If time is an independent reality why do different people perceive it differently?

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So if time is independent Then why is time experienced differently by different people Under the different modes? Yeah, there is objective reality But the perception of that reality will be subjective And that is where the modes come into the picture That is where the modes act on the subtle world So yes, for example When people are completely unorganized Then they just feel, this is happening, that is happening I have to do that, I have to do that And I have to do so many things They just feel crushed And the passage of time seems to be grinding a person People feel completely crushed by the schedules and the demands of all the time Now, sometimes just people take too much load That can be Rajasik But even in Rajoguna, at least there is some sense of control Or there is an attempt to control Some attempt I’ll do this, I’ll do this, I’ll do this But in Tamoguna, there is just abandonment of the attempt to control So people just give up So, time as a tool for doing something constructive That is the predominant conception that materialistic people have of time And in general, materialism correlates with Rajoguna In general Within that, there can be variations So, sometimes people say that Like Shakespeare said, I wasted time In one of his novels, he said, I wasted time and time doeth waste me So now, what this means is Now, if you look at the context where he speaks this It is not anything spiritual It’s even from material point of view I wasted time So what this means is that In the past, I lived dharmasickly Where I could have used time to do so many things But I did not use it So, that is the meaning of materially I wasted time So, when we are either caught by our minds Random desires and random fantasies There is no plan to do things constructively Then often, we don’t In Tamoguna, there are two broad perceptions One is dharmasick, where we don’t care for time People spend hours and hours playing some video games There is a whole concept of time pass Time is anyway passing Why do you have to do time pass? Time is going to pass anyway But, what happens is That people don’t have anything constructive to do with their time Unless they have some external thing to do Like, earlier I used to travel by train From Mumbai to Kolkata to go to Mayapur So, it may take 30 hours, 40 hours So, in the train, before the cell phones And all these technological gadgets came up People would be so bored So, people in the train They would sleep because they are bored of staying awake And they will wake up because they are bored of sleeping So, essentially In Tamoguna, one just doesn’t know what to do with time So, one just wastes time Or, one has so many things to do that one doesn’t know how to deal with it One panics again And that also wastes time In Rajoguna, one wants to control And one tries to use time to control Whereas in Satoguna, one tries to Prioritize and understand what is most important And use time to that So, in Satoguna, there is also awareness That time is finite And therefore, it should be used for ultimate purposes In Rajoguna, also there is awareness that time is finite But, there is the idea that I want to use it for controlling and enjoying material things In Tamoguna, there is just not a proper awareness of time I have a whole lifetime to live And tomorrow has no end It can’t do today, do it tomorrow So, like that, people delay it So, time is an objective, independent reality But, depending on our consciousness, we will all perceive time differently Because that is the way the modes filter our perceptions