In plain words
“Prosperity and adversity, comings and goings: all of it follows Time. Good and bad are subject to Time. There is not one thing that Time does not bring under its sway.”
“The Lord is the very form of Time.”
Embodiments of the divine Ātma!
Time is God's own form. The ṛṣis have extolled God as “Kālasvarūpāya namaḥ”. That is why they have called Time “saṃvatsaraḥ”. All things in the world, moving and unmoving, are contained in God alone. That is why God has been called “Kālagarbha”. The ṛṣis describe God as “Dhīrottama”. Dhīrottama means the one whose form is the year. We must not take dhīra to mean one who is clever, or one who has great intellect. The Veda has always said that only the one who turns his power of understanding towards God and experiences Ānanda is truly ‘dhīra’. He who weighs the merits of His devotees and grants them the fruit that matches them is named “Kālasvarūpa”.
Time and life
For us, Time itself is the form of God. There is no form of God greater than Time. Our birth, our life and our passing away are all contained within Time. We must believe Time to be the very form of God, and do the deeds that make Time holy. We must not waste even a single moment. If we waste Time, life itself is wasted. All the fruits we taste in a holy life come to us in keeping with how we use our Time. What we experience is nothing but the fruit of our own karma. Joy or sorrow, rise or fall: all of it is the working of our own karma.