F: The interval is due to the sluggishness of the brain cells.
K: No.
F: Memory traces continue in the brain.
K: If you ask me what the distance is between here and Delhi, I would not know.
No amount of my thinking with the brain cells would help. The fact is not
registered. If it were, I would then think about it and answer. But there is not-
knowing. In that not-knowing, there is a state in which time does not exist.
D: No amount of waiting will make me know.
K: The moment I know, the knowing is time.
P: You have said two or three things; you have talked of a new brain. The
question is: What has happened to the old brain?
K: The old brain is quiet.
P: Has it existence?
K: Of course it has; otherwise I cannot speak the language.
P: The moment you say that the old brain continues to exist—
K: Otherwise, I cannot function.
P: When the new exists, the other, the old, does not.
K: Perfectly right. Hold on for a moment. Let us for the sake of convenience call
them the old and the new brain. The old brain has, through centuries, collected all
kinds of memories, registered every experience, and it will function on that level
all the time. It has its continuity in time. If it has no continuity, then it becomes
neurotic, schizophrenic, unbalanced. It must have sane, rational continuity. Now
that is the old brain with all its stored memories. A brain with such continuity can
never find anything new, because it is only when something ends, that there is
something new.
F: Continuity of what? When you speak of continuity, a movement is implied.
K: It is adding, taking away, adjusting; it is not static.
D: There is a circular movement which is continuity.