I am Without any Variation, and Without any Form,
I am present EVERYWHERE
as the underlying Substratum of EVERYTHING,
and behind all Sense Organs,
as the underlying Substratum of EVERYTHING,
and behind all Sense Organs,
Neither do I get Attached to anything, nor get Freed from anything,
I am the Ever-Pure-Blissful-Consciousness;
I am Shiva, I am Shiva,
I am Shiva, I am Shiva,
The Ever-Pure-Blissful-Consciousness.
- Sri Adi Shankaracharya
A science student might
know what it means by CERN. At least now when the shocking news about the
existence of particles (Neutrinos) that run faster than the light was announced
by the CERN scientists. The whole science fraternity had swirled in whirlpool
of confusion then, as that would have dealt
a big blow to a long-held assumption. Could bring major upheavals in the
theories expounded even by Albert Einstein and the like. But a big sigh of
relief, the claim was later refuted by the same bunch of scientists.
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| Werner Heisenberg |
But believe or not,
this awesome international science
centre houses a huge statue of Natraja, the symbolic depiction of Lord
Shiva who performs his cosmic dance to destroy the decrepit universe
making way for the Lord Brahma to re-start the new creation. The statue was a
gift presented by the Indian government
in 2004.
Strange, how a Hindu
God found a place in the science centre, a seat of rationalism and reasoning?
The atheist may fume at the idea. No strange, they have proclivities to shrug
aside any religious symbols and rituals as a load of superstitions, ---
irritant hurdles on the way to progression and liberalism in the free thinking
world. But alas, their rational fathers
and men of letters and intellect are now thinking hard on the other way around.
They are turning towards the wisdom of India. Striving to dig deeper into the
ancient archives.
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| Fritjof Capra |
In the year 1975 an eminent American physicist Dr Fritjof Capra had come up with the most
epoch-making book entitled ‘The Tao
of Physics’. Besides his four other
International bestsellers, this book has now been published in 23 languages
across the world. Dr Capra
scientifically connects here the
rhythmic pulsation of subatomic particle
with the Cosmic dance of Lord Shiva. He asserts 'every subatomic
particle not only performs an energy dance, but also “is an energy dance”'; a pulsating process of creation and
destruction, without end. For the modern physicists, then Shiva's dance is the
dance of subatomic matter. As in Hindu mythology, it is a continual dance of
creation and destruction involving the whole cosmos; the basis of all existence
and of all natural phenomena." He further adds "Modern physics
pictures matter, not as passive and inert, but as continuously dancing and
vibrating. This is very much like the Eastern mystics description of the world.
Both emphasize that the universe has to be grasped dynamically. It structures
are not static, rigid ones, but should be seen in terms of dynamic
equilibrium.”
The most astounding
aspect of the book is that it corroborates Eastern’s interconnection of the
entire objects in the universe, animate or inanimate and the rest. Capra writes
: ‘The Eastern mystics see the universe as an inseparable web, whose
interconnections are dynamic and not static. The cosmic web is alive; it moves
and grows and changes continually. Modern physics, too, has come to conceive of
the universe as such a web of relations and, like Eastern mysticism, has
recognized that this web is intrinsically dynamic.’
Yes, the present
scientists are beginning to think in the same line what Rishis in India did and
put down in the series of Upanishads ages ago. So the glorification of Natraj
by the nuclear scientists in the CERN is never impertinent. Rather
inspirational, providing fuel for further exploration.
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| Erwin Schrodinger |
Erwin
Schrodinger, -- whose Schrödinger equation is considered to be one
of the greatest achievements of 20th century, had long taken the refuge in. His
deep love for Upanishads are evident in his world famous work – “What is
life?” which was later credited by the Francis Crick for his key insight
leading to the revolutionary discovery of DNA code. Schrodinger was so convinced about the
wealth of wisdom in Indian literature he made a fervent proclamation --- ‘In
all world there is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness
in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal
plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction. The only solution to
this conflict in so far as any is available to
us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad.’
Science now agrees
that the seers of Indian sub-continent had seen the higher truths, the science
of higher dimension and subtleties. These very subtleties which Nobel laureate  |
| Jack Sarfatti |
Schrodinger was not alone. David Bohm, Eugene Wigner, Oppenheimer, David Josephson, Archibald Wheeler, Charles Townes, Jack Sarfatti, John Hagelin, John Bells, Carl Sagan had already made attempts to plunge headlong into the cosmic sea of Upanishadic’s Consciousness --- after the pulsating vibration, as the ultimate answer. The man behind the ‘Black Hole’ and ‘Worm Hole’ John Archibald Wheeler become so awestruck with the knowledge of the East, he remarked ---‘One has the feeling that the thinkers of the East knew it all, and if we could only translate their answers into our language we would have the answers to all our questions.’
Finally, here comes the
boldest prediction by Robert Julius Oppenheimer “What we shall
find in Modern Physics is an
exemplification, an encouragement and a refinement of old Hindu wisdom.”
The thing may sound quite
staggering to the skeptical but the science has long been kneeling down before
the Eastern wisdom. Beware the atheist, the science is returning to Hinduism.
Not the religion, but all pervasive DIVINITY.
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