Tulsi Prajna 1993 07

SR No.: 524576
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 184
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 9 MB

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MODERN PHYSICS AND SPIRITUALITY
Sampooran Singh
The twentieth century Physics went through several conceptual revolutions which clearly revealed the limitations of the mechanistic and reductionistic world-view and has led to an holistic and ecological view of the world. Modern Physics has two pillars-Quantum Theory reveals a basic oneness of the universe and Relativity Theory has changed our concept of space and time.
Physicists have come to see that all their theories of natural phenomena, including the laws" they describe, are creations of the human mind--properties of our conceptual map of reality, rather than of reality itself. The relative frame of reference in the mind-spectrum constructs parts of the map, not of the territory; and obviously this scheme is necessarily limited and approximate.
Recently there has been another paradigm shift. Arthur Eddington concluded, “The stuff of the world is mind stuff...The mind-stuff is not spread in space and time... Recognising that the physical world is entirely abstract and without “actuality" apart from all its linkages to consciousness, we restore consciousness to the funda. mental position".1 David Bohm concluded, “Theory of Relativity and Quantum Theory agree, in that they both imply the need to look on the world as an undivided whole, in which all parts of the universe, including the observer and his instruments, merge and unite in one totality. In this insight, the atomistic form of insight is a simplification and an abstraction, valid only in some limited context. The new form of insight can perhaps be called Undivided Wholeness in Flowing Movement... In this flow, mind and matter are not separate substances. Rather, they are different aspects of one whole and unbroken movement."2