The future comes from the choices that you make today, because you are a creature of choice. If you were not a creature of choice, then everything would have been predetermined. But you are a conscious person, and by definition, consciousness is choice. So, if you say that you are travelling into the future, which particular future are you travelling into? Time travel is just a fantasy—a nice thing to entertain the mind. There’s not much more in it.
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Questioner: Acharya ji, Pranaam. I am Pranjul, a student of IIT-Delhi. I want to understand the concept of time travel or timelessness. Is it there, is it any spiritual sight to it? Or is it just a product of the human mind?
Acharya Prashant: It’s a fantasy. Where does the future come from? Where does the future come from? The future comes from the choices that you make today, right? You are there and the material world is there and you are a creature of choice. If you’re not a creature of choice, everything is deterministic and then life is not worth living. There is no freedom. If everything is predetermined, where is the question of freedom then? And freedom is the highest spiritual ideal.
So, you are a conscious person and by definition consciousness is choice, which means there are an infinite number of futures possible. If you say, you are traveling into the future, which particular future are you traveling into? Which particular future?
