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Wednesday, August 8, 2007

omigod!

My physics teacher at college always told "Physics and nature are closely related. Physics also explains other things which are not seemingly physics-related". He would also give an example "Newton's law is applicable to you and your brother fighting with each other. If you hit him, then he hits you!"
At this point, somebody might comment "The force with which your brother hits you back depends on whether he is elder to you or younger; but Newton's Law says that the force of reaction is always equal to that of action."
Now this question, I think, may be answered in two ways. One, you can ask the person to take a broader view of things. To just take a hint from such examples and recognize the relation between things which we earlier thought weren't related.
Two, as Buddha would say, if you harm somebody, it will cause a disturbance in you first, even before harming the other person, and after. It will take so much of your (evil) thought to generate such an anger within yourself and this in turn would produce the necessary chemicals in your body to harm you (generally, without your knowledge). The fact that we cannot think properly after a bitter fight explains the change which has taken place in our body , and which hampers the normal functioning of the body.

Recently, while reading a book on Stars and Black Holes and and all that, it came to mind when I was reading that 'Black Holes occupy the centre of the Galaxies', "Oh my God, is this what Krishna said?!". Let me tell you why I thought so.

It is a known fact that great people from time immemorial have been preaching about the impermanence of life and that the goal of human life is to seek enlightenment. Different people understand this in different ways and unless getting a wholesome grasp of this funda, ways of attaining this state also being taught by many, it is just like 11 blind men giving different interpretations of an elephant by feeling different parts of the same.
I also remember Ramanujam having once said that 'God is Infinity'. It makes certain sense since infinity is not something which is normally accessible and God too, is not a very general concept.
Somebody also said that Blackholes can be thought of as being infinite since it is beyond our imagination and that ordinary(the ones we know) laws don't work out there.

I feel similar interpretations can be made with God as well.
It is also worth noting that a few don't approve of the existence of Black Holes since, they say, there is no direct evidence of its existence.

Now, coming to the point, what I felt was that there is a strange correlation between the lives of stars and that of our own. Stars take birth from the matter present in the universe, they live their lives, of course in different ways, they die, and indeed in different ways. After death they take birth again, live, and die. The cycle continues. Of course, there is an end to the cycle as well. Some of these stars end the cycle of birth and death by becoming one with the infinite, the Black Hole.

If you replace the word 'star' with 'Man/Woman', I don't think the above paragraph sounds very much different from what we hear from Krishna or Buddha or what is written in Geeta, Upanishads and the like.

P.S: Some of them, 'secular', would also ask me to include other names too.
Names, as Shakespear would say, hardly matter.

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