Time is the measurement of change. Without change, time would not exist.
If there is a time of the year when you have no schedule and one day seems like the last, time seems to slow, or as we say, drag. The only measurement may be that the sun went up and came down, or that there was a change in the weather.
When the sages say that the Absolute is changeless, they are pointing out that the Absolute is outside of time. This is why the identity shift of a realized person gives them the knowledge that they are eternal. This is why they can say, "I was never born, and therefore cannot die." They become the measure, not the measured.
All form changes, be it matter, thoughts or feelings. Awareness sees the changes because itSelf is changeless.
To know oneself as awareness is be outside of time, to be deathless, to be the observer, the subject of all that is.
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When Maharaj said he was never born it sounded dramatic, true but was not clear. Changelessness makes it easier to contemplate. Thanks Maury.
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