The Search Within

The purpose of education is to remove ignorance. Removal of ignorance is consciousness of knowledge. The object of education, whether it be internal (spiritual) or external (Nature) is one: study of Creation—of Self/Nature. The goal, too, is the same— the Creator.
The first logical achievement in this direction is the discovery of ‘zero state’. In the spiritual parlance as well as in scientific discipline, zero is equally important and a verifiable fact too. The scientific pursuits lead to the state of singularity, where time stops. In the same manner, the mind also exhausts its knowledge and can reach the same state of zero. As a child does nor have any memory at birth, similarly Creation, at its beginning has no element of time. Time and mind have the same qualities, viz. energy, motion, light, conscious particles (memory storage cells). But mind possesses one additional quality of imagination.
Do we infer, Nature and mind are two distant entities and are devoid of memory? If Nature and life (beings) are one time affair, then yes! But we have started with a theistic mind-set, therefore believing and ascribing to the ‘theory’ of re-incarnation. We travel back to the beginning of time, traversing shadows of objects which existed in past. Similarly in the pursuit of the Self, by self-enquiry, we travel through the by-lanes of memory chambers of past experiences and at the end, in both cases, there is a big void.
Reaching the big void, does not mean that zero is the end all! Time and wisdom are not the goals of our search or research. As time is one of the qualities of energy, wisdom too is one of the attributes of the mind. Time is finite like mind. Both relate to the material existence of Nature. As energy is the material cause of Creation/Nature—it cannot be eternal as its cause is finite. Zero is a state of neutrality, not the absence of ‘Existence’. It is neutral point from where energy, motion and time begin. Conscious in cosmos is not memory: Memory is conscious because of it. Therefore mind and memory exist because of Conscious. Conscious, on its own, has no memory. It is the sound, in its three states viz. casual (radiations), subtle (vibration), gross (reaction/resound), which creates forms and images, whose entire bio-data is reflected (stored) in cosmic-conscious particles/memory cells.
As radiation and vibration have their origin in sound, energy is the cause of matter. Everything, matter, energy or magnetic-energy or sound, have their ‘source’. Only thereafter there a state, which could be described as zero state?
Our search into the mechanism of material creations, often encounters dead ends of the penultimate state of scientific discoveries. These are only the transitional mental zones, wherein Nature boosts the conceptual levels of the mind. For the genius these dead ends or the transitional zones are the boosters, which reinvigorate the dead/zero zones of the mind and remove the mental blocks, set in due to exhaustion of conscious stored knowledge and had thus stalled further extension of ‘thought’. These mental blocks/transitional zones cannot be described as zero state of mind or matter. At individual level each mind has its limitation. Though knowledge is progressive, but there are always transitional periods, before the next heights of its achievements are attained. The individual minds may have temporary impasse, before their elevation to higher level of enlightenment. But Cosmic-Mind, on the contrary, is always fully integrated. Individual mind is in the process of evolvement but Cosmic-Mind is fully evolved.
• Then should it be taken, the Cosmic-Mind, does not represent the individual minds, which are still in the process of evolvement, hence incomplete?
• Why human brain is equipped with a particular number of neurons, with their predetermined capacity of interconnectivity?
• Who is to decide the efficacy of these statements?
Obviously it is Nature, which decides the degree of evolution and the extent of its revelation of its multifarious aspects and the designing of its creations, along with the desired tools! It is not that human brain was always equipped with 100 billion neurons. As the extent of its (Nature) evolvement, so the conscious level capacity of its creations is determined! But the level of individual conscious is proportionate to the level of conscious knowledge it is exposed to.
There are hundreds of disciplines presently, which are further staggered in thousands of branches of knowledge. Each scientist specializes in one branch of a discipline. So his conscious level is limited only to the extent his brain is able to store data of that discipline. His brain would grow only as many connections. His brain has utilized a fraction of its capacity; leaving unutilized a major part of its potential capacity.
There are still countless facets of Nature, about which we are unaware, but we are happy in our ignorance! This does not mean, Nature has stopped its evolutionary cycle. However infinitesimal our discoveries might be, Nature is always engaged in its cycle of C-S-D. The dazzling scenarios being constantly choreographed by It, are meticulously zeroed in the particles. The entire knowledge of evolution is stored in these tiny particles in the form of radiation, vibration and resounds. So far the physicists have assumed there are 154 types of particles and there may be countless others too, depending on the subtlety of evolution, the depths we have fathomed in the space! Before the split of the ‘Original-Seed’, the conditions were quite ideal, i.e., non-active. Only after its splitting—on account of the activation of the latent energy in it—did the process of Creation, formation of matter and transformation of matter into organism came about in due course of time! Since the Creation, energy, matter and the elements have gone through various stages of permutations, as a result whereof building block evolved into new dimensions and their further permutation created new successive universes. History (memory) of each new universe is ensconced in graded forms, in the succeeding families of particles. Cosmic knowledge is encoded in these groups of particles and sub-particles, each representing important link in the evolution of Nature.

Human brain too was evolved by Nature, to accommodate its knowledge in entirety, at each phase of its development. That is why its storage capacity (of memory/neurons etc.) is predetermined. Though individual brain may not be conscious of this enormous knowledge, but it is fully capable to storing, in entirety, the cosmic knowledge transmitted to it via subtle frequencies of radiations. But this data along with the genetically inherited is stored in these neurons, which are more subtle—thereby store only subtle data—than the data received through the senses. The formers don’t establish (grow) inter-connection with those neurons which are storing the data received through the senses. Senses in their gross form are incapable of handling such types of ‘data’, which is very subtle in nature and is also stored in subtle cells. Atmospheric conscious is not the right medium to activate them from their latent state. Only elevated conscious, which has annihilated elements of gross from it, and is without the traces of unwanted negative or even the positive tendencies—the byproduct of the senses—, can reactivate the latent cells after having merged (connected) with them. This state of the mind does not connote, as a whole, the total sum of ephemeral worlds’ intelligence, which hardly comprises one tenth of the total cosmos. It merely represents a fraction of the space, which according to one version of the cosmologists, is still expanding.
Individual intelligence, even at its peak, is as incomplete as the ephemeral universe. Thus the cosmic-intelligence as is generally perceived, is a misnomer, since it represents only about ten percent of visible space which constituted its mass. Even in the ephemeral world there are areas where matter is absent or non-existent. Or it may be in some other format! Even otherwise, the level to which the human brain has been able to activate the intelligence so far, i.e., the up-to-date knowledge of the physical sciences discovered, is of insignificant dimensions, taking into consideration the enormity of still undiscovered gigantic parts of the Nature! Materially formed universe is but a fraction of Nature, which has revealed only a fraction of its splendor. As the material universe represents but an infinitesimal part of the unfathomable Nature, the knowledge gained thus far—though quite credible—is a mere flash in the cosmic brilliance being radiated by billions of stars and other heavenly bodies. Even that is not enough, since this is but a fraction—of the Totality!
According to Einstein “energy cannot be created nor can it be destroyed”. But when energy itself starts annihilating the matter, material cosmic ‘bodies’ disintegrate and matter subsumes in infinite space. It goes back, in subtle form, into the gross particle. Disintegration process continues until gross particles fusion into the subtle particles and assuming the casual state, where energy absolves its inherent innate nature and is merged in the Original-Particle, which is the source of Intelligence that pervades in Itself—the Cosmic-Conscious, that once permeated the entire cosmos and the infinite space! Matter, energy, black holes’ state of singularity or whatever that has the potential of creation of those particles, which create matter: cause themselves in that state: that they are devoid of properties which created them. Senses, mind and the transient universe are vested with the self-annihilating qualities, which never allow them to attain to their perfect state of ‘completion/perfection’. They are ever engaged in the cycle of C-S-D. Because these bodies are permeated only with cosmic-intelligence, which limits itself to its sphere, which is the size of a molecular in the infinite space! Cosmic-consciousness is, thus, of very limited scope. Likewise the ‘conscious’ which pervades our atmosphere and our minds is, too of very limited dimensions! Whatsoever has its source from conscious like cosmic material bodies, are subject to change: that is why the diversity it permeates in, reflect diverse degrees of manifested illumination. Thus it becomes apparent that the consciousness that pervades in material worlds is quite different than the vacuum space, which may be full of subtle particles (matter)! The elevated (filtered/refined) conscious of earth’s atmosphere, which is in pure form, i.e., without the adhesives of the worldly attachments, finds its extension in outer space: since its limit has been achieved, it creates shields of its own and cannot opt out of it. That, its elevation is complete: it has achieved its cycle of evolution: and retains its originality within the circle of its illumination and influence. It is the Original-Seed, which is the cause of creation of the universe, in which we inhibit. This universe is one amongst the many, which are still unknown. Still beyond them are those, whose composition may be, of subtle particles and obviously their conscious state would be more elevated than ours! As the state of elevation of consciousness which each category of particle attains, establishes itself in higher and higher ‘conscious’ levels; simultaneously their creative ability (process) declines correspondingly and their nature of duplication too is effected likewise, till the family of particles—the patriarch of their replicates (the gross level particles),which are stationary in nature—establish their identity and sit apart, completely disassociating from the lower families of particles which are engaged in creation/duplication/replication. These particles, like their counterpart, the brain cells, are layered in conscious circles, duly categorized from higher to lower levels of conscious.

From the scenario which Nature provides—both seen and unseen—it becomes easily discernible that zero level state of matter-mass-conscious is a myth. Same is the case of mind-intellect-wisdom parallel state of human elevation. Both in material (energy) and spiritual spheres, the optimum level of conscious/elevation attained is, beyond the state of neutrality. The dead end of both the evolutions—of matter and spirituality—where their completion or perfection is attained is not that of salvation and liberation (Moksh or Nirvan) but state of neutrality. This point of neutrality is deciphered in classic adjectives or in high profile pronouncements, which have become the end goals of the prevalent religions, philosophical treatises and logician’s gospels. It is not that, this state does not exist, and no human being or any entity that is part of Nature is not equipped to reach that ‘state’: Because there is no such state available to him!
In spiritual parlance the state of neutrality is attained when the mind exists no more. As the mind is omnipresent, it roams the cosmos and brings their data to it (individual mind). When there is no material object (ephemeral worlds) in Nature, obviously it ceases to have any existence because its existence depends solely on the existence of the universe/universes.
In scientific language there is no ‘word’ to describe the state that existed before the Creation. For it the answer is a big No. However this big No can be described, as the state when energy is in inanimate or annihilated state, i.e., when the particles have annihilated each other and there is no more active or conscious particle left in the Nature.
But even this scenario does not satisfy the rational mind. As the spiritualists are not satisfied with the state of ‘Nirvan’: the physical scientists are not satisfied with ‘No answer’ theory that confronts their researching brain!
Obviously the cream of geniuses from both the disciplines has been unable to find the state of Zero condition in their respective field of research.
For the spiritualist, the perfect theory they have propound is, that of Vedhaanth. All others are low standards or lack conviction even among the elevated souls of their own classes. Each religion excepting ‘Vedhaanth philosophy’, takes refuge in the unknown God. Those elevated souls who ‘created’ religions or after whose names these were established, have not left behind ‘convincing’ theories about the ‘existence’ of God, which the general public would easily understand and imbibe. Like the scientists who are trying to find a Unified Theory of Everything, which is supposed to provide answer to all questions relating to the riddle of Creation; the religious masters, neither have left a commonly acceptable theory amongst themselves, nor are they placed on one platform from where could speak in one voice: one theory: one God: and the brotherhood of man. All have told us the ways to control the mind: equal mindedness/equipoise: the resultant state of ‘Nirvan’: which would enable their followers to extricate themselves from the cycle of birth and death and find the ultimate goal of Heaven, Moksh, Salvation etc.—are all but ‘theories’, on whose strength alone none can attain these promised goals!
But what is salvation, Moksh or for that matter; the most aspired state of “final mergence”? Rosy promises are made in every religion but the deepest depth of their collective wisdom does not lead anyone to the final goal. For the God of each religion is empowered with imaginary powers, which in today’s scientific world are subjected to scorn and joke!
The highest level of conscious that the spiritualists elevate to—thus discover, in the inner most depths of their Consciousness—was the unparallel wisdom of ‘Vedhaanthik’ truth. According to this philosophy, the entire Jagath (Nature) is Brahman. Brahman is described by ancient seers as, the Universal-One-Soul: Supra-Consciousness: Constant-Integrated-Consciousness. The same universal Soul replicates itself into many and thus leading to diversity in Nature. Each entity in Nature—animate or inanimate—is the manifestation (projection) of the Universal-Soul, thus One! It is the universal soul that duplicates and creates this diversity and ultimately when the seemingly diversity reintegrates after having attained or completed the evolution cycle, all (diversity) merge in the same Universal Soul. All is Brahman. Brahman is the cause of C-S-D. Thus the cause of Creation is—It-Own-Self. That is, it is self-sustainable. To the surprise of the scientists, this theory is almost in agreement to their version. They are also arriving to the conclusion that the cumulative intelligence of the Nature is the cause of Creation. It is energy that ultimately creates matter, intelligence and life. And when it finally starts its backward journey, it disintegrates and subsumes in the eternal black hole. That is; everything comes out of Brahman (energy) and after going through its assumed cycle of sustenance, subsumes in Brahman-Energy (super-dense-magnetic-seed).
These two are plausible theories and may find common meeting ground/platform some day and complement each other!

Zero State/Nihilism. Zero is the bottom point from which the reckoning begins on scales. The scientists have found both sides of the scale. They can reasonably measure the force of gravity and the large scale structure of the universe on scales from few miles to million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles. The general theory of relativity has made it possible. Similarly—according to Quantum Mechanics—as small as a millionth of a millionth of an inch can be measured. However it is a different matter these two theories are inconsistent with each other and endeavors are on to find a quantum theory of gravity that would integrate the both. The scales of the science are trying to reach that state in the history of the universe, when its creative process began. That is; how Creation began: what are its governing laws: from where did it come from: where it is going? If it had a beginning, what were the conditions then? Did time begin with the beginning of the Universe and what is its end? All of these questions relate to the Creation. And with the word Creation, the ‘God’ word automatically intervenes!
Although there are so many theories about the Creation, still there is a general consensus—so for—about the acceptability of Friedmann’s model, popularly known as “hot big bang model”. As per this model, the size of the universe is supposed to be zero at the time of the Big-Bang. Even though there is so much matter in the universe (1 with eighty zeros after it, particles) —in the regions, which we can observe! Where from this energy came? As negative gravitational energy exactly cancels the positive energy represented by the matter, (the matter in the universe is made out of the positive energy) the total energy of the universe remains zero. As the cause of Creation is supposed to be ‘energy’*, and until its source (origin) is traced, the riddle of Creation will be an unsolved enigma! To know that, the scientist would have to go back to the ‘event’ when It—the episode of Creation—happened! In accepting the fact—the universe had a beginning, which it definitely had—then it should also have the boundary—the end! And to reach that ‘boundary’, the only known tool at our disposal is space time. But space time is like the surface of the earth, with two more dimensions. Though it (surface) is finite, but it has no edge or the boundary. Time factor is too dubious! Till today there is no conclusive proof to distinguish between the imaginary time and the real time. In the case of finite universe—without boundary or singularity—time applied would be ‘imaginary’. The laws of science also do not distinguish between the forward and backward directions of time. In the real time scenario the universe has a beginning and an end. If the universe has ‘existed’ for infinite time, it would have no boundary, it would be self-contained, and subject neither to creation or destruction. It would just ‘BE’. This is an ideal theory the scientists feel at home, as in such --conditions there is hardly any need of ‘God’. But all scientific theories, relating to Creation are just mathematical models, which exist only in imaginations—though they stand to the tests of the day—only to be, later, discarded and replaced with new ones.

*It would be of interest to note, ancient Indian ‘thought’ was so deep and revealing, our Seers had discovered this fact ions ago. Just have a look at a Slok from ‘Rig Vedh’:
“The cosmic energy is the generator of the Universe,
the embryo of waters, the leader of humans, most virile
defender of human race, It remains ever illumined by its
own radiance and It provides sustenance for its beloved
progeny.” Rig Vedh 3.1.12
Another revelation for the modern physicist:
“In the beginning when/There was no before/There was neither being nor Nonbeing/Neither space nor time/Not even the sky beyond/Neither death nor Non-death/No distinction/Between night and day/No protection by anyone/Only shadows/In the absolute dark/Were concealed by shadows/In the ocean of nothingness/That one arose through the power of heat/By its own propulsion/The nameless one, enwrapped in the void/Breathed./And then there was/The Big Bang.
“Primordial sound in space/Reverberated for how long/No one knows/Speech does not know/Who inspires speech?/The broken silence had/Soothing impact/Slowly and slowly/It all cooled down/Galaxies were formed/In the dark recesses/A milky way crowned by /Suns and the moons/Millions of stars appeared/And amid this ordered chaos/There floated into being/A tiny planet—our earth.
“The cosmic forces formed/Cyclical patterns/Air water and biospheres/Gave off heat and fumes/Life drew its components/From these elements/Galactic to subatomic/Order replicated itself/Life appeared on earth/Governed by one grand principle/Which embraces/Every living being/Insects, plants, animals/And of course Man/Very terse poem written by genes/As a living organism/The universe came into existence.
“From blazing Ardor/Cosmic order came riddled with/Light and Rta, the rhythm of order/From thence was born obscure light/And the ocean with its billowing waves/In the river of life/Everything is attuned to everything/Each part inheres the whole/And the whole embraces the parts/All are connected in a very subtle way/All are parts, none is apart…
“From oceans were born seasons/Patterns emerged…/The same life/Pulsated in butterflies/Circles within circles swirled/And blew apart.
“Rivers flowed into oceans/And oceans misted into skies/The skies reached down/To touch the earth/And eternity could be glimpsed/In a grain of sand/The universe danced/In the ‘artifice of eternity’/And no body can know/The dancer from the dance/For all is governed by Rta/The rhythm of order. ”
Is it a poem from Dr.Hawking.s book? ‘Nay my dear Watson’, it is from the ancient scripture Rigvedh (Nassdiya Sukta of canto tenth) translation by Kailash Vajpeyi. http://spirituality.indiatimes.com.
The Rig Vedh was definitely written/spoken long before any other sacred books of other faiths/religions/philosophies came into being. And this is not a myth! Let the elite ignore, but the ancient Indian ‘thought’ is eternal!

Coming back to our topic—
In the given model, the glaring lacuna appears to be the space time. The fate of time, whether it is infinite or finite, hinges on the fate of Creation!
But the time scale at our disposal is going to be replaced with a new model: Dr. Lene Vestergaard Hau, a Danish physicist and her team of researchers, have been able to slow down the speed of light from three lac km per sec. to 17m per second.(old news now!) The latest photonic experiments involved sodium atoms which had lost their momentum after being super chilled and coalesced into super atoms. Their increased atomic density and very high refractive index, the super-atoms proved to be effective speed dampeners for laser beams which were directed at them. This feat had been possible by using Bose-Einstein condensate put on reverse thrusters on light and bring it to snail’s pace of 17 meters per second. It (Bose-Einstein condensate) is essentially a cluster of atoms which had been cooled using lasers to temperatures approaching absolute zero (-273c), beyond which nothing can get any colder. In near future scientists would assign much more achievable values to ‘c’ and visualize enigmatic speeds and actually move that fast to get back to tomorrow yesterday. As the speed increases, we begin to see around the corners of passing objects and although we are rigidly facing forward, things which are behind us appear within our forward field of vision. As we get closer to the speed of light everything will seem squeezed into tiny dot which stays ahead of us all the time.
Even if we travel at unimaginable high velocity, the singularities would always be either entirely in the future (like the singularities of gravitational collapse) or entirely in the past (like the Big-Crunch). These singularities would be the end of time in either case: As the laws of science break down at these ‘events’. In the case of time being infinite and with it the universe too, it would be difficult to find the ‘event’ (the point in space—of the beginning of time). This is supported by the fact that the universe is always, either expanding or contracting. However the pace at which the development of science is being exhilarating by the human brain, the day would not be far off, when its searching eyes, through future discoveries of natural laws, would reach that critical ‘event’ (of time), when the Original-Particle ‘Willed’ to duplicate/replicate: as in the case of amoeba—when inorganic cell ‘willed’ to be duplicated in organic cell; that event would be real occasion for humanity for celebration, even if it comes aeons hence! That ‘event’ would be, hypothetically speaking, the zeroing point in scientific research!
But all this might prove a myth, because if the universe is infinite, then it has no beginning, and if at all it has a beginning that would be event horizon of the beginning of the universe to which we belong! There may be countless other universes! If it is finite, then it has a beginning event. But beginning from what?
Whether the universe is expanding or contracting: there has been a big-bang or the big-crunch: the goal of the scientists still remains, to find or reach the secrets of Creation. And that would possibly be the probable ‘event’ of the beginning of time, the starting point of the process that ultimately had led to the evolution of life. Scientist may or may not reach their goal but in the process, they are likely to encounter dazzling revelations of Nature, whose mind boggling sustenance laws would enable human beings to re-create its parallel dimensions by erecting their own matching models. Whether he uses those laws for his promotion in the advancement of his evolution or for his early, um-natural, self-annihilation, which has been his wont, depends on the strength of his character.

Western Viewpoint.
Greek mythology is, perhaps, as rich and ancient as Indians’, though it is not as comprehensive, and as deeply imaginative. Their philosophical ‘content/thought’ is also not as deep. Their main endeavor has been the ‘shaping’ of an ideal role-model of a superman by creating requisite environments in the existing society. Their thought content was often in conflict with the prevailing religions, which invariably came out victorious during each conflict, resulting in the religious dominance over human sensitivities. Not that their religions (Zoroastrianism, Christian, Moslem) lacked these qualities. But the domains of their religions were very small. As a result state power was ruthlessly exercised in their expansions. In extending their boundaries, religious expansion (forceful conversions) ensued. History is witness, each onslaught of crusades, Jihads, brought with them destruction of old values and substituting in their place those sanctions, writs, dictates, which were the prerequisites of state power. Subjugation brings in degradation in human values, both of the subjugated and the subjugators. The values which emerge out of these conglomerations are at variance with the older ones and are certainly their diluted version. Fortunately the finer sensitivities (values) are always carried forward by the geniuses—who are their natural repository—and are thus passed on from generation to generation. It does not mean knowledge of both temporal and ecclesiastical disciplines were, ever completely perfected (revealed) in any age: meaning, human values do change with the local conditions of the societies; as such these are neither eternal like the fundament Truth, nor inconsistent like habits.
Because the original values, viz. Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence are the inscrutable pillars of our culture, which are as eternal as the laws of Creation itself.
The knowledge gained under stressful conditions is always messy and polluted, than that emerged of its own volition under ideal conditions of complete freedom from stress inducing factors. The former, invariably, leads to negatively charged atmosphere; not a healthy state of mind for its elevation. That is why Zionist religions could produce great conquerors, warriors and statesmen, but very few thinkers, philosophers, artists, scientists. Only during the last three hundred yeas their material science has made a definite mark in the history of mankind. But again their knowledge of physical sciences has been exclusively used in the destruction of human values not to speak of the havocs suffered by humanity at large. Why their intelligence is producing destructive gadgetry and is only concerned in making their living standards more and more comfortable? Why their vast nursery of education institutes are not producing masters like Socrates, Plato or their later version of Max Muller, Kant, Emerson, Bertrand Russell? Why we are interested only in producing material tools, instead of being concerned in unraveling the secrets of these tools, i.e., basic building blocks—the elements?
Our major thrust in the field of science is in those areas which affect us immediately. The methodology we have followed so far, shall take us very, very long time in tackling the real issue—rather the only subject that has been an enigma—a big irritant to the fraternity of scientists, the cause behind Creation!
The approach of our scientists in tackling this subject is, naturally through the medium of knowledge of physical sciences. These sciences directly relate to the ephemeral world and its material manifestations. Obviously we have chosen the goal of research—of Creation. As it is going to take a pretty long time, even to know its multifaceted splendid existence of creations; knowing the creative process itself, would prove to be elusive. Because by the time we come to know the basic building blocks (virtual particles), we should as well be prepared to face the eventuality of the event horizon. Instead of reaching the end of time, we might encounter the beginning of real time, i.e., another space-time! So our scientists have, perhaps, deliberately left open the issue of cause-of-creation to the domain of the spiritualists. There is a distinct division of labor between the two. The former are after the ‘what’ (of creation), the latter are after its ‘why’. Actually classifying the latter category as ‘spiritualist’ is a misnomer. They should, appropriately, be called ‘seekers/scientists of ‘Reality’, whereas the fraternity of physical scientist be known as seekers/scientists of Nature.

Does this distinction really exist? It has been willfully created. For the scientists, God word is generally scorned upon. Even among the spiritualists, there is a class of ‘wise’ which too disowns the existence of this ‘word’. For fear of being classed as orthodox, like their ‘believer’ brethren, the intellectual class takes refuse behind the facade of phraseology. Otherwise there is, absolutely, no division or distinction in the ‘labor’ of their respective fields and the resultant fruition that accrue ultimately. The scientist discovers a secret of natural laws and immediately proves its authenticity in the laboratory tests or by creating a model; whereas the spiritualist has laboratory in his mind—spiritual mind—and can only experience the results of his Sadhna(penance) individually. He cannot exhibit or demonstrate the results of his research (search) like a scientist. He is not even like a cosmologist, who tries to prove his theories through mathematical calculations. The difference is not between the veracity of the versions of knowledge, gained as a result of their research, but only in their methodology of attaining that knowledge. For when their knowledge is assessed or evaluated, it is unbelievably similar! Not only it is identical, but in the case of the spiritualists, their knowledge is far advanced, though like his counterparts, he has not taken assistance of any scientific tools, in its attainment. Herein lies the cause of conflict and distinction, as according to scientists, without the application of scientific knowledge and its allied tools—invention, technology—knowledge of natural sciences cannot be discovered, merely by the methodology of so-called inner-search/science. This is not only illogical but preposterous.
The biggest problem the west’s scholars and scientists face today, with regard to their religion, is its lack of test-ability in accordance with their scientific advancement. Their religions have foregone their face value when confronted with the discoveries in the field of science. The religious testaments cannot withstand the scientists’ proven theories, especially with regard to Creation. Even their ‘thought’ has lost its relevance. According to Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of the twentieth century, “The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language”. This is the miserable downward trend of their ‘thought’ from Aristotle to Kant!
Present Continental philosophy’s chief exponents, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau Ponty, were mainly concerned with the earlier principles regarding what it means to be human i.e. ‘Existential phenomenology’. As Heidegger is given the credit for the ‘existential analytic’ by juxtaposing two things—self and being in the world—he is crowned with the idea of identifying Man with Time: that the true being of man is action: That man can create new things and can create himself as a new man. In the process ‘Man’ has emerged as a complete individual unit, negating the self (consciousness). Even the idea of combining self with the being has been relegated to the dustbin. And the new antiphon is Man Machine. “I am just a machine made out of molecules and chemicals”, says Prof. Harod W Kroto winner of 1996 Chemistry Noble prize. This assertion aptly sums up West’s latest ‘thought’!
Contradiction. Why the Man-Machine of today has disassociated himself completely from the Self? The answer is simple. Whenever the so-called inner-scientist (spiritualist), tried to masquerade as a scientist of the external sciences—they failed miserably. Their ‘revelations’ about Creation, have ingloriously been proven wrong by the scientists; as the people whose business it is to ask “Why” i.e. the thinkers, saints, seers and masters, have not been able to keep pace with the advance of scientific theories. Before the beginning of machine age, they seemed to have answer to every query, including the science. However science, during the last two centuries, has become too technical and mathematical, as a result their trade has flopped. Here are a few examples, which show how poor and shallow was their grasp on ‘knowledge’, which they had supposedly received directly from God as revelations or acquired through self-realization:
“World was created in 4006 BC; sun and planets move round the all important earth, which is in the center of the universe!” For refuting which Copernicus, Bruno, Galileo suffered imprisonment and death.
St. Augustine accepts the date of about 5000Bc for the creation of the universe (Book of Genesis)
“Earth is stationary and the sun, moon, the planets and the stars moved in circular orbit about the earth”. Aristotle (in his book On the Heaven)
“There are 18000 worlds”. Jews
Let us also have a jolly good ride at some of the ‘concepts’ of major religions, which are the conscience bearer of their followers:
Prophet Mohammad and Isa (Christ) are His last messengers; Resurrection from the dead; Predestination by God; Hell and Heaven, Paradise and Hell-fire; Judgment Day; the Balance; only their believers shall find salvation on the day of judgment, non-believers (in them) are heathens, Kefirs(non-believers).
The Guru is God Himself. Guru is the link between the individual and the Immortal, Etceteras.
Their concepts of Godhood are as different and varied as the countless philosophies they propound and by as many names they call Him!

Creation is the primary as well as the ultimate question that a conscious intellect poses itself—as soon as it matures to that level. But the concept of masters about it is as baffling as the scientific brain of the day is finding itself! Going back to the beginning is not that simple, because till so far there are contrary versions about its origin: whether it has a beginning or it is infinite as is commonly accepted! As earlier discussed, if it is infinite, then it has no definite, specific point of its beginning, and if it has no beginning, its point of origin cannot be reached back.
But it is also an acceptable proposition that any material entity—animate or inanimate—is encased in a body, whether it be of skin, matter or cell/particle. And every ‘body’ has to disintegrate and de-materialize ultimately. With the disintegration of matter, does the conscious (memory) also vanish with their material bodies or survive the annihilation? The answer to this question is, again, directly related to the basic question of Creation. If the Creation is infinite, it is in the state of continuous flux. It has then neither a beginning nor an end. In that state it would have no final/ultimate beginning or an end. But its material bodies (creations) may have their beginning and end, as each entity is subject to the nature of elements, they are composed of!
Astronomers are making qualitative guesses about the age of our universe on the bases of deep probes being made into distant galaxies, by the aid of Hubble’s telescopic eye. (More advanced probes are on the way). It is sending astonishing photos of galaxies which, are, still, in the process of formation, and also of clusters of clouds of dust which originally formed into initial galaxies after the Big-Bang. On the basis of these photos a map of the universe is being charted (which might have been completed by now, as this portion of the book was written in March 2002) with all its glamour of 100 crores(billions) galaxies. At the end of these galaxies is an endless blank space, without matter—the big void. Reaching back to the end of (our) universe, i.e. to the event of the beginning of our universe (after big-bang) is hypothetically practical, because matter has its beginning and the end. But what about the big-void, in which the entire mass of our universe is roaming about since its creation! It is moving away, from our universe, as well as from the event of its creation at the astonishing speed of 16 million miles per hour since 12-14 billion years ago, into the fathomless chasm of space. And there might be billions other such universes, which are unknown to us and shall remain unknown because traversing to those universes through the chasm of non-matter and crossing the zones of zero matter with vehicles made of matter, is simply unthinkable, much less practical: taking into account the present mindset of the scientists, that nothing exists beyond matter or the four dimension world!
This condition of zero matter-zone is, exactly similar to the condition of mind when it is thoughtless. It is as difficult to reach the zero-matter zone, as it is to attain a thoughtless state of mind! In theory both these states exist. But according to one of the latest theory; beyond dematerialized zone, there exists black matter, which constitutes about 90 percent vacant (dark) space. This seemingly dark area too constitutes matter, whether it is in the form of black or non-matter. One thing is certain it is full of activated particles, may be in contracted/non-active or still in the early phase of activation.
There is also another supposition that the universe is still expanding. This contention gives credence to the fact that there exist countless other universes in the infinite expanse which play around with their finite bodies. These finite universes, with their ephemeral contents, exist for a period of time till the exhaustion of its matter, and vanish forever and transmute into casual (subtlest of subtle)particle, after every Big-Crunch, constricting in the ‘memory’(history) of evolution of the ‘existence’ of each universe.
Similarly the end (limit) of ‘knowledge’ of each individual-mind, hypothetically, is zero point. As the human brain is underutilized, therefore the thoughtless state varies from individual to individual, and the presumed state of activation of stored data is not the end of intelligence. Beyond the void of unutilized brain-(memory)-cells—layered in memory chambers—is the storage of heredity and extraterrestrial intelligence, in latent form. Even beyond it is the silence zone of casual particles, which finally unveils the source of physical life and the life current (energy). The life-current too has in it the inherent impressions of past shells, since creation.
It is very interesting to note here that the life current of all beings, ultimately leads to the Original-Seed, after the Big-Crunch: surprising, because after this event nothing survives except the final-image of the universe—which is composite of the totality of images, compressed in single frame of image (memory) in the casual form of formless stationary Elementary-Particle!
Having thus arrived at the conclusion that there exists no zero state, either beyond the big-crunch or the big-bang: neither in the deepest realms of the mind nor in its source—the life-current! The concretization of particle from its subtle (casual) state requires vast expanse of space that could accommodate its multiple diversity, blossomed through diversity of universes, so as to unfurl its multifarious dimensions. In Sanskrit language, it is aptly called as the Brahmand.

An Aside
The ongoing series of “The Search Within” is in fact the story of a character that I knew very intimately since childhood:-
Our relationship was such that not only our lifestyle, habits, eating-sleeping-drinking and even our thoughts were completely identical. It would not be off the mark if we were called/classed twins in thought, word and deed, because in the practical sense it was a fact of life. But we were different, as ‘my’ identification’ was in fact on the demise of his ‘identity’. ‘I’ emerged out of his ashes. Wise often ask me as to why I, particularly’ chose him as the medium of my ‘birth’ in this world? My reply to them is very straight forward and simple, that he was the epitome of human life. He had gone through almost every aspect of human life which is very rare. From poverty, he ‘played’ in millions; from illiteracy he attained the heights of an enlightened ‘reader,’ from a Satan to a reformed human being. Others comment that the ‘character’ is fictional the authors totally agree them too, as in the ephemeral world everything is transient and ‘stage-managed’ by the great Grand-Master. He is the producer, director, script writer, actor and the curtain dropper. It is His play---fictional, yes! It His Maya in which we all play fictional roles as we are all His creations; so who are we to claim that it is our life, our identity, our birth and our death even! I don not contest their claim that is why I have given my character a befitting fictional name of “little-self”. Henceforth the main character, round whom this storey revolves shall be known as so; let him be, as this world is Maya, illusion, a dream!

Human birth and more so its life is very rare and privileged! It is even envied and sought by the proverbial angels; as it is only in this ‘body’ the rare privilege is ‘embodied’, to become aware about their real ‘identity’---that of being ‘divine’! since my own ‘existence’ is suspect, so I have tried and has been adequately successful in realization of my ‘mission’, by being in the fictional ‘body’ of my character and lived a life, whose producer, director, script writer I was, but alas, could not be its final curtain dropper! But the reader can take my word---of whatever worth it is, that the little-self (for convenience sake shall be written as ls.) ‘lived’ only live characters. He was caged, like in circus, only in those characters, whose ‘existence’ in the dream world was ‘real’. What a story it would be; real life characters living in the illusive world

It is not a novel type story, nor a biography relating to that side of the ‘character’ which portrays his worldly achievements, ups and downs, betrayal and deception; but it can safely be described as an “Autobiography of a reformed-Satan. As the ‘fictional’---the ls., has been given the free ride in this book and he being its central character, thus the name ‘autography’, otherwise it has no material relevance in this material world. This co-existence between the author, the ls., and the Master is so deeply interwoven and assimilated, it becomes difficult to discriminate and make distinction between their ‘thinking’, as these three are one in thought, word and deed. The author is merged in the ls., and the latter has surrendered his self in his Master, so where one begins and the second takes over, all is mingled, vexed and given in to the benign Self! He has vainly tried to distinguish his ‘identity’ from the other two; how far has he succeeded; only the readers shall be able to tell! cont......

An Aside.....2
In the 25000 years, intelligence in man has evolved to such an extent, which he could not attain since his evolution from lower categories of life. This is of course a contestable statement--- whether man has its ancestry to animal lineage, since there is a gaping link of its alleged transformation or upgradation from wild to wise syndrome. During this long period; though on the time scale it has no marking, the evolution of intelligence has to be evaluated in each field of knowledge, it has been able to spread its tentacles to. The knowledge in each aspect of Nature creates in man a conscious level that enables him to assert his suzerainty and execute his writ by establishing his reign, which symbolizes through finer sensitivities like art, culture, architecture, music, social structure, maturity of philosophical thought, health care or through his baser elements like wars, conquests: To ascertain the true authentication of his claim of achievements, in those branches of knowledge, in which he has made his access, and has created material symbols (inventions), matching his intelligence, can well be evaluated from his scientific gadgetry! But how far has he been able to probe the depths of his wisdom (thought) is not encouraging!
Not confusing intellect with wisdom---it would be right to seek their respective roles in the afore-mentioned fields, so as to be better aware of the extent of ignorance or the level of enlightenment of the ever-pervading Intelligence.
This ‘ever-pervading intelligence’ is a myth or reality, has also to be delved deep into the realms of Nature or still more so, in the depths of our mind, which is the ultimate instrument, which ‘embodies’ us with intelligence or creates intelligence in itself to (re)discover Nature or itself! Thus their respective fields are distinctly marked. The mind functions in Nature; wisdom within it! Though visibly distinct, both have to function in unison---in perfectly balanced manner---in accordance with the given situation, maintaining harmony in Nature and its creations.
With the advent of machine, man’s life has certainly changed. He has suddenly been catapulted from cart age to shuttle age. Machine has entered almost every sphere of his life. He has compacted, almost, the entire world in his computer. Sitting in his room, he is connected with the outside world through his tiny computer. Modern war machines, trade, industry, media, communication, and even literature, are controlled by the technological brains, rather than sluggish human brain. Though machine is the creation of human intelligence, it is slowly taking over its many functions. Compared to man’s working (conscious) mind, machine’s capacity of data bank is gigantic. It functions millions times more quickly, efficiently and without the danger of any emotional involvement. Thus during the last two hundred years, man has made tremendous progress in the field of physical sciences. Specially, during the last forty years his accomplishments are more than the total scientific progress made since the entire period of human history. Obviously it all happened because of the advancement of his intelligence. Or is it really so!
It is also a fact that humanity has evolved through many a civilization and quite a few among them were unique in their history. It is on record, during Mayan, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Babylonian, and still more ancient civilizations of Chinese, Egyptian, and Indus valley, material progress was at its zenith. Though the modern gadgetry was not invented in those times but progress in other spheres of life viz., art, culture, music, architecture, medicines, hygiene, agriculture, trade, industry and general standards of living, was not inferior to today’s standards. Rather in several disciplines they surpassed the current times: excepting physical sciences, these civilizations were far ahead in every other respect. Each civilization nourished on its values and flourished in their peculiar fields. But the most noticeable commonality amongst them was their twofold development; material development as well as the ‘thought’ development. The driving force was intellect and wisdom. Intellect always projects itself through material projections, whereas ‘thought’ finds its expression through the medium of fine arts, literature, music, besides all that makes the inorganic world so beautiful.
Another similarity which was conspicuous in each civilization was their final enactment of self-disintegration. Each one, when it was at its pinnacle, developed similar symptoms of its ruin. All organs of the state got steeped in luxury and corruption: Sunk in indolence and debauchery, each caved in under its own weight of degenerated values. The ‘thought’, which was once their lifeline, went haywire in each case and the hegemony of materialism reigned: And material progress, at its peek, inevitably leads to war, annihilation and destruction.
Then should it be surmised, that material progress always dominates the finer sensitivities? That the ultimate pinnacle of each civilization was, moral depravity!

An Aside.....3
Each age produced its own Alexander, Nero, Changez Khan, Halaku Khan, Napoleon, Machiavelli and Hitler. All of them left indelible marks on the pages of human history. But the most lethal of them all was the class of nobility: Subedars, Lords, Sardar Bahadhurs, Nawabs and today’s politicians. Due to the public apathy toward this class of ‘elites’ which emerges after the fall of every history maker and becomes the cause of final nemesis of the very ‘thought’ on which were built the lofty empires of values. History provides us with a long list of such ruffians, who openly loot and usurp public property and warns us repeatedly, but the results have always been the same. We let ourselves be befooled and bludgeoned by the likes of these jokers---the elite, who are, involved in scores of scandals running into millions, but still they continue to show their ugly faces from the equally tainted media.
Why the ‘civilize’ continue to allow this dehumanization---not only by being deprived of wealth and property but let their conscience be mortgaged by forced conversion---by the baser elements of the decaying societies? Does it indicate some ingrained deficiency in our genes that impel us towards violence, greed, lust and power, which are intrinsically the by-product of material progress?
Let us have a look around our neighborhood. Pakistan’s PM, and his predecessors are involved in scandals worth thousands of crores(billions) by accepting illegal gratifications and by looting State exchequer. At the same time countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Burma (Myanmar), Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Korea (North & South), Indonesia are involved either in internal strive or fighting with each other. The former President of the most powerful nation of the day, U.S.A., Bill Clinton, faced sexual harassment charges during the term of his office. The other super-power, U.S.S.R., stands disintegrated. The plight of African Continent is even worse. Nearer home, the following extract from an article of a leading daily presents the national scene very aptly:
“The rise of beasts of violence everywhere; hundreds of citizen getting killed everyday at the hands of the terrorist mercenary mafia or foreign agents; serious law and order situation in 210 out of 535 districts; parallel governments and “jungle raj” in certain areas where these “rulers” realize taxes, hold courts and award punishments including death-sentence; private armies possessing more sophisticated weapons than the police forces who have yielded considerable quantity of arms to them under overwhelming threat; high officials and big businessmen buying peace from criminals for their own safety, for the police, unable to protect themselves, cannot be relied upon to protect them – this is only a slice of the mirror “(Hindustan Times 3rd January 1998) Imagine the present conditions!
It is not a co-incidence that the decline of moral values is imminent when material progress is at its peak. It is also a fact that moral values, in the form of religions, sects, conventions, customs, creeds and ritualism, are also embedded deep in the psyche of general public. Only it happens so, the real Religion, which encompassed entire humanity, has been transgressed into various sub-deformities. Any civilization’s enrichment---as the name itself connotes---is gauzed by the civilized behavior of its components. That civilized behavior is the outer deportment of inner values, ingrained in its bloodlines through practice for thousands of years. Their sustained continuity manifests through the finer sensitivities. But how these finer sensitivities---the inner (moral) values---allow to be dominated and corrupted by the by-products of material progress, is a big question mark; a big stigma, that has evaded the ‘civilized’ man’s imagination! Or else he would not have allowed the wreckage of his domain, which he visualized, built and nourished with the sweat of his physical, intellectual and spiritual endeavors. Advancement of the materialism and the moral values is contemporary, synonymous and complimentary to each other. But if these are arraigned against each other, there ensues the decline of the system: a way of life: a philosophy (thought) i.e. a civilization, by the very components which enriched it. This is a serious cause for worry. When this downward slide begins, even the terminology of definitions also changes! Moral values are ‘called’ human values, as if humanness is different from morality! Although it is the moral values on which a religion is based, these have also been the major, rather the foundation of any civilization. But on its decline, religion becomes the first causality. Actually its negation and vulgarization cause the downward slide.
Only when the ‘thought’ is compartmentalized into graded layers of reality, sub-realities, pseudo spirituality, religions, creeds, sects, Mathas (sectarian religious seats, segregated from the mother religions) ), and Gurudom or in so many other nomenclatures, the value of components gets degraded and derided at. Whenever or wherever, the balance between ‘thought’ and matter is in equilibrium, the society becomes an ideal state, which gives rise to a flourishing civilization. But that equilibrium is very sensitive and always tilts in favor of the matter and materialism. Though matter can never be exclusive of ‘thought’, as it is through ‘thought’ that the matter gets itself transformed from inorganic to organic, and from inert to live! Again it is through ‘thought’, that the material progress is attained. But a willful distinction is made between the two as if the ‘body’ can survive without ‘life’!

An Aside.....4
The cause or causes that lead to the fall of a civilization becomes the subject matter of the so-called historians, anthropologists, scholars, littérateurs or the modern Jnaanis. Lust, greed, power, indolence, corruption, violence, war, internal strife, declining values, immortality---are some of the prognosis through which these experts find their escape routes. This is very hypothetical proposition, which is, in itself a contradiction. To make a man civilized is to bring him out of barbarism – to enlighten, to refine him. This transformation is not brought within months or years. From the cave man to today’s ‘civilized’ (!) man, it took many eras. Similarly each civilization went through the same process. The very factors which labeled man as barbaric and had gradually been shed off, through the regimentation of a system that made him civilized, can’t be the cause of his downfall! Or perhaps, some genes of his barbaric past are still left in him, which remain in hibernation and sprout only at a time, when their supporting factors are in their best of elements! Or the man is still uncivilized: as since the recorded history he has fought over 5500 wars and in the process, might have butchered hundred of billions of his kin. Only during the last two world wars some hundred million people were killed. Thus the above prognosis is too preposterous.
The present-day’s man is considered an epitome of his creed; highly advanced, not only in scientific and technological fields, but also in every branch of nature. Even other planets in the solar system are now within his reach. He is on the threshold of establishing his suzerainty on the far off planets. He is on the verge of---as he proclaims, discovering the basic cell and the particles, which ushered life and the Creation. Thus the ingredients that made him civilized cannot be laid latent in a trice and replaced with those baser traits, from which it took him aeons to emerge, and again behave and deport like a barbarian.
There is not a single instance in history, when material advancement was at its peak and ‘thought’ enlightenment was lagging behind, or vice versa. If it is not out of context to state here, the genesis of each civilization is primarily the ‘thought’, though its maturity into a full blooming civilization takes thousands of years. Anthropologists and historians may find archeological relics, ancient ruins, artifacts, as easy material for the study of a civilization’s real worth. However actual parameters that determine the real worth is not the material affluence---which anyway is the obvious outcome---but the legacy that each subsequent civilization inherits from the preceding one. It is this legacy that is the interlinking factor, which besides acting, as a bridge passes on its heritage to the succeeding age; which in due course also evolves into another civilization. This inheritance is in the form of literature. Literature here does not represent one branch of knowledge, but the sum total of intelligence of a period of history, which is composite of all aspects of the civilization!

An Aside....5
Each generation produces its genius and knowledge of the age, which gets assimilated in one or two patriarchs---the actual flag bearer of that ‘knowledge’---very aptly defined as ‘philosophers’ or the wise. Wisdom is not the end product of a man’s evolution from baser to higher attainment of values! It is the essence of human values, which are the common feature in the lives of people and transpires for generations together---going through many disciplines imposed by the society, religions, judiciary, state or self-imposed. These disciplines, when applied earnestly---keeping in view the general welfare of the society in mind, and also keeping in tune with general character of the masses chisel out characteristics of human values, deeply saturated with moral values, which are the epitome of those times, reflected through the lives of the chosen few. Does this minority really represent the totality of intelligence of an era or is this a statement of the vagrant minds? This needs to be probed deeply.
Here it is equally important to make a distinction between wisdom and perfection in human life which the scholars often confuse as one and the same thing. Wisdom is the byproduct of the finer sensitivities; genesis of values of life; knowledge; good judgment and prudence, etc. It is always relative and subject to many limitations. It is the knowledge that ultimately determines the kind of experience, judgment, prudence one is capable of discharging in daily life. And knowledge is not only progressive but always relates to the intelligence of an era, that is---the progress it has achieved up to a certain time. Wisdom is the essence of intelligence, whereas perfection is the source of all knowledge. Therefore the wisdom of each era is distinct and its values are always at variance. As the material affluence that each civilization supports, is compatible to the advancement in science and technology; similarly culture, the mother of social sciences, determines the maturity of ‘thought’ of that era. The real parameter to evaluate as to how far the ‘thought’ has gone deep into the inner portals of the minds of the people can easily be assessed from the general behavior of the masses: the system of governance: their art and culture etc. The more deeply the mind (intellect) is utilized---which incidentally has never been utilized more than 7 percent of its capacity---more materially exuberant and well versed would be the lives of the people. The resultant euphoria of material affluence, almost always bursts out in the form of over indulgence, violence and corruption.
It clearly indicates, the factors which make civilizations rich, are either lacking in maturity or are insufficient in content to sustain and retain their shine of refinement---if not forever, then at least for a protracted period of time, till another better ‘thought’ unravels its benign environment and gives birth to a new civilization. Alas, this has never been so! Though civilizations flourished in different regions, during different times in history, each went through the same methodology and employed, invariably, the same tools for their own annihilation. It is pertinent to note, fresh civilization never was born out of the ashes of a bygone civilization. Perhaps when one is vanished it destroys along with, its roots too---its literature.
There is no disputing the fact that the reason for material advancement is science. Since science is a system of education for the study of nature, fine arts are the result of inner development, cultured by human values. Whether it be, the fine arts or science, the major contributor for their growth is education. Mere study and cramming of books is not education. It is not simply the study of natural sciences but a complete way of life, a process of learning that spans from birth to death. It (education) is the complete study of matter, life and mind, which evolves man from barbarism to civilization: Stone Age to robots: wheel to rockets: and now has brought him out, from his traditional function of reproduction to cloning. Education makes him a better man, helps him create a healthy society in the polluted environments; raise him from immorality to morality. Whenever the purpose of education is deflected or distorted, decline of society is imminent. Its purpose is not to churn out scholars, whose only proficiency is the ability to recite like parrots the crammed data acquired from the books but to make the man more refined in every sphere of life: clean the atmosphere of all impurities he lives in, and finally make the universe a state of peace and happiness. The Master has truly said:
The end of wisdom is freedom
The end of culture is perfection
The end of knowledge is love
The end of education is character

An Aside.....6
The real purpose of education therefore is to promote human values like love, compassion, peace, righteous conduct, dedication, honesty, duty, discipline and devotion. Education is for life; life is for the sake of humanity; man is society, and society’s purpose is to promote and share ‘knowledge’ for the betterment of humanity; morality and human values are for the betterment of society, nation and the entire humanity. All of these combined together act as an elixir (positive force) for keeping the equilibrium between negative and positive forces, between the elements and the senses. The universe stands for peace, as its innate nature is peace.
To avoid any misconception about the real meaning of spirituality; it is not, even remotely related to the present day religions. It is the essence of human values, which are universal in nature. For the sake of record, the fundamental meaning and purpose of religion is to lead man to his source, the God. It is wrongly misconstrued as the bundle of doctrines, and dos and don’ts. This is totally a false assumption. The sacred aim of religion is to remind man of his true nature and origin, which is Divine. And it is religion that helps man to reunite with the Supreme, the God. Character is its main ingredient. Only those who preserve impeccable character can be pronounced as religious. Thus the scope of spirituality and religion, in human terms, are not narrow compartments, crammed with the rigmarole of ritualism and bibliography of ‘mantras’ (hymns) which have divided the society in so many castes, creeds and sects.
Civilization is not a territory, property or the wealth---to be possessed, converted, corrupted or conquered. It is the way of life, cultured and nourished on rich human values for centuries. It is not embedded in visible articles of wealth. They (values) are seeped in life that is structured on character---which is the property of the heart. Outer systems, viz., governments, educational institutions, houses of worship, industrial complexes etc., could be destroyed: But the ‘thought’ that sustains the life of a civilization, not only pervades the atmosphere but in the very depths of the times gone by. Time and history cannot be conquered. They can however be distorted: This is no annihilation; only a temporary setback which can be rectified at any future opportunity. Decline of a civilization is very gradual as its growth. Its only disease is the corruption of values on which it had initially flourished, matured and became rich. Human values are not only based on education and cultured wisdom, but play a major influencing role in making of civilizations.
What is a culture? Its real meaning is to hurt never, help ever; foregoing bad habits, avoid doing bad acts; cultivation of good character and thoughts for doing good unto others. In other words: refinement of one’s action is culture. But the basic ingredients which constitute the building block of a rich culture, are ingrained in the heart viz., love, compassion, sacrifice, perseverance, peace i.e., truth relating qualities. The former can be tinkered with, but not the latter ones’. Any cultural decline leads to the fall of civilization. However, it is saddening that these factors have continued to be ignored flagrantly time and again by the successive civilizations.
Should we draw the conclusion that humanity has to go through this vicious cycle time and again! This can not be so, since the scientists of our time proclaim that nothing is predetermined as per their theory of uncertainty. If the scientific fraternity is to be believed, then it is logical to assume that, human behavior is constant and unchanging, and it manifests in similar fashion in each succeeding civilization, though in different ways, and becomes the cause of human growth both of material and thought enlightenment as well as self annihilation.
On the other hand, if everything is predetermined, then it means we are mere puppets in the hands of destiny in which intellect has no role to play. Is this a fraud? An illusion? Or Maya, as some spiritualists believe? How preposterous? A modern thinking man will never accept this proposition.
There is also a third proposition that nothing is uncertain or predetermined, but is a one time episode. We are deflecting from our topic and going towards the oft repeated yet never ending dialogue (read controversy) between the rationalists vs. logician: scientist vs. spiritualist: religions vs. paganism. Fortunately our scope of digression is very limited and humble too. We are not after the Creator---the Intelligent-Being, or the propagandists of the ‘uncertainty’ theory who would frown upon us because, in their view, it is the purview of high profile oracles. Only those who use profanity and pollute the clean minds of the innocents are classed as specialists, experts on the subjects, about which they have little understanding. The real progenitors---the genius, are the ignored class, whose voice---as nothing survives in the ruins of civilizations, except the ‘voice’ (thought) of these humble and unknown souls---that still kindles our imagination as well as the finer sensitivities.

An Aside.....7
Despite all the junk---in the name of ‘literature’---being willfully imposed on us, we are still, sub-consciously, pulled towards our ancient roots and think anew of our lineage. Taking inspiration from our unknown nobles and wise, we are encouraged to think ourselves not as ‘sinners’, bestial animals alone, but the prodigious inheritors of rich culture, tracing its linkage to those times---when rest of the so-called civilizations finding prominent places in the modern history---were not even born. It is no surprise that traces of those genes in us now impel us again to reinvigorate the same values; live and behave in the same manner as our ancestors did aeons ago. Or we are being driven by negative forces and willfully directing us to manifest those traits, which shall ultimately lead to the disintegration of a civilized society! Or, are we really a part of that period of time that posterity would class as an ideal civilization?
What we have been able to understand, so far is, the ‘thought’ that a civilized society develops, and which is the cause of material progression, is routed by the gross fruits it produces. The rout of each civilization was due to the predominance of so-called rationalists, who believed in the dictum that ‘moral thought’ (moral standards) is the result of ‘economic thought’ (material heights). This is far from the truth, as the material progress alone can never be brought about by foregoing the finer aspects of human nature, much less building a civilized society. The facts are otherwise. Whenever material affluence is at peak, finer values are at their lowest ebb. At this critical juncture in each civilization, a class of pseudo scholars emerges at the helm of affairs and their first casualty is religion. Moral values are looked down upon and a new order is invariably established every time, on the so-called new school of thoughts whose main contents are based on: economic, sociological, psychological, passion and liberty (free-will) factors. Religious and moral values are totally abolished from the new order, on the hallow premise of ‘secularism’. This creates an unbridgeable gap between science and spirituality. The latter word becomes an anathema. Strangely this hypocrisy is forced on the middle and lower middle classes of the society---which, incidentally, have always been systematically crushed economically. This has always been done by the elite, in the name of religion, though they themselves flaunt the religion as an article of fashion. They still profess it religiously, even if it has no relevance in their daily life.
Here again the old questions raise their heads by confronting the scholars, pseudo masters/Jnaanis and what not:
Can man be civilized without character?
Can man be of character without moral values?
Are human values distinct from moral values?
Can a civilized society survive without religion?
Can a society survive, flourish and be civilized without religion?
Are science (Nature) and spirituality die-hard enemies, or detrimental to each other!
Can fine arts flourish in a society, which is bereft of finer sensitivities?
In fact these questions take us back to the source of all such queries. And that source of curiosity is God! This one word in human vocabulary brings instant reaction of either revulsion or reverence. Various terminologies viz. spirituality, religion, moral/human values, life and death, reincarnation, avatar, prophet, and of reality etc., are directly related to this one word. Doubts or the realization of this ‘word’, have persisted since the element of conscious manifested (activated) in the matter. Whether we believe in this word or not or the concept it represents, it is perennial, hence always with us! Majority of scholars, scientists and the rationalists deny the existence of God whereas the wise herald His pervasiveness. Actually our existence or all that is related to Him is incomplete unless we settle the ‘uncertainty’ about this word, once for all times. We may accept or deny this ‘word’ it remains a proverbial riddle that no branch of knowledge is complete unless our Source or that of the cosmos---which is directly related to Him, is found. Even the Big-Bang event or the scenario before that is nightmarish, unless we find a suitable answer to this enigma.

An Aside.....8
Now that this word has entered the core of our discussions, the next question is as to what this has to do with the rise or fall of civilizations. To find answer we shall have to go back to the very centre of this controversy. Because His ‘alleged’ reincarnations in the guise of sophisticated nomenclatures are available in abundance! Each rise and fall of civilizations is linked directly to the denial or the acceptance of this word---whether these are under the pseudonym of moral or human values, or finer sensitivities and so on. Since in the making of man a civilized human being, all of these factors play major role, for he is the compositor of all that exists in Nature! So to know him---i.e. us---is to first know about his ‘creation’. That again leads us to Him---He being the compositors of all the creations and all that lies beyond the ‘un-certainty’, has to be known first before we attempt to know Him! But we know nothing beyond our planet, much less about the Creation or beyond that. There the ‘believers’ find Him!
The gap between our discovered knowledge and the totality of Intelligence---that permeates the rest of the existence---is still unknown and abysmal. This void is an easy escape for those, who have not the stamina to probe the depths of yonder worlds, which are beyond the reach of our scientific tools. The technical tools we possess at present are not sufficient to probe the deeper reaches of the cosmos: Big-Bang event is a far cry! The mysteries that followed are proving even difficult to unfold, as we are still in the process to know the physical constitution of our bodies: it can well be imagined as to how much longer it would take for us to understand its complex mind!
Layers of civilizations have placed us at the threshold, where the human mind is engaged in probing the distant planets, galaxies and deep oceans; but is he qualified to understand the mystery behind His creation! Man is that intelligent animal, who never learns from the past history. Instead he tries to learn the same things by repeating and committing the same mistakes his ancestors had committed. No doubt his vision and scientific advancement is really amazing. But will he be able to control, unlike his ancestors, these unleashed energies and channel them for his own betterment--- ushering in a dawn of new promises---is perhaps not distant a dream to realize! Though past is not with him, as it does not behold good examples, but he has however every right to set right his priorities. He has the ability, as well as the vision to guide his steps to scan, not only new horizons but also to utilize the fruits of his endeavors for establishing peace and tranquility on this earth planet. For it would be worth his try to make this Earth suitable for another flourishing civilization, which is universal in scope with universal oneness as its motto! Are we capable of making our own trails and desist from following our ancestors---who at every opportunity in history, instead of pushing forward the ‘thought’, brought about their own downfall---and shall establish a new order---a unique system whose only goal would be peace, peace and peace! This is possible when there is harmony between matter and spirit: elements and the senses: affluence and morality. A ‘nursery’ has already been established, whose saplings are spreading their roots throughout the world and leaving the mark of their fruition. Amen!

An Aside.....9
A word---Without making any pretense, the little self comes directly to the point: This is not a book, as books are always written by the scholars. These ‘works’---have not been attempted for the fraternity of Puuran-Jnaani/Brahman-Jnaani (knower of Brahman-the Supreme-Reality). This was necessitated to underline the fact that the ancient (eternal) Truth, which had been conclusively experienced; understood, and Its existence irrefutably proved, is simply not replaceable and cannot be segmented on or compartmentalized! Nor is there any possibility of Its being replaced or surpassed by any alternative or better ones’, by the conclave of masqueraders, who in all times enjoin upon themselves the sole authority to redefine, reinvent new truths, solely for their own convenience.
The citadel of ancient Truth, and Its realization by a succession of masters was made impregnable---whose sole aim was Self-enlightenment and realization of God!
In my previous book, “Quest In Reality”, the word ‘God’ was not discussed, since in the company of modern day Jnani(wise), this word has lost Its luster. Its real meaning has been diluted to such ignoble depths, that Its very nomenclature have been changed and downsized. Reality, Nature, Realization, Supra-consciousness, Constant-Integrated-Consciousness, Prophets, Messengers, Guru, Word, Shabadh (Eternal sound), Nirvan (Buddha’s Self-realization), Liberation, and Salvation: are some of the sub-tittles assigned to the original Truth, the God. These are mere pretensions used to explain away the same intrinsic reality of God, just to please the ‘elite’.
Why this Word has got systematically relegated and Its very existence has become a myth: a notional reality: a charitable symbol: and a jovial topic of the elites? It is all because of the imposters, who while alleging kinship to the One, are denigrating Him at every opportunity by lacing their own pigmy-selves in His stead.
Since God is not a topic, whose knowledge could be explained through the medium of books! At the same time ancient masters have tried to explain the core of His reality, through holy scriptures---on the strength of their experiences---through the same medium i.e., language. The essence of their experiences (revelations) correctly corresponds to the parameters set by them, after exploring for thousands of years the intricate depths of the Self, by putting themselves to rigorous regimentation of Sadhna(spiritual practice/path for Self-realization). This regimentation was the result of inner enquiry: authenticating it with its fruits projected through Nature. Spiritualism, the science of God; natural sciences, the study of Nature, are not the subjects alien to each other. Both lead to the same goal---study of Nature and its creation. With the passage of time, due to the reasons, which shall be discussed later, the studying part became the easy pathway, while ignoring the second part of the same ‘subject’---of spiritualism---as it involved lifelong regimentation of austerity. Thus words---each language has a set numbers of alphabets---which made scriptures became predominant over the discipline oriented path. And we became mere scholars of words not the masters of wisdom. The glossary of masters that invigorated each civilization, was super-imposed by a breed of so-called secular scholars---who masqueraded as masters---and only they know what this terminology stands for. A Puuran-Jnaani in spiritual realms is completely conscious/enlightened and aware of all three phases of time, viz. past, present and future. Only he is the Master, not only of the Self, but also of the cosmos, as he is the Self-effulgent One. Now do we have such a Puuran-Jnaani or a Brahman-Jnaani amidst us! If we search amongst the modern Gurudom or the literal class, there is not a single one who can measure up to the aforesaid standards. But there are hundred of Jnaanis in the world, who proclaim themselves to be so. They may have mastery in delivering spiritual talks, but they are not Godly wise. It is a matter of shame that they have made the revered word of God, an ‘item’ of fun, not fit even for a nursery pupil. Therefore, this ‘work’ is not for them, nor it is for the elite class of literal critics either. Both of these should disdain from reading it. Hence they are not supposed to pronounce their lofty judgments on its merits or demerits.
This ‘work’ is also not for the atheist---though nobody in this world is an atheist, but there is a class of people who pose themselves as the self-acclaimed rationalists. Those who deny their ‘Divine Father’ can not be trusted upon to be the precursors of Truth.
Those who pronounce judgments on Him or about Him, and deny Him, make charitable references in implied manner by camouflaging His direct role in the scheme of things! They know Him not. His reality or existence is not to be described in the language of the words. He is to be ‘known’ by His omnipresence, omnipotence and omniscience. Do we find these qualities in the imposters who, without any tinge of conscience, sermonize their parroted gospel through the paid media! We have come to the period of history; which posterity would label as the most deplorable part of human history---when mankind degenerated from barbarism to corruption of values---and would prefer to refer it being bereft of a ‘civilization’.
Thus these inner pouring are only for those, who have unshakable faith in the existence of God. A faith that has been nourished, not on raving minds’ fantasies, but on the inscrutable principle of Omnipresence, that is ever permeating in the micro to macro bodies of Nature. His existence is as near and dear as our bodies. As the scientists of natural sciences are experts in their fields, similarly the spiritual scientists---enlightened ones---who are specialists in His science (Spiritualism) are akin to Him, just like a scientist to his invention.

An Aside.....10
Science does not prohibit us from knowing Him. Rather it would facilitate our search of Him. As knowing about man is, knowing about the Nature: Knowing about Nature is knowing about Him. So why should we be apologetic about Him, simply because of a minority group, which is pampered, tainted and boozed with the public money! They are corrupted with the so-called ‘perks’ on the expense of the masses. The persons who live in glass houses: provided by public money: living on ill-gotten perks: cannot be expected to imbibe an intellect, which could flash Divine whisperings of wisdom!
This ‘work’, whatever be its worth in intellectual parlance, breaths God, lives in God, delves in God and ends in God. A very relevant query would, naturally, arise in the minds of serious seekers about the self-acclaimed authority---the author has allegedly usurped upon himself---by making high profile ‘judgments’ on the ‘works’ or the ‘words’ of those, who are considered the esteemed ‘specialists’ of their professions! Profession (-alism) is a very right word to aptly describe their ‘achievements’. Professionals are a class apart completely cut off from the votaries of cultural refinements, viz. art, science, music, literature and religion. For them these are products of super-imposed values, alien to the culture of their origin. Professing professionalism on adopted values which are not their own, and giving vent to their expertise on the values they are completely cut off from is not proof of their sound judgment

The author knows that the l.s. has been a part and parcel of this ‘group’ and had feasted sumptuously on their super-imposed false values. Being a voracious reader and a humble seeker, he also had the rare chance to delve deep into the classics of great masters which the available literature could provide: besides having the rare privilege of close glimpses of the revered masters of our time. He has also witnessed personally, the glimpses of the manifestation of Divine powers---which are ‘possessed’/attained by masters---who are still walking on the sacred land of Bhaarath. He was witness also to their fathomless depths of ‘knowledge’, which only a Puuran-Jnaani imbibes. There is not a branch of worldly knowledge, he is not aware of, however little it may be! But it is an acquired ‘data’, not real knowledge. Knowledge relates only to Him. As knowledge of Nature is only a data---which is already there---only waiting to be discovered!
His Master who not only controls the matter but is the master of time: past, present and future. He has all the Gunas (qualities) attributed to God. But at the same time He emphasizes that there is absolutely no difference between Him and other human beings. The only difference is of awareness: Whereas He knows He is God; others are ignorant of the fact that they are Divine! The l.s. had the opportunity to listen to His Divine discourses, witnessing His three Gunas of Omnipresence-Omnipotent-Omniscient in abundance, and also had the rare first hand experiences of transformation of individual personalities---taking effect simply by being in His presence: Barbarians like him, suddenly behaving in civilized manner: valueless deranged beings, lifted from nether worlds and becoming, all of a sudden the enlightened souls; corrupt turning into honest and atheists being uplifted to Divine glimpses! The l.s. seems fully ‘conscious’ of his limitation in scientific understanding; but simultaneously being ‘aware’ of limitlessness of ever-pervading effulgence; that exudes from His divine Person, is the boon of His grace!
The l.s. does not pose or masquerade as a Jnaani, having direct access to Divine wisdom but surely he is witness to a phenomena, which is ushering a new phase in the history of mankind, that would unfold an era of peace, tranquility and Divine-Consciousness. All of this seems a dream, a scenario of deep imagination; because of the tumultuous times we are passing through, but wait for a few more years and the humanity would be seeing this dream becoming a reality. By 2020 A.D. the roots of change would have had made their presence felt. Then starts an era---that would witness, first time in the history of man, a period of peace and prosperity! Above all, brotherhood of mankind would kindle afresh and reinvigorate the humanity a better future. The hidden vibration of that era would commune to posterity, the following message of ancient wisdom:
There is only one nation, the nation of humanity
There is only one religion, the religion of love
There is only one language, the language of heart
There is only one God, and He is omnipresent

An Aside ....11
The Search
Since childhood, the l.s. was beset with one obsession---about the reality of God. Does He exist? Were Ram, Krshan, Jesus, and Prophet Mohammad, truly the re-incarnations of God? Was Lord Krishn a Puuran Avathaar (Incarnation of God in human form with all His attributes) of God---as is the general belief---while seemingly enjoying Rasleela (dancing bouts) with the Gopis (village damsels) and being married to thousands of wives? What is beyond death? Are human really born again? What and where are heaven and hell? Do the glittering star in the sky are living souls of the ancient wise whose sparkling lives are beckoning us to exemplify them?
These were some of the questions to which the pygmy brain could not provide suitable answers. The fear of both Yamraj (angel of death) and DhaRaamraj (dispenser of celestial justice) was real and frightening. Every negative though was a sin. Every morning and evening, the God and Goddesses had to be propitiated. His mother and elder sister were staunch devotees and they performed endless worship, rituals and used to read sacred scriptures, the whole day unless they were involved in homely chores. There were also occasional sessions of Akhandpaths (continuous recitals of scriptures---day and night, for up to seven days. Those days, invariably were associated either with the birth days of the celestial beings or to some miraculous feats performed by them (God/Goddesses) ---like killing of demons to save the humanity from their terrors.
As years rolled by, the charms of western life appealed to the raw heart more incisively and suppressed the old fears with the devastatingly more attractive pastimes. A yodeling playing in the celestial company of mythological characters of Mahaabhaaratha and Raamaayana (sacred Hindhu epics, composed by sage Vyaas and sage Vaalmeeki, respectively), was dousing in booze and other allied intoxicants. The result was the irretrievable degeneration. Sensual perversion was the in-thing. In the name of freedom from old myths, and customs, libido was openly indulged into. Hippy culture was at its peak. Contempt for our own religions, culture and civilizations---which existed before slavery---was the first prerequisite to become the member of the elite society clubs. Flaunting complete disregard to our old values, with the so-called modernity----modern living standards, where brother, sister, mother and father, each having a friend of opposite sex, under the same roof---was a fashion of the day. Swapping, homo, lesbians, pedophilia etc., were the (cursed) ‘in thing’. The l.s. was a witness to all this and he reviled in most of these depravities freely and shamelessly, to the surprise of none. Bribe was openly accepted. Menials drawing petty pay packets, spent millions on the marriages of their offspring, but no one bothered! This entire extravaganza was flaunted openly in front of the open (or should we say, the blind) eyes of all the concerned, but who cared! The authorities were the co-sharer in this nefarious game. Public funds to the tune of thousands of crores(billions) were being looted, guzzled by the corrupt politicians, bureaucrats, law breakers as well as the law enforcers, but not a soul stirred. Because there was not an enlightened soul around! All were scholarly giants; the product of physical sciences, the geniuses of material innovations and the mafia dons, now masquerading as politicians, social reformers and what not. Don’t be surprised to know, this is not something far off in history. The l.s. is referring to a period, when man had just landed on the moon and the stars of Indira Gandhi the then Prime Minister of India were in ascendancy!
Strangely, but not surprisingly, while living and enjoying the fruits of debauchery, licentiousness, corruption and extravaganza, his depraved-self kept to its inner commitment and continued throughout---the search to find answers to the big question, in the classics of the Masters! The more dooming low it degenerated, more seriously it (it: because he was inert to the real-self) pursued the quest, in the oceans of ‘knowledge,’ which the ancient seers, sages, prophets, messengers and maharishis (Self-realised sages), had passed on to posterity. Actually tryst with these masters was not meant for little self’s inner conversion or transformation, but was mainly aimed to prove to his ‘logical’ mind that there really ‘existed’ no God, and hence was a rational atheist! To be scornful of our cultural heritage was the trade-mark of the affluent segment of society. This group was ably led by a self- proclaimed atheist---although he applied the prefix of ‘Pundit’ to his name. He belonged to a family which nourished on western values and this nation had the misfortune to be led by that man. He wanted to foster western culture, in the garb of socialism. The country had to pay a bitter price. After fifty eight years of independence, we have not been able to provide a morsel of food to more than half of its population: one room hutment: a pair of clothes and a glass of potable water---is a dream that a sixty crores of our accursed population is still hoping to realize. May be in the next fifty years! By then the have-all---hardly ten percent---would possess still more, and the cursed figure of sixty would have perished empty stomach, leaving traces of their bone ashes in the fruits and vegetables, the elite would be served, in the form of manure. A good riddance and a unique way of banishing poverty; by banishing the very components, which comprise it! A big clap to the leaders, S-O---!

An Aside.....12
By the year twenty four and half, the l.s. had read almost all the classics written or translated in the language of our past masters---whether these were authored by the literally giants or the religious icons. While critically evaluating the ‘words’ of the masters, the most glaring lacunae he found, which had him floored! When he had listed their revelations in black and white and by the time had prepared a comparative chart of their celestial ‘revelations’, and ‘words’---about the multifarious phenomena of life, resurrection, final judgment, Moksh (libration from the bondage of the cycle of birth and death), Nirvan, death, re-incarnation and God: he, surprisingly found that their ‘revelations’ were completely at variance with each other! Not had two masters agreed on any one of these ‘gospels’. Their treatises on these ‘subjects’ differed.
So far he had been led to believe that all the prophets, messiahs, Avathaars(God in human form) had only one message to proclaim to humanity; the brotherhood of man, and the universal-hood of God. But what they actually conveyed was totally different in content as well as in precept! This baffled him the most.
By this age his body had been wizened by its non-stop over-indulgence of physical pranks. He had realized all bodies behave in similar fashion in bed. That all bodies are same in nature! By loving one, one can fulfill one’s physical evolvement! This realization came, though early in life but not before it had spent lacks of ill-gotten money! (In late fifties and early sixties, earning lacs in a month and spending it too, was a lot of money!) After all, fast life had its positive side effects also! He went through so much, in such a short span of life that he had lived his life to its brim and there were no more physical heights to achieve; no more adventure to seek. He had extended and expended ten times more than the flights of his imagination. He had performed, in physical parlance, ten times beyond his physical endurance.
Thus having fulfilled his physical indulgences, which by now had started to bore him due to the similarity of reactions, familiarities of places, repeating same tricks of the trade, when he decided to put a stop to this (dark) side of his personality and began devoting more time to his other side, his inner being, trying to find answers to questions nagging his brain! Uppermost were: How the first man was born? Wherefrom he came? How the Creation came into being and who created it? What type of being He is? How is His brain? What is the purpose of this life? Why death? He did not want to be born, so why should he die either? He was quite afraid of death. He just wanted to run away to far off dense jungles and escape from the clutches of death! Eventually it led him there. But that is another story. These questions haunted him day and night.
By now reading some Upanishads and the ‘works’ of Adhi Shankaraachaarya, especially Vivekchuddamani, and his commentary on Brahamsuther and, above all the synthesis of these all---the Srimadh Bhaagavath Geetha (celestial song of Lord Krshan), he found in theory, answers to most of his questions! But the interest in reading tickled his brain to raise deeper and deeper queries. However the more he read, the deeper his quest would go and his questions became more subtle. No master was satisfying his quest; no scripture could quench his thirst of ‘knowledge’! Fortunately his job and postings were such and there was always ample time and funds at his disposal. He utilized them profusely in the procurement of books and read voraciously. And believe me; he guzzled carts loads of books. Books on each and every subject except of course the mathematics. On whatever he laid his hands on, he read that, excepting again, the pornography as he have had enough of that in his practical life, as well as in the secret dens of his perverted mind. There were pleasure chambers, torture cells and what not. Nothing was bad enough for him which he did not read and tried in practice. Being an avid reader and voyeur of the night life, whenever he visited a city, he used to know only three types of places---bookshops, bars and pleasure houses!
Gradually the shine of wine and woman lost its sparkle and there remained only the quest for ‘knowledge.’ As books too became scarce, and also his level of quest had gone still deeper, he now preferred and sought the company of masters. He sought them in the far flung corners of the country. He visited the holy places of all religions, as no distinction existed in his mind. He also had the rare privilege at those places to have ‘darsan’ (being at the lotus feet of the holy masters) ---of the ‘enlightened’ ones’, who actually had the elements in their control! This far, however, he was an atheist especially to this aspect of the divinity that no human being could be God incarnate! All this transpired much before his fiasco in marriage, which anyway (mis-) happened at age twenty eight and half.
By age 42, he had encountered quite a few phenomena in life, which very fortunate few are destined to witness and have ‘glimpses’ of. Accidents, physical ailments---due to excessive drinking, constant financial ups and downs, serious litigations on murder charges, dismissal from service---and subsequent re-instatement through the intervention of the High Court---suspension from service etc, were some of the varied experiences his colorful life went through. A permanent black spot on character, a fortunate or a misadventure at age thirty-two lead ultimately to another phase in life. A very understanding young girl, sequel to the ‘protected marriage’ failure, entered as second life partner in his life. His first marriage was a complete disaster, especially for the wife. She was very devout and a pious lady, but he was a mismatch for her. They had two handsome sons but nothing seemed to go right. Their constant mutual accusations and fighting in their presence had the most disastrous effects on the congenial development of their minds. The l.s. still carries a burden in his conscience, which is of irreparable regret and repentance and shall go with him to the pyre. This repentance or remorse is not because of their mismatch or the ultimate separation of ways, but due to the fact that he felt he was the cause of spoiling the lives of two ladies---what ever the merit or demerits of their entry in his life may have been! He thought that he should have adopted the way---which he later chose, the God’s way; instead of seeking the solace of another woman. He never was a women’s commodity. He paid a heavy price for being a family man: in terms of health, wealth, intellectual blockage, and above all wastage of precious time and energy in playing the roles he was hardly equipped or destined for. This side of his character is also reflective in his life till age forty two: as neither he could be an honest officer, nor completely a dishonest one; neither moral nor immoral; neither wise nor the dumb! He was the mixture of all these negative and positive tendencies, till the door of the Divinity was opened to him and floodgates of effulgent rays cushioned his ultimate plunge in the chasm of the unknown depths!

An Aside.....13
Financial responsibilities of three families: being the only bread earner of a big family---fathers’ legacy or his destiny’s un-discharged debt: constant feuds with big bosses, politicians and the resultant drunken brawls---were some of the common features of his daily life till age twenty four and half. Every morning when he got up, the biggest surprise for him used to be, that he was still alive! All the accompanying vices continued, excepting extramarital relationships, though in moderation till he was forty two.
Despite this alienated behavior, his passion for reading and risky adventures, putting life to brimming extremes, were his usual pastimes. Reading philosophical works, especially abstract thoughts, was a passion with him, which he relished most. Incidentally it still persists in him, though in a different mode. Now he composes them impromptu. He had developed high degree of imagination, and simultaneously its contrast, the ‘killers’ instinct. Reading for ten to eighteen hours in a day was quite normal a routine, excepting during the days, which were though rare, he was down with the morning hangovers. This routine lasted for twenty-four years, excepting, of course, the lean periods when he was posted on non-lucrative posts. This period in modern lingo can also be described as the ‘five stars’ or ‘jet set’ culture. During this period he had acquired a mammoth data that were systematically stored in the memory chambers of his brain---subject wise and in chronological order. He had a top class memory. In a ‘limited’ sense he was a ‘walking’ encyclopedia, and this was not a shallow boast! There was not a subject about whose available knowledge he was not aware of! (But he was very poor in grammar and still is!). And this helped him in his, occasional bouts of seclusions. His imagination powered him to create, in his mind, his own imaginative ‘worlds’, after getting exhausted by exploring the existing ones.
Then everything changed: This rationalist atheist was confronted with the ‘manifestation’ of Divinity in human form. His whole world changed. The evil streak in him---which would ruin whosoever came into his contact, suddenly took an about turn. The ‘self’ that consumed all that came its way, transformed the course of its quest. Earlier its every endeavor was aimed at negating the existence of God, now it got diverted to Him. Perhaps subconsciously he had been preparing his little self for this very purpose! As without firstly acquiring the known knowledge of the worldly sciences, hidden knowledge (intelligence) cannot be known. By knowing the physical sciences, inner ‘knowledge’ reveals itself, because the conscious that pervades the cosmos, permeates the individual cells too.
The first thing that he did thereafter was, to de-hoard all the data that had been acquired so strenuously during the last twenty-four years of his life. This exercise continued during the next sixteen years of his period in service. As soon as he realized the fullness of its travails and enormity, he preferred to quit his job and sought premature voluntary retirement. Now he is relishing its aftermaths---the enjoining fruits. From worldly point of view, it was an extreme step, as there was every hope of his being promoted to the last but one step of the departmental hierarchy, that of the head of the dep’t. And he had been cleared for the next promotion during the last days of the expiry of the three months’ notice. Before putting in his papers, he had been manning four very important branches of the department: three of which carried the price tag of Rs. 50-100 (appx.100, 000Dollars) lacs each, as bribe to the political bosses. This was the going price in those days.
Since January 87, i.e., ten years before he demitted his office, his life had been spotless in every respect. This was not a sudden decision---that of being honest. He had started its practice much earlier. From eighty-two (1982), since Divinity had ‘entered’ his life in ‘living’ form, the days of his vagrancy were over! Very few people believed that his ongoing transformation was real. Even those who were very close to him doubted his intentions, right till the end---when he quit his job.

An Aside.....14
The most interesting episode of his post retirement period is that though he has been leading a life of an honest person since 1987, the’ parasites’ whom he nurtured once and had discarded during his prime times, still believed him to be worth 100 billions rupees. Because going by the life styles of his former colleagues and the plum postings he held during the long tenure of his service, this is a very conservative figure. The rates of illegal gratification in a prosperous state like Punjab, were really very high, but quite normal considering the level of corruption in other spheres of public life including politicians, bureaucrats, especially the IAS, PCS and State Services; Police, especially IPS and State cadre officers; Judiciary in general, leaving aside a few amongst the higher hierarchy. This moral pollution and religiosity morass has seeped deep into the lives of the high middle class.
Opting out of such a situation and above all being reconciled with the changing atmosphere is very difficult and revolting, especially for the family members and the friendly circle. One is totally outcast by the society; scorned and hated. Even behavior of the loved ones is no different. For a struggling aspirant, it was a life of a forced converted ascetic, who need not seek secluded caves as the society itself becomes a hell of a cell!
But for the ‘little-self’ this was not an un-treaded path or a novel experience, as he had always cherished only one dream and that was to be just alone in the deepest conscious of the Self of his self. Even when he was drunk and lost, he loved the company of his self, though at that time he did not know its ‘meaning’. Today even without intoxicants, he is enjoying the inexplicable joys that an enlightened Self can bestow, in howsoever infinitesimal quantum It is ‘activated’. He is not a yogi or an enlightened soul; but surely, without the inherent burden of the self (individual), his inner-Self often ‘bestows’ him glimpses, which transport him into blissful swoons, lasting sometimes for days together. It is all His blessing and the ‘glimpse’ of His grace!
Life has not been easy and rosy, even after the advent of the Master in his life! From the worldly point of view he had to go through much harder times. Even during the formative period, i.e. from 1982 till January 1987, when he finally awakened to the call of his conscience and bid goodbye to his half-hearted, mid-way path; that of neither being totally honest or dishonest. He was not able to stoop so low to accept or share booty from ill-gotten money usurped from the sale of those essential commodities, which were meant for the poor. Wheat and rice worth crores of rupees were siphoned off from the railway rakes at the dispatching stations by short loading with the connivance of the railways and Food Corporation’s authorities. Even essential commodities which were hardly consumed in prosperous state of Punjab were not spared. Kerosene oil, sugar, wheat, wheat atta (flour), pulses and other essential commodities, not lifted by the upper strata of the society, were sold in the black market and the loot was equally distributed amongst the corrupt elements. This monthly collection ran into crore(billions) of rupees in each district of the state. That is the reason that to get a post as district head, i.e. as District Food and Supplies Controller, in any ‘A’ class district, the asking price used to be between Rs 50 lakhs to 100 lakhs(appx.100,000dollars). He has the first hand knowledge, because he had been on such postings for over ten years.
I have to give a glimpse of his past life not to soil the clean minds of the good hearted people but to establish his credentials with those elite who will understand only the language they are familiar with. Like him, recounting that period of his life is very painful for me, because it is full of trash and filth, which I would not like to uncover to soil my conscience too. Not that conscience is such a fragile ‘object’ that would shatter just with the waves of thoughts, howsoever pernicious these might be. But dirt always leaves behind dirt, whatever precautions one may take.
The price that every conscientious person has to pay, who is smitten with the bug of conscience, was not enough to deter him from the chosen path. Like others, he too was forsaken by everyone, including the ‘dear ones’. Even his closest friends never had complete trust in his integrity and honesty. Every honest person has a tale of turbulence and trials. So it is needless to repeat the same old stories.

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But the biggest trauma of his life was, when he was labeled a butcher in the department where earlier he had enjoyed a tag of popularity and generosity. It so happened that while small surviving breed of honest senior officers used his skills and honesty in cleansing the system, which obviously resulted in a spate of dismissals and suspensions, on the other hand the corrupt bureaucrats and politicians used his skills and expertise for their own nefarious designs. They used him to catch the big fish, so that they could later devour them and let them off the net by destroying the case files or by awarding them minor punishments. This stratagem not only filled their coffers but brought in their net all the remaining corrupt elements of the department too; and they enjoyed the riches like Maharajas at his cost. This was intolerable indeed for a ‘person’ who had stood his ground and had never let any temptation distract him from his chosen path, or self-imposed discipline. It was not worn around the body like ornaments but like a tight noose of non-indulgence which was self-willed, and subsequently helped in mastering the mind to the extent humanly possible.
Let us have a preview of the present state of the consciousness that his present ‘person’ beholds, known as the ‘little self’. The purpose is not to glorify him but to remove any misgivings of his comrade brothers who mistakenly label themselves as atheists. One amongst many of their notions about the negative role of the religion is that it makes the ‘believers’ live a life of illusions, besides indulging in Hadh-Yog Sadhnas (extreme body endurance practices for the realization of the Self) of self denials. According to them, a religious person’s mindset is always tainted with self-hypnosis to the extent of compelling him to adopt a pessimistic attitude in life. What a preposterous mis-statement!
Let us begin with the state of mind of the ‘person’ at age thirty-two, because that was the age when the course of his quest turned vertically, from his utopia of superficial super-ego to the real life reality. Till so far he had been compromising his ‘real’ i.e. normal life with the make-believe life. Whatever he had actually wanted to be or do somehow had always been superimposed with the wishes of others. Just for the sake of making the lives of his ‘dear ones’ more comfortable, he invariably found his own desires being pushed under the carpet. His real “i’ was always the victim of circumstances, resulting in unfulfilled desires, unbaked ambitions, constantly falling short of his goals. Though he had equipped himself with impeccable tools and was capable enough to achieve any ambition in the mundane life or attain to any intellectual heights, but alas this was not to be! However he could not change his inner voice, which impelled him to help others, give his dear ones the first priority, and make way for others! In nutshell he never really lived for himself, but for others. He was made that way. People around him however had different view. For them he was the re-incarnation of Satan, who ruthlessly crushed the feelings of others and lived only for the fulfillment of his sensual desires. But it was also a hard fact he laundered more than eighty percent of his ill-gotten money on others, whether they were his near or dears or strangers.
Whatever I know of him, he always wanted to have a beautiful woman around him, who had to be of simple demeanor, but intellectually of high standard, with whom he could have long discourses on Reality, origin of life and Creation etc! Three women came into his life but he could click with none, at intellectual plane. Perhaps psychologist would surmise that he was married to his ideal (-lism).
His marriage was a disaster, from day one. Imagine a person like him who was used to the western lifestyle, yet—marrying a woman without having looked at her even once. He married the woman, who was three years senior. She was chosen for him by his eldest sister. It was to appease his father, who had forsaken his food till he agreed. He has had not a morsel of food for three days and was determined to continue his fast!
Another woman had entered his life---five years after the first fiasco. She was exactly like him and, in a way, they shared many commonalties especially the negative traits, viz. disrespect for life, whether be it of others or theirs’: scant regard for values: least consideration for relations: suicidal tendencies: no vision. Though he had two sons from his first wife and was thirty six, playing with life and death, putting life, money, carrier and bonds of human relationship at risk to the point of no return were their playthings, which they heartily relished! They hated the society and above all, their ownselves. Since they understood each other’s shortcomings and mental deprivations, they decided to share their lives and become the partners-in-life. Nothing less nothing more! An unwritten agreement, between two outcasts of society! And to hell with that society! They were really a wonderful couple! That she would prove a wonderful companion and play the role of a Bhaaratiya’s Nari (an orthodox Indian women) was, something he had never imagined and bargained for! They were aware that they did not, perhaps could never love each other yet they opted for each other! A unique example of western influence that had just entered our lives and had started sucking the jugular veins of our culture, which had stood the test of times and preserved the finer sensitivities in this society thus far.

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Why she chose to become a second-class citizen for a person, whom she did not love, has always puzzled the l.s! Each of them carried their burden, which they did without any remorse. Only much later in life, she developed qualms of conscience, when she also surrendered herself to the Master. Strangely, this sort of problems never bothered the l.s. although his conscience had been ‘activated’ to its optimum level. Howsoever due to later compulsions they had to put a legal seal to their ‘relationship’, not that they cared, so for I know them. We Indians are a great hypocrite tribe. In our country there are different rules for different religions, castes and creeds, even if its constitution speaks otherwise. If one wants to dodge the law, one has simply to change the stamp of religion, pasted on him by virtue of his birth. That subterfuge worked for the l.s. also. An act which was sacrilegious and unlawful in one religion was permitted in the other. What a society?
Women, passion, sensuality, relationship in any form had no meaning in his life. No women could claim to have played any significant role in the making or de-making of his life. Male or female were simple genders to him. They were not individuals with faces, but mere objects to fulfill his needs of body, mind, intellect and emotions.
His needs were different, as were his goals. Unlike others he did not click at physical temptations. His only interests were in fields---not individuals---that inspired him to attain ‘heights’ in life, and made him happy and at peace within his-self. Mere material objects or individuals, howsoever precious, rare or beautiful; these had no relevance in his life. He knew that everything in the material world carried a price tag and he could afford to buy them at will. Therefore passion for objects was, merely an aberration with him, not the objective of his life. Much early in life, old masters had taught him that beauty was not in the limbs of a body, nor happiness could be derived from material possessions. Its realms were far beyond them. It lies much deeper, within our own selves! He was therefore happy, only in the company of the masters, whether they were of the spiritual or the mundane domains, who had attained intellectual heights and could stir in him his hidden potential. He did not believe that any master could directly instill in him his gems of wisdoms. Because he knew even at the age of his early twenties that, first of all, knowledge of the ephemeral objective world was necessary to equip himself with the intellectual tools, which would ultimately lead him to the depths of the Universal Intelligence. For him the end of his trail was not in mastering the knowledge of the objective world or in its possessions, nor in their indulgence. Revered masters, like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and the enigmatic hero of Mahaabhaarath, Lord Krshan, had shaped his destiny! He refused to accept the theory of re-incarnation however, and to establish this fact he had to prove it, not by denigrating Him or rejecting His ‘identity’. This is an easy escape route for the ignoramuses and not of the ‘thinkers.’ Thus for the realization of his aim---that there is no life after death---he had to do a lot of research. Such learning makes one enlightened: By acquiring degrees one becomes an intellectual or a scholar, which he never wanted to be. His aim was not to conquer the world or ‘know’ it, but to know its ‘Maker.’ That was his goal; his aim! In its realization he has spent his life. His worries, travails, sufferings have been not due to non-fulfillment of worldly desires, because there were none he could not have fulfilled or had not already indulged into: Rather overindulgence had worn him out. He could never assume the role of a tragic hero throughout his life, as there was never an occasion for this ‘celebrated’ role because nothing was ever out of his reach. People, and objects, came into his life, played their part or fulfilled their desired role and made their exit. That’s all the human relationship meant to him! Individuals were not important; neither the pleasures of sensual indulgence. These were merely the means of letting off the leashed energies, which keep accumulating, especially in those individuals who are engaged in the pursuits of higher sciences of Nature and its secret tools. They were means and not the end results of his quest. Later this fact gets evident in his writings also, when he turned ‘writer’. The characters in his novels were not individuals but the multifarious aspects of Nature and its creations, which got their expression through the personifications of individuals.

An Aside.....17
For him there was no society worth its name. Therefore abiding its customs, traditions and superficial values, was out of question. Who creates them and for whom? Laws, traditions, values are there because of people and for people. Whatever be the nature of its inhabitants, so are their values. These vary according to people, regions and climes. Therefore these cannot be eternal and universal. Whatever people---or read leaders---create is always subject to change, whims of the elite that govern them. Geniuses, artists, spiritual masters, philosophers, scholars or the good elements of society have never ruled them. People have never been the masters of their lives. Only minuscule part of society, governing elite, has been controlling their lives. Where they live; what and how much they eat; how they dress up; whether be illiterate or scholar; what are their needs and how much to give; standard of life; material possessions; etc. are decided by the few. Even the quality of lives, heath, and intellectual growth of the people is controlled by them. How illogical that only 1-2percentage of our society decides the fate of the majority. That Nature decides our destiny is also a hoax since it is willfully played on us in the guise of religion, laws, justice, constitution and patriotism. These pills of wisdom, so assiduously prescribed for the people at large, ought to have been applied equally and proportionately on the perpetrators too. Obviously this has never happened. The l.s. believed in that society which was composite of all its constituents, irrespective of caste, creed, color and religion. But the society he was living in, was utterly corrupt, immoral, hypocrite and believed in Goddess of money alone. Everyone was hankering after money. There was a mad race to amass and there were no holds barred. The so-called elite were obsessed with it. They were ready to give in anything; repeat---anything in exchange. Even personal honor was trifle before its glitter. It was law of jungle prevailing, all-round. Money was power; all else was of valueless. He had seen people, rich people trading their wives and sisters for promoting their business empires. Where there was so much muck around, he could not be expected to honor the values of such a society. He abhorred the company he lived in; hated the spineless law---its dispensers and protectors. All were corrupt and given to sensual over-indulgence. There was complete disregard for the values, by the very persons who were their promoters. As he hated such persons, he also hated the values they propagated from high pedestals. Of course he knew all this because he was their honorary associate.
He was so full of hatred that it spared none. He carried it since childhood. First, it was against these relatives who had conspired to usurp the lucrative business of his father. Overnight their worldly fortunes turned to worst. From multi-millions empire, his father was left without business. He did not mind the sudden poverty, as they still owned some valuable assets, but hated their treachery and audacity with which they went about their ill-designs which this society not only ignored but instead honored them.
He always wanted to do Ph.D. in philosophy so as to become a professor and work in some remote hilly area. This was his dream, which was never to be! He was only fifteen when all of a sudden he found himself supporting a large family of brothers and sisters besides the parents. His father tried his luck in some business ventures but he was not trained to run petty enterprises, as he was adept only in running big business with big money. So, wisely he said goodbye to business dreams and in his place a lad of fifteen was made to wear the mantle of ‘head-of-the-family’. Although he had two other elder brothers, but how he found himself in the new role, is something still beyond his comprehension. His eldest brother, who was helping his father in business, and had conspired with his uncle in usurping the business, was worth lacs (in early forties) at the time. All of them had contrived to get his mother’s signature on some documents, which were in fact the ownership transfer papers. With the signing of those papers, his mother had sealed the fate of the entire family. As a result his second uncle became the owner of Burma Shell and I.C.I agencies. In those days these two were the major business companies of the British Empire in India, and his father was their sole distributor in the area. However their ownership was in the name of his mother. Instead of reprimanding his younger brother for this stratagem, his father, in frustration transferred other assets in his name as well! Previous to this his father had already gifted the joint family business to the same greedy person. After these episodes his father once again established a good business house, but this time his eldest son became the benefactor of his largesse. His father was a strong willed, of strong body, obstinate and a generous man. Other people took advantage of his generosity, which the family had to suffer. The l.s. had also imbibed his father’s qualities, and had, like his father, threw away, many a times, the fruits of his hard labor to the greedy ‘dear ones.’

An Aside.....18
By the time he cleared matriculation, he had apprenticed in the tanning course in a Govt. institute. Belonging to high caste Brahman family---not that he gave a damn to these inhibitions---he had joined this institute incognito, simply to earn a monthly stipend Rs.15. He also did some petty jobs in the post office, on ad hoc basis. Luckily the postmaster was their neighbor and sensing the plight of their family, used to engage him on daily wages against those postmen, who used to proceed on leave. He had no inhibition in doing such menial jobs. Rather it gave him immense pleasure that he was of some use to his family.
They were a close-knit family. Everyday the evening sessions lasted till late in the night, when they used to give vent to their frustrations. It always had a happy ending. This gave them hope and visions of a bright future for all of them. They never thought about their individual self. It was always jointly for them all.
He was only sixteen and a half when he joined the state government job as a clerk. Nobody questioned his underage, as his real uncle was the minister of the department. His ambition however to become the professor went awry in this struggle for survival.
He got three rapid promotions and was posted as an Incharge of District Foodgrains Laboratory, when he was just nineteen years old with practically no experience of the world. But he was considered a very efficient analyst in the quality control branch. In the meanwhile he had also developed the habit of reading the English novels. Soon his interest in literature graduated to reading the works of the western masters. Then an incident happened, which completely changed the course of his life.
His family was under debt of a government department and some other lenders as well. His elder brother had taken some loan from the Industries department, whose yearly installments had not been paid for over three years. All of a sudden recovery notice came through the court orders. They had no alternative except to pay back the due loan along with the compound interest. His father rushed to him to save his brother from being arrested. Till that time he was honest to bones, morally and mentally. His was the lonely example in the department, for complaining against a rice mill owner for offering him bribe. The miller along with an inspector of the department was punished for the act. But the l.s was in a quandary now. He could not refuse his father the help he sought from him. He led his own son to dishonesty, even though he himself had properties which were worth lacs (millions) in those days! (As a result of these properties, the family again became millionaire, because their value had gone up. This is another story). All through his life he has never for a day been reconciled to corruption. But a tide of destiny had swept all his idealism and thrown asunder the finer sensitivities, which his mother and elder sister had so assiduously nurtured in him.
Soon the family expenses rose up resulting in demands for more money. He could not ask for money from anybody either as loan or bribe. To mop up guts, he started drinking, a habit that kept his company till 1981.
His childhood had been spoilt by poverty and internal family feuds with the second uncle, who with the help of his Machiavellian sons had swept the rug of affluence from under them. His youth was snatched by the burden of financial worries. His elder brother on the other hand, had the unique knack of always engaging himself in losing business ventures, which not only ate up the principal investments, but burdened them with more loans and unpaid credits etc.
His eldest sister also played a substantial role in increasing his burdens by marrying off two of his younger brothers, who being dependent, were still living with their parents. They were unemployed, doing absolutely no work. Instead of alleviating his burden, rather they aggravated it by indulging themselves in litigation, brawls, womanizing and boozing---curtsy his beloved parents and the respected eldest sister! (Incidentally his elder sister had taken to Sanyaas-renunciation-in her youth). His conscience too had been corrupted by bribe, booze and brawls. So he became a rebel and fought back the society, by negating it, taunting its ethics, its codes of conduct, and openly challenging its peers. He hated the society, its inhabitants, and he also hated himself!

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One fine morning, when he was twenty-four and a half, he received termination orders of his service although he had put in more than nine years of service with excellent record. The new Chief Minister of the state of Punjab passed these orders as his first edict after taking oath of his office. He had some personal grudge against him. At the time he had some money (a few lacs) that he laundered away in a hotel venture. Again, as usual, no bank balances no cars, no palatial mansions! A blank man with blank pockets! However he got some respite from the fast paced life, which he had been leading for the last five years. During those years he experienced a life, which could be an envy of any big Don. He had outstretched himself beyond his wildest imagination. When he reviewed his life, he realized he had nothing more to live for. There were no desires left to be fulfilled, no dreams to be realized! He had lived his life. Then what it was to aim for or look forward to? Only a mirage in the smog of an empty mind! Life became a burden without a purpose. Burnt out ambers create only shaky mirages, which leave behind only ashes of bad, stale memories. Nothing is bitter than stagnation in life. A directionless mind is like a rudderless boat in the vast expanse of the Samsaarik (worldly) ocean. Amen.
After the advent of the master in his life everything changed, not physically, but his entire standpoint had gone through a sea change. Now without taking any intoxicants, he is enjoying, however infinitesimal, the indescribable joys that only an enlightened self can envision and relish. Attaining to this level of consciousness at the age of fifty has not been easy journey. But one thing is definite; Godly path is the easiest path. Each act that we conduct for the betterment of our lives involves additional burden of material objects. As we grow in worldly sense, affluence brings with it material comforts and we go on accumulating extra modern luxuries, which fill every available space in our home or working place. Similarly our minds also get filled with the junk. But as soon as the direction of the mind changes towards God, we start shedding this junk till our stores and the minds are emptied of the junk materials and the irreverent data. We free ourselves completely and what remains is, the real, blemish less Self---which is our real identity (i.e., ‘I’)
The effect of the divine impact and its manifestation in the human form had such a direct jolt on his persona, that very perceptible change had an impact on his daily life as well as on his mindset. The acquired knowledge, which is falsely assumed as ‘intellect’ is, no more than mere data, unless it is discriminately assimilated in our daily life. When there is no difference between the word and the deed, righteousness prevails and the intellect having performed its function, assumes the form of wisdom. Wisdom is nothing but the present, which is omnipresent. The highest state of meditation is to be in the ‘present’ which is the recognition of real ‘I’ that is ‘Aathma’, Soul, Spirit---a synthesis of senses, mind and intellect; the practical state of wisdom. This realization is also called Self-realization; it is nothing but the finest state of our inner-self, achieved through the composition of the trinity: body-mind-intellect. Now what is so super-natural or miraculous about this? Only high sounding words, tittles, prefixes, abstract definitions, and scholarly language; all these simply confuse the seeking minds!

When he reached the age of sixty, the body had not dampened his spirit of seeking. But he has reached that ‘state’ where he does not have any more to seek, in spiritual realms too. He no longer has any doubts. All his queries stand answered. He does not have any more questions. He is at peace. He knows his goal and his path. It all depends on the seriousness and sincerity, with which he pursues his goal. Most of the time he revels in Divine Grace and if he is able to transform these ‘glimpses’ into permanent state of Bliss, is again dependant on his own sincere commitment and devotional urge to merge in that ocean.

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The binding, as well as the illumination ‘factor’ is--- Divinity---which is inherent everywhere! When a seeker has realized this ‘knowledge’, his mental state is beyond description. Even he, himself cannot describe the heights of joy he is experiencing, during all the time; he is attuned to or reveling in the Self! As the Self is, of the nature of bliss, any one who has experienced, even Its’ momentary ‘glimpse’ is immersed in Its eternal joys. He attains an enviable state of bliss!
The l.s. has been experiencing Its ‘effects’ off and on, for the last 21 years, since his mind took the U-turn and became aware of the Divine-Incarnation in human form! Till that time, he was not ready to accept the very ‘concept’ of Divine Incarnations of all the Divine Ones, belonging to all the religions! Often the glimpses of the Self, are more lasting, then it becomes unbearable for the mortal body and the mind to behold and absorb the ‘grace of bliss’, as the l.s., is not that spiritually advanced nor his cushions are that strong. He is left with only one recourse to pray to the Master; to either unshackle the Self from the body, or lift off the ‘link’!
It is a fact that the ‘experiencer’ more often seeks for the release of the Self from the body. It is just not palatable or even logical to come back to tasteless vagaries of the mind, from the ocean of Bliss! Once the subject has the ‘glimpse/experience’ of the bliss, he has no taste left for the worldly pleasures and joys. There is simply no substitute for the blissful state. Once smitten, one gets hooked for life. That is the reason, no Brahman-Jnaani or a realised Yogi, remains in physical body, after the realization of the Self (Aathma).
Believe me the little selfs’s “I” doesn’t like to stay in his sick body. His “I” wants release! It is not out of desperation, dejection or isolation, nor can it be termed as a negative urge to escape from life. On the contrary, he feels completely, self-contended and at peace in his body. No more goals to achieve, no more desires; as he has had more than he deserved and ever dreamt of! Most of the time his cup of life is over brimming with bliss: he simply cannot withstand the onslaughts of divine ‘waves’. Continuous wafts of joy make his inner-self (Jeevi) self-reliant, self-contented and unshackled from the world. One simply disassociates from the world and enjoys the joyous company of the Self. It is simply very difficult to describe; not the Self, but Its Source! But who wants to know more?
Here enter the doubting fence sitters and the elite intellectuals! They want to know the authenticity of these ‘experiences’! Whether we are answerable to these doubting Thomas’s, is a genuine excuse for the ‘ascetics’ to keep away from them! The l.s. is of the opinion that it is our duty and responsibility to share ‘knowledge’ of the Self, with the genuine seekers, because unless we do so, how would they be knowing the ‘potential’ beyond the ‘annihilation/nihilism’ state of the intellect? Even we ourselves are not always sure of the ‘existence’ of the Self! Fundamentally it is the mind, which questions the ‘Being’ of the Self. How are we to know, whether these ‘experiences’ of the Self are genuine!
Very simple! Purely by experiencing the universality of the Self, the ‘experiencer’ is satisfied. How do we know that the ‘experience’ is really cosmic in nature and content? Again very simple! The cosmic-Self is ‘aware’ of the cosmos: that the ‘awareness’ of the ‘experiencer’ becomes cosmic, thus he becomes Gyatha---the knower of past, present and future of Cosmos/Creation! His state at that time is that of everlasting Bliss, which the nature of Brahman and the Self is.
The journey has been long, self effacing, self sacrificing---of total surrender of body, mind and the intellectual attachments. A tall order for a worldly man, but a realisable, feasible and attainable Karamu(activity/seva); which each one of us should strive for, so as to attain the envious heights of self-purification. A state where all material things: joys of the world: even the realms of the world itself, become meaningless, stale, and trash! The l.s. shall omit all details and niceties, which enable us to realize these heights, as these have already been exhaustively shared in his previous book “Quest In Reality”. In the present ‘work’, the endeavor is to delve into the extremity of intellect, so as to be able to share and jointly undertake the journey that leads to Self---thereby to substantiate the authenticity of Self, and Its realization in our own selves! That an ordinary mind is as good as that of an ascetic, for the realization of ‘his’ Self, with all Its’ splendor! One should not be disheartened by the vagaries of the mind or its tools of imagination and fantasizing, which are so devious in deluding the intellect; it becomes very difficult to differentiate between real and the unreal

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The realization that our reality is (Supreme) Intelligence: There is not an iota of doubt that the intelligence (intellect) in us is the same Intelligence! Theoretically this is a simple statement, but its conviction (awareness) takes many lives Sadhna (self-enquiry). As soon as this realization dawns, the results are wonderful---beyond description. One simply becomes free, whole and complete! He simply accepts the ‘being’ of the creations of the ephemeral world as normal (natural). We are, so we are! Nature is, so Nature is! One becomes aware of their (creations) ‘existence’; meaning, we do not relate our-self with them. We do not see them from our point of view (intellect). By accepting them is, by knowing them. We learn about a ‘thing’ only when we have complete knowledge of it. Having ‘knowledge’ of the ‘thing’ is, having complete awareness of that ‘thing’. Meaning, the substance is more important than the projection. Our substance is not the gross conscious, nor the mind, nor the intellect: these are merely the data-bank of the phenomenal worlds’ knowledge that our senses have been able to gather. Knowing or becoming aware of this fact, automatically puts the observing ‘agency’ at the higher level. That is, we become aware of our limited minds’ sphere of knowledge. This fact is known, when our intellect stops posing as mind and retains its original state, that of intelligence. Similarly the human intelligence---activated conscious-(discriminated) knowledge, having realized its limit, or becoming aware of this very fact, puts it at its higher pedestal of Cosmic-Consciousness. The state, if it can be called that (!) at that moment, is of ‘complete’ universal-awareness! Of freedom and bliss: There is constant ‘feeling’ (experience) of total awareness; no thought, no mind! One is blessed with the persistent ‘feelings’ of unending ecstasy. No subject wants to come down (back) from this ‘experience’. It is the experience of Divinity, there is no doubt about it! All are welcome to the ‘club’ of Divine. One does not have to go places for enrolment. It is within ‘us’. Rather we are It-Self. Anyone who has, even once felt the bliss of this Divine glimpse or experience, he is hooked forever. No other joy would make him happy. One feels so useless, lifeless, limp and empty bag without It. The complete feeling of freedom makes the subject one with Divine. This is not an ‘experience’ of an addict! The l.s. ‘knows’ about that too, having experienced the effects of various drugs. If any one doubts the authenticity of these experiences, then they are not pursuing the journey of spiritualism, hence is not a genuine sadhak. Then no comment!
The l.s. is not narrating a novel or a treatise on philosophy. He also knows about hallucination, fantasizing, imagination, day dreaming and about self-induced hypnosis. He knows from first hand experience with this wily fellow---the mind. He has passed through the rigors of Sadhna, Tapas (sacrifices) and intense self-enquiry. He learnt at the lotus feet of the masters, scriptures and above all, through personal experiences. He could never become a teacher, but only a sadhak, a seeker and a learner. He cannot preach but can only follow and imbibe the teachings in his personal life. During the last twelve years of his service career, he lived upto the teachings of His Master---by precept and practice. While his colleagues were minting money every year, he lived off his pay. He was surrounded by a corrupt system, but lived a life of an ascetic. He did not make a show of his principles, but presented a personal example of those teachings, without uttering a word about them. Glory be to Him, it all belongs to Him. Why pose or boast, all that there is, all belong to Him. He is the Original-Owner, not us mortals who are transitory tenants.

An Aside.....22
The biggest problem of the sadhak ( disciple) is that he is more like a plunderer. Both face the problem of plenty. Only difference is in the ‘capacity’ of their containers. Whereas the coffers of the plunderer are filled to the brim, still he remains unsatisfied and hungry for more possessions. But on the other hand, the container (body) of a sadhak proves insufficiently equipped to ‘contain’ the ever increasing splendor of the Lord! His midget self gets easily ‘filled’, as thus feels helpless to receive/bear His grace any more. He/she prays for release, whereas the former craves for more years to plunder more and more.
Even now, the body of the l.s. stands over flowed with constant cascades of bliss! (Incidentally while typing this line, the l.s. was actually in the ‘state’! Glory be unto Him!). Over brimming with joy, I am unable to continue writing---. God s great; let all brethren be blessed alike. Amen.
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Whatever the l.s has experienced or known of the glory of the Self or Its effulgence is, the result of transforming into practice the teachings of the masters. Nobody can help a seeker; not even the master, in his quest, as it is one-to-one involvement. He is One, so His realization is also for one/single entity at a time. Heart to heart relationship is always individual and between two persons. It is the individual self that yearns for its real/original-Self, which is one-to-one relationship. As no other person can enjoy or suffer the fruits of our Karmas (deeds/actions), so too, others ---however realised they are, can gain access to His realms, on others’ behalf! Spiritualism is highly individualistic path, for it involves, exclusively, one’s own body-senses-mind-intellect. It is our body, one has to master/control. It is one’s own intellect, which has to be channeled and diverted. Frankly speaking, if one really desires to know one’s reality, one should throw away all books and cleanse the intellect of all the ‘finer theories’ and one should chalk out one’s own trail and reach the destination by self efforts only. No body teaches us anything; it is our own intellect, which extends itself and expands its horizons. By self-learning and self endeavor, nothing is unachievable!

(We continue with our Inner Search)

Infinite Brahmand
Finite Universe. If Brahmand—Infinite space/Cosmos is infinite, the universes which take shape into It are finite! This aspect has been discussed quite exhaustively in my previous book, so there will now be a brief preview of that vision:
Any material object that exists or ever existed in Nature reflects its image in space, along with its life principle—sound. These images get permanently embedded in particles in the form of vibrations and radiations. The canopy of consciousness that surrounds the material formations of the universe is verily the panoramic grand picture view (history) of its existence. After each Big-Crunch (Prahlah/Annihilation), this grand view gets compressed in super-dense (Supreme-Casual) particle, i.e. in its original state of statelessness. Thereafter a big-bang slowly revolves and expands the latent view into a gigantic universe. Having again exhausted its intelligence, by living out its memory through its material projection (Creation), it goes back (Big-Crunch) in its original condition. This cycle continues unabated.
The above hypothesis is based on the assumption that the Brahmand is infinite and the universes born into it, on their own volition, i.e. self-sustaining, self-cycled principle, are finite. That reveals; the Brahmand has no memory (intelligence), whereas the Nature (universe) does possess it. As the memory has to live out its compressed desires (thoughts or vasanavan-tendencies), through their material projections—hence the Creation!
Now suppose the Supreme-Casual aspect of each universe (Nature) in its subtlest state gets materialized into a single-living-entity, besides permeating in Its projected Creation, this proposition does not seem logical! At the same time it would have to be accepted, no part of its creation can exist without its properties having been ingrained in them, for basically these are its creations. Or it can be surmised, the elementary qualities, which are imbibed by all; when these get fully conscious in One entity, while remaining in latent state in the rest of the creations, this wonder of Divine manifestation poses a diet for the elite class/intellectuals!
An illustration: After what the scientists describe, the Big-Crunch, matter is annihilated, all mass, both, subtle and gross, gets compressed into a super-dense particle, i.e., the total intelligence (conscious) in its casual state is enclosed in a single-cell: in layman’s language, it may be called the Original-Particle(Seed). Suppose this seed transmutes itself directly into a biological cell, there should not be any hue and cry from the scientific world. Biological chips are already on cards. The only objection this fraternity can raise is that this transmutation has not gone through the rudimentary process of evolution.
However too much credence should not be given to the popular theory of big-bang, as there is already an entirely contradictory theory in the offing; that big-bang never happened! It is, as being proved, the figment of imagination! There is another, more interesting scenario: Original-Particle did not split like an atom, but it produced its duplicate, while still retaining its originality of wholeness. Its duplicates again reflected its innate nature, which further went on duplicating themselves. There might be countless numbers of different categories of particles, which fall into three parental families, viz., casual, subtle, gross particles. Big-Bang did happen, but it was not the tremendous eruption of hot gasses but a cool shower of super-cool particles, which later formed into galaxies of super-dense particles, which according to their gradation of grossness, are subjected to atomic chain reaction! Rest is as the big-bangers assume! There are already 154 types of particles identified so far.
Any particle which falls into gross family is classified as matter (manifestation of subtle particles). Peeping a little deep into the matter; its composition is of atoms, which are mostly composed of empty space, with a few specks of dust (representing electrons, protons etc.) whirring round its nucleus. Earth with its solid looking rocks and the densest of minerals are made up of atoms. Its (atom) sub-atomic particle (Neutrino) has virtually no physical properties: no mass: no electrical charge: no magnetic field: It is not attracted by gravity, nor captured or repelled by the electrical charge or by the magnet field of other particles flying past it.
Therefore any neutrino originating in the Milky-ways, or from some other galaxy, traveling at the speed of light, can go through the solid body of the Earth as if it were an empty space. Billions of neutrinos coming from anywhere; from far off stars, galaxies, quasars or some other heavenly bodies, are streaming through our brain at any moment of our lives. (Fritjof Capra). Were it possible to squeeze all space out from all the atoms in Earth, it would be reduced to about the size of an orange!
Our, seemingly, solid composition or that of the cosmos is nothing but full of micro particles, whose own constitution is, almost, of empty space. There is thus difference between the appearance of objects as we see them and their inner reality. The spiritualists and the scientists agree on the fact—the universe is the manifestation of primary energy. And what is at the source of that energy: It is the “inner-reality” or the “Mind/Thought”! Sir James Jens wrote in “The Mysterious Universe”:
“Mind no longer appears as an accident intruder into the realm of matter, we are beginning to suspect that we ought rather to hail it as the Creator and Governor of the realm of matter—not, of course, of our individual minds but the Mind in which the atoms out of which our individual minds have grown, exist as thoughts—in fact substantial matter is resolving itself into a creation and manifestation of mind.”

And this “Mind” or “Thought” has “Willed” a design for the Creation. Everything in the universe, though, is always in the state of flux—decaying and being replaced by new ones—but still conforming to its pattern (innate nature). Dr. Harold Saxtan Burr (From “Blueprint for Immortality”) says:
“You and I are the result of a pattern of Organization, or to put it another way, the consequence of a design. And it is very difficult to think of a piece of apparatus of any kind—whether it be an electric iron or an atom-smasher—that is not the product of the mind of a designer.”
What it all leads us to believe is very simple: The matter is nothing but the composition of subtle particles, whose inner reality is Mind-Thought-Intelligence. This Creation is the design of that Mind. Thus the Universe or Creation is working as the design of that Mind. It is thus obvious, the particles which manifest matter are conscious, otherwise they would not fall into predestined patterns, which are parts of the over all Grand-Design. Sir Bose not only proved that “plants have reactions like that of human beings but even metals have a form of consciousness. Even at sub-atomic level, evidence of quality of life and awareness was observed”. “Scientists observe them (particles) ‘consciously’ choosing their paths—While electrons orbit an atom’s minute nucleus at phenomenal speeds, they know what other electrons are doing and react accordingly. Although distanced from their polar opposites, they appear conscious of them and reverse themselves As One when their polar partners are reversed”. (“Secret Life of Planets” by Tomkins and Bird). Even our planet is conscious and self-regulating organism! It is an old concept, only scientists are discovering it now.
All above scientific quotes are of no consequence as these are superfluous. No scientific discovery would be worth the paper it is written on, until it finds a way to get out of ‘event horizon’ (of black hole). The total endeavor of our scientists’ research is centered round the event of Creation. This event of Creation is of little importance for the ‘thinkers’, as there might be billions other such creations! As surmised earlier, each creation is the manifestation of a Mind or Thought, which is called by different names, viz. Yahweh (Greek), Memra (Hebrew), Sorosh (Parsi), Amer (Arminian or in ancient Greek), Vak, Word, Logos, Kalameh/Kalam or Kun. The same words find more scientific expressions in the language of advanced research of the spiritualists, viz., Cosmic-Mind, Supra-Consciousness, Constant-Integrated-Awareness etc. this hypothesis further instigates us to stipulate, there ought to be a Single Consubstantial factor that subsumes all other cosmic minds. This Single-“Something” should be of the nature that does not involve itself in the creational-sustenance-dissolution process of (each) creation. As Nature is its own Absolute cause and each creation (Nature) is governed by its own principle—which may not be applicable or similar to others.
Cosmic-Consciousness of each Creation is of limited scope, for it represents only to its sphere of cosmos, which is governed by one set of principle of C-S-D! Each Principle manifests itself through an evolutionary process, which is not to be associated with the Darwinian theory of evolution. According to him, we are the progeny of the animals. A foolish idea! Human beings are the finest specimen of Creation, who not only represent Its qualities but can far excel, being also graced with the Divine-force.
Coming back to Creation and its Principle: Merely by discovering the fact, matter—if at all it exists—is conscious. The assertion, the building blocks of matter—the particles—are conscious, is not enough, as each Creation is complete unto-itself! This phenomenon goes on repeating itself without seemingly, any beginning or an end.

Creation in itself connotes creations/projections of material/physical bodies—by duplication, multiplication and manifestation. It is a physical universe; naturally it is governed by physical laws. But the invisible factor of pre-‘Design/Mind’, cannot be ignored. Even if the cause of Creation, might be Absolute, i.e. Unknown—it is described as Absolute, because it revolves around Itself—It repeats again and again, subject to the same Single-Principle (Thought) as if it had no other bright idea! If it is simply the manifestation of a principle-thought-mind, then it has Intelligence as its basis—which is the case! Anything conscious is synonym of intelligence. And intelligence is the conscious knowledge of the material world, not its cause. Its cause is unknown, so it is Absolute, as surmised by some!
No principle is complete into itself. Any system that is organized and executed, however perfectly, on an idea (principle/thought) has its originator. Energy is the substance of the universe and it is the conscious-thought of the Absolute that has organized the universe into a Grand-Design that we can see and touch. Absolute is not some alien or super-natural/magician, but the sum-total of Cosmic-Intelligence. The beauty of this wonderful system is, its conscious has the unique quality to observe and discriminate its own-self and wherever the system, seems to deviate or deflect, due to man made tools of destruction, its counter agents immediately intervene and fill the gaps. Human beings too are equipped with the same conscious, which has the ability to observe the working of its own mind (individual conscious). This, in itself, proves there exists in our mind an independent conscious which stands apart from the mind and observes its working. This independent ‘witness’ is directly linked to the Absolute-Conscious-Mind! The Seed of the entire universe is Pure-Consciousness, which according to a Design, evolves into individual conscious-Self and still retains its purity.
Our consciousness (mind) can be ascribed through dual channels, viz., individual mind (gross-consciousness, i.e., Conscious) that traces its roots to Cosmic-Consciousness, and the “Witness” (Shakshi) attribute (Self) that is linked, directly to the Absolute. This duality of consciousness superimposes the illusion of their separateness. Though their journey of encasement in human cell has been through different channels, their source is One and their existence in material world is simultaneous and combined. Whereas mind manifests through material creations and its existence is cognized by the observing Intelligence (Self), but its shells—the manifestations—are sustained by energy that through conscious gives shape to the Creation, which we perceive. Conscious does not evolve of matter: the fact is otherwise! Matter is intelligent and intelligence always creates intelligence entities. The previously discussed subject of cosmic resurgence through the explosion of the Cosmic-Egg of super-dense atoms and the resultant big-bang hypothesis is just a myth of the scientist; just as the mythological tales of yore about Creation! During the big-bang event, obviously all atoms had exploded: then how come, there are subtle particles roaming the vast Brahmand,(cosmos) which had never been subjected to energy manifestation or manipulation, and are still in their original form, i.e. in unmanifest state! These are not involved even in the cosmic recycling evolution. They are in such state of subtlety, and are still in stationary state and far beyond the reach of the forces which create energy!
Just as the ultimate of matter is Big-Crunch of Big-Bang, likewise its constituent’s elements, viz. electrons, protons or the latest confirmation of Peter Higgs ‘missing particles’ “Higgs Boson”, at CERN, have also their ultimate! That ultimate, is always the original state of basic particles in inanimate condition.
The ultimate freezing point, as of now, is -273: Beyond this point there is no further measurement. But this does not indicate, being in this state means that water has lost its innate nature. In this super-dense condition, there is absolutely no movement or tension, and the water seems to have lost its properties. It is the zero condition for water, beyond which point it does not constrict or condense any further. Rather this seems to be the currently accepted state of affairs of the elements which create water. This zeroing condition of water does not in anyway construe that water does not exist in super-dense condition. It does exist, but in its purest form. Water in such a state creates illusion to be finite; which it is rightly so, as its original origin is not from ice, but from energy, which is the creator of oxygen and hydrogen. For a novice, ice state of water is its state of nihilism, i.e. Zero.
The nihilism state of matter is the event of Big-Crunch, when gravity has reached its ultimate state of super-density. Matter is finite, but only to the extent it has transmuted to its ultimate state, beyond which it cannot transmute any further!
Mind’s state of nihilism, i.e. zero or finite, comes when it has evolved to its fullest height and having exhausted its memory bank is in the state of desirelessness! But this does not indicate that the mind is dead, annihilated, banished or emptied. So long there is Creation, its existence is immanent. In fact along with the annihilation of matter, i.e. Creation, it lies in non-active state after Big-Crunch!

The matter and mind, like Creation, are finite but only to the extent; after having evolved to their ultimate expansion (growth), they transmute back to their original state of non-transmutation—state of non-involvement, i.e., when the components of Creation are in their non-active state, when even the subtle of the subtlest particles are in non-active state i.e. stationary.
For the last four hundred years since Galileo, Western scientists have been engaged, very earnestly, in unraveling the mysteries of the Creation. Their research in the fields of physics, biology and geology is noteworthy. In the beginning they were not bothered about the “why”, and mainly confined themselves finding the answers to “How” of Creation! They had deliberately left this chapter to the religious. But since Newton to Einstein and the later generation of scientists; it has been their utmost priority—behind the veil of their research—to find answers to these questions: Which agency created the universe and what created that ‘agency’? If nobody created them, still they have always been there! Their goal in this respect has been to find the basic (elementary) Particle, which set in the creational process. So far their research—in the sub-atomic field—has led them to recognize the ‘neutrino’ particles, whose physical existence has yet to be conclusively proved. Even when their research understands the basics of this particle, they are very likely to find: even this particle (neutrino) actually belongs to some later generations of particles, but not the elementary one! Even otherwise the theory of ‘uncertainty’ claims: the behavior of a particle in respect of place and time cannot be accurately predicted.
Same is in the case of human brain. We know, to some extent, the basic laws which govern our brains; but given the number of particles involved—some hundred million billion and billions particles are stated to be contained in one brain! According to Newtonian theory of gravity, one can solve the equation correctly only in case of two particles but in case of more particles, one has to resort to approximation. Human brain is, thus also subject to the theory of uncertainty.
So neither in the case of elementary particles nor of the brain cells, exact behavior can be predicted under any given conditions! In both the cases, their number is so vast that it is simply beyond the scope of present day science to confine them in one single equation to determine their behavior. However under laboratory conditions very extensive tests are being carried out at huge costs. Their outcome has not as yet reached to that level of expertise, which could lead to the event of singularities.
But this ‘factor’ is being established that the universe is conditioned by certain laws, which implies that it is (pre-) determined!
The Newton concept: The universe is static was changed by Edwin Hubble, when he discovered the galaxies were actually moving away from our galaxy. It indicated clearly, the universe was expanding, rather than it being static. This implies, it has its creation or beginning as it has already expanded to the present scenario and is still in the process of further expansion. After all this process started from some zero point!
The state of zero does exist, both in universe as well as in mind. When all the matter in the universe has evaporated (during the Big-Crunch),including the particles, it is composed of—the state of singularity ‘exists’—that is the condition of mass-less void in space (Brahmand). This in fact is the end of material—the forces—which creates the universe. But it is not the death of the ‘Principle’! Why the universe suddenly decides to dissolute, is another matter. Biologists know the death of body is determined by the encoded message in the brain cells. Suddenly cells decide to die, due to some pre-determined memory trigger, and they start to decay or die instantly.
Nature works on well defined laws. Each universe in the Brahmand has its pre-determined origin and dissolution. That determining ‘factor’ is the Principle (Intelligence) that is defined in spiritual language as Divinity and as the unified-theory-of-everything by the physicists.

The fact the scientists believe: The universe is governed by laws—itself connotes—its creation is based on certain laws. If there are laws for its creation, as is being accepted, then it is a foregone conclusion that these laws were there even before its creation! The students of cosmology know that any mass that goes into the black hole, its particles do not return to our universe. For all we know, these might be joining some other baby universe! This probability looks good within the gambits of general theory of relativity.
When we accept the fact of determined laws, we automatically accept the issue of Creation: that it had a beginning. Anything that is created has its beginning. We therefore come to the same old conclusion that life is finite and its creation—physical bodies are finite too. Creation itself is finite. It was created on a ‘Principle’ and is governed on well-defined laws. How it evolved from an Infinite-Principle is not the subject matter of science fraternity, unless they function in unison with the spiritualists and try to know subtle worlds of mind-spirit-divinity!
Likewise spiritualists should also remain within their confined boundaries and should not venture into answering questions, which do not fall within their domain. Whenever the ‘thinkers/philosophers’ tried to don the role of scientists of natural sciences, they have miserably failed. Not that these two fields are separate or unrelated to each other. Only their system of education is different and unlike each other. That is why any one who is not adequately qualified in one system of science cannot be expected to, automatically, claim expertise of the other. The result of such an exercise has always been disastrous.
The l.s who is the source of these ‘work’ has also delved in the unknown fields of science and it is a foregone fact that he being a novice, he might have faltered enormously! There are countless instances of such foolish ventures, especially from the religionists, which compel the good intentioned, well informed intellectuals to keep away from their home-spun ‘theories’—which have mushroomed in as many religious sects—that they simply spurn them. Their disdain is justified. Just one example, a repetition of course:
“According to Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions, the universe was created only in the recent past. (In seventeenth century Bishop Ussher calculated a date of 4004 BC, for the creation of the universe, a figure he arrived at by adding up the ages of people in the Old Testament).
“According to St. Augustine (Book of Genesis) it is 5000 years. “But according to Vedic Scriptures, a ‘Purant’ cycle is completed in 311,040,000,000,000 years.
Just see the difference!
The ancient Indian astronomy like other disciplines of science was far ahead of the West. Rather it would not be an exaggeration to mention here that the Westerns were behaving like barbarians, while this country was reveling, both in spiritual enlightenment and material abundance. How the West treated their scientists can just be imagined by the fates of Copernicus, Bruno and Galileo! The treatment meted out to them is still fresh in the minds of the present generation of scientists. Had this fraternity taken our scriptures seriously, especially Upanishads, their ridicule towards spiritualism would have been subdued substantially. As to how much scientific methodology has been followed in decoding the spiritual ‘thought’; there is always an element of doubt and disbelief in the minds of research scholars! As their testing ground of new discoveries is the laboratory, not the spatial realms of the mind. But pseudo spiritual quacks, unlike the genius cosmologists, are presently at a premium to hazard wild ‘prophesies’, because most of the theories relating to cosmology are yet to be proved. To the misfortune of the Western scientists, the depth of insight of their ruling masters is not remotely in consonance with the new discoveries made in the fields of matter. They wasted the golden opportunity they had, for two hundred years of rule over India—for learning the sciences, this country had the mastery on. The ancient Indian ‘thought’ on matter and spirit is so deep that even the present day scientists with all the facilities at their command, cannot in their wildest imagination, touch upon the outer fringes of the vast ocean of knowledge, which this country’s masters of yore had probed in the realms of Conscious and which is immanent in matter and spirit. The basic essence of their ‘thought’ was: The innate nature of matter is conscious. This is a clear line of division between the matter and spirit: between the scientists and the wise: between the knowledge of science and Divine. Where the present theories about Creation lead to, is in fact, the starting point of the spiritualists in their Sadhna(quest)!

The commonly accepted theory of singularity takes the scientists to the edges of dissolution (black hole), where all physical laws fail and even time comes to a stop. This scenario indicates the end of matter. On the contrary, this is the point, from where the role of the spiritualist begins. For when matter is totally annihilated: the state wherein, not only the gross particles de-materialize, but those also which create matter, transmute into pure conscious; the science has done its job. There is nothing left of the universe or its constituents for the scientists to discover any more! The matter including its laws having reached their ultimate, have met their Nadir!
There is another theory in vogue, when all laws fail: Absolute takes over and no law applies to It since an Absolute is causeless: That state of Singularity is the Absolute. All laws, which were sustaining the existence of the universe, are regressed in That (Big-Crunch). This is the ultimate truth of matter. Again after some time—to restart the cycle of evolution, pre-determined Sankalp/will (as time has lost its relevance), Absolute re-activates its conscious—not that conscious in its pure state ever becomes un-conscious—and sets in motion those forces which starts the process of creating another replicate of Creation.
Though this is an excellent theory, it shall never be proved! It will remain only in equations. After thousands of years, when the scientists are able to erect an artificial replicate of the universe; the Principle, which sustains the Creation, would remain still illusive and hence shall never be in their hands, since the domain of physical sciences is always limited within the parameters of the universe and its creations and its laws and intelligence! Whereas the realms of Conscious and the Supreme-Intelligence are beyond the ‘concept’ of mind and its gross conscious, which is the synthesis of the Creation or the vice versa!
Howsoever far the scientific theories may take the human imagination, but these are not going to satisfy him. Man is in the search of the Ultimate Theory, not to find its dead ends. Its finiteness also shall not make him happy. Even when he is able to unveil its secrets of creation, he would not like its finiteness. He also does not want the state of either singularity or un-certainty. What he wants is its immortality, not mortality. Because only in its immortality, will he find his immortality! He simply does not want to die. He wants to live forever. This is possible only if he finds the secrets of creation’s immortality. Just look at the height of his naivety: In this finite world he wants to search the seeds of his Immortality!Whether he succeeds ultimately, only time—whose own invincibility is in question—shall determine! But it would be a futile exercise, which the humanity will realize, only after spending a good fortune; that the nature of Creation is same, from where he had begun his research: That Nature is finite like its creations. Only the Principle that keeps its wheels going endlessly, looks constant, eternal and above the natural laws!

Human Nomenclature. The problem among the spiritualists and the scientists is neither very old nor of any deeper nature. Instead of considering it a problem, it is merely an aptitude aberration of looking at the same ‘object’ from two different angles. In fact this deficiency in outlook does not prevail in the ‘higher’ classes of both the fraternities. At such an elevated field of intelligence these minion distractions have no scope, as minds are then elevated to the spatial realms. Only lower minds bereft of rich thought content indulge in the vagaries of mind. Instead of probing the ultimate depth of the mind, and in the process discovering these realms, viz. Super-Mind, Higher-Mind, Illuminated-Mind, and finally the Over-Mind, we waste our energies in religious engagements. These four levels of consciousness of human mind represent different elevation states of conscious, which a subject encounters. Since this is not topic of our discussions at the moment, it is suffice to state here that nothing is beyond the scope of mind. First we have to elevate ourselves to its charted heights, only then we can attain the state of Over-Mind, which in Vedhaanthik(science dealing with spirituality) parlance, is known as the state of “Amanaka” (Mindlessness). Once the mind is withdrawn, only the principal of Aathma(soul/spirit) i.e. the Super-Consciousness exists.
Now let us pause and ponder as to which stream or ‘thought’ of Western literature has enlightened on these levels of the Conscious! Even the present day masters of gospel, belonging to various sects, are minting money and fame by befooling the innocent public, eulogizing on matters which are not distantly related to spiritualism. They merely indulge in cheap mockery of ritualism and, now, the (de-) famed practice of worship of Naam-Dhaan (guru-disciple kinship through the medium of Guru-Manthar—spiritual formula with the potency of Guru’s revelation, which he, supposedly, passes on to his disciples). Their thought content is as shallow, in their oratory, as it is absent in the Western literature of ‘spirit’—or it is that of the matter! Even in this discipline Western approach on the subject is very poor. In ancient India, there were six schools of thought (Philosophy): Nyaya-Vaishaishik school postulate “At the beginning of each Kalpa (each Creation), numbers of atoms and molecules unite to form different objects with different qualities—-“. So our seers had discovered the secrets of the origin of Creation and were fully aware of its composition of atoms and matter etc. (all this happened much before the advent of Greek civilization)
Suddenly with the advent of machine age, there has been a sea change in methodology of our education; with the result that our values of life changed too. With the introduction of gadgetry of comforts in our daily lives, our outlook towards deeper meaning of life has also shown downslide in moral standards. The reason for this is simple enough: Previously the institutes of education in secular and spiritual disciplines were in the control of the experts, who were highly specialized in their respective fields. Unfortunately their ownership has passed into those hands, whose only qualification is money. Further, advance in IT has produced a new class of ‘over-night’ billionaires. Money has usurped those fields, which it was not remotely concerned with. Today media is sitting as baron over the minds of innocent people, specially the younger generation, who cannot discriminate what type of data (knowledge), should go in their raw brains. It is not surprising that the owners of Newspapers, T.V channels, Magazines, Film productions, Satellites, Publishing houses and what not, are those very barons, who belong to jet-set class, bathing in slushy funds. It is an open secret; most of these moneyed people’s means of earning money have been of dubious nature. They hold degrees in debauchery, sex, scandal, extravagant living and open disregard, not only for law but for decency also. Then how can we expect any finer innovation from their licentious brains, which are always browsed in lower minds?
Even then nothing is lost. There is still no dearth of genuine masters in both the fields. Only their voices are lost in the din of IT czars: Similar has been the fate of present day literature. Fabulous sum of money is paid to writers on their so-called master pieces. It is really a matter of shame—for the students of literature—to even read these books, which are not fit to be considered for critical evaluation. Again it is a matter of disgrace; the evaluator class too belongs to their category. All are paid stooges. They write, what is expected of them, for a price. For the moneyed, it is their business and business for them is production of more cheap goods on cheap rates, to sell them at higher rates for pocketing hefty profits. Their products are produced on demand. They are firstly produced; thereafter their market is created by lavish advertising. For all this, only we are responsible: Those who compromise their conscience and those who encourage such excursions in serious subjects, and by those who are least qualified for the job! With the result, works of old masters, geniuses, seers have been sidelined or misdirected with the active connivance of day’s littérateurs—for a price of course—and our lost generations have paid the price either in the battle fields or in the depravity of their minds.

Anyway this also is not our subject at hand, or it would become a lengthy thesis, to trace the background of slavery which ultimately leads to subjugation of mind. Foreign invaders very systematically erased our system of education and polluted our minds by coercion, bribe or power. Our ancient race on earth, the proud progeny of a rich culture, was not only ancient but perfected almost every aspect of life. Nature and its sciences flourished in those times to the extent, that these are the subject matter of those experts who proclaim themselves the world leaders. But our spirit did not die, nor could it be banished by the invaders. Even though India remained under foreign rule for over twelve hundred years, its flames of spirit, codified in Vedhas, Upanishads, Brahamsuther, was kept alive by our seers, saints and great acharaaryas (teachers). The main source of Brahman Vidhya(cosmic education) —by knowing which everything else is known—are Vedhas which are called Sruthis or those texts which were originally heard or received by the sages directly from the Supreme Being in the state of heightened illumination and deep silence, and were then passed on to their disciples in an excellent oral system of teaching and learning till they were compiled by Sage Vyass. This is perhaps the greatest gift of God to man: what Aldous Huxley calls the ‘perennial philosophy’ of man’s life’. This rich legacy was passed on from generation to generation. Besides our mothers played a great role in preserving our culture, by keeping its traditions alive at their homes, even in hostile environs. The result is that we are half-baked citizens: an amalgamation of alien and of our own cultures!
Every intellectual is well conversant by now with the depth of Western ‘thought’, as it existed since its origin from Socrates (through Plato), Plato, Aristotle and the later addition of the last two hundred years. Their main thrust of quest was society and its creations: thus their extension of thought was confined within its structures. As a result, their specializations were confined to society, viz. sociology, economics, religions, psychology and passions etc. their approach toward Reality was only prophetical. At the most they delved merely on issues (not subjects) which our seers taught to their disciples in primary classes. They wasted so much of their time and energy on such trivial issues, like ‘Existentialism’, ‘Being’ etc. Had they or their hypocrite disciples in India, stepped down from their high pedestal of shallow egoism and paid a little attention to some of our scriptures, they would have discovered a gold mine of ‘thought’ contents, which far surpassed their limits of imagination.
When Hiuen Tsang visited India (A.D.629-645), he stayed at Nalandha University for five yeas. There were nearly 10,000 teachers and students in the university, some of the students had come from foreign lands like Japan, Korea, Tibet, Nepal and China. Besides free education, all students were provided free food, clothes, beddings and medicines. Imparting of knowledge—which was universal in nature—was considered an act like any other spiritual practice. There were many other universities like Vikramsila, Valabhi, etc., which imparted the same system of education to the students. And this system had been in vogue before the Christian era. Imagine the foolhardiness of the West when they try to teach us the gambits of their cultural and religious bigotry!
The l.s is not biased to West or being extraordinarily partial to ancient Indian ‘thought’. He himself, once, belonged to their class. His re-search on Indian thought began through Western writers. For him there are no boundaries, either in spiritual or secular worlds. For him there is only one caste and that is of humanity: one religion and that is of love: one language and that is of heart: One God, one Nature, one Religion, one Language and one Nation—that is, the entire humanity!
The above, observations, though not a part of our subject at hand was essential, to understand better the hollowness of our claims that we are nearing our journey’s end!
How immature of us to imagine that we are going to find the Unified ToE that would unravel the mysterious of the Creation! Or to assume, we are leading towards our perfection; both as a civilized human beings and in the evolutionary cycle!.

There is no doubt about the fact that every unit of creation is the creation of Nature—as of its innate/inherited nature. Each unit is involved in some creation, however infinitesimal it might be, thereby contributing in the process of evolution—which is ever on its way to complete its journey by reaching its final goal. That goal happens to be the completion of its pre-determined road map. In the ultimate maturity of each of its unit, lies its end of the road: that in the attainment of perfection in each of its constituent lies its own perfection!
Now we have to look at ourselves and the other units of Nature, to determine as to whether all are leading towards their assigned goal of perfection! But how are we are going to measure the authenticity of the tools, with which we shall determine the quantum of perfection of these ‘units’? Obviously the human intelligence, shall decide the issue! But what methodology are we going to adopt to measure the genuineness of our intelligence?
Before searching for the answer, first, we shall have to accept the hypothesis that the whole is greater than the sum total of its parts! This is based on the analogy that the ‘whole’ subsumes its components or the components are created out the whole! There are other related factors, which shall be clear later on.
The present system of measuring one’s rational intelligence, termed as “Intelligence Quotient”, is insufficient to determine factors which make life a success. Later psychologist made it more broad-based and coined it as “Emotional Quotient (EQ)”. It was done on the hypothesis that “we have two brains, two minds and two different kinds of intelligence, rational and emotional. That it is not just IQ, verbal and mathematical-logical capability, but emotional intelligence i.e. spatial capability, physical fluidity, musical capability, inter-personal intelligence, intra personal intelligence also that matters.” (Daniel Goleman). Still more research was done and it was found that these did not really help in assessing the true representation of a person! Another dimension was added in the area of intelligence, that of SQ, i.e. “Spiritual Intelligence” (Danah Zohar and Marshal). They consider it the basic foundation for an effective use of EQ and IQ.
So at last spiritual factor is being accepted by the western intellectuals! It is needless to emphasize that every Oriental child, even before he starts walking on his two tiny feet, gets familiar with such terms like, religion, spiritualism, God etc. However it is very encouraging to note this change in the Western mindset.
Coming back to our topic, even these three aspects of intelligence are not enough to understand true intelligence, which pervades in un-illuminated state, is embodied in us as well as in the cosmos, as C-I-C. The knowledge which we have acquired so far, however, is not an iota of the conscious intelligence since our method of grasping it is far too indoctrinated by the western system of ‘thought’, which in turn, keeps the mind away from true knowledge. With their system we can become efficient computers with highly developed IQ, EQ and SQ, but not wise. True knowledge is the domain of the wise. And wise are the one’s who are conscious of Cosmic-Intelligence. They are elevated to this state of consciousness, only after reaching the Illuminated state of mind. On the other hand, if all the knowledge of rational minds is put together, it would reveal, as to how ignorant we still are. Let us have a quick glance at the marvels of our discoveries!
In the field of physics, we are talking about Unified ToE today, but are unsure about the true formation of the particles! Matter, anti-matter, dark-matter, black-hole, white-hole, are high on agenda, but what about the composition of our own earth!
We have discovered the speed of light and have also developed means to regress its speed to zero. With Hubble satellite we are glancing at far off galaxies and have also stockpiled enough nuclear bombs to destroy our own planet many times over; prepared a complete map of DNA; and has also grown a human clone etc. etc.
• But can we manufacture water, even if we know its formula?
• Have we been able to reach even the fringe of our own galaxy?
• Have we discovered a single medicine, which can obliterate, completely, any disease from our planet? We have yet to discover a medicine for a common cold! (Hurrah!)
• Can we control the fury of the oceans, from wrecking havoc?
• Have we been able to control anger, greed, lust etc., which are proving fatal to our own existence?
• Crime, corruption, hunger, lawlessness—what have we done about these?