________________
24
TULSI-PRAJNA
No wonder that Capra sees the Tao beyond the quantum cosmos of physics, and Sheldrake sees the Big Bang as the burst of the cosmic egg, the primal embryo. Here the evolutionary worldview is driven to its utmost extreme, where the East and West, Science and Spirituality meet. For the Eastern mystics and philosophers have always understood the cosmos as the Brahm-ānda, the cosmic egg. Assuming that the evolutionary worldview of the Big Bang as the hatching of the cosmic egg is going to gain growing currency among the scientists and the general public, the new century is going to witness revolution of human consciousness more far-reaching than what was involved in the Copernican revolution.
It will then be of a kind of revolution in human affairs that took place at the end of the Roman empire and at the emergence of Christianity. Then the GraecoRoman Gods, who inhabited the mesocosmos in the company of men, were exchanged for a new transcendental Christian god, who descended from the metacosmos and again ascended back to the same. God himself in his second person thus eniered in History, bridging the temporal and the trans-temporal, linking God and man in a common bond of destiny and history.
If God has thus elevated man and history once, it is possible that the evolutionary turning point we are speaking about points to his second coming. And the new century of the new millennium may be witnessing not a Copernican revolution, but a Constantanian revolution, or an Aquarian revolution, marking the passage of sun after two thousand years in the zodiacal sign of Pices-- signifying Christ-to the House of Acquarius, the symbol of water, the effeminate side of reality-intuition, feeling, the Yang aspect, the egg, the mother, the evolutionary worldview in place of the mechanistic one. NEW MAN, NEW COSMOS—THE OMEGA POINT
A physicist cannot undertake an objective observation
Jain Education International
For Private & Personal Use Only
www.jainelibrary.org
