I wholeheartedly welcome your thoughts. What else is a better format to kindle knowledge exploration than dissent..?
Shatki (Momentum) or mAyA (Mass)..?
While positive responses give me energy (Shiva) to continue, dissent gives me momentum (Shakti) to respond with more details.
Shakti is Momentum in reality, while she is perceived as mAyA (rest-mass) by us. Science says what exists in reality is momentum (and energy). Rest-Mass is the perception that covers the Universe.
Our scripture also say the same. They say it is Shakti who appears as mAyA.
Now to see mAyA as an illusion of ‘life’ may be one view. To perceive mAyA as a perception of mass in place of Shakti (momentum), which is the reality, is science view.
Our scriptures say mAyA is feminine form of Vishnu and Brahma raises from the ‘Nabhi’ of Vishnu. We can see it as Mass being a feminine form of Inertia (that undergoes changes) and Gravity arising from its Center.
We can also see them as ‘God-forms’ and paint pictures of them as Brahma arising from the navel of Vishnu.
Vaisvanara (Particle) and Taijasa (wave)
Similar is the dual nature of photons, electrons, neutrons and other particles. They are a probability density function with a similar to wave characteristics and are also quantized to exhibit matter like characteristics.
As Brhadaranyaka Upanishad says "द्वे भाव ब्रह्मणो " - Brahman (Evolution) manifests duality. Now this duality can be seen as ‘light’ and ‘dark’, ‘life’ and ‘death’, ‘limited’ and ‘unlimited’, ‘defined’ and undefined’.
We know today there are millions of shades of grey. But we may not question this understanding of light and dark and accept them as they are.
But we can also see them as ‘Wave’ and ‘Particle’. In fact Mandukya Upanishad talks precisely of Vaisva-Nara of Sthula (Gross) and Taijasa (light/Wave) of Suksuma, which means Particle and Wave.
Single particle Hilbert spaces
Hilbert spaces are infinite dimensional vector spaces for mathematical modeling. If we apply Hilbert space to particles and talk of (single) particle Hilbert spaces, then depending energy, momentum, spin of the particle, it is the space of all possible states of a particle.
Yes, these particles cannot be ‘imagined’ as a ‘sthula/gross’ ‘matter’ present in an euclidean space. But that’s what exactly the Vedas and Puranas say.
Indra, Aira/sachi, Aswins, Maruts, Rudras are not mortal forms. They exist in a different world altogether, which has different rules and have different forms. They exhibit duality of Nara and Taijasa.
So there is nothing wrong in mapping Indra to baryons or Aira/sachi to electrons. Nowhere they are said to be of sthula form.
In fact if we understand the Puranas they say there are three worlds Nara-Loka (biological world), Deva-loka (world of elements/chemicals) and pAthala loka (Quantum world buried deep in atoms).
These three worlds have different beings residing in them. They have different characteristics and nature.
Yes we can understand these three lokas as world of devas, humans and nagas/danavas etc, where we visualize devas and nagas and danavas as similar to human beings. But that is our one type of understanding. We can also see them as biological, chemical and physical/quantum worlds.
Purusha as Dark-Matter
Dark-Matter is a matter that ‘lurks’ in the Universe which we infer from our mathematical calculations, but are not able to detect it as it does not interact with matter. It is supposed to be 3/4th of the Universe roughly.
Purusha suktam says Purusha is 3/4th of the Universe and Aitareya Upanishad says Purusha is not influenced by Prakrti anytime at all. Purusha is this un-influenced bed on which the Yajna or sacrifice or cosmic evolution takes place.
Now is Purusha Dark-matter..? Well that’s my hypothesis.
Not just that. We can talk of euclidean spacetime (four dimensional space), conflict between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity, spacetime warping etc from puranic viewpoints. But that’s a large answer later.
Saguna-Nirguna Brahman
Param-Atma or the Nir-guna brahman may be some kind of un-differentiated bundle of energy or consciousness or intelligence before the Universal evolution.
Due to the desire to ‘realize’ itself, which means produce knowledge to understand itself, the Atma leads to what one can call as ‘Saguna’ brahman whose attributes are Vishnu (Inertia), mAya(rest-mass), Brahma (Gravity), Shakti (momentum), Shiva (Energy) etc.
Once the saguna Brahman comes out, the Nirguna brahman does not control it. The saguna brahman is an isolated system which Nir-guna brahman does not interfere with it.
What I wrote here was, this Universal evolution or Yajna or Sacrifice is a result of that Param-Atma to convert some of that consciousness into ‘Knowledge’. The ‘realization’ is this conversion to knowledge.
Entropy - Savitr
The knowledge in the Universe can also viewed as ‘information’ or ‘dis-order’ and hence entropy of it. The entropy of an isolated system keeps on increasing. That is science. I call this entropy as ‘Savitr’. (why in some other blog)..
This increase in knowledge leads to atoms, elements, compounds, biological life and beings with capability to analyze knowledge.
They get endowed with ‘desire’ to realize/understand themselves, the Universe and understand what is behind all this play. This ‘desire’ is derived from the original desire of the ParamAtma.
At some point of time, may be, the ‘desire’ will be reached or may not be reached. Beings intelligent may go very near to understanding the complete saguna brahman and try to reach the ParamAtma. By that time, the Universal expansion may take it to destruction and the whole Universe may collapse.
Kalpa - A day of Brahma
If we believe the Puranas, Brahma (Gravity)’s one day is one kalpa. After 100 years of Brahma Universe gets destroyed when brahma (gravity) goes to sleep. Then Brahma (Gravity) wakes up again and the entire process starts again.
Within the 100 years of Brahma, whether the knowledge of paramAtma is reached or not, I don’t know. May be it just the effort. But we are seeded with the nature to drive towards increasing our analyzable knowledge. We will be doing it, irrespective of anything else.
There is no un-realization. As the Knowledge of beings approach a better understanding of the ParamAtma, Universe may reach the 100 Brahma year and may be getting destroyed as gravity goes off (Brahma goes to sleep). We are in to svetavaraha kalpa, the 50th year of Brahma.
This is not science. This is just a supposition.
Time- Fourth dimension of space
Is paramAtma bound by space-time..? We do not know of it. Like the quantum world whose physics is different from classical world, it may have totally different characteristics, which we may never know.
Is Time ‘created’ by paramAtma..? Time is not a physical entity at all. It is the fourth dimension of space. It is a part of four dimensional SpaceTime continuum. What parmAtma created is the ‘spacetime curvature’ and its evolution, which gives us the perception of time.
The saguna-brahman part of it is bound by space-time. Universe is in spacetime continuum.
I am trying to paint a picture here of various aspects, not to create believers in what I say, but to be clear in whatever I state.
Easwaro Rakshatu.
-TBT
