Swami teaches...

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See also previous mail sent on Monday, December 13, 2004 9:48 PM; Subject:

Swami teaches...

"By some desires and by some actions of our parents and also by the Sankalpa

or the wish of God, this body, the human body which we may call the pot, comes

into existence. This life, Jiva, can be compared to the mud in the mound which

goes on diminishing time after time. The body is going to be destroyed. All

these human bodies in time are going to be destroyed and converted back into

mud. So also we have to accept that the contents of all these human bodies

which have come from the primary spirit, after they have been used and

destroyed, will again return to the source.

What is it that is born? What do you mean by 'I was born?' What was born was

the body. If we make the enquiry 'What existed before we were born?' then if it

did exist, there is no question of its being born. Suppose we take the view

that it did not exist at all. If it did not exist, where is the question of

something which did not exist and does not exist being born? How are we to find

this out? How do we get the knowledge of what is this 'I'? Those texts which

tell us and teach us answers to these questions are called Upanishads and

Sastras.

It is not possible to understand yourself, without seeking it from

experienced people and without seeking it from Upanishads and without

practising what these texts teach. You have the flowers, you have the needle,

you have the thread. Will it become a garland of its own accord? There must be

someone who will put these flowers together. You have gold. You have diamonds.

Will ornaments come into existence on their own? Someone has to make them. You

have intelligence, you have education. But are you going to realise the nature

of the self?

God is one who had no beginning and will have no end. Thus if the newcomer

wants to know what the one without an end and without a beginning is, you have

to go and ask the Sastras to tell you the method of knowing. If you go to a new

place, you generally meet with people called guides, whose duty is to tell you

all about that new place. That place has been there all the time. The one who

tells you about the place which has been there for all time, that guide will be

referred to as the Purathana or the ancient. How long will this new man who has

gone there remain new? So long as the ancient person who is there, who is

telling the newcomer all the things needed and so long as you do not know them,

you remain a new man. But when you have learnt through the guide who has been

there for a long time, then you become experienced and you can understand the

nature of Sanathana or this eternity. This understanding has also been called

the understanding of Brahman, the eternal. He Himself becomes the Brahman. So

if you want to understand the full significance of this Sanathana or the

eternal truth, the way to do it is to join these Purathanas, those who have

been there for some time, like the Sastras, and through them and with their

help you understand the nature of this divine and you yourself join the divine

by that process." (Extracts from Bhagawan Sathya Sai Baba. Purusha and

Prakriti, Summer Showers in Brindavan, May 1972).

Namaste - Reet

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Sai Ram,

 

Thanks for sharing such wonderful teachings.

 

May God Bless u.

 

sai ram.[srinivas Balan]

 

reet [reet.priiman (AT) neti (DOT) ee]Monday,

December 13, 2004 1:58 AMsaibabanewsSubject: [saibabanews]

Swami teaches...

Light and Love

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Light and Love

Everyone in this planet has own destiny and duty. There are no lower and

higher, less or more important duties. All are playing as actors in this Divine

play of Atma or Cosmic consciousness by Swami and also nearly by modern science.

>From year to year the modern science is reaching nearer and nearer to Swami's

Teaching. The modern science declares that words, thoughts are energy.

Swami's Teaching is not only words, directions, discourses, etc., but all

His Work is the carrier of the Divine Energy. Why not to spread this Divine

Energy from a little another angle? Maybe it is my real duty (after official

work tasks) to obtain peace and reach too nearer to the enlightenment by

Swami's Grace? Maybe, these compilations are my own study-circle?

I am very thankful to all 'saibanews' members' for their messages. They are

the carriers the same Swami's Divine Energy from different aspects. We all have

the same Atmic essence, what would be connected with selfless love. Would be,

but in the harsh world it is far not so... Swami points to it in every His

Discourse and asks to follow and practice His directions.

 

PS: The scientific point of view to the Universe and to reality as a spark

towards integration science and spirituality (However, the way to the full

integration is long yet). Today more and more people are beginning better

to understand the scientific, spiritual and metaphysical principles and laws

that govern our mind and how it impacts the invisible (and visible) world

around us. Modern science indicates a new way of awareness concern to science

and whole existence at all. However, more correctly it is not a new way of

awareness, but the very old one, Vedic way what discussed, analyzed,

complemented by Swami, and energized with His Divine vibrations. It His

Teaching! (Scientists used for explanation different words, and different

experiments which lead them nearly to the same standpoints). Is it the

beginning of the new era of integration of spirituality and science?

In 1982 at the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain

Aspect performed one of the most important experiments of the 20th century what

may change the face of science. By this experiment in certain circumstances

subatomic particles such as electrons, photons are able to instantaneously

communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. The

particle seems to know what its partner particle is doing on the other end of

Galaxy, for example. By Aspect's experiments travel faster than the speed of

light is real. It has inspired physicists to search new explanations of

existence.

 

University of London physicist David Bohm concluded that the reason

subatomic particles are able to remain in contact with one another regardless

of the distance separating them is not because they are sending some sort of

mysterious signal back and forth, but because their separateness is an

illusion. He argues that at some deeper level of reality such particles are not

individual entities, but are extensions of the same fundamental something.

This phenomenon is logical to explain by holographic theory. If a hologram is

divided into endless tiny pieces, and then illuminated by a laser, each piece

contains the entire image. Every part of a hologram contains all the

information possessed by the whole. The "whole in every part" nature of a

hologram provides humans with new way of understanding organization and order.

A hologram shows that if we try to take apart something constructed

holographically, we will not get the pieces of which it is made, we will only

get smaller wholes. Our seemingly three-dimensional universe could be

completely equivalent to alternative quantum fields and physical laws "painted"

on a distant, vast surface. The latest theoretical results about black holes

suggest that the universe could be like a gigantic hologram. By

holographic theory the subatomic particles in Aspect's experiment are not

separate "parts", but facets of a deeper and more underlying unity that is

ultimately as holographic and indivisible one. And since everything in physical

reality is comprised of these "eidolons", the universe is itself a projection, a

hologram. It indicates that at a deeper level of reality all things in the

universe are infinitely interconnected. The electrons from brain, body,

eyes etc., are connected to the subatomic particles that comprise every galaxy,

star, tree, every heart that beats, every stone... Everything interpenetrates

everything, including time and space, and Nature is ultimately a seamless web.

At its deeper level reality is a sort of super-hologram in which the past,

present, and future all exist simultaneously. It is a description of Atmic

reality by today's science! Standford's University neurophysiologist Karl

Pribram (Nobel Prize winner), has also become persuaded of the holographic

nature of reality. By Pribram's theory human brain is a hologram. In fact, this

standpoint has gained increasing support among neurophysiologists. By this

standpoint humans are as "receivers" floating through a kaleidoscopic sea of

frequency, and what we extract from this sea and transmogrify into physical

reality is but one channel from many extracted out of the super-hologram.

(This picture of reality, the synthesis of Bohm and Pribram's views, called the

holographic paradigm, and although many scientists have greeted it with

skepticism, it has galvanized others. A group of researchers believe it may be

the most accurate model of reality science has arrived at thus far). A

ribosome in a cell in body is supplied with amino acid building blocks and is

powered by energy released by the conversion of ATP to ADP (adenosine

triphosphate to adenosine diphosphate), but it can synthesize no proteins

without the information brought to it from the DNA in the cell's nucleus.

Likewise, a century of developments in physics has taught us that information

is a crucial player in physical systems and processes. Indeed, a current trend,

initiated by John A. Wheeler of Princeton University, is to regard the physical

world as made of information, with energy and matter as incidentals.

Reference: Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot 1991, Harper Collins

Publishers, NY. Jacob D. Bekenstein. Holographic Universe. "Scientific

American," August 2003.

 

- Soumendra Bhattacharjee

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