Mahakala vs. anatta

I am always juggling intellectual understanding along side my personal practice of meditation (samatha, vipassana). I like to study religion, philosophy, and science. I am especially interested in Buddhism, and Yogic traditions, as well as neuroscience, and physics.

I always loved the images of Mahakala from Tibetan buddhist traditions, but today listending to the Sadhguru at Harvard lecture he talks about kala as time, the physical cyclical time that we all observe through the senses...as opposed to Maha kala, the great time that is non-physical. The great time of consciousness (consciousnesses itself, as distinct from waking mind, dreaming mind, or dreamless mind states).

I'm wondering if there is any commentary about the relation of the concepts of anatta, as a culmination of anicca (impermanence), karma (cause/effect), and pratityasamutpada (dependent origination)...in relation to Maha kala, as a time that is orthogonal to the physical and cyclic time.

In Buddhism is Maha kala a permanent thing (underlying karmic cycles, 'timeless'), that is like atman and incompatible with anatta? Or is Maha kala a condition that creates an environment from which the phenomenon of anatta arises?

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