When Science met God…
Segment Eight
A Tryst with God !
The email read: Dear Ms. Gita, V.S. Ramachandran, professor at the University of California, San Diego says, "all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love lives, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards as his or her own intimate private self - is simply the activity of the 100 billion neurons in our brain." Given the above, I think, there are three ways of reaching "God" or "Nirvana" or "ego-less conscious state.” 1. Spontaneous realization as may have occurred in many of the mystics in India...
‘Why the frown my courageous soldier?’ asked the Lord, tenderly looking at the face of Science. Not losing the frown of concentration, Science looked into the Father’s eyes - hoping for clarity without a dialogue. That seemed elusive... So he decided to ask... Science: Is Faith ignorance? God: (Shocked) What? Science: Well, why does man struggle so much? After all you have created a humongous universe with everything needed for life on earth embedded in it. He needs oxygen and he has a nose for that. He needs food for energy and you gave him a digestive system. He needs...
“Lord I have a question”, said Science. “I know that you never create anything that is redundant. So what is the purpose of Fear?” God gently pointed Science to the lawns of Lahiri resorts. There amidst the gentle cold breeze, divine music and a hundred angels stood a man in white and white pyjama kurta and me in awestruck fear incapable of even comprehending what was unfolding that very moment… It is easy to dissolve into gratitude. For me, it the easiest thing to do... One flower, one smile, one word, one look, one glance from his eyes, and I...
There was once an argument among the gods over where to hide the secret of life so that men and women would not find it. One god said: Bury it under a mountain; they will never look there. No, the others said, one day they will find ways to dig up mountains and will uncover it. Another said : Sink it in the depths of the ocean; it will be safe there. No the others objected, humans will one day find a way to plumb the ocean's depths and find it easily. How about among the planets and black holes?...
It has been a long wait. They say Buddha took 500 odd births to achieve enlightenment. I can’t be any less nor claim to be more, so I must have taken the same evolutionary time. Oh I sense that smile. You think I have not yet met Him. Well, may be it is in my past. Or may be from where you see, it is still in my distant future. What ever it may be, let’s not argue about this shall we? I have much more important things to share. I can share those only ‘after’ I have met Him....
Written by Gita Krishna Raj | Published in infinithoughts as a series between 2008 & 2015