Ode to Brahman

O' my Lord Brahman , O' my Lord Brahman

Thou art Omnipresent and Omnipotent.

Penetrating the Higgs Field as you do

In SpaceTime Everywhere and Everywhen.

Omniscient too in Potentiality

For manifestation in Reality,

What a waste for Thee it seems to me

That Thou shalt create the panoramas out there

Eight other planets and their moons

Just to support life forms here or Earth

Amidst all our pleasures and sorrows galore.

Wouldn't it have been sufficient?

To create just the Sun, the Earth and the Moon

To inform eventually Homo sapiens everywhere

That you are out there and lead us on

To figure out Thine ways like no other species can.

But then, who am I to know Thine intent

To create all that is out there?

Multitudes of Galaxies

And Stars with billions of planets circling around.

Is that all for your Glory with Angels and Demons

In Heaven and Hell somewhere that we know not where

My Lord?

O' my Lord Brahman, O' my Lord Brahman.

Lamentations of Mother Earth

    What sins have I committed in my past

    My Lord

    That Thou hast created me

    And put me on an orbit to go and go

    Around my Mother, the Mighty Big Sun

    Some four billion years ago.

    Just to support life forms galore

    With predator and prey conflicts everywhere.

    Amidst all the beauty and grandeur

    Thou hast bestowed

    On my skin and deep within my belly too

    Strangely denied to my siblings six and two

    Out there.

    With all the violence and turmoil

    Inside of me, up above and down below

    Mostly by your own intent for sure

    In part exasperated nevertheless

    By the extravaganzas of the human race.

    What sins have I committed in my past

    My Lord

    That Thou hast created me

    And put me on an orbit to go and go

    Around my Mother, the Mighty Big Sun

    Some four billion years ago.

    When will you will make us free

    My Mother, my siblings eight and I 

    My Lord

    From being born again and again

    And enable us to merge into

    That Emotion free Eternal Potentiality.

    The Ultimate Source and Cause of it all,

    The Higgs Field, Allah, Brahman, Krishna 

    Consciousness, Christ Consciousness, Buddha Nature

    Or Whatever other Name we call the Same.

Karma and Reincarnation

Theories of Karma and Reincarnation

Both but Extensions

Beyond Birth and Death

Of the nature of Nature's Truth

The Power of Action and Reaction Dynamics
And of Cause and Effect Relationships

Operational Everywhere and Everywhen

Even in Heaven if there is One.

Hinduism, Science and Other Religions

1.     Hinduism recognizes that all understanding is paradigm dependent in the final analysis. Truth is One, the learned describe It variedly, it says. As such, it is the most secular of all religions and is theistic at the same time. If other religionists can recognize this, they will be able to accept and appreciate the good and bad in all religions just as Hindus can.

2.    Hinduism offers Yoga and various types of Mediation Routines for physical and emotional health with emphasis on our spiritual well being as well. Stripped out of their spiritual emphasis, many of these are finding their way into mainstream preventive physical and rehabilitation therapies. Hinduism also offers Ayurveda and other natural herbal recipes for chronic disease management as alternatives or supplements to modern prescription drugs.

3.       Unlike non-theistic religions such as Buddhism and Taoism, Hinduism recognizes that gods, goddesses, angels, demons and some departed personalities such as departed saints and spiritual masters are real extra terrestrial beings in worlds of matter, anti matter or spirit. It also recognizes that there are conflicts amongst them just as in us. They need us as much as we need them. We can benefit by praying to them, worshipping them and making deals with them. Idols and photographic images of them help us to focus our attention on the specific attributes of their personalities.

4.   Hinduism reminds us that central to all Understanding is the Understanding of the source of all Understanding. With that recognition, it offers a Worldview and Cosmology that is much more comprehensive than the current Scientific Paradigms leaving it for innovative scientists to fill in the details. Keep going.

5.     Hinduism recognizes that Consciousness and its attributes of Self Awareness, Mutual Awareness and Environmental Awareness alongside of the Survival Instinct that evolved into the complexity of predator and prey mechanisms and associated emotional complexes on Earth could not have arisen without the potentiality for them preexisting in Space and Time free Vacuum just as matter and energy cannot come into existence without the potentiality for them preexisting in the same Space and Time free Vacuum. Science has yet to come to accept this concept. That potentiality is called Brahman symbolically. Other religionists can relate to Brahman in terms of their own God. In scientific terms, the name is irrelevant and unimportant.

6.      Hinduism recognizes that Cycling and Recycling are natural processes not only on Earth but all across all the stars and planets in the Universe. With that realization, it suggests that Creation, Sustenance and Eventual Dissolution of the Universe occur in cycles within sub cycles of Space and Time. More specifically it suggests       that each          cycle is of 4.32    billion years in duration and each sub cycle   is a multiple of 4.32 million years in duration.    Four sub    cycles make a full cycle. Today's scientists are just beginning to work out the details of this idea. For instance P. Steinhardt and N. Turok: A Cyclic Model of the Universe: Science pp. 1436-1439, 2002. Much more work needs to be done to bring this idea into mainstream science.

7.      Hinduism extends the realization of creation, sustenance and eventual decay in cycles after cycles as natural processes all across the board to the accumulated informational databases of life forms on earth from the moment of their birth till death. They are referred to as Vasanas. Roughly they can be translated as impressions or experiences. Recycling of the matrix of a lifetime of experiences from moment to moment within the context of action and reaction mechanisms among the billions of cells and their constituents within an organism is what is involved in Reincarnation, it suggests. These ideas may have to be     extended to the so called inanimate matter all the way down to subatomic particles as well to develop a much more comprehensive Worldview and Cosmology than is presently the case.

         Interestingly in this context, that two eminent scientists, an American doctor Stuart Hameroff and a British physicist Sir Roger Penrose are said to have developed a quantum theory of consciousness asserting that our souls are contained inside structures called micro tubules which live within our brain cells. They argue that our experience of consciousness is the result of quantum gravity effects inside these microtubules. In a near-death experience, they suggest, the microtubules lose their quantum state but the information within them is not destroyed.

         Paraphrasing what Dr. Hameroff says: "Let's say the heart stops beating and the blood stops flowing. The microtubules then lose their quantum state. The quantum information matrix within the microtubules however is not destroyed, it can't be destroyed, and it just goes to the universe at large. It can go back into the microtubules and the patient says, I had a near death experience. In the event of the patient's death, it is possible that this quantum information can exist outside the body indefinitely - as a soul. The role quantum physics plays in biological processes, such as in the navigation of birds, adds weight to the theory."

8.      Last but not the least, Hinduism recognizes that extraordinary individuals, incarnating or reincarnating arise in our midst every now and then with extraordinary psychic powers just as super heroes come about every now and then in other fields of human activity. There is no genetic or any other explanation for any of that as of now in scientific terms. Reincarnation of Information matrices in ways we do not quite understand at the present time may be involved here.