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Monday, June 16, 2008

Learn the Cause to know the effect
The process of learning programmes us to think in a specific manner. That every event or thing has a cause. Learning or knowledge is based on accurately interrelating cause with effect. Learning helps make the effect a predictable outcome based on our understanding of all the forces acting on the cause. The cause and effect thought process programmes our intellects unidimensionally. The paradigm works fine within a narrow spectrum only on the gross level. At the subatomic or subtle level, all the predictable physical laws become redundant. Reductionism, causality are incomplete tools of the human mind. Even in the Bhagavad Gita deliverance from all unhappiness is advocated by transcending the cause-effect algorithm. Indian philosophy has described this concept of noncausality as ‘ajati’. This concept is at the crossroads of the spiritualscientific divide. Singularity or advaita as described by seers stuns the intellectual process which is under the spell of the cause and effect pattern. The instant one veers from the path of cause and effect, the intellect is severely handicapped. Even scientific thought has now started inclining towards ‘experience’ rather than ‘experiment’ and the very quaint principles of quantum mechanics force one to abandon all rationality and reason. The Upanishads talk of “totality” , where even if one were to remove totality from totality, one would still be left with totality. This concept cannot be comprehended by the cause-effect principle. The mysticism shrouding spiritualism is because of the apparent disconnection from cause-effect . Science is a process of evolution of thought, whereas spiritualism is involution of thought. Physicists have been battling all along to come to a consensus Theory of Everything. The need for this theory is because the scientists are unanimous in accepting the discrepancy in laws governing the subtle and the gross. Spiritualism is getting to that elusive Theory of Everything without the mediation of the cause effect hypothesis. The Theory of Everything is in essence singularity or advaita. Herein lies the experience that transcends causality. Where the observer, the observed and the act of observation merge into unison. The reductionism that science is obsessed with will finally culminate in the realisation that the elementary building block of all manifestation is just energy. That is what the String Theory seems to point to. What varies is the form or the perception of the form, not the content. Reductionism will reach a level where matter transforms into conscious energy, just as water becomes vapour. What has changed is the state, not the fundamental substance. This change of state from water to vapour is one-dimensional. Manifestation is the ability of the source to virtually express itself multidimensional . How can one therefore employ cause and effect to comprehend that singularity when both are mere projections of the same singularity? When we talk of virtual reality as in simulators or even cinema, is it not paradoxical that the intellect is aware of the illusory nature of the projection? At one end of the spectrum is pure awareness and the other end is also awareness which forces the senses to temporarily assign reality to the virtual image. Realisation is the process of moving from the awareness of virtual reality to pure awareness. Identification with this singularity will necessarily happen only by transcending the cause effect protocol. The writer is a consultant neurosurgeon. Courtesy times of India
God save Indian science
Indian scientist are split down the middle over their belief in the existence of God, the first nation –wide investigation into their deepest personal thoughts has revealed.
One fourth of scientist took an atheists or agnostic position another fourth were firm believers according to the finding of a survey by the Us based institution for the Study of secularism in society and Culture.
The rest said they were unsure, or dint respond to the question on God. Which was included in a Web-based survey that covered 1,100 scientists from 130 research or educational institutions and universities scattered across India.
But one in three scientists surveyed believe in sins and deeds of past life, and in life after death, and one in four scientist believe that “ holy people” can perform miracles.
Forty percent of the scientist approve of the ritual of seeking a religious endorsement of a space launch.
“Our scientist aren’t applying the scientific temper in all fields of life, “ said Narisetti Innaiah, the chairmen of the Center for Inquiry in Hyderabad, a non-government organization with branches in several countries that says it is seeking “ to provide an ethical alternative to religious and paranormal worldviews”.
The Center for Inquiry had helped design the questionnaire sent to the societies, al of who had a doctorate or equivalent degree.
“Our space societies take replicas of launch vehicles t temples before a launch, “Innaiah said. “The reflects a belief in supernatural powers,” he said.
The investigators aid the Indian stuffy is expected to be a benchmark for future surveys to be conducted in other countries.
“Sometimes like this ha never been done before,” said Ariela Keysar, a demographer and assistant research professor in public policy at ISSSC, at Trinity College. Hartford Connecticut.
“We began with India because India produces a large number of scientist working world-wide. The impact of Indian science (education) goes far beyond India, ”Keysar told The Telegraph over the phone.
The Indian survey has shown that 49 percent of the scientist believe prayer can deliver rustles and at least 7 percent believe in ghosts, sprits and the caste system.
One top Indian biologist says the finding did not surprise him.
“This is why there’s so little scientific temper.” Sis Pushpa Bhargava, the former director of the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology Hyderabad. Courtesy Telegarph


Where does real life end and virtual life begin? The line is on on…
Samrat is a 26 yr old HR professional. On a regular day he reaches office around 10 am and logs in, going into various online communities and chat-rooms. He leaves office around 6:30pm and logs in as soon as he reaches home. He is online almost as long as he is awake. Samrat is only one of the numerous people who live more in the virtual world than in the real one around them.
Samrat knows that.” Life is hectic and it’s very difficult for me to visit and call up my friends on a regular basis. It is far easier to keep in touch with them on line, since most them are on line too. But it is true that the virtual world is becoming very real for us. We are moving away from the world around us.” he says.
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I Derive Joy
There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 5 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the ten minutes joy that I derive from? I am not robbing you of your joy; why should you rob me of mine? He asked. The critics were silenced. –Baba- Chinna Katha
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