I am currently sorting, indexing and tagging the data and information in my brain... this might take few days or few weeks to complete. I hope I would be able to retrieve data and present information better when this is done, at least partly. Lots of thoughts racing in my mind at the moment, and it's branching out wide even when I pick up a single topic.
It's funny that we have such a powerful gadget within us and we try to spread like a drop of ink in water, trying to find answers to the innumerous questions. We try to analyse, right from the "atto, femto" levels to the "peta, exa" levels, right from the "atom, molecule" levels to "ecosystem, biosphere" levels and beyond. We have so many experts amongst us.
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.1
Keep this quote in mind while we progress further... :-)
We have so many people specialising in so many different fields - so many new discoveries and inventions - we are evolving! Our lives have become so much better (am I sarcastic? ;-) I think so lol), we can do so many things which we could have only dreamt of if we were in the previous century. But still... how far are we away from the Truth?
Stephen Hawking: "If we do discover a theory of everything...it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for then we would truly know the mind of God."
Well, what are we proceeding towards? Something that will give a complete answer to all our questions. We don't want billion answers for all our billion questions, we want one answer for all our billion questions. [ I have to think about this statement, I just said what came to my mind directly, need to verify if it is right ]
Someone asked long time back...
From the Wikipedia page for Theory of everything:
The concept of a "theory of everything" is rooted in the ancient idea of causality, famously expressed by Laplace:
Let's draw a parallel to the words of Laplace to those found in the another set of ancient scriptures, the author being Patanjali.
III. 16 By mastery of the three transformations of nature (dharma), quality (laksana) and condition (avasthā), through samyama on the nirodha, samādhi, and ekāgratā states of consciousness, the yogi acquires knowledge of the past and the future.
And coming back to our expert who knows everything about nothing. Doesn't that sound funny? Knowing everything about nothing? Maybe not... :-)
In the words of Swami Vivekananda,
...Patanjali teaches us the meaning of these waves; secondly, the best way to repress them; and thirdly, how to make one wave so strong as to suppress all other waves, fire eating fire as it were. When only one remains, it will be easy to suppress that also, and when that is gone, this Samadhi or concentration is called seedless.
"Nothing" has a special significance too! :-)
Well, these are just my thoughts, I might be incomplete, I might have to explain more, I might be wrong. But I'm happy that a small section of my brain is now a little more organized. Hold on till we go on another adventure ;-)
0. This isn't actually the topic that I am thinking about, but this does have some links to it.
1. Murphy Laws Site - Technology Laws
2. Spiritual Literature of India - Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita and Other Scriptures of India - Upanishads Mundaka Upanishad
3. The Theosophist : Vol. 124 NO. 4. January 2003
4. Lecture from Swami Vivekananda pointing to the same question, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/The Vedanta Philosophy
It's funny that we have such a powerful gadget within us and we try to spread like a drop of ink in water, trying to find answers to the innumerous questions. We try to analyse, right from the "atto, femto" levels to the "peta, exa" levels, right from the "atom, molecule" levels to "ecosystem, biosphere" levels and beyond. We have so many experts amongst us.
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.1
Keep this quote in mind while we progress further... :-)
We have so many people specialising in so many different fields - so many new discoveries and inventions - we are evolving! Our lives have become so much better (am I sarcastic? ;-) I think so lol), we can do so many things which we could have only dreamt of if we were in the previous century. But still... how far are we away from the Truth?
Stephen Hawking: "If we do discover a theory of everything...it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for then we would truly know the mind of God."
Well, what are we proceeding towards? Something that will give a complete answer to all our questions. We don't want billion answers for all our billion questions, we want one answer for all our billion questions. [ I have to think about this statement, I just said what came to my mind directly, need to verify if it is right ]
Someone asked long time back...
"What is that knowing which we will know everything?" :-)So the very interesting question was already asked many thousands of years ago in ancient scriptures2-4. And it was answered too.
From the Wikipedia page for Theory of everything:
The concept of a "theory of everything" is rooted in the ancient idea of causality, famously expressed by Laplace:
An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes.
– Essai philosophique sur les probabilités, Introduction. 1814
Let's draw a parallel to the words of Laplace to those found in the another set of ancient scriptures, the author being Patanjali.
III. 16 By mastery of the three transformations of nature (dharma), quality (laksana) and condition (avasthā), through samyama on the nirodha, samādhi, and ekāgratā states of consciousness, the yogi acquires knowledge of the past and the future.
And coming back to our expert who knows everything about nothing. Doesn't that sound funny? Knowing everything about nothing? Maybe not... :-)
In the words of Swami Vivekananda,
...Patanjali teaches us the meaning of these waves; secondly, the best way to repress them; and thirdly, how to make one wave so strong as to suppress all other waves, fire eating fire as it were. When only one remains, it will be easy to suppress that also, and when that is gone, this Samadhi or concentration is called seedless.
"Nothing" has a special significance too! :-)
Well, these are just my thoughts, I might be incomplete, I might have to explain more, I might be wrong. But I'm happy that a small section of my brain is now a little more organized. Hold on till we go on another adventure ;-)
0. This isn't actually the topic that I am thinking about, but this does have some links to it.
1. Murphy Laws Site - Technology Laws
2. Spiritual Literature of India - Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita and Other Scriptures of India - Upanishads Mundaka Upanishad
3. The Theosophist : Vol. 124 NO. 4. January 2003
4. Lecture from Swami Vivekananda pointing to the same question, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/The Vedanta Philosophy
