Where Am I?

Where Am I? Am I an alien who arrived here on Earth?

    Now this mystery is solved once and for all. “I am the light”! I travelled down to earth as a particle of stellar dust, ‘Energy’ and the “soundarya lahari” eulogises this in the very first verse. Accordingly, the ‘Trinity- hari hara virinchi seated at the feet of “devi trailokya sundari, Adishakti Rajarajeshvari ‘shree vidyaa’ are asking Her permission to take a few stellar dust particles from Her feet. virinchi (Im) asks Her permission to create and hari (ra) wants permission to sustain what is created, and finally maheshvara (ha) wants permission to burn all these to dust and smear it on his body! This Shree and the trinity have been eulogised as the bijakshara maha mantra “shreem”. Thus, every jiva is an embodiment of devi only!

Thus, the nature of the origin of life, the embodiment of the Atman (soul) as the jiva (Jivatman) is very clear. Like a person entering in and out of a car, train or aircraft, the Atma- a photon, a particle of ‘Energy’ has arrived from a distant star on the earth, entered the clouds, raindrop and fell to the earth (soil). It has entered the fruits, vegetables or food grains as ‘annam’ and entered the would-be father’s body. It became his blood, bone marrow, desire, spermatozoa, and entered the would-be mother’s womb! I only passed through all these! Thus, i is I who entered the earth and the parents, may it be, the womb of a pig, horse, dog or a cat, or a man and came out as their kid!   Is there any doubt as to the true nature of the jiva now? 

The Embodied Soul (Jivatman)

   The jiva located on this planet earth is a mysterious one. The earth is supposed to be an ideal place for living beings (jivarashi) to breathe eat and drink and survive and propagate. It is now clear from research findings in the fields of astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology and genetics that a few fundamental particles like hydrogen, carbon, oxygen (HCO) go to make the entire living entity, the living biotic world. Even the universe consisting of the galaxies, stars, planets and their satellites are mainly gaseous elements that later condensed into gross objects. The living beings (jiva-rashi) and all that we find on earth are essentially the made of these subtler energy in the form of light, electricity, magnetism and gravitational force. The humans are endowed with intellect, mind and thought force, intellect and energy. Basically, the fundamental particles are subtler subatomic particles (as in a shooting Star), a meteorite that burnt out as it entered the earth’s atmosphere, that radiate energy and light. This has prompted the scientists to speculate whether the life force (prana) of the jiva has come from the interstellar space!

    The four types of forces that govern the universe are classified as: Gravity, Electromagnetism, Atomic Energy and some Strong and Weak forces. Yet another essential missing force which acts as a catalyst, or that binds all these, is believed to be there, yet to be discovered!

  Ancient scriptures give classification that is not much different from the present-day scientific one. The language may be different but the sum and substance are the same. Briefly, the scientific method is one of experimentation, observation, generalization and universal application. However, the findings are subject to further investigations and change; nothing is certain. They have thus presented hypotheses, postulations, theories of probability, etc. But, this is not the case with the scriptures that are intuitional statements, each one personally experienced by the learned ones through deep contemplation in transcendental meditation. These have been pronounced as final! There is no further question about it. Thus we have the opinions of the Spiritual scientists (vedantin) and the material scientists (padartha vijnyani). The views of the great sages are in aphorisms or cryptic verses, coded language with symbolism, imageries, and esoteric verses, and these need be properly decoded with the help of learned teachers; so also, the mathematical equations, formulae, and the theories of great mathematicians and scientists! Thus, nothing is easy. The common man remains ignorant of all these and somehow ekes out a living. Most of the people do not even bother to know about the spiritual aspects and simply live on.  So, the question of ‘what is it I am doing here’?  The search goes on.