Thursday, February 21, 2008

My search of God

We humans consider ourselves superior species and maintain that whatever information our senses  provide ultimate truth. for example our ability to communicate in form of language. Time and again we keep discovering that so and so animal has far superior ability to communicate without our Superior technology. We are amazed at the social system of Ants, We drop jaws when we get to know that so and so migratory bird has traveled across continents seeking warmer climate, The examples are endless,but fact is that all this has been going on for millions of years and yet we chose to look the other way because our logical mind could not fathom that such things are possible and that too by those puny inferior animals. Primary reason for our ignorance is that we don't believe things which are beyond our senses and our knowledge.

We have been Living in lies projected by us and believing in the same, nurturing our children the same pseudo supreme knowledge has dither us humans to go beyond where others already are .

Our religions , our guiding forces through life have been struggling for supremacy of the chosen life style of one clan to another. Even when they are basically copy of the same candy wrapped in a different paper.
We as human always have certain questions in are mind about our existence.
· Who is God?
· Why we are here?
· What is universe?
· What is right Logic/ freewill or faith/ religion?

Strangely, all these questions have already been answered in millions and millions copies lying in the rooms of  religious intellects who have been fighting for the supremacy of their religions.through the pages of life I also have been trying to find the right answer or just answer to these questions,after speaking to so many people and reading books I have managed to understand the following.

Who is God?


God, Allah, Bhagwan, Universal energy, cosmic power, these are very few name of the supreme power which is responsible of our living on this planet.

First of all the atheist may read at their own discretion here onward. As once being one of them hereby declare as per my understanding I validate the existence of God.

God is one supreme force which is beyond time and our senses, we human beings are an eternal part of him/her/ or beyond. Our souls are small fragments of his energy which he released in the process of creating the universe. The big bang theory or the OM of Hinduism is testimonial of the creation.
Now, what is soul, souls are eternal part of the world around us, many a religion preach that only the humans have souls and animals are without it. But Hinduism says that each and every part of this universe has soul, everything from stones to walls to leaf to birds. Yes stones also, we have seen that science developing the theory of Bacteria (a soul) and findings of science that trees have life cycle.
Soon we will attain the wisdom of stones also. I try to sum up this understanding in the following poem.
पतंगा

मै पतंगा क्षणभंगुर
,साक्ष्य हू आग का
लपट से बिलबिलाकर
भटक गया राह था
बह रहा हवाओ में
पानियों से लड़ रहा
खोज में ज्वाल की
इधर उधर भटक रहा
भ्रमित कर रोक लेती
कोई चिता,
कोई चूल्हा,
कोई मोहक अलाव सा,
पर मिलेंगे राह में,
इस बात का भी भान था,
निपट चला,
सिमट चला,
आगे बढ़ने का चाव है,
किन्तु,
पथ भ्रमित करेंगे जो
ऐसे कई पड़ाव है,
भीगने को आग में,
भभकने की चाह में,
फिर बहा,
बह चला,
रुकुंगा उसी अलाव में

के छिटक ना जाऊ कोख से
,अब वो सोख ले
और रोक ले
मुझे खुद में कही,
बहुत दूर भटक कर,
सीख कर सब हंसने रोने


...................अंतिम पड़ाव कर बस पाऊँ  वही.

Manu Sharma
Like one of my friend always says” what we know is Science and what we don’t is God”.
Since the creation of the universe we have been scattered all over the world in all sort of shapes some were animals, some were trees some were stones in riverbeds. The constant cycle of reincarnation has kept us away from our ultimate goal of submerging in the supreme force, so we go back where we started from.

We shall merge into the God when have been thru all the things the God wants us to learn and our souls to mature enough to be back with him, when we parted ways with God we were innocent like children and as we churn thru the cycle of reincarnation, with every birth we attain certain amount of wisdom by learning from our mistakes we make in every birth and also carry the Burden of action to our next life.

What is karma: it is simple cause and affect theory what you do has an effect on your tomorrow that is Karma, like the earl from the Television says, if you do good things, good things will happen to you if you do bad things karma will come back and haunt you. Now this is correct but as per only by American Logic.
Putting it in a scientific terms “every action has an equal and opposite reaction”. But in this case every action will  be judged before deciding the reaction. It all depends whether what you did is right or wrong.

Now who decides what is wrong and right?

It is human experiences that teach us the difference between right and wrong. May be that is the only superior ability we have which makes us different. For example” lots of religious leader promote eating animal tissues because we have canine teeth. Argument is that God has given these teeth to have animals as meal because he has made superior.
But that is where we miss the point that God has also given as the ability to think and decide what is right and wrong.Now again all our life we learn to behave in a manner which has been decided by our elders based upon their experiences. We have thousand and thousand years of experiences and wisdom written in our religious books.

A Muslim child will learn Quran and enjoy the EID festival. Similarly with christens will learn their Gospel truths and celebrate Christmas. Same goes for Hindus.

Now what are these experiences which hold us to a certain lifestyle? It is just the sense of belonging that we generate when we say that we are Hindu or Muslim and bring an identity of history and pride along with, and along comes the contradiction of the beliefs where we are vegetarians and non vegetarians and that is the root cause of all the tension in the world because we have been judging each other on basis of their caste, religion color etc.
If we look at the religions on a micro level, leaving everything aside it basically is just a relationship management on a very large extent. How you deal with your parent? How you deal with your wife? How you deal with your neighbor?
IN A NUTSHELL IT IS THE HANDBOOK FOR A PRODUCT CALLED LIFE.

But where did we have confused ourselves? The answer is simple that we could never handle the enormity of the people involved.

Your Karma (deeds) will not just show effect on your tomorrow but your next life as well. Let’s say that if I was a murderer in my previous life and I was executed that is the maximum possible human punishment I have already received but not that is not sufficient, I will come in my next life to learn the lesson of non violence and if a don’t learn the lesson then I will repeat the cycle till eternity till the time I learn it and move to next which is also will be burdened with your bad karmas for which you have to learn the lesson how to rectify the same.

If you never die then how come we keep reincarnating then how come we don’t remember our previous lives. That is where our dimensional capabilities dither us to understand the truth.

We trust our senses to believe our surroundings. But what makes us sure that what we see/smell/sense is the ultimate truth. We cannot claim that there are animals which don’t have eyes but they see better than us. They communicate, have social system. Basically with so called lesser capabilities than us.
How? We are still working on that. Are we not?

Answer is in the theory of dimensions which has been mentioned explained aptly by Einstein in quantum physics. People relate it to time travel and lot of different things but there are things which have more relevance than just time travel.
In all our school life we have been taught that a shortest distance between two points is straight line. But if you ask any student of quantum physics he will tell you that it is a curve. See that is where our ability to look beyond is has kept us away from the truth. In fact it is complete circle which we don’t see and just a small piece of action.

What is time: - time is comprised of three factors Past, Present and future. Whatever we do today decides our tomorrow and their after move into past as the time goes by. And how we decide what is past present and future. Because we trust the day night cycle of earth orbiting around the sun and hence we have day and night and past present and future. So the question is what is forcing the earth to rotate in its orbit around the sun. How come it never moves away and changes its lane and move somewhere else. Science says that it is the gravitational force of sun and which is holding the planets around the same. Similarly it is for the moon and around the earth. Any object in the periphery of gravitational force sucks the object towards itself. Then how come the moon is revolving around the earth. Because as soon as leave the gravity of earth there is open space and there is no gravity there. So when is attracting moon around the earth? Pluto is so far away from the sun still orbits around like earth to the sun so what gravitation force are we talking about.

To put it in a simple terms, the concept on which time is calculated in not conclusive enough to believe in?
So go in other direction let’s say that time always existed beyond our terms given and dimensions we understand. To put it simply, let’s assume there was open space once and was like a mattress. With the big bang the universe was created and sun was placed right in the middle of the universe. From the enormity of size the space got depressed just like the mattress when you put huge ball in the middle of it. Resulting, in constant rotation of the planets around the sun because of the curve which is created by the sun.

What is beyond this universe, Is simple time where past present and future do not exist. Where everything happens at one time and you can move into past and future to change your karma. That is what time travel is. We could understand it better if you could look beyond the three dimensions. We hear that animals can see death of the master before and they can spirits roaming around our surrounding. Perhaps they can see beyond our three dimensional world and know that person who died is still there in his soul formation.
It is difficult theory to understand even I am not totally convinced by it but is there any other alternate then this or should we just believe in gospels for the truth which give us the answer who placed the sun there that is God the cosmic energy of which we are part of being just fragments of his energy.

Now coming back to reincarnation, how come we don’t remember our previous lives. It is just simple of birth and death, we see an infant smiling and crying and we say that he is remembering his previously life and all the emotions are making him happy or sad. Other than that what possible logic we have to these activities which happen to a child who is just few hours old in this birth.

We pay for karmas and be ready for the next life to take the burden again and this cycle keeps on moving till the time we have become the soul which has understood the meaning of this cycle and return to original soul.
Now the question arrives that how many souls are there? Is God also creating new souls also? The answer he does not have to he just passes the soul from one body, animal, tree, bacteria to another according to the karma cycle. There always a deputation a soul human body as per the experience and karmas of the soul. Let’s see if a soul gets a first time birth as human being it will get a very simple life may be of human living in jungles of Africa or Amazon who is away from the complications of the lives and life in a simplest possible way but his experience with his surrounding starts his cycle of karma and cycle starts. From monk to soldier to a religious leader to a poet to I don’t know who but once when his soul learns from the mistakes and behaves according becomes a nature of a person, as we say that a certain behavior is part of a certain persons nature. That is his soul which is doing all according to its maturity. Once this cycle takes the person to the ultimate level then he becomes one with the nature.

Books are full of these examples. Lord Buddha mentioning to his pupil that this is his 468 life and he remembers each and every one of these and mentioned it in many stories of Jataka kathaye.

Similarly, lord Krishna says to Arjuna that this is our 200Th birth and difference between you and me is that I remember all of my past lives.
People who believe in lord Krishna, Jesus, Buddha, Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu are not wrong when they say that they were Gods. They were the souls in the last stage of their cycle who were merged in the ultimate soul after this life and they shared their wisdom with world.
But how do we remember our past lives? We also get frequent reminders from God in the form of dreams and intuitions. We see dreams which are reflection of our past lives and we get intuitions before something happens. What are these? These are messages from up above.
All these lords mentioned are well and truly deserve the worship of human beings for what they have achieved and more so if we follow their shown path diligently.
But being human we worship them pray to them during thick and thin of our lives. Now praying is just a method of channeling our energy to relieve ourselves from our current situation and detach for a brief moment from the rest of the world. This gives us the motivation to face the problems and attain solution.
As most of us would agree that most of the solutions come to us when we are praying. those are just the messages to help us. God will not help you out of your trouble but always give you signals to do what is required to solve the problem and you receive these messages when your antennas are in receiving mode. And that happens only when you are praying to no matter whom. Nanak, Krishna, Shiva or Jesus.
Now how come God never sends messages when we need them to most? Because we are not tuned in to him because of constant thought crossing our minds. Approximately 60000 a day. So when do we get time to listen to God or Lords. Praying is smallest form of the biggest key to the enlightenment or following the ways shown by our Lords.

Meditation
What is meditation? There are many forms of meditation used by different religions all over best are available in this land. Sadhus, Buddhist monks and fakirs who get in to a stage where souls are enlightened and they find the way out of this churning cycle of life and death. One is Buddhist way, when at the start you concentrate on your breathing and control the thought coming in. as and when you start gaining time between thought you attain meditated state where all the impossible things happen.
Fakirs do it, by repeating a phrase or Mala and reach the state of meditation. It is the most difficult way of doing as the thoughts are coming in your mind and you are just channeling them to be one with the energy. I am still bit confused over this. Maybe one day I will understand the method. Perhaps it is next stage of praying.
Sadhus use both ways mentioned above and thru shlokas and meditation.

What is meditated state? Meditated state is being receptive state of mind when you enhance the time difference of one thought to another so you are available for the messages of God. You are letting your soul grow beyond its capabilities, you learn to see beyond your eyes, and you control your senses, you control your emotions. You learn to see beyond time and see your future. To grow to these levels you need submerge yourself in to meditation like the sadhus, and monks do.

Dargahs, temples are examples of the people who attained that stage. sadhus, Monks who meditate in extreme weather are at may be the most earlier stage of meditation. And people like us who have not even started it are totally ignorant to ways our lords showed us.
It has been told to me that we should at least put one minute of meditation for every year we have been on this earth to start the process.