The root of everything is Time, the root of birth and death is Time.

Root of happiness and sorrow is Time.

Everything is decided by Time.

Everything is under the control of Time.

Time controls everything.

When a person is born when he dies, Who decides?

Time alone.

Take a movie film, the film roll, and run it backwards.

Will the story make any sense?

Or it will be a completely different story altogether.

It may or may not make sense.

Have you thought about this?

It is because Time always moves forward that we experience the world as it is now.

You put hundred rupees in your bank account.

After one year the bank gives you an interest of five rupees.

This is because the concept of Time is there- months, years.

What happens if Time is non-existent, or Time moves backwards, or Time sometimes goes forwards and sometimes backwards?

Have you thought about it?

You record a song and play it backwards.

Will it be the same song?

Everything is controlled by Time.

The whole world experience including birth and death, happiness and sorrow is controlled by Time.

A breeze when you are sitting in a garden in the spring, in Vasanta ritu will make you happy.

You will enjoy it.

The same breeze in winter will make you shiver.

Who makes the seasons?

Time.

Even your day-to-day experiences are controlled and decided by Time, Kala.

If you alter the sequence of events, the whole world experience changes.

Have you thought about it?

The day you join a medical college, you are awarded your degree.

Then you have to study for the next five years.

Whether you qualify or not, you get the degree.

Just a change of sequence; first degree, then study.

What will be the result?

This Kala, Time keeps awake even when you are asleep.

Clock doesn’t stop, because you are asleep.

It is because Time keeps track of everything and it is doing this relentlessly, we feel that there is a system around.

It is because Time is there and Time is reliable we are able to book a ticket in advance.

Your transport waits for you at the specified place at the specified time.

If Time is not there, the whole system will collapse.

The same Time also controls every activity of the world.

You remove Time from the canvas, then this experience called the world would collapse.

Don’t just listen.

Think about it.

This is what Sanjaya is saying, everything is under the control of Time, Kala.

This entire experience of past, present, and future, that this has happened, will happen, it is based on Time.

Our entire planning, for family, career, financial planning, retirement everything is based on Time.

We are doing all these, able to do these because of the strong and reliable backbone of Time.

Just imagine, tomorrow all the clocks of the world, including those on your mobile phone, all stop, even those at the airports, railway stations, hospitals, factories, they all stop.

You can’t set timers on your microwave.

There is no count down, there is no stopwatch.

You can’t time an athlete.

You don’t know when to start a T20 match and when to end it.

You can’t announce a date.

You can’t announce a schedule, a program.

What happens then?

This is the importance of Time.

Ok, you can rebuild.

Timekeeper of the world, Surya, he is there.

Next day morning we can look at the sunrise and rebuild time machines.

Surya is the timekeeper of the world.

That’s why in Sri Rudram it is said-

उतैनं गोपा अदृशन् अदृशन् उदहार्यः

The Gopas look at Surya and decide when to take the cattle back home.

Women look at Surya and say:Sun is going to set, let’s go get water.

That is Surya, Rudra, Mahakala.

All actions are time-bound.

No Time means no action.

All these episodes, they are all creations of Kala, Time, not under your control.
Once you know this, there is no more sorrow.

Says Sanjaya.

Sauti says: this way Sanjaya consoled Dhritarashtra.

Mahabharata is an Upanishad, says Ugrashrava Sauti because it removes avidya.

It takes you towards Brahmatva.

This is a fact approved by great scholars.

Mahabharata purifies.

Even if you understand one shloka of Mahabharata, fully, that is sufficient to purify you.