Monday, 29 June 2020
Quote from the true Charm and Power of Vedanta
Consciousness of the Eternal Self
The belief in the indestructible and eternal
nature of the Self is a most vital point in spiritual life and practice. Empirical
sciences, busy with the material aspects of things, are not sufficient in
explain life. The living body is no doubt a combination of life that animates it
is something different form the dead matter through which it manifests itself .
as Sir Oliver Lodge has expressed very clearly “The behaviour of a ship firing
shut and shell is explicable in terms of energy, but the decimation whish it exercises
between friend and foe is not so explicable . the vagaries of a fire or a
cyclone could be predicated by Laplace’s calculator, given the initial position
velocities and the law of acceleration of the molecules but no mathematicians could
calculate the orbit of a common house fly. Life introduces something in
calculate and purposeful amid the laws of physics, thus it distinctly supplements
those laws, though it leaves them otherwise precisely as they were and obeys
them all.
The world of dreams
The Speaking Tree | India | ET
G S TRIPATHI
Does imagination have a scientific and
philosophic basis? Scriptures try to tell us that the philosophy and science of
the Unreal is as important as that of the Real. The Bhagwad Gita says what does
not exist is unreal and the real never ceases to exist.
This is said in the context of the mortal
nature of the body with its pleasure and pain, heat and cold, and the eternal
nature of the soul, spirit. Although the body exists now, it did not exist in
the past before it was born and will not exist after its decay. But the soul is
immortal and, so, is the real thing.
Scientifically, what is unreal is imaginary.
But there are examples wherein it can be shown that imaginary concepts are as
important as real ones. We come across the first imaginary quantity in mathematics.
The square root of a negative quantity is an imaginary quantity. Both
mathematics and physics are incomplete without imaginary numbers.
Space and time have both real and imaginary
manifestations. In order to understand the structure of crystals,
crystallographers perform diffraction experiments preferably using X-rays.
Adiffraction pattern is a map of an imaginary
lattice. Time is real. Its imaginary counterpart is frequency. All kinds of
communications are tuned to frequencies, but not to a timescale. Thus, the
imaginary manifestation of time is also a reality.
Events taking in space and time have a bearing
in our lives. Thus, life has both realities and imaginations. What we do is
real and what we dream is unreal. There is no person who does not dream. Thus,
dreams are a part of life.
DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the
author's own.
But, if He exists?
I drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 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 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.
