... How much of our time are we squandering on futile things that will give us no return in our future lives, and just how much of it are we using wisely to invest in things that will benefit us in the hereafter?
Now in this light, let’s take a look at the sourceof our judgments, pertaining to our current perception of life, and try to understand this magnificent evaluator: the brain.