There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious.
Worshiping the teapot instead of drinking the tea.
Do not mistake the pointing finger for the moon.
Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!
As long as one accepts "time" tacitly as such he is dreaming a dream, not living a life.
It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.