Seemingly, science is god today.
It has done away with many a devil of
the past. The Big Bang and Evolutionary Theory satiate many. This has led many “know-it-alls”
to presume and postulate that we are but soulless, randomly assembled chemical
particles, now moving as living beings. And, are nothing more than a “chance” offspring
of one “big-banging” universe. We are just a “thing”; worth nothing. In short,
we without cause, come; sans effect, are gone.
However, owing to advanced scientific
knowledge, except for people of Judeo-Christian and Islamic belief systems, no
educated person worth his brains minds much that the earth is just not 5-6
thousand years old. Science had added some billions of years to our birth date
and place. Yet, it would be false crediting science with this discovery; when,
in fact, spirituality, did so much before any Darwin-Dawkins or Higgs-Hawkins
set foot on this earth. Ancient Indian texts, such as the Upanishads and
Vedanta treatises, inform us that this universe is as old as eternity itself.
Hence, n India, even the big bang is a
hang.
In higher mystical traditions, this
“seen” world is held to be the visible “solidification” of “Shakti”, Cosmic Energy.
Yet, it’s all “Maya”: Transient ILLUSORY Phenomena. It keeps “big-banging’, arising
and vanishing, unto “That” Which Is. Ad Infinitum. We are as old as THAT.
This is the ‘Single Eye” of
Self-Realization.
Mystics “know”, attain this Eternal
Wisdom after self-experimentation, in the deepest realm of “Awakened” Consciousness;
of which philosophers, psychologists, and psychiatrics do seem to have some
inkling, from time to time. On the other
hand, Yogis, ancient and present, swim in this mystic rhythm like a well-versed
note. “Who we are”, in “That” WHICH IS: getting “IT” is the aim and objective
of these “Spiritual Scientists”.
As these insatiable seekers delve
deeper unto the darkest depths of “What Is”, the web of acquired belief systems
gives way to new realities. The “little” visions - deities, gods, messiahs, demons,
fairies, angels, hell, heaven et cetera - of our inculcated, ingrained,
inherited isms are “overcome” by Actualization of The Unlimited.
Without an “edible” physicality, a
metaphysical seeker or a physicist remains a skeptic. Some religions do not
take well to agnosticism and atheism. Such “trivialities” irk none in India. No
Indian guru lambasts science or scientists.
Seeking in Maya (Make Believe), “this”
visible world, we merely “see” The Outside. Not “baptized” unto Tao of What Is
- “Kingdom of God is Within” - the best too lose “It”, like the rest.
The Answer does not lie on moon or
mars.
Who seek “there” miss the muse “here”.
Our Quintessence - call it Soul, God Particle, Root of Existence - is never
separate from All That Is.
The Part is The Whole.
This Universe, each “black hole” and
every “dark matter”, is one “stuff”. Duality seen as you-me-him-her or
this-that-here-there is but “surface” reading The Source.
The “stuff” of our life and existence
is Changeless. Infinite Big Bangs are born, die every moment. So does
evolution. They come, go. Changes in The
Changeless do not a Change make.
The Whole remains Whole.
The Visible World is ever “One” with
its “Invisible” Common Original Source. Nothing is separate from anything else.
The Self consorts with Own Self. “Here” now, “there” next. As fire in wood, all
is unto The Self.
Yet, the only advantage mystics have
over others is that through trial and error, ecstasy and terror, these seekers
of “What Is”, came to “know” The WAY a bit before the rest. Presto, Sids got it before Christo! It means
zilch. It is just an historical fact that Siddhartha-Buddha came before Christ;
hence, got “It” first.
At any time, the Ultimate Truth must
remain An Eternal Constant.
It does. Mystically, “I am in my
Father, my Father is in me,” and “I and my Father are One” simply means All is
Unto Each Other. As One Quintessential Primordial Self. Or, simply, “All is
One”. Could “God” be clearer than this?
Science is getting “There”.
The “life” composition of everything,
living or seemingly non-living, anywhere in this manifest universe, is one. The
Un-manifested too holds true thus. This perception of Unity of All, now, is
dawning on us all.
We are “One” every which way.
Thus, a “Knowing One” would abide by “Love
thy neighbor as thyself”; not because it is godly true but because, oddly, it is
the truth.
Who cares if this “I” of Awakening
comes from science or spirituality!
