One reader after reading my first post Click here on the subject has posted the following question:
Q: Hey after reading this blog, my mind is filled with a lot of questions. There have been cases where dead people come back to life but most of them dont remember during that short time span and the ones who remember recall a godly person in a robe telling them there time has not come. Is that a perception of their unconscious mind? also there is a rarest of rare medical condition in which people die suddenly and come back to life, sometimes in their graves, about to get buried. really shocking documentary i saw on discovery. What could be the reason for that? And this thing about destiny. we are told that we are punished for what we do by God. But its also evidently written in Bhagwat Gita that nothing happens without God's will. So how can we be punished for something that is already meant to happen?
Ans:
Q: Hey after reading this blog, my mind is filled with a lot of questions. There have been cases where dead people come back to life but most of them dont remember during that short time span and the ones who remember recall a godly person in a robe telling them there time has not come. Is that a perception of their unconscious mind? also there is a rarest of rare medical condition in which people die suddenly and come back to life, sometimes in their graves, about to get buried. really shocking documentary i saw on discovery. What could be the reason for that? And this thing about destiny. we are told that we are punished for what we do by God. But its also evidently written in Bhagwat Gita that nothing happens without God's will. So how can we be punished for something that is already meant to happen?
Ans:
Life, as we are living is not the
only possible way to live. It is only the extension of one of the possible
ways. For us life is about education, job, marriage, children etc. we have established
societies although we never share. Even our creativity is money and career
oriented. We began with stones and now we have stones from Moon in our hands.
This seems one remarkable journey. But can we say that the current style of
living is the only possible best way to live life?
Can we say that there was always
a place for clothes, fire/salt/oil for preparing our food in the life process?
Life intended us to live in that way? In one chilling winter night in Punjab,
me and one of my friend was wandering in the streets to enjoy the winter. We
saw some beggars in the streets crying for warm clothes. My friend said, “what
our life could have been without clothes? We could have died. But God has
already arranged for that”. But i was of the opinion that if we hadn’t discovered the
clothes, then we would have had some other arrangements like thick or hairy
skin like other animals. In order to cope with the adverse climate, our bodies
might have developed amazing capabilities over generations. Just Like in place
of fuel based propulsion engine to fly, we could have invented anti gravity.
Can’t we have a social system
where nothing is personal…no personal property…everything belongs to the
society and people do work to satisfy their urge for creativity, contribution.
I mean, we provide meaning to
life as per our definitions…definitions which are relative to our level of
perception…definitions which says there are good and bad deeds….and bad deeds
are punishable. But you see the world around you and nowhere you will find any
application of this rule as established by GOD or Mother Nature. No such rule got
activated when that innocent girl “nirbhaya” was being raped and killed in Delhi…no
God came down to save her. In fact no God has ever come down to save any of crores
of such girls. No God has ever come down to save innocent babies who are killed
in accidents or murdered.
You come out and see with open
eyes and you will see only one rule…Survival of the fittest. It is dedicatedly
followed in Jungle where every moment is about survival.
I don’t deny God…he is-for
consciousness can’t be without superconsciousness but question is whether our
observation or experience about him is right or we can better say absolute. Because
if not saving a poor girl is a sin for us then the same thing applies to God
also because he sees and knows everything as we depict him.
Life is stranger than we think.
If being God is love and compassion then why still hate and cruelty prevails?
Does something is out of control of Almighty or we can’t comprehend the complete
picture of life? With our current set of observations we’ll only reach “what
created God”…this question is way too heavy for our tiny minds…we just can’t
comprehend something out of nothing.
This question is still staring at
us…but instead of solving we have pronounced the way of Almighty…declared his
likings and disliking. But I feel the mystery is still unsolved. A rope becomes
a snake in utter darkness.
I am of the view that
consciousness is multi layered. We, the humans, are somewhere in middle with
things like stones at the lowest…they have lowest level of life or
consciousness. We can’t make a lion realize the pain of a deer, his prey…we
can’t teach him kindness…for him deer is just food…his level of consciousness
limits him upto that. But we, the human, know that people have died without
food for their love.
In the same way, Devtas like
Indra and others are those who are above us in hierarchy and so they understand
life and existence much better than us. And perhaps somewhere in these layers
lies a consciousness who understands the mystery of God. And when some human
transforms…like Buddha, Mahaveera…he moves up the ladder and then there is no
returning back.
Although we can’t understand the
mystery of creation (or GOD) from nothing or of a universe which is ALWAYS here
but yet we KNOW that it has really Happened as only because of that happening
we are here…the only thing which we don’t or can’t seem to know is HOW it has
happened.
Hence we are wrong in our perception
that our understanding of life is an absolute one. Life is really much more
complex than a two sum game of good and bad.
Regarding Lord Krishna saying
that everything is a will of God…I feel he was saying this to Arjuna to persuade
him to go for War, who didn't want to go for the war and I feel logic wasn’t that great because Arjuna could have
told him that his decision to move away from war was also a will of God. How
can one decide the will of God? Millions died in Tsunami…whether it was a will
of God? Had I tried to save someone from dying, would it have been an
opposition to will of God? Who will decide and how? Will of God is a
psychological concept to console ourselves in adversity.
90% of our universe is dark
matter…means the matter which we can’t see and comprehend but it is there and
everywhere. As scientists look closer at the speeds of stars in some galaxies,
they find something strange. The individual stars in a galaxy should act like
the planets in our solar system--the farther away from the center (in our Milky
way, the sun) , the slower they should move. But the Doppler Shift reveals that
the stars in many galaxies do not slow down at farther distances. And on top of
that, the stars move at speeds that should rip the galaxy apart; there is not
enough measured mass to supply the gravity needed to hold the galaxy together.
It is possible only if galaxy
contains more mass than was calculated. Scientists theorize that, if the galaxy
was surrounded or filled by huge unseen matter, the galaxy could remain stable
at such high rotational speeds.
This unseen matter is Dark Matter
which is staggering 90%. Not only are we not at the center of the universe as we
know it, but we aren't even made up of the same stuff as most of the universe. universe
is something completely different, We are just this small excess, an insignificant
phenomenon…perhaps a wastage…
Gurpreet Singh.