Quote from the True charm and Power of Vedanta
The soul of man
But those souls who do not want to have the least connection with any sort of activity whatever, who want to realize their own infinite nature , do not like to remain even in Bhramaloka, as that, too, is a place which is not permanent and not free from activities. Such souls merge their individualities in the universal soul of the Supreme Lord, Narayana and become one with Him. In the bond of love. That is why Sri Krishna teaches Arjuna, All the LOkas, beginning form the highest Brahmaloka, come again and again but when a man comes to Me, he will have no rebirth an more. So, finding out our lowermost point to be centre of the earth we at least find out the lowest condition of the soul as well as its highest. We have also seen that in order to be unconditioned and liberated form repealed births and deaths the soul will have to go where there is no creation.
A man gone beyond creation , directory come to the creator, as where here is no creation, there must be he who that this idea of heaven and hell is merely mythological Heaven and hell have no real existence , By heaven we always understand a blessed condition. These are only localized in two imaginary places , which go by the names of heaven and hell. And to support their view they adduce this reason., let us take for granted the existence of heaven and hell when I am sleeping suppose two angels take me up to heaven and there in that sleeping condition make me live for years and years together . There also angels come and worship me while I am sleeping. After the lapse of that long period in the same state of sleep, I am brought back here to my old place on earth and made to wake up Although I have been living in heaven for so many years . I have no idea of it after waking. Why? I was in heaven, and still I was not in it; for was not conscious at the time. Where then does then heaven actually exist/ it exists in my consciousness or in me. In the same maner where does hell exist? Let us see Suppose again I am sleeping and two men from hell come out and take me to hell and there I am punished in many terrible ways while I am sleeping . after some time I am brought back to my old place Although I have undergone so many punishments in hell , still I am not able to recall them ; for I was not conscious at the time . Therefore punishments or miseries must be in my consciousness or must be felt by myself. Hence heaven and hell exist only in myself and nowhere else.
Scientific and metaphysical thoughts on
infinity
By
Narayani Ganesh
The
newest talking point in math circles is about the size of infinity. But if
infinity is endless, can it be circumscribed by a particular size? This curious
topic is raising several questions that are being debated; nothing is yet
completely proven or tested. That makes the discussion even more exciting,
throwing open many possibilities.
That
infinity could come in many sizes is something that modern set theorists are
exploring, looking at adding more axioms and building on the conventional
continuum hypothesis, that is, hypothesising what we term as ‘real numbers’
that fill the number line. But new research says, according to a write-up in
Quanta magazine, that “most with never-ending digits, like 3.14159 – outnumber
‘natural numbers’ like 1, 2 and 3, even though there are infinitely many of
both.” Does this mean that the total number of real numbers is unknowable, or
that there could be multiple infinities with their own totals of numbers,
which, if added up, could in fact point to the size of math infinity?
This is
as far as I could decipher from a write-up that talked of infinite numbers in
mathematics, but it triggered a metaphysical thought train. When we talk of
infinite space, the infinite nature of human consciousness and the infinite
permutations, combinations and possibilities in nature, are we talking of an
eternally evolving universe and consciousness where, again, the size of
infinity is not cast in stone; could these infinities come in different sizes?
Can one
assign a number to infinity, in numeric or other terms? If we consider the
theory that the universe is expanding and that all cosmic bodies are, like
spots on an inflating balloon, getting farther and farther apart, then there is
the possibility that the “balloon” bursts and the universe collapses into
itself. And begins all over again, continuing the infinite cycle of birth and
death. This is infinity in the physical universe. The metaphysical dimension is
more expansive.
The most
deeply intriguing yet simple aspect of infinity could be experienced in human
consciousness, where individual consciousness comes from, linked to the
universal mind/ consciousness that is omnipresent, a sort of non-local
metaphysical reality that is way beyond physical infinities.
Biological
life is organic; some schools of thought believe that all organisms are endowed
with consciousness that helps them survive, and so to that extent they are
self-aware and, therefore, all life is sacred. But it is said that only the
human mind has the potential to tap into the universal mind, transcending the
organic, progressing from local to non-local and sometimes going back and forth
with the tantalising promise of an ultimate, seamless merger.
If
religious concepts were designed to understand the science of mind, then it
becomes clear why the universal mind has been called brahmn, chi, energy field,
divine ocean, life force and god – infinite, all-pervasive, omnipresent, not
this, not that. From panpsychism in ancient Greek thought, Anaxagoras’s
universal mind, Socrates’s and Plato’s ethical mind and Tibetan Buddhist
efforts at mind-life-science dialogues to modern scientists willing to listen
to religious interpretations to understand infinity better, we have come almost
full circle, even extrapolating on the concept of ouroboros, the infinity snake
eating its own tail, symbolising the endless cycle of creation and destruction.
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