What is life? What are we here for? Why do we exist? Is there a bigger scheme of things?
Sometimes I feel may be I am a little too young to think about stuff like this. But I cannot keep myself from thinking about it cuz it is just far too interesting a topic to ignore or shy away from. It is almost a rhetoric that keeps running through my head. It am told that great philosophers of the world have spent entire lives thinking about this, effectively lives wasted. Lives wasted? I disagree. It was their goal in life to try to understand the meaning of life. They did try to understand the meaning of life, the best way they knew how to. They, I believe, have achieved more than what most people do.
It is interesting isn't it..... that you think best when you converse, converse either with yourself or with others. I wonder why that happens. I feel that it has something to do with "living in the now". the concept of ridding your mind of thoughts that are irrelevant to the current, of the now, where the mind is in a state of absolute consciousness, with the mind active, full of thought of nothing but the current moment, "the now" - source : what little I understood of the first few pages of "The power of now" by Eckhart Tolle.
Going back to where we started: Life! Life is that energy that distinguishes a carcass from a living being. Now what sort of energy is that? It beats me! But it sure is intriguing.
The Gita says, just like many other religions suggest, that there exists a certain phenomenon (I can’t find the right word) within us called the soul. Now is this soul that energy? The Gita says so. The Gita calls it the Jeevathma. This Jeevathma is described as the light within us. It is common knowledge that many religions/cultures associate light as the symbol of purity and energy. The Gita also explains the Jeevathma as a drop of the ocean Paramathma. Somehow, this makes profound sense to me. I associate with it in a way that I feel comfortable with and it makes sense to me.
There is energy all around us. There are several kinds of energy, Gravitational, Nuclear, electromagnetic, etc. The Unified Field Theory, though not complete yet, suggests that there must exist a certain rule of Physics that unifies all of the phenomena that happen in the universe, so as to imply that all these energies are merely different forms of the same energy. It is the same energy that flows through our body; the same energy that makes us think, through neurological electrical signals/pulses; the same energy that makes the heart beat; the same energy that provides us with motor skills. This is pretty much the same energy that is all around us. Now, does it not make sense that this energy, the soul or the Jeevathma is but a part of the energy that is all around us.
This energy that is around us is referred to as Paramathma in the Gita. Effectively, it makes sense that the Jeevathma is a drop of the ocean, Paramthma. It also makes sense that when a living entity dies, the energy (Jeevathma) within the body that has hitherto kept it alive escapes the confines of the body and becomes indistinguishable from the rest of the energy around us (Paramathma). “The soul leaves the body of the dead and becomes one with God”. Familiar concept isn’t it! So what I am ultimately arriving at is that God is energy and vice versa.
A parallel school of thought: It is common belief that matter and energy are two totally different things. This, despite Einstein’s famous equation, E=mc2. The fact that one is can transform into the other suggests that they are both different forms of the same thing. So to say, that energy and matter are the same and as established earlier, energy is God. Therefore, so is all matter. We are therefore, in effect, surrounded by God.
“God is on earth.”
- P. V. Ashwin
www.godsonearth-peevs.blogspot.com
4 comments:
I agree
hv always believed that energy is a universal constant...(not to be confused with G the universal gravity constant)...what i mean to say is that i believe the sum of all the energy in the universe is a constant.
However,
by the Law of Perpetual Transmutation
Energy is, and Energy is forever changing and moving into physical form, and back to pure energy again. Energy is in a constant state of transmission and transmutation.
which i believe is the reason that nothing on earth stays the same.. every thing changes... in fact, even to continue to stay in the same physical form, i believ results in expending of certain amount of energy.
Have u ever tried to make a 3 yr old sit in the same spot in the same position for, let's say, 5 min?
lol
even a corpse expends energy as rigor mortis sets in and decay behins.
of course carbon dating is another simple example
Heavy!!! I dont remember if i've ever had this discussion with you, probably have.....
But the most simplest explanation i've derived for myself, when spending time in thot on this very subject, is the Law of Conservation of Energy. As stupid as it might sound, it made most sense to me than anything else cud ever. As a child, i was always told, God doesn die, god wasnt born, that sooo confused me. But then, i guess that relates most to the law of conservation. It is neither created nor is it ever destroyed, its always being converted from one form to another. That explains God to me, it is that entity that makes everything in and around us, function, which is Energy! Energy created that around is, Energy for now is all the answers that we've got.
About the whole subject of life, that you were talking about... The funniest part about it is, u can spend your entire life thinking about it, and not have lived what life offers you AT ALL, making you miss out on probably the real meaning of life. You'll spend all your life learning the purpose of our existence, and even if you do find out about it, its probably too late for u to get down to solving that purpose, the question is almost like one o the traps in SAW!!! if u thnk of it! Btw.. sorry for flooding up soo much space, i jus cant hold back, the topic is such!! More later!!
hee hee!!! 2 long comments within just 3 hours of posting.
@fa
Law of perpetual transmutation is something new to me. Interesting! But it is kind of difficult for me to imagine that the total amount of energy in the universe to be a constant. It makes sense in a way, but with everything else changing, there must exist some anomaly to that as well... who knows!
Yes, I have tried my nephew down for a while. Gave up in the attempt. My sister is the only one who can do that! She tells him stories and he just watches her talk. I doubt he understands the words though! But I am sure this is enough movement in his head in the process to supercede his need to run around! :)
@shri
Law of conservation of energy is right! I presumed that it was implied and there was no need to mention.
As for spending your life thinking about life.... Yes, they miss out on a lot of beautiful things in life. But as I said, their motive in life is to try to understand life and they have tried to understand life. That is in my opinion, sufficient! :)
PV
hey, have you read 'Code Name God' by Mani Bhaumik? He talks about Unified Field Theory and how physics will ultimately explain God!
Aalok
--Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered and no one was there.
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