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The Infinite Creator’s power and the limited technical powerscience

The Infinite Creator’s power and the limited technical power/science

[Last Update: 13th May 2018]

For those who thinks that the technical achievements in the science is the one and only truth. There is an upper limit for the technically feasible, independent of that what the science of the recent years and centuries falsely suggest. It horrifies me when I see reports on TV or read in the specialist literature / magazine. I wonder which university teach so much wrong / erroneous knowledge, or which university / college gave these academic scientists their academic degrees.

In 2007, I already tried to address a topic from astrophysics (String theory) on my website. One should not forget that mathematic is only a language / instrument and not a natural law / law of nature (not like physics or other disciplines) viz. one can use the mathematic to present highly complex models which plays from the mathematical point of view on a very high level, but this does not mean that it represents the nature at all. This is comparable to a juggler who is juggling with balls and performing very complex movements. The Mathematic is like this. Just because it is mathematically correct and therefore free of contradictions, it is not said yet that this is true – in the sense of being naturally given or representing the nature.

Another wrong suggestion from physics is, when scientists try to propagate the possibility of time travels from Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. This is nonsense! The time dilation is a result of different reference systems.

Back to the core point of this post. There is an upper limit in physics or what is technically (theoretically) feasible. This is illustrated by the thought experiment Laplace’s demon. I have corrected one of the wrong interpretation in artificial intelligence with my post “Disarming the contradiction of the halting problem“, which does not mean that the correction leads to the fact that there is no upper limit in the artificial intelligence. The quantum computers are also subject to this upper limit! Everything technically feasible underlie this upper limit or in other words: everything in the physical world have a (upper) limit.

By-the-way:
Not only in physics is charlatanism practiced, in many other disciplines too. In this matter the Mankind does not differ from the people 1000 years ago. The technical achievement has only created more space and possibilities for charlatanry. They do not try to violate the laws /rules  of causality with the new achievements so that one can remain undetected for a long time!

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The Atman (Part 1)

The Atman (Part 1)

[Last Update: 10.09.2022]

As I already have pointed out in some of my posts is the existence of Atman boundless but not eternal. Hinduism describes the cycle that the Atman runs through as rebirth. It is free or not bound to religion, culture, gender, life form (e.g. animal, plant, etc.), geographical location, etc. Hinduism does not only describe the circle of rebirths, it also shows the (three in the Gita called: bhakti, karma and asceticism) different paths to enter the womb of God or in other words to be freed from the circle of rebirths. The controlling element here is karma (sum of your own actions and non-actions). In an abstract way one can compare karma with a bank account but that is not the full truth. The problem with humans is that they try to find loopholes to avoid or to bend laws given by Lord. Perhaps this behavior is a result of customs and traditions of this world. One should also not forget that customs and traditions, languages, etc. are always subject of changes in German language we say they are alive. To come back to the comparison between karma and the bank account. One can overdraw a bank account and settle the debts again. This comparison also shows that a person directly projects this behavior in the understanding of karma: I have committed a sin and now I am trying to do something good. What is the use of repentance if one committs a sin the next day again? This is what I was intended to say with my post “Sacrifice offering and the true meaning”. One will realize this if the human attributes such as intolerance, hatred, ignorance, or false formation block out our mind.

To explain you the rebirth, I will try to illustrate this in two or three models / examples:

Jaabaali was an atheist in the time of Ramayana and was very closed with Rama. He was not an atheist of conviction that he has doubted the existence of God at first, it was rather the product of norms, customs and traditions in the society those days. Rama’s actions have changed Jaabaali in his last phase of his life. So, his understanding of God has changed. When Jaabaali’s rebirth as Albert Einstein take places in the Kali-Yuga. He will be born in a similar mental form, which was his view in the last phase of his past life. We should only focus on one point (religious worldview) otherwise one will lose the overview. One should also know that Albert Einstein was in the beginning phase of his life not really bonded with God. Although he was born into the Jewish family and religion. First in his later stage he realized the true bond with God. In his side notes of his works and the noted numbers, he realized that he was not the real creator of his own works/knowledge – he understood that he was guided by God’s hand. Albert Einstein have passed away in 1955 and is reborn 20-25 years later in a German / Italian family with Catholic religious affiliation.

Another example:
Atharvan was a sage in his time and a great Shiva worshiper. He has written down the Atharvaveda – one of the four vedas. In his rebirth in the Kali-Yuga, he is born in a German family with Protestant religious affinity and is a professor at the Ludwig-Maximilian University München (LMU).

With these two examples, I want to show what I mean when I write* that karma and rebirth are not bound with Hinduism.

In this context here again the quote from the Brihadaranyaka-Upanishad IV.5:

You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny.

* Wordplay / allusion
I’m the song and I’m the expression too ↔ Freisein von Xavier Naidoo (pdf-File, 334 KiB)

Updated: 08.06.2017 [ReBirth: pdf & mp4]

  • Some of the ReBirths in the Kali-Yuga (3:16 min, 177 MB, mp4-Video file: 1080p)
  • Some of the ReBirths in the Kali-Yuga (pdf-File, 749 KB)

Both files are moved to 4MA74

Updated: 30.06.2017

Bhagavad Gita 2.12

Srimad Bhagavad Gita with Commentary - Swami Nikhilananda, 1944, Page 72

Never was there a time when I did not exist, not you, nor these kings of men. Never will there be a time hereafter when any of us shall cease to be.

This does not refer to those who are condemned in the Kali Yuga by the Kalki-Avatar. The condemnation is for the infinity and the suffering of those too.

The content of Bhagavad Gita 2.12 does not contradict with my first sentence in this post: “As I already have pointed out in some of my posts, is the existence of Atman boundless endless but not eternal.”

According to my definition the two terms endless and eternal have different meanings. It’s important to understand these differences. The contradiction dissolves when one understands what Atman is.

For the creation of the universe Shiva and Adi Parasakthi (Purusha and Prakriti) have been separated. The first manifestation of Adi Parasakthi was as Sati the daughter of King Daksha, the second manifestation as Parvathy the daughter of King Parvateshwara, the third as Seetha the daughter of Janaka and the fourth will be in the Kali Yuga, where Shiva and Adi Parasakthi will reunion after a long time of over 47 million years.

The word Sakthi in “Adi Parasakthi” stands for the word “force“. Adi means primordial and the syllable “Para” also has the meaning all-pervading, so Adi Parasakthi is the all-pervading primal force. These are the fundamental forces that holds the universe and every matter together. They are the so-called four fundamental forces of physics: gravitation, electromagnetism, weak interaction, and strong interaction. Parvathy is therefore the personification of the forces. Now we come closer to the definition of Prakriti (Parvathy). 

If one sees nature and its forces as parts of Purusha and Prakriti, one will better understand what Prahlada try to explain:

தூணிலும் இருப்பார் எந்தத் துரும்பிலும் இருப்பார் → He is in pillars, and he is in the smallest twig.

My translation:
He is in pillars, and he is also in the smallest needle head (or atom).

Definition of the terms eternal and infinite

There seems to be a lot of definition for the word “eternal”. Some of them are in contradiction or are not defined well. So, I’m going to define it in my own way, regardless of all other existing definitions. This definition applies to the texts and explanations I have formulated:

Eternal is used in the context of space and time and is therefore limited. Infinity is unlimited. According to the Hindu worldview, the universe is ephemeral* and will eventually be recreated* at ist end. It's a recurring process. It should be clear for one that according to the Big Bang theory, time only came into being immediately afterwards. 

* Bhagavad Gita 9.7 All beings, O son of Kunti, go into my prakriti at the end of a kalpa. I send them forth again at the beginning of (the next) kalpa.

Important Information

Those who had subjects such as chemistry and physics at the school, will still know that everything is transformed and cannot be created or destroyed, e. g. energy, matter, etc.

Updated: 03.07.2017

  • Somvara Vrata – the numbers and their reference (pdf-file, 60 KiB)
    [Permanent link – for update date, see file]

People and their comments to Bhagavad Gita

Albert Einstein
“When I read the Bhagavad Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.”

Henry David Thoreau
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial.”

Hermann Hesse
“The marvel of the Bhagavad Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.”

Albert Schweitzer
“The Bhagavad Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.”

Carl Gustav Jung
“The idea that man is like unto an inverted tree seems to have been current in by gone ages. The link with Vedic conceptions is provided by Plato in his Timaeus in which it states…” behold we are not an earthly but a heavenly plant.” This correlation can be discerned by what Krishna expresses in chapter 15.1 of Bhagavad Gita.”

Aldous Huxley
“The Bhagavad Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.”

[Book recommendation: Aldous Huxley – Brave New World; You can map lot of the things from the book in our real world and you will realize that not everything is fictitious.]

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us.”

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Sacrifice offering and the true meaning

Sacrifice offering and the true meaning

[Last Update: 16.05.2017]

12th May 2017

In all religions and cultures there is the ritual of sacrifice offering. The problem is that nowadays no one really knows more about the true history. The meaning and purpose of sacrificing is to sacrifice something, which is important to one or in other words it should be essential and not just keeping a rite. Sacrifice is only a sign of repentance. However, it should not be understood as such, that one is simply freed from sin by repentance. It’s just the beginning. As an example, we take the slaughter of the lamb, which became a rite without understanding its original meaning. At those time, the lamb was an animal for production. The loss can lead the whole family into “financial” distress and is therefore indispensable to life. In this case, one sacrifices something of him- or herself, which is necessary to survive. The rite of sacrifice is also not a negotiation with the supreme instance – the God – it must be a surrender. Regardless of all, it is not in the sense of the Creator to sacrifice another life for one’s own sins and problems.

The word of God should not be equated with a legal text e.g. with a constitution and then try to find gaps so you can go around.

By the way:
The German word “Erwachsen werden ≙ grown-up” can be meaningfully equated with the German word “Erwachen ≙ awakening” from childhood or naivete.

Perhaps one should also try to understand the word ritual better, then one can notice the irony in the whole thing and can concludes that it cannot be God’s words.

13th May 2017

Growing up is not a process with an upper limit. In the legal sense and in the general understanding it can be understood as such.

Quotations: Think!

Quotations: Think!

26th October 2018

From the lecture of Suki Sivam about “Thiruvasagam”

Timestamp: 28:00 min (There are several versions of this speech, so the timestamp may differ from the speech in my version)

I heard this anecdote in the devotional lectures of Suki Sivam Aiya. Since this describes optimally the behavior of even a few powerful investors or capitalists. I will write down this anecdote, with the intention of avoiding such fault behavior for the future. This speech is about Manikkavacakar, a Shiva worshiper, and the author of Thiruvasagam, who was appointed as minister through his intellectual talent by the king of that time.

Apropos, Thiruvasagam was first translated from Tamil into English by George Uglow Pope, a missionary who was sent to India. He also translated many other significant Tamil works.

Mr. Suki Sivam Aiya begins the anecdote as follows. In the early days it was usual that the Ministers of the Kings were chosen only by their qualifications and not because their ancestor had previously occupied this post. However, the tradition of the Kings only allows that only direct descendants, children or grandchildren of the king can ascend the king’s throne. Here the qualification plays a subordinate role. As the inheritance tradition also allows unqualified children to ascend the throne, the post of a minister was very important. If both levels that is that of the king and that of the minister are unqualified, then the subjects suffer, i.e. the folk or grass roots. This applies not only to those times, also to the present time. These are the investors or capitalist of the donkey drivers and the donkeys. In our day and age, there are also states where it is even seen as a model state of democracy but is still governed by unqualified. In the free economy and also in other fields it doesn’t look much better. This approach or behaviour is called cronyism or nepotism.

Now to the actual anecdote, which is from the collections of the Vaishnava literatures:

A king who is not worthy of a king, because of his intellect, gets a case over which he must judge. The case is presented by the wife of the thief to the king. She accuses the owner of a house where the thief wanted to commit the crime and was killed by a tragic accident. The walls of the house were moist and thus unstable, so that it collapsed by climbing and buried the thief underneath.

(Attention: In the German jurisdiction, there are also still legal possibilities like this, where a thief can claim compensation from the real victims. I think, that the German StVO, i.e. German road traffic act also contains such paragraphs, which I will not explain in detail here.)

After a brief discussion with his minister, the King orders the owner of the house to report to the court and so the owner also comes to the court. Since the owner knows about the qualities of the jurisdiction of the King and the minister, he knows that he will only get away if another man holds his head for him. So, he accuses the contractor and the contractor is also invited. In this way the accusations were always passed on to others until it came to the potter. The scale-giving pot with which the water is measured for the mixing of the bricks deviated from the normal standard dimensions. The potter, in turn, argued that he was distracted by a beautiful woman who always walked up and down the street and therefore he did not respect the quality requirements of his scale-giving pot. The beautiful woman was also invited to the court. She justified her going up and down with the fact that she had given her clothes to the textile cleaner, which she absolutely needs for a dance appearance, but the textile cleaner always sent her away, because he had not washed her clothes yet, and so the textile cleaner also came to the court. He in turn accused a very wise ascetic, who cannot speak to anyone by his fasting of silence (vow of silence). This ascetic meditated on the stone used by the textile cleaner to clean the clothes, and so the ascetic was also invited to the court. When the ascetic came to the court, the King said that he was guilty of the death of the thief, and if he agrees it. As the ascetic unfortunately could not speak by his fasting, the king and the Minister interpreted it as an agreement of the misconduct and so the judgement was proclaimed. He was to be executed the next morning by hanging.

A spectator of the court in the royal house who knew about the wisdom of the ascetics and did not want to tolerate it further, stood on and asked to speak to the king. The king allowed him to speak and so the spectator and resident of the country governed by the king asked when the accused should be hanged. The King then replied, “Tomorrow at 10:10 a.m., he will hang.” Then the spectator pleased the king to hang him at that time. The king wondered, “Why should I hang you? I am a very righteous king, I cannot punish innocents.” Thereupon the spectator: “To me, an astrologer said, if one hanged at this time of day (10:10 a.m.), then one will become the king of one of the paradisal Deva-Loghas (one of the planets of the Devas is the planet Mars).” Thereupon the king to the bailiff: “Let the punishment for the ascetics fall. Hang me at that time. I now want to be the king of one of the Deva-Loghas.” Thereupon the spectator: “Please hang me at least at 10:15 a.m., then I can at least be the minister of one of the Deva-Loghas you are going to govern.” Thereupon the King: “No, that’s not possible at all. You are not worthy to be my minister.” And so, the king ordered his bailiff to hang his minister at 10:15 a.m. after he was hanged at 10:10 a.m. And so, the next day, by hanging of the two unqualified, the whole nation was relieved from further infamous action.

What does this anecdote really want to say? If unqualified people are sitting at important switching centres, then the whole system is destined for damnation sooner or later. I am only surprised, though so many good literatures are existing in different languages and cultures for the mankind, most of which have already gone, could not profit from it.

25th June 2017

From the film Thanga Pathakkam

This is a scene from a Tamil movie Thanga Pathakkam at time code 02:11:50. A father-in-law is telling this story (Parables of Jesus) to his son-in-law to bring him to sense:

A sheep has fallen into the water. One who sees this jump in to the water to save the animal. After a while his friend shout from the shore: Let that animal go before you go down. The other one says, I’ve already let it go, but it does not let me go. It’s not a sheep, it’s a grizzly bear.

The father-in-law says: “With bad things or evil, it is the same in life. We touch it first and later we cannot get rid of it.”

From the film Vedham Pudhithu

Prehistory in film:
A man who has a high reputation in his village lose his only child and adopts a Brahmin* child who also lost his only remaining parent in that accident. He tells that boy an anecdote while he carries him on his shoulders over the shallow river.

The reason why the man is telling this anecdote is, that the child wants to study the knowledge of the Brahmins like his biological father, but the society of the Brahmins unfortunately refuses this. They see in that boy the personification of disaster because the mother of him died shortly after his birth. The elder sister, who had raised him up, also been missing shortly before his father’s death, and was therefore believed to be also dead. The following anecdote (Time code: 01:47:00): A Brahmin wants to cross a river and therefore get into a ferryboat steered by an uneducated. [In rural areas, the infrastructure is bad and not everywhere are bridges. Mostly a small ferry is usually used for the crossing]. During the travel the Brahmin asks the ferryman if he knows the Ramayana. The ferryman responds, “No sir, I do not know this.” Then the Brahmin answer: “You have lost ten years of your life.” After a while, the Brahmin asks again: “Do you at least know the Mahabharata?” The ferryman replies, “No sir. I don’t know this too.” Then the Brahmin: “You have lost twenty years of your life.” After a while the Brahmin ask him: “At least the essence of the Gita – do you know that?” Then the ferryman: “No sir, I do not know this too.” Then the Brahmin: “You have lost thirty years of your life.”

The boat is now in the middle of the river and begins to rock through the strong current and gets a crack. The ferryman now asks the Brahmin: “Sir, can you swim?” Then the Brahmin answers: “No, I can’t swim.” The ferryman replies, “You have lost your whole life sir.”

The adoptive father ends the anecdote and tells the boy that each person should acquire the necessary knowledge for the first time.

* A Brahmin is a person male or female, who deals with the knowledge of Brahmam (≈ soul) [பிரம்மம்]. Brahmam can be translated with soul, but the word “Brahmam” in Tamil and Sanskrit is more powerful – it has several meanings. The original definition does not refer to the caste system as it was created by the society! There are similar social forms in Western and other cultures. Persons of special professions who consider themselves to be elitists.

Albert Schweitzer (1875 – 1965), doctor, philosophe and theologian

  1. Who thinks that he / she is a Christian* because he / she goes to the church is a mistake. You will not be a car if you go into a garage. * Refers not only to Christians. The word “Christian” can be substituted with every religious affiliation
  2. We live in a dangerous era. The mankind controls the nature before they had learned to control themself.

22nd April 2017

  • Mathematics is the alphabet in which God has written the universe. Galileo Galilei (1564-1652), philosopher, mathematician, physicist and astronomer
  • The deeper you penetrate, the more you realize that matter is just energy, about its origin you can’t say anything. Max Planck (1858-1947), German physicist, founder of quantum theory
  • I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We can’t get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness. Max Planck (1858-1947), German physicist, founder of quantum theory → Who can understand this is closer to understand what Atman is.
  • I have never denied the existence of God. I believe that evolutionary theory is conciliatory with believing in God. The impossibility of proving and understanding that the universe and the mankind has become accidental seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God. Charles Darwin (1809-1882), English natural scientist, founder of evolutionary theory → At this point, I would like to consider the quote by Albert Einstein:
    God does not roll dice! (→ Gaussian bell 😉 [Update: 31st May 2018, 08:21 AM])

16th April 2017

  • The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you. Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), German physicist
  • Both religion and science require a belief in God. For believers, God is in the beginning, and for physicists He is at the end of all considerations… To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view. Max Planck (1858-1947), German physicist, Founder of quantum theory
  • Without any doubt, this world, as we know it, with all its variety of forms and movements, could arise only from nothing else but from the absolute and free will of God, who rules and governs all things. Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727), British physicist, mathematician und astronomer
Those people who keep the cleaning procedure in the final phase of the Kali-Yuga for scientific magic - those can never be helped!

 

The only truth, the many facets and names

The only truth, the many facets and names

As I already have written in one of my posts, there are many different names and forms for the one and only truth. It may be that this isn’t understandable or even not acceptable for one or the other, but it doesn’t change the truth, that there is only one truth and nothing else. If we call Allah (Islam), father our (Christianity), Adonai (Judaism) or whatever we want – it is not important for the first. It is only important just to know that it is the One Godhead with different names and forms. If this thought is not pleasant or sympathetic for one, it is better to consider what makes one not be able to accept or want to. If it is based on hatred, stupidity, blindness, unusualness or a combination of them should everyone answer it first.

It was not the work of God. People made it that there are so many national borders, religions, etc. It is the nature of man to mark everything as his/her or others own. There are also a few extreme among them, who would want to mark everything as theirs and of course they tried this in the past and has failed e. g. Hitler or Napoleon from the younger period or the many religious wars and proselytization of different religions, cultures, etc.

Just because it is the nature of human being – it does not mean that this behaviour is correct and that it will be unpunished, irrespective of the currently cleaning procedure, which is in its final state.