Thus Spake the Divine - Advaita and Nuclear Science

Thus Spake the Divine

Advaita and Nuclear Science

In this chapter, Poojyasri Maha Periyava constructs an exotic connection between the philosophy of Advaita and Atom Bomb, thereby throwing more light on Advaita philosophy.

As long as this life exists, desires will also exist. There will be sorrows, fears and animosities. Freeing ourselves from all these gets us the state of Moksha. Only with absorption of Advaita philosophy can one experience the “Blissful Moksha” on this earth itself, with freeing of the self from emotional attachments, worries, fears and hatred. Fear will arise only if there exists something alien to us, and there will be either attachment towards it or animosity against it. If we attain wisdom of Advaita that guides us towards the thought that there is no other being; whatever we see is all one Paramatma, then, where is the source for any kind of attachment, fear, anger and worry? Scorpion and snake pose threat to us. If we identify ourselves both as snake and scorpion, then there would not be any kind of fear, isn’t it? If we get that awareness that “we” are into “everything”, we will always experience the natural bliss. This is the state of Moksha. It is not necessary that we should go someplace and seek Moksha only after the decay of this physical body. If we attain Advaita wisdom that “Everything is identical with the Brahmam”, then, we will experience the state of Moksha here and now itself.

It might occur to one, “How is it right to say that everything is identical when we are seeing with our own eyes so many kinds of substances with typical variances among them?” Either what we see through our own eyes must be the absolute truth, or whatever Vedanta says, or experiences of saints and sages reveal, which is Advaita, must be the absolute truth.

The one, which is the absolute truth, must give us enduring happiness, peace and contentment. But in our real life, there is no peace, happiness or contentment! They are only prevalent in the “Advaita” philosophy, as pronounced by Vedanta! Only the learned saints, who experience the Advaita philosophy, are always filled with happiness, contentment and composure, as against those who suffer from sorrows. From this itself, it can be inferred that Advaita is the absolute truth (which states that “everything is identical with the Brahmam”) isn’t it? In our dreams, we see many things. But once we are awake, what happens to those things seen in the dream?

Remaining is only the person who has gone through the dream. Likewise, the entire universe is like only a dream. If we awaken ourselves in a conscious state after departing from the Maya (illusion), we can experience that there remains the only one, which is the Paramatma.

Modern science has evidently accepted and also established that though the world that we see appears with diverse elements, yet only one element dwells within all these diverse elements. About 50 years before, science had been propagating that all things existing in the universe are encompassed within the 72 elements. The earlier interpretation was that each element is different from one another. Now, with the advent of enhanced knowledge on Atom, experts in the field of science have established that even all these elements are not different from each other and only one ‘energy’ permeates in all these elements. Modern science says that Matter and Energy are not two different things. Therefore, science also demonstrates the underlying philosophy of Advaita as the absolute truth. Learned scientists like Einstein and Sir James Jeans have come closer to the doctrine of Advaita advocated by Upanishads and Shankara Bhagavadpada.

It is really sad to know that despite identifying the fact that Matter and Energy co-exist, atomic scientists have applied that concept to invent the Atom Bomb. The absurdity is quite obvious. That the application of philosophy of Advaita by science on external elements of the world has stopped at the knowledge level. The adoption of Advaita philosophy by science should not stop at sheer knowledge level and external world. It should interrogate the internal world, which paves way for the external world. It should not stop with the brain of people; it should penetrate the emotions of people. If the wisdom is that the entire mankind is one and is infused through science, then the same modern science, which discovered the Atom Bomb, can do justice to its own discovery of self-destruction by offsetting it with supreme self-wellbeing.

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