Holistic View of the Universe

      Visualization (darshan) is possible in deep Meditation –

       pashya me yogamaishvaram | [BG 5].

   "Look, look at my powers!" Arjuna says Bhagavan Shree Krishna.

    Hitherto, a single concrete holistic view of the universe- from the Big Bang with the thunder, lightning, clouds roaring and showering rain and snow to sprouting of seeds in the soil, and the Black Hole, swallow everything in a matter of second has been  explained by scientists as well as the Vedantins. In fact, The Gita contains everything what one wants to know!  Bhagavan Shree Krishna calls Himself 'Time' ( kaal)! He is Sudarshana. He says, "kaalos’smi’, I am kaal devouring everything! This was missing in the scientific versions since it was considered a taboo to think of Vedanta and science and talk about the two in the same breath, as if it was a taboo to talk while eating! There was no attempt to synthesize our knowledge and present a holistic view of our existence in this transitory make-believe world.

   In all reality, all living (chara) or non-living (achara) beings are nothing but ‘vibrant energy’ due to chemical bonds. In fact, there is nothing to assume anything beyond this! However, the case of human beings is slightly different. All human beings are not the same. Some are in advanced stage of evolution, where as, many are just opening up into a state of the human from the primate, say from monkey to man? This is due to the development of the manas (mind)- the vibrant mature mind. There are seven levels of consciousness at which one can exist!  Also, this study takes us from the ancient Greek’s ‘Geo-centric’ theory with the earth at the centre of the study to to the modern ‘Helio-centric’ theory with the Sun at the centre, and, now we take to the ‘Homeo-centric’ theory of the universe keeping man at the centre of the system of the universe. In a way, it is like the famous Rene Descartes’ doctrine of 'cogito, ergo sum’, “I think, so I am”; but, of course, there is a little modification here in the light of the doctrines of the Rk Veda Samhita- aham brahmasmi | so’ham asmi | ayam Atma brahmn | “The universe exists in Me. I am the universe”; ”I am the Self of all”, says Lord Sri Krishna. (Bhagavad-Gita). These are considered as the ‘spiritual aspects’.  Man as a thinking animal saying “I think, so exist” now becomes “I exist, so I think”. “Consciousness is Everything”, prajnyan brahma | sarvam khaluvidam brahmaa|

  The Upanishads explicitly stated, “It is not That”, neti, neti. What all we see are mere qualities, attributes, not the real! All that we see are objects that come within the grip of vibration, maya, limitations of time, space, and causality. Light travels and creates Time and Space and objects fill it. Since ‘Time” itself an illusion, ‘the space created by it as it moves’, and ‘the objects that fills it’ are also illusions. The true nature, ‘Reality’, is different! It never changes, it is immutable. Now, the modern scientists, too, have started talking in this very same tone. The latest research findings have have confirmed the observations of the great sages on the principle of ‘oneness’ and ‘immutability’- “the sub-atomic particles at the one end and the cosmos at the other constitutes one continuum- anoraniyan mahato mahiyan | The macro and the micro exist in a continuum as explained in the Lagrangian String (L) theory. The scientists now say, “solid is not solid” and, “what we see as the phenomenal objective world as real is not real”! There is an invisible subtler state, that is almost virtual,  a state of ‘is there’ and ‘is not there’, or ‘exists’ (sada) and ‘doesn’t exist’ (asada/ non-existence), rather, a state of ‘nothingness’, a dormant state of matter manifesting as something! The Nasadiya sukta, of Rk Veda,  Mandala X, has made this amply clear. Even the Purusha Sukta of the same Mandala has been confirmed by the scientists! The latest visuals from powerful camera have revealed the human shape of a cloud stellar dust (fermi’s ‘ion’) that later condensed Einstei-Bose condensate) into stars and planets.

    Thus, it is very clear as to how the visible universe has come into existence from almost a state of ‘nothingness’ to ‘everything’- manifest from ‘nowhere’ to ‘now and here’! What we see or experience as the real world is, ideed, a movie of forms of vibration of energy, like the picture on a screen depicting a story. The form is created by energy as stated in the Vedic statement Rupa is the tanmatra of agni. The following study brings out these aspects of creation in detail. Modern research studies in ‘Matter’ cover the entire field of particle physics, quantum mechanics, wave theory, energy concept, gravitation theory, and the structure of the atom down to the fermions and bosons, as ‘God Particle’! The most surprising fact is that the latest research findings in the fields of astronomy, physics, biology,  and chemistry confirm the statements of our ancient sages. What the modern scientists have found out with the help of the electronic gadgets such as the telescopes, spectroscopes, microscopes has been actually visualized by these Sages of lore, these saints have actually realized the ‘truth’ in their yogic trance, ‘savikalpa-samadhi’, or Transcendental meditative state visualizing saguna brahmn. They have stated their experience in brief aphorisms like the mathematical formula or the scientists equations! There is no contradiction, whatsoever, with the modern findings. In fact, what these sages (drushtara) have visualized are true for all times to come, whereas, the modern theories, hypotheses, postulations, and assumptions are subject to change! It is not the intention of the author here to make the text highly technical and difficult for common man to understand; however, making some of the doctrines that are depicted in highly esoteric symbolism cannot be made easy to understand in ordinary common language, for it will fail to convey the essence, ‘truth’. The ‘truth’ has to be realized by oneself in a ‘transcendental meditative state’, savikalpa samdhi, through yoga. The sadhaka can experience it. Whatever is experienced remains the individual’s own, inexplicable and cannot be put in words for the benefit of the others! Whatever one experiences as a ‘vision’ (darshan) by his/her own yogic effort cannot be questioned, too. Those who want similar experience will have to undertake similar practical yogic steps (ashtanaga yoga). There are innumerable methods of experiencing the truth. Once a person experiences ‘sat’, ‘the truth’, there remains nothing to be proved.