Sudharshan Swamin Namaskaram on this wonderful day. adiyen anandavalli dasan. Ivan perumaigal keep on increasing... just when the scientists are still busy trying to put a number on the extent of the known universe last week Science Times of the NY Times reports that a new universe has formed. The irony is that no one wants to touch and feel. they all accept it. Say something about Purusha then everyone wants discernible proof. Even more astounding is that of nature of dark matter. In this mostly void incomprehensible universe there is this dark matter and now some unknown energy which accounts for most of the universe. I do not know how they come up with a number for the mass of the universe. But there is. Even though everyone agrees there is this dark matter and yet no one has a clue about this. even science can be beyond our grasp at times. But it is accepted without debate. Religion and phil. lacks this faith. No one I know in any Physics department is trying to solve E = MC2 any more. It is given and it is taken. Something we can all take from science. adiyen being a physics student enjoyed your article (icing on the cake by Sadagopan Iyengar article) -- RK --- "Sudarshan M.K. <sampathkumar_2000@xxxx>" <sampathkumar_2000@xxxx> wrote: > > --- In tiruvengadam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, > "sadagopaniyengar" > <sadagopaniyengar@xxxx> wrote: > > The Endless Entity > > > > All things we see in this world have an > end. This is a > universal law, applicable to all beings and things. > What is created, > be it man or material, surely has an end too, says > the > Gitacharya-"JAtasya hi dhruvO mrityu:" > > However, there IS somebody who is not subject to > these curbs and who > admits to no such fetters on His freedom. He is the > Cosmic Timekeeper, > who cannot be subjected to restrictions of place or > country, nor is > constricted by Visa formalities, and has no > restriction regarding > inhabiting a single shareeram at a time. > > > ************************************ > > Dear SrImAn Sadagopan Iyengar, > > It was very good reading your piece on the 'Endless > Entity'. It > reminded me of an excellent piece of commentary that > a favourite > author of mine, Sri.Eknath Eswaran, once wrote while > explaining the > 'nAma' "bhuta-bhAvana:" in the Sri Vishnu > Sahasranama. > > Sri.Eswaran's book "The Thousand Names of Vishnu" > (Jaico Publication, > Page 33) is a powerful work indeed and I am > reproducing below from it > just to give you a vivid portrait of the same > 'Endless Entity' of > yours which in the Sahasranamam goes by that > wonderful name of > "bhuta-bhAvana:". > > Regards, > dAsan, > Sudarshan > > ------------------------------- > > Quote: > > It is worth a few moments of reflection to grasp > what it means to say > that God has become all things ("bhuta-bhAvana"). In > an age that > tinkers with genes and specualates about the first 3 > minutes of > creation, we may forget to wonder about the world we > live in and how > little of it even our sciences can grasp. > > We know for e.g. that light travels at about 186,000 > miles per second. > We know that fact, yet it is quite another thing to > understand it. > Imagine, as young Einstein did, that you had a long > ray of light like > a commuter train, and that you could sit astride > this ray as you sit > on the 5:15 express and travel at the speed of > light. It would take > only a second and a quarter to reach the moon; one > blink of an eye and > you would be there. In 8 minutes -- the time it > takes to get to the > nearest supermarket -- you would reach the sun. Yet > you would have to > sit there on that magical ray for 4 years to reach > the nearest star, > and you could travel that way for 100,000 years and > never get out of > our same old Milky Way. Imagine the expanse! Then > for two million more > years it is just empty space -- no gas stations, no > Holiday Inns -- > until you reach the nearest neighbouring galaxy. > There are believed > to be 200 billion galaxies within the observable > universe, each of > them containing perhaps a 100 billion suns. It's not > even the whole > picture, yet we still can't grasp it; we can't > absorb what these > figures mean. > > One science writer suggests, that suppose you are > willing to work 8 > hours a day, 7 days a week, no days off to tend to > the yard -- and > begin counting at the rate of one number every > second. It will take a > month to reach 1 million, a relatively small figure > on our scale. If > you want to understand 1 billion, the writer says, > keep counting in > the same way -- no coffee breaks, no vacations, no > union slowdowns -- > until the end of your life. I said to myself, "Yes, > sir, I get the point". > > Most intriguing, perhaps, is why astronomers are > careful to say "the > observable universe". It doesn't mean only "That's > all we can see for > now", as if someday, with more powerful telescopes > in orbit beyond the > moon, we might be able to see it all. If Einstein > was right, as a good > deal of observation still bears out, then we can > never "see" the whole > universe. The speed of light itself limits us to a > kind of bubble of > observation in space-time, beyond which we simply > cannot perceive. No > messages can reach us beyond that bubble, and none > can be sent. But > that does not mean there is nothing beyond; these > are merely > restrictions on the delivery service. > > Worse yet, as soon as we start looking any > significant distance into > this bubble, we find we are seeing things not as > they are but as they > were. Wherever we look in the starry sky, we are > looking quite > literally at the past. One star appears to lie next > to another, but > actually we see each of them as it was when that > light set out on its > journey. One of those stars might have been > destroyed centuries ago in > the explosion of a supernova; we cannot know. We > devote special > attention to a star, analyse its spectrum to see > what it is made up > of, guess at its past and future evolution, and > while we are guessing, > that "future" has happened and the star may be gone! > If it is a 1000 > light years away, the news of its death would not > reach us for a 1000 > years. The Crab nebula represents the remains of a > supernova explosion > observed by Chinese astronomers in AD 1054, but the > actual explosion > took place about 3000 BC. Even the constellations > whose names have > come to us down the ages may suffer from severe > generations gaps: the > stars in them may be separated by thousands of > years, as we measure > from here on earth. Space and time, bound together, > inevitably limit > and distort the validity of what we can say about > the universe. > > But these dimensions do not apply to the Lord. In > the Hindu scriptures > we find the provoking statement that this vast > cosmos is merely one > thought of the Lord. That is as long as our universe > lasts: one little > thought! > > UNQUOTE > > (thanks to Sri.Eknath Eswaran) > --- End forwarded message --- > > > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
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