Nobel for Godology
Truth Seeker
Now that Nobel has been bestowed on God Particle to those in the realm of physics transcending to metaphysics, would we have better acceptance of our understanding and ignorance, supported and curtailed by our senses? Intelligence, creation and creativity aside, the destructive process of high velocity collision is what has thrown light on the matter. Is it still a perception or verifiable weighty mass? Omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent characteristics, proven indeed! Let us hope that here-from science and spirituality will work together for greater common good and purposes.
Though they had drifted apart due to abhorrent practices because of lack of understanding of spirit and science, it is opportunistically timeous that all come/are brought together-closer for betterment.
Wasn’t abyss between helio-geo-egocentricity that had separated oriental-occidental perceptions of universe? Was it bridged when Galileo was excommunicated and rehabilitated –albeit belatedly?
God if any won’t be in human form, though life had probably evolved through ten plausible avatars, as life is suspected to have originated in water and thence walked upright ashore. However, whether IT would be in the personality of demons, demigods, devils et al is doubtful; circumspect it has to be. Any case isn’t guess, hunch, hypothesis, intuition, presumption, postulation etc that drives scientific concepts, findings, discoveries and inventions? Spirituality isn’t any different in such respect/aspect. In the end, similarities of their progressions, conclusions and reconciliations increasingly converge.
Science and spirituality have edged closer over half a millennium; mating over last two centuries, with paradigm shifts oftener of late in their fields. That ultra-orthodox/conservative nature and practices of religions –as offshoots of spirituality- were that precipitated schisms are beyond doubt. That they were less in the east –once vedic sacrificial practices were discontinued- than the west, is a moot point. The middle-east too had to traverse such dated era and path to come of age. That such issues like Scylla-Charybdis face-off are to be resolved using scythe or laser is clear indeed. That accolades to god particle, its propounding and test facilitators is a turning point is obvious.
Five millenniums ago, though the concept of GOD was alluded, it was never really explained for the common man, doubting thomases and fence-sitters to grasp and assimilate. Pagan practices, witchcraft and hounding caused it to be misappropriated. Interestingly God as a concept/idea is absent in Sankya and Mimamsa philosophies. Singularity and duality have had long drawn out arguments confusing one and all with “tat tvam asi”, such that many are happy with agnosticism, nihilism, atavism etc and others atheistically turning atheists with hedonistic narcissism.
Converting a nirgunabrahman to sagunabrahman attracts droves; Proselytising too. Falling church attendance in the wake of materialistic gains in the west and rising pilgrimages in the east by economically upwardly mobile as well as reinstatement of Confucian values are symptomatic. Would god particle alter their courses and guide the lay and folks back with its latent energy and force?
Science too has had misadventures culminating sometimes with fruitful results. From Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Coulomb, Maxwell, Planck, Einstein, Chandrasekhar, Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrodinger on to Hawking and M-Theory -not forgetting Zheng He, Columbus, Magellan, Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong etc, it has been adventures of findings and validations. Nevertheless String, Wave, Particle theories expounded, as yet remain unfinished. Wonder what young students and physicists can be convinced with in their pursuit of matter and truth. Newtonian findings did launch out with gravitational force, but aren’t we still thermodynamically at loss to understand further in this electronic era? Many such elusive enigmas exist beyond the grasp of supercomputers and saints/rishis/savants in this smart era of instant communications. Morphic resonance and telepathy perhaps the recent frontiers!!
The challenge and mission is to bring together opposing forces in the cauldron –like in the collider- for better understanding for amicable and peaceful living with spirituality, accepting that God by definition is one, and being so, all divisive fragmentations are illogical, irrational and blasphemous.
Haven’t natural features (mountains, rivers, volcanoes, springs, geysers) and phenomenon (fire, rain, rainbow, light spectrum, floods, snow, storms, tsunami, earthquake, mirage, waterspout, tornado, tides/bores, lightning-thunder), cosmic events/occurrences (new and full moon, eclipses, comets, aurora borealis) etc surprised and confused us, attributing them to God/s Indra/Thor? Hasn’t science resolved some of these? A long a way to go though: Plasma and Placebo effects, notwithstanding.
Nonetheless, hasn’t science too reached its limitations periodically: periodic tables, gravity, speed of light etc. so much that it has got into its own suicidal blackholes!! Irreversible environmental damage caused in the name of unsustainable socio-economic progress development is unpardonable. Misuse of knowledge and resources indeed! Misdeeds of good intents! Let the determinists determine?!
Not that spirituality a la religions have fared any better. We have had migrations, massacres, wars, exploitations, slavery and destructions beyond descriptions in the name of non-existent gods.
Biases and persecutions too by both! Let bygones be `bye’gones. Having come this far and reached a sensible point of understanding and accommodation, the task is to work together. Many scientists are god fearing, pray and thank the lord for their successes and intuitiveness.
Sure we all –atoms, molecules, matter et al included –come with our own baggage of characteristics, features, nature, proclivities, predispositions, preponderances etc programmed and conditioned to develop personalities and capabilities. Aren’t sub particles, ions: atoms, molecules, elements etc with their own make ups? Aren’t we all alive/active in our own ways till chemical final conversion to carbon? So what’s so special with living beings and humans in particular? Soul alone or mind+soul?
Is it a question of genes only or circumstances + tendencies? Some might call it prarabda, vasanas, karma etc in Sanskrit and other similar connotations in anglicised versions. Histories and languages apart, in a globalised flattened world with no dearth of knowledge and interpretations, aren’t we ready at the cusp of change to accept and avail of new revelations?
Forget maya, illusions and the like; but isn’t it all perceptions in the end? In an ever changing state from big bang to limitless cosmic fields, galaxies, universes as said to be demonstrated by a baby god to his foster mother by opening mouth illustrating viswaroopam of cosmic expanse, now depicted as anathasayanam. Immanence/transcendentance of God is experienced only through transcendence.
Or is that missions to Mars and intergalactic voyages will transpose us to as yet unimaginable and unknown places taking our breath away? Meantime, let us live with it and let it be: cogito, ergo sum, till we have better information and perceptions that can be validated.
Whatever, prayers are said to have positive effects: neurologically tested, clinically tried out and scientifically proven. Whether it is concentration, focus, belief or faith in something beyond our comprehension that delivers such results is immaterial. That science and spirituality are holding hands in time-space for fear, respect, love of almighty divinity is the take-away. With credence to science and spirituality as knowledge and wisdom, let us live harmoniously in a post-theistic world.
Meantime, relying on consciousness, let us place palms together to bring all our concentration and energy into focus and bow to nature, God and supreme forces that drive and nurture the world and systems within our grasp and beyond.