World of Philosophy

SR No.: 007005
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Christopher Key Chapple, Intaj Malek, Dilip Charan, Sunanda Shastri, Prashant Dave
Publisher: Shanti Prakashan
Publication Year: 2011
Total Pages: 1002
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 30 MB

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the somatic self. Thoughts are similar to sub-atomic particles; thoughts jump from one to the next similar to quantum jumps of sub-atomic particles. Intuitively, a thoughtless mind could be egoless, and selfless. It is amazing and significant that Einstein was able to uncover the relative nature of Nature by associating light with the realm of the Divine, which happens also to be the view of the world's great religious traditions.
Before Einstein had made such a discovery, Descartes made a second error. He believed that the non-material world, though separate from, interacted with the localized material world within the realm of Nature. It reminds me of the story from Reader's Digest recited by my teacher some time in 1940s in India, about scientists in the US trying to see if the escaping soul can be detected employing very sophisticated instruments of the time. Obviously they could not detect an escaping soul from the dying body. BrahmanAtman (soul), as stated in Upanishads, is not in the realm of Nature.
People who are agnostic or atheist should consider the following a few signs of the Divine. As explained in my book, TranscendenceH..Saving Us from Ourselves, Ruta is the first evolute, the first cause, the first sign of the Absolute, and samskara acquired through hard training becomes the first link, the first several steps to transcend to the ultimate state of Godhood. If we believe in downward causation, meaning the primacy of the life force over the non-living matter as stated in Upanishads, we have to believe in God. Downward causation occurs in a non-ordinary, non-local state of consciousness that we call "God-consciousness." If we believe that we have a soul (Atman), then we have to believe in God (Brahman). If we accept that we have the power of creativity, then we must accept the existence of God. Creativity often is instantaneous and spontaneous because we are connected with consciousness. Samskara linked with Ruta, are very much instrumental to experience creativity. If we accept the non-local non-ordinary working of quantum physics, we are indeed a lover of God. Only downward causation can help us resolve the mystery of fossil gaps in the theory of evolution.
The fact that we perceive, communicate, and understand each other is due to our connection to consciousness. If we believe that mind could help heal the body, then consciousness is the cause. If the reader is interested in discovering more in detail, the reader should consider reading the book, God Is Not Dead: What Quantum Physics Tells Us About Our Origins, written by Professor Amit Goswami. As explained earlier, Einstein's insight of connecting unchanging nature of light with the traditional view of the first glimpse of the Absolute is, I believe, one of the strongest proofs of the existence of the Absolute.
If we believe in love for humanity and animals, then certainly God loves us all. Following is a very appropriate poem written by James Henry Leigh Hunt:
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