Born and brought up in an orthodox Hindu family, I was always the insubordinate kid. My Father, with whom I share a beautiful friendship, let me have my way.
All along my college days, I was known for my almost- atheistic principles and harsh criticism on fanatic religiousness. So much so, that my friends used to joke that if I ever went to a temple, God would die of a heart attack!
But there has been a change lately in my attitude towards Him. Maybe part of it is because of the amount of books I've been reading these days.
I still denounce the so-called GOD-men or "Babas" but am attracted to the spiritual happiness religion offers.
The beauty with which Ramadasu describes Lord Rama as Karunaapayonidhi (ocean of kindness) or the sensitiveness shown by Karunasree in Pushpavilaapakaavyam, I am sure, were works written with utmost spiritual peace and passion.
Today we live in a world where the battle between God and Science is rising again (and I thought that had ended after the mediaeval ages lol). The extent of the involvement of the Internet and social networking in our lives have taken this to a altogether new level of bitterness.
Being a medical man myself, I completely disagree with the Church of Scientology's principles. But I do realise the limitations of science itself. I do realise, if Science could explain everything, "Why do I have to still write that the major reason of many disorders as idiopathic? "
The level of bitterness against God, just because some religion somewhere has opposed progressive ideas, is astonishing. If it weren't "Fear of God", the world would've been a much worse place to live today!
"God" is the subconscious custodian of mankind. He has always been an excellent support to the man in despair, comfort to those in pain, and a reason for millions to believe in themselves.
Though I've never been the religious kind, I cannot even imagine my plight before my exams or when my near ones were ill - if there was no concept of God.
God bless late Prof Patel, my physics lecturer, who told me that God and Science were one and the same, citing a few parallels to envision his ideas. A few of them were :
- Science for a long time said Matter and Energy are distinct. Religion said Man and God were Distinct. (- The Dwaita Philosophy)
- Einstein proved e=mc^2 , that Energy and Matter were interconvertible . AadiShankaracharya laid down the doctrine of Advaitha, that Man and God are different forms of one another.
- Science is now trying to prove that all Matter originated from a single burst of Energy called the Big Bang, through experiments of the Large Hadron Collider. Modern Spiritual Gurus like RamaKrishna Paramahamsa, and Swami Vivekananda have advocated that God created us in his own self and we all possess the spark of the divine within us.
Why did I take sides with God in this battle? most likely to be the same reason why I wanted Rocky to win over Apollo Creed, or why I wanted Leonidus to win over Xerxes, or why I wanted Refael Nadal to win over Federer in the 2008 Wimbledon.
Because I love Underdogs.
Talking of physics prof i remem a theory 4m my prof....big bang is one of the theories of genesis. there are lots....one of them being the universe filled with white gas...wich developed a spin. Various planets n stars are formed as condensation due to centripetal force ( remem sun is nthng but condensed helium n few unstable gases wich keep exploading) now can u make out the similarities bw this n the ksheera saagara madanam?
ReplyDeleteThat's a lovely idea!!! Thanks a lot of the insight Aparajitha. I'll surely think of something to come up with that :)
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