About Hindu Astrology, Philosophy , Cosmology and Cosmogony
Kant’s greatest achivement was that he found Space, Time and Causality are modes of thought, but Vedanta knew it long ago and called it Maya.
The Universe is seen as Mirror; I AM THE SELF !
Like when a sleeper wakens from the dream state !
This,they say,is the experience of Enlightenment
Which is only possible due to Master’s Grace !
It can conquer all. It is the representative of Heaven on earth.
It rules the court, the camp and the grove
All men below and saints above
It liveth not in fierce desire
And it fierce desire it doth not die !
It is Nature’s second Sun and is Omnipotent !
What is this greatest positive Quality? It is Universal Love !
Let us cultivate this noble passion. Enstein said ” We have to free ourselves from this ego-prison” and this quality alone can free us from this earthly ego-prison.
Let us love humanity and Nature in her beauty in their entirety
Somerset Maugham came to India to learn about her philosophy and the quintessence of the Upanishads he wrote as the “Razor’s Edge”.
The Law of the Way is as dangerous as the Razor’s Edge. ( Kshurasya dhara nishitha durathyaya durgam pathasthat kavayo vadanti ).
Says the Upanishadic verse
Arise, awake
And stop not till the Goal is reached !
Like the Edge of the Razor
So is the path difficult to tread !
Those who have travelled that Path and reached the Goal triumphant, to them belongs eternal fame !
They alone are the conquerors
The conquerors of the Spirit !
The Self Actualised Poets
Whose fame body knoweth no disease !
The most dangerous enemy which is Mind
Conquer it and he who does so wins !
Subjugated becomes Sorrow worldly
Fortunate indeed is the winner, the Mystic !
Mano Jaya eva Maha Jaya – the noblest conquest is the conquest of Mind !
Manasvasthathaiva Ananda – The greatest bliss is mental peace !
Thus say the wise !
Buddha’s realisation was that Mara or Satan was an aspect of himself, his own negative aspect.
We all have a dark side, symbolised in Eastern Literature as the dark form of Diti. Only after we conquer our negative aspect, can we hope for Self Acutalisation.
I walk on the Razor’s edge alone,
The path is narrow, the way Unknown !
So let us embrace Universal Love, Universal Brotherhood and Friendship. Let us remove our negative aspect and embrace all of humanity and Nature in her beauty, as Einstein said !
Yet till evil is slain in its own house
And Light invades the world’s inconscient base
And perished has the Adversary Force
He must still labour on, his work half done !
He who overcomes by force
Hath overcome but half his foe !
The conquered resents the conquest. That grudge will continue for centuries.
The noblest conquest is the conquest by Love. When Love triumphs, both, the conqueror and the conquered, win !
This argument has been going on for centuries ! Which path is greater ?
Quantum Mysticism ( Jnana Yoga ) or Bridal Mysticism ( Bhakti Yoga )?
Quantum Mysticism has been defined as that Art of Mysticism where eternal truths are verified by Quantum Physics. The Mystic view that Reality has dual properties – as Relative Being & as Absolute Being – stands validated by Quantum Physics, which maintains that Matter has dual properties, the wave and the particle aspects !
Q M tells us to remove the veils of Ignorance, which is Mind and arrive at Reality which is Self. But imagine not that the path is easy !
The greatest enemy which is Mind
When subdued, shows us Reality !
Its conquest is the noblest conquest !
While this path is difficult and tedious, the same Seer Poets advocated another path, the Path of Bridal Mysticism, where Self is the Lover, Self is the Bride !
The world is multi-cultural, multi-lingual, multi-national, multi-religious and only Universal Love can redeem this world !
Love all beings
That is enough !
By loving all and serving all, we can unite with Him, who is Universal Love !
The same Seer Poets said that Bridal Mysticism is the noblest !
The mythological treatises eighteen
Or the quintessence of million books
Highlight this doctrine divine !
Hurting is Sin & helping is divine
Trees exist for Altruism
Rivers also for the same
Cows exist for Altruism
This body is for Altruism
Loving all & serving All
Is the highest duty divine
Hating none & helping ever
Is the royal path to Heaven !
No study of scriptures only
No talk about any doctrine
Will save us; only duty divine
And sacrifice can get us Heaven !
Never stolen is Wisdom
Wisdom cannot be taxed either
Never sharable is Wisdom
Nor is She burdensome
She increases as one expends
The greatest Wealth is Wisdom!
( Na Chaura Haryam, na raja Haryam
Na Bhratru bhajyam, na cha bharakaree
Vyaye krithe vardhatha eve Nithyam
Vidyadhanam sarva dhanal pradhanam )
Never comparable is
Wealth to Wisdom
A king is respected in his own land
Whereas a scholar is respected everywhere !
(Vidvathwam cha nripathvam cha naiva thulyam kadachana
Swadeshe poojyathe rajah vidwan sarvatra poojyate )
– A Dante or a Goethe, an Aurobindo or a Tagore are extolled everywhere !
Humity is given by Wisdom
And by humility one succeeds
From success comes Prosperity
And from Prosperity Dharma & Bliss !
(Vidya dadathi vinayam vinayath yadi patratvam
Patrathvath dhanam apnothi dhanath dharma para sukham )
Beauty is great
And so is Character
Aristrocray is also ennobling
They are indeed riches !
But shineth they not without Wisdom
Hence the greatest ornament is Wisdom !
( Sundaropi susheelopi kuleenopi mahadhana
Shobhathe na vina vidyam Vidya Sarvasya Bhooshanam )
Thesis, Anti-Thesis and Synthesis – this is the the three phase dialectic.
Thesis – The Absolute is Being
Anti- Thesis – The Absolute is Becoming
Synthesis The Absolute is Nothing
And what is the Absolute? It is one immutably homogenous Infinite !
The Absolute is ‘Pure thought thinking about pure thought ‘ said Hegel.
The Hegelian Absolute has its critics. Somebody said “The Absolute is Absolute nonsense “.