anveshan 0 Report post Posted February 27, 2003 While discussing and debating on subjects like Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, the infallibility of the Vedas or the authority of the Koran, or about a super intelligent species called Aryans, we pride ourselves of being very tall. Heated arguments about the Truth – about a God who hand-delivered His commandments to Moses, a God who chooses and selects Tribes(of His own make), gets flattered , enraged and appeased, a God who delivers the infallible(that cannot be negated)Vedas to one Father Manu, a God who delivers the four castes out of different parts of His body, an Allah who dictates the newest (and last) code to His chosen one…. glory to Him of Myriad Heads! No follower of a religion can agree that their’s have tortured, persecuted and subjugated the ’lesser’ privileged brethren to further their vested interests; if they do they are nothing but narrow minded, lunatic followers of a biased system. It is only philosophy-scientific thinking- that fathered religions. And philosophy is continued seeking, an anveshanam into the Reality Ultimate. Prejudiced and localized thinking ended up in flawed religious concepts. The priestly and the ruling class have always manipulated knowledge(acquired by logical and scientific thinking) to suit their vested interests. That is how concepts like ‘chaturvarnyam maya srushtam’, the ‘chosen people’, the ‘kafirs ‘and the ‘pagans’ came into existence. Going through the history of civilizations, we can understand that there used to be a continuos flow of people and their culture in ancient times, for reasons climatic or conquests. It is a historical fact that civilizations competent to the Indus Valley existed in Egypt and Ethiopia during the fourth millennium B.C. In recent history, the Indian civilization spread into the entire Asiatic regions and Indians migrated to or settled in far away Laos and Cambodia. The flow of the people and their culture is as old as the humans. The new religions prohibited their follows in acquiring knowledge from outside their systems. They were afraid that gaining knowledge from outside their ‘god-delivered’ messages may question what is arbitrary and fallacious. In contrast, the Aryans were afraid that their acquired knowledge would fall into the hands of non-Aryans and devised methods of untouchability and prohibited access to books of knowledge to the majority. Gods made it explicit to them that cows are more holy and the ‘panchamas’ unholy; that cow-hatya and brahmahatya is more or less equal, but sudra-hatya is not even nara-hatya. Strange are the ‘divine’ preferences! While we, the humans, establishing authority on fellow beings and coercing them into submission on reasons ‘divine’, conveniently forgot to think how small we are and how Great IT is. That is where we faltered. Physical Sciences and Philosophy ======================== Science and philosophy were never at war; unlike religion and science. This is because religion was always afraid of science, and fought it on ’dharmic’ grounds. The latest being on the human cloning issue. And one day man may ‘create’ life from electrically charged amino acids. But religions should understand that an authority that cannot be questioned, cannot be questioned, amended or altered. In spite of the best scientific ‘inventions’, man has neither ‘created’ nor ‘destroyed’ anything. The sum total remains the same. Nor he will. He can only ‘create ‘ out of what is created , or already there. How small are we ================ It is reasonably inferred that there are billions and billions of stars. Just let us assume that there are a trillion stars . An average of five planets to each of these planets make it five trillion earth and Pluto like planets, with a host of satellites. And we have reasonably assessed that micro-organisms existed or exists on our neighboring ‘country,’ Mars. We can have at least a reasonable guess that beings should exist at least on 1% of those planets. And may be at least o.o1% of that 1% may have intelligent beings, superior to man. So when we think of what Cosmos is, we are just like or less than an atom. One Kalpa, comprising of 10,000 Mahayugas, Brahmans one day, is calculated as 43.2 billion human years, which science has also calculated as the age of the present Universe (and according to Indian philosophy the process is increate and eternal), where our human years stand? Man has so far failed to adequately define the infinite Time-Space continuum, physics and philosophy is intensely researching on this fathomless mystery. Get liberated from ‘aham’ bhava , and try to reach that Brahman, who is Energy Increate, the Ultimate Purusha, entrusting day-to-day matters of administration to Nature. Be one without prejudices. “Who bears ill-will to none and forgives all, Who, emancipated from ego-sense Of “I” and “Mine”, is compassionate and kind Who reacts nor to pain nor joy, who‘s ever Contented, resolute and master of self ’’ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
