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 14 Nov 2011 @ 15:21
When challenged, people’s bravery and ingenuity know no bounds. OWS is people’s direct action against the corporate greed and its political support base. In their struggle against an already fearsome opponent, now the people in this nascent stage find one more unusual foe lending a helping hand to their bitter opponent: the winter weather. The winter has added more – and is going to add still more – woes to the embattled people.
The question is: how do we overcome this natural impediment and emerge at the end of the ordeal intact in our body and soul of the movement? It is possible for the people to wear out this winter unscathed and emerge even stronger at the end of the trial. The secret of this success lies in the way of our working and thinking about this movement.
We must recognize that OWS is a people’s action against the corporate greed and its political support-base and that it seeks to replace this duo with something better with the aid of people’s power. We should also recognize that this something better has to be discovered or invented by the people themselves to solve their problems in hands and cannot be borrowed in a ready-made fashion from our opponents; this something better to solve our problems cannot be supplied to us by the so-called researched SOLUTIONS of these opponents.
Let us put this question in a straight forward way: what do we want to do, supposing we win in our (OWS) efforts? Perhaps, a major part of us at the OWS would agree that we want to replace the present corporate greed nurtured and protected by our political establishment (s) with the sovereign governance “of the people, by the people, for the people” – this time in EFFECTIVE MANNER.
If this be our aim, then we would be called upon to change our attitude – the working – towards OWS: we can no longer afford to view this movement as something negative, a mere protest, an opposition to something (like corporate greed) that we do not want to remain in our country; a negative stand and nothing more. This view is half-truth. The other half-truth is that we are a people’s movement aiming at positive things; that we are struggling to replace the present rot with the people’s governance; that we have the right to assume that we have the sovereign right to govern ourselves; that we have the RESPONSIBILITIES to perform like a sovereign government to MANAGE our things in a better manner than the management imposed upon us by our opponents.
In simple words, this calls for our engagement during this winter in constructive works; we should take in our hands constructive work of improving the people’s lot; we should occupy ourselves (as if we are running a government of the people, by the people, for the people) with the jobs aimed at resolving the people’s problems (that we are currently facing). These constructive works would include:
1. Occupy all available houses/buildings to shelter the OWS participants; make an appeal to all those who may offer their properties free of charge (this is opposite to greed and would be people’s reply to this greed) to OWS movement to house the participants. This step would help reduce the harshness of winter, enhance the unity and goodwill among participants and would be people’s reply to the devil’s creed of greed. This step would facilitate the movement to survive the winter and emerge in spring more strong – morally and politically.
2. Learn to enforce self-discipline: OWS is crucible of social experiment of people’s self-governance in all matters of their lives, albeit for a short period of winter season. There may be (rather would be) scarcity of food, cloths, medicines etc. during this trial and people should learn to give preference in supplying these necessities to weak, old, infirm, children, women and those in more need over those who can wait for these supplies. This step calls for sacrifice, love and compassion to others on the part of OWS participants, which is just opposite to the evil of greed. These values, when practiced by people would be a harsh reply to our opponents’ greed and their animal instinct of celebrating over other people’s miseries. We the people are the sovereign rulers – and we shall rule ourselves directly and effectively rather soon than expected. Let us replace people’s regulation by corporate greed with their own self-regulation with discipline. This way, we shall emerge this winter triumphant and more robust in our popular appeal in coming spring.
3. Learn to control crime, drug-abuse, sexual crimes, racial hatred etc.: These are grave problems being faced by OWS on day to day basis and we have to learn to correct these social maladies in a better way than the one adopted by our opponents. Let the competent volunteers among the OWS participants invent social and/or psychological tools (like offering personal examples by volunteers of amiable behavior) to help the afflicted persons to improve himself or herself and bring a beneficial change in their life-style. In a self-regulating society (like OWS), these drug-addicts and deviants should be taken the victims of circumstances created by the corporate greed – these circumstances being the bye-products of the hot-pursuit of more profits by the greedy corporate. Let the people use their ingenuity during this difficult period – winter season – to work constructively and find ways and means to cure our society of these ills. Any achievement – even a small one – by people on this front would be enough to demolish the claimed validity of the insensitive methods that have so far been used by our antagonists to tackle these problems. And, this our method would establish the superiority of the people’s self-regulation and governance in solving their problems over the methods of devil’s creed.
4. Organize voluntary and parallel health services: This is another field of experimenting with the idea of creating a better alternative voluntary and cooperative health services for the OWS participants. Let us pool our health related resources – expertise and means – and use them efficiently without the element of greed. This service is the most essential to make OWS survive through this winter.
Good luck from Indian People's Congress
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7 Nov 2011 @ 10:22
OWS has its origin in US but its core element of the people’s direct action against corporate greed supported by political establishment has worldwide ramification. This movement has global popular support and sympathetic resonance. OWS is pitted against an unbelievable powerful opponent – the global corporate-capital that has its life- nourishing tentacles stuck everywhere on this planet and is in league with political establishments there, including US.
For OWS to succeed in US it is very necessary that this movement is spread globally and the whole humanity is pitted against this fearsome opponent. Our Earth is still divided into different political units – nations – that are mired into their own separate problems and popular issues. Still, behind these different issues, this core issue of corporate greed and its collaboration with the political establishments there is very much present in all countries.
OWS is faced with many kinds of problems calling its urgent attention. The first and the foremost problem are to face the weather – ordinary people in the open exposed to the extreme cold. It has become the topmost issue of the survival of the movement through this weather. It calls for ingenuity and bravery on the part of OWS participants; in coming month, the real fight may be against the weather and not so much against the corporate greed, of course till this winter is over.
The second problem faced by this movement would be to enlarge its scope from US to global. In the backdrop of the reality of different socio-political conditions in different countries, it is not easy to enlarge its scope; already in US the participants of OWS are not of one view on many important issues. Still, there does not seem to be any alternative to the spreading of the scope of OWS to other countries, if this movement is to succeed.
There may be a few things and issues on which a common stand of “yes and no” may be formulated by the participants for global presentation for common movement of humanity. Here are some suggestions for consideration of OWS.
We say:
NO to the dictatorship of religious thought-processes (like all religions);
YES to the freedom of enquiry into all religious thought-processes;
NO to the dictatorship of political thought-processes (like Marxism, Nazism, Anarchism, Capitalism etc.);
YES to the freedom of scientific evaluation of all political thought-processes;
NO to the political dictatorship (like Communism, Socialism, Deformed Democracy etc.);
YES to the freedom of choice for Democracy, Direct Democracy, and Self-Governance;
NO to the dictatorship of corporate in the matters of carrying on production, distribution and consumption of commodities through their capital;
YES to the freedom of people in the matters of carrying on production, distribution and consumption of commodities through their Direct Democracy.
NO to the enforced-compulsion of commitment to only one nation, race, economic unit, one king;
YES to the freedom of choice to commit oneself to the human unity and her global welfare;
NO to the right of corporate to injure nature in pursuit of their greed;
YES to the right of people to save Earth.
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26 Oct 2011 @ 13:38
I am keenly following the OCCUPY movement of American people. While I am all with the just cause of this movement, I wish to draw the attention of American people to the deeper issue raised by this movement.
The substance of this movement is the economic discontent of people in America, and even global humanity which is making this movement spread around the world. What are the causes of these unfortunate conditions inflicted on people the world-over? This question raises the need of serious consideration on our part. In one word it is the CORPORATE GREED. but it is simplistic explanation of the truth. While coping with the present emergent situation, let us put the whole thing in the historical prespective and shape our future.
Let us not be blinded by the glare of the present glittering civilization. Let us make our mind immune to the surrounding influence of the present and look beyond. Let us look at the tomorrow that is unfolding before our own eyes. What does the coming time hold in store for us? Can we derive some lessons from the historical prespective of this our movement and chalk out a better and effective strategy to deal with the present situation?
Let us learn economics and history. Human beings require commodities, like food, clothes etc., to meet their needs, wants and demands. These commodities are not available in nature in ready-made forms; they are needed to be produced by us; and, they are produced by human interaction with ready-made or naturally available materials. There are many things already available in nature in the form of raw material etc. but they may not be useful to us unless the same are transformed in an artificial manner by us into something useful to meet our needs and demands; these raw things need to be converted into commodities. To convert raw things into finished commodities we require two basic elements: firstly, we require an input of energy from an outside source to carry out the process of this conversion or transformation; and, secondly, we require a human element of contriving a social-mechanism that puts this transformation-process into motion. The history of this ever-changing social-mechanism, which change is brought about by the constant development of science and technology, is the history of economic progress and social development.
At the dawn of human civilization – a period when humans just emerged out of animal living conditions – in the hunter-gatherers society, the first element, an input of energy for production, was provided by humans themselves; they hunted animals and gathered food from nature. To make this difficult economic-way-of-life work smoothly, the social-mechanism of organizing humans into an extended clan (that is, a large tribal family) was established. With the advancement of science and technology, a new and developed agricultural society came into existence, where this energy-input was provided by animals, like oxen, horses etc. Again, to make this economic way-of-life work smoothly, a feudal social-mechanism came into being where persons with better circumstances took over as landlords (Zamindars) and kings, and those with unfortunate circumstances found themselves as serfs and land-tillers. With further scientific and technological advances, a new industrial economic way-of-life came into existence where this motive-energy input is provided by fuel-driven machines. To make this economic way-of-life work smoothly, a modern social-mechanism of capital controlled democracy came into being where persons with better circumstances overtook as owners of wealth producing machines and those with unfortunate circumstances were pushed to the position of laborers on those machines.
Again, with the advancement of science and technology today, as ever, a new and better economic way-of-life is coming into existence. In this new economic way-of-life, the human-element involved in the production-process (in the forms of hunters of tribal society or land-tillers of feudal society or laborers/workers of industrial society) would be replaced, for the first time in human history, by a completely non-human element of artificial intelligence in the form of automated robotics production. This non-human element, for the first time in human history, would almost completely eliminate the need of human beings in commodities production-process.
On the strength of already available technology (like digital-software, nano-technology, bio-computers, DNA-engineering etc.), we can forecast that very soon the employment of laborers to operate machines to produce commodities would become a thing of the past. To make this new economic way-of-life work smoothly, which social way-of-life is going to become the need of the new situation? Here comes a dilemma before the human race and a turning point in her civilization. There would be available only two alternative courses, both opposite to each other, to choose from in order to allow the new economic way-of-life to work smoothly; firstly, allow the capital to run the automated production-process and let the major part of humanity remain unemployed for want of work (and, of course, make provisions to fire fight against global mass discontent); or, secondly, allow sea of humanity (through info-technologically empowered democracy) to run the automated production and let the capital starve of investment opportunity (and, again, be ready to face social turmoil caused by the deprived capital). The inevitable consequences that would ensue on following one of these two alternatives do not augur well for the immediate future of the peace loving humanity.
When these two available alternatives to meet the need of this new economic way-of-life are compared for the purpose of ascertaining their respective likelihood of their adoption in near future, we find strong reasons to support the premise that the global human population will not allow a situation where they are condemned to remain unemployed for all times to come. But what can a lot of disadvantaged and unorganized mass of human beings do in face of the bitter opposition of the privileged and organized capital that is globally well-entrenched? Here comes the role of mind and reason in the forward movement of humanity.
There are hundreds of ways of looking at things; and, all these observations have relativist values. We can look at the human evolution from the angle of the development of consciousness. We humans have biological needs, desires, mind and heart; and, these elements are better evolved in humans than animals. The history of economics and society is propelled, guided and shaped by the determining relative roles of these elements. In the primitive hunting tribal society, the propelling role was played by the tribes’ biological needs; although desires, mind and heart were also present there but they were underdeveloped, subdued and played only a secondary role to support the prime biological needs of the society. In agricultural society, these biological needs were fulfilled by surplus production and the desire started playing a increasing role in organizing life (music, poetry, art and craft found a place); although biological needs, mind and heart were also there but they gave a helping hand to desires in shaping life.
In industrial society, the element of mind started playing an increasing role in shaping life and although the other remaining elements of biological needs, desires and heart are present there but they only gave a supportive hand to this life’s organization. These zones are not clear-cut territories but ever-shifting water-sheds and in all forms of society these elements play their roles and remain very much parts of human consciousness.
Today, with the advent of a new economic way-of-life, we need to provide a place to heart to play a greater role in organizing human life and direct the other three elements of biological needs, desires and mind to help heart shape and organize life. The life that is organized by the element of heart does not allow the capital to run production and render global human mass workless. This new social way-of-life would on the one hand ensure the smooth working of the new economic way-of-life and, on the other, would be better and higher from the evolutionary point of view.
Are we ready to work for an economic way-of-life where the capital would be denied the right to invest in production process? Are we ready to empower people by the adoption of info-technology in running our democracy? Are we ready to choose or reject our political leaders who may have put us in the present dismal conditions by demanding that info-technology be used for DAILY elections of our political leaders? Do we understand the importance of this measure, a measure that would impose an iron discipline of people on our political leaders and capital?
Let us be clear on these things and let the intelligent people chalk out an effective strategy for this movement to guarantee its success of its declared goals.
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3 Sep 2011 @ 08:14
Quote 1:
Mankind has been groping for ages to know the truth, the truth of everything. It has ever been so. It is the most cherished ideal of humanity. It is the truth alone that shall prevail.”
(Quote from “The Story of True India”).
Quote 2:
“We find in history seeds of human culture that sprout again and again in new forms but with the same qualitative contents to meet new situations brought into existence by the passage of time. We foresee that these seeds are once again ready to sprout in the fertile soil of our times. Our times are fully ripe for the germination of the old seeds. Our times are fret with problems that are unparalleled and unheard of in human history. These problems are so grave in their consequences and so encompassing in their scale that they put the mankind’s existence at peril. These are ideally fertile times for germination of the old seeds – that had saved mankind many a times in the past – once again in new forms. Mankind embattled with these problems is once again ready to listen – as in the past – to the teachings that have been taught in ages past in different contexts and different forms. A new civilization that offers this old seed in new form to bail out mankind is the need of the hour. There are three signs of this new civilization. Firstly, it would be based on the new understanding by human beings of the prime reality that has always existed there. Secondly, this understanding of the prime reality would be uniform for human beings and would not be divisive in nature as it had been in the past. The evolution of mind would not only remove the geographic distance among different sections of mankind but it would also remove the difference of perceptions of the prime reality among these sections. And, thirdly, this prime reality, though still mystic to mind, would be supported by its reason. New civilization has not yet dawned on our Earth, where people have already gone global. Whenever it makes its debut, it would be compulsive in its utility and global in its reach. But this utility would not be its chief strength. Its strength would rather lie in the realization by our race that it has re-discovered the reality in a manner – so called scientific manner – that is the only one acceptable to reason and that this reality though always existed there but remained mystic to mind. This realization would profoundly change mankind’s priorities and its institutions of collective living would accordingly undergo a revolutionary change. All these institutions – economics, culture and politics – could then no longer be allowed by the enlightened collective societal life to further the egoistic agenda of an individual or a group of few individuals.”
(Quote from “The Story of True India” page 83).
Quote 3:
“One thing seems clear: humanity has reached such a generalized state of tension – tension in effort, tension in action, tension even in daily life – with such an excessive hyperactivity, such an overall restlessness, that the species as a whole seems to have reached a point where it must either burst through the resistance and surge forth into a new consciousness, or else sink back into an abysm of obscurity and inertia. This tension is so total and so generalized that obviously something must break. It cannot go on like this. Yet all this is a sure sign that a new principle of force, consciousness and power has been infused into matter and by its very pressure has produced this acute state. Outwardly, we might expect to see the old habitual means used by Nature whenever she wants to bring about an upheaval; but here there is a new phenomenon, which is evidently visible only in a select few, although even these few wide spread enough – this phenomenon is not localized in one point or one place in the world, for the signs are to be found in every country all over the earth: the will to find a new, a higher, an ascending solution, an effort to surge forth into a vaster, more encompassing perfection. Certain ideas of a more general, more extensive, more collective nature, as it were, are being worked out and are at work in the world. And the two go together: a greater and more total possibility of destruction and an inventiveness that unrestrainedly increases the possibility of catastrophe, a catastrophe that would be much more massive than it has ever been; and at the same time, the birth, or rather the manifestation, of much higher and more comprehensive ideas and wills which, when heard, will bring a vaster, more extensive, more complete and more perfect solution than before. This struggle, this conflict between the constructive forces of an ascending evolution, of an increasingly perfect and divine realization, and the more and more destructive forces – powerfully destructive, forces of an uncontrollable madness – is becoming more obvious, unmistakably visible, and it is a kind of race or battle as to which will be first to reach its goal. All the hostile, anti-divine forces, these forces of the vital world, seem to have descended upon earth and are using it as their field of action; and at the same time, a new, higher, more powerful spiritual force has also descended upon earth to bring a new life to it. This renders the battle more bitter, violent and visible, but apparently more decisive, too, which is why we may hope to arrive at an early solution.”
(Quote from page 167 vol. 1 of “The Mother’s Agenda” being conversations of the Mother of Pondicherry, India)
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2 Sep 2011 @ 16:49
Market economy is not a self-sustaining wholesome mechanism of economic development of humanity but an outright crime against them. Humans are not the sum total of their needs and their greatest concern is not to somehow meet those needs(that is, meeting these needs is not their greatest concern today at the socio-economic evolution which they have achieved and where they produce more than they need, it may be the greatest concern of humans who still live tribal conditions or of animals living in the wild.) Humans are much more complex than their physical needs; they need socio-cultural ambience that promotes their emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing more than meeting their physical needs. Market economy by its very nature is destructive of this ambience. This is an internal harm caused to humans by this economy. Externally, this economy sets in motion a chain reaction of cause and effect that consumes Earth’s natural resources more in extent than it can replenish them. It robs Earth her capacity to offer humanity free gifts. Market economy fuels a fierce competition among rivals to seize those resources and tends to exploit them more in extent than Earth could replenish them. Market economy is a crime against humanity. The early this menace is banished from Earth the better it is for humanity. New civilization should have no place for this economy.
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26 Aug 2011 @ 13:31
Today India is passing through a unique revolution. It is people’s revolution by all measures and it is unique because it is non-violent. It is a revolution not less than the Russian October, 1917 revolution because it is a stirred mass of human beings not less in number than of Russia.
But this revolution is just opposite the Russia’s Soviet revolution; it is like opposite mirror image of that event. The Russian upheaval passed its zigzags way to a success by a pragmatic use of the force of violence, while Indian upheaval is passing through its zigzags way in an unplanned manner towards its destination by the sheer moral force of non-violence and truth. While the non-violence and the insistence on truth by the Indian agitators may provide them among masses a moral approval higher in degree than the use of violent means, the movement has no well defined object towards which it could be geared by its leaders and, hence, has less chances of achieving its supposed objective.
While the Russian upheaval began with the people’s demand for bread and peace, Indian one is demanding an end to corruption.
The vision of Russian people’s efforts was guided by well defined ideology that sought to put the supremacy of a class of people (working people) and did not stop at the demand of bread and peace, the Indian people’s guiding vision is Gandhian ideal of the welfare of all sections of people and particularly people on the last rung of Indian society, that is, the most deprived, the most suppressed, the most weak.
And, by all accounts it seems that the Indian stirrings would not stop at the measures against corruption.
The Russian popular commotion’s leader (Lenin) was the follower of Karl Marx who advocated the abolition of private property and the leader of India’s popular discontent (Anna Hazare) is the follower of Mahatma (great soul) (Mohandas Karamchand) Gandhi who advocated that “saree bhoomi Gopal kee” (which can be roughly translated as “all property belongs to God”) and held that the people owning property should treat themselves as mere trustees of that property for the welfare of others.
Thus, there are similarities between these two national stirrings but they are just the opposite of each other like a mirror image. One may very well compare the graphics of popular discontent in “Ten Days that Shook the World” of John Reed with the Indian Summer Discontent of 2011 and would find a great similarity between the two except that in the former the popular mood was defined by blood-letting and in the later it is insisting on non-violence despite trying circumstances.
The man behind this social upheaval in India is a person called Anna Hazare. He thinks like his mentor Mahatma Gandhi; he acts like Gandhi; he also stirs ordinary millions of Indian people like Gandhi. Gandhi was a saintly person who was the moving spirit behind a successful non-violent struggle of Indian people against the British colonial rule.
Anna is not a young man bubbling with youthful energy fired by Gandhian ideals; he is an old man; a man of 74 years. He advocates non-violence in carrying out public protest against corruption.
A sketch of his personal character would run like this: a person dedicated to Gandhian ideas; stubborn in his resolute actions in carrying out the decisions once he has taken; simple life style with very little needs; possessing almost no private property and living in a temple room.
He is honest to the core in personal life and dealings; proven track record of life-long honesty and self-less public service; motivated to serve people in early life and for that reason did not even marry; joined Indian army, lead disciplined life there and battled at the front; was emotionally attached to his comrades there to the extreme and on their death in war even suffered depression.
After retirement from military service, he did not sit back at home but became actively involved in public causes and motivated people for self-help in his native village to dig canal in stony terrain to irrigate their farm lands; motivated local people to become self reliant in carrying out their decisions and expanded his area of concerns from his village and neighborhood to state of Maharashtra; opposed corruption of State government Ministers, beaurocrates and businessmen, and became target of these powerful enemies.
He resorted to abstaining from food (fast) and hunger strikes to mobilize people’s support for his cause of fighting corruption by big and powerful people; got tremendous public support and earned public goodwill through this way of protest but earned wrath and also enmity of powerful people; assassin hired by these powerful enemies to kill him, refused to kill him and demanded his employers to assign any target whosoever but Anna Hazare.
By his persistent mass mobilization against those powerful corrupt people, he forced the State government, which was in league with those corrupt and powerful people, to act against them.
He is emi-literate and not idealist, he is a very practical and pragmatic person who is able to sense the situation, create and read public mood; though getting light from the Gandhian ideas and ways, he is not a blind imitator of Gandhi’s words. He is able to read the disguised evil intentions of government and its authorities and capable to devise cunning tactics to defeat those evil intentions. In addition to the Gandhian ways, he also takes inspiration from Shivaji (an eighteenth century Maratha ruler who outsmarted Aurangzeb – the Indian king) to craft his strategies to outwit the present corrupt rulers of the country.
He created public pressure on the govt. to make his team a part of the govt. exercise of law making to fight corruption; insisting public broadcasting of live debates to expose govt. ministers’ stand on measures to fight corruption; he knows public agitation cannot be sustained for long and announces programs to give brief spells of rest between phases of agitation.
He is open to the public in his intentions and programs to get a high moral ground than the govt. which always resorts to cheating to defeat his agitation.
On being arrested, he started his fast in jail; on being released, he refuses to come out of jail on govt. terms; guiding his agitation from jail, makes the govt. kneel down to his terms of his coming out of jail; rides on truck triumphantly with huge public around him from jail to a bigger public place- Ramlila Maidan - to continue his agitation, while earlier he was refused permission for a smaller public place for his agitation and on his persisting was arrested. In his first moves, he defeated the govt. strategy to stop his agitation. Presently, he is engaged in the war of wits in designing tactics and strategy with the Government of India, wherein the Govt. is resorting to cheatings, lies and dishonesty to defeat his mission and he is resorting to transparency, truth and exposure of Govt. stand to outwit his enemy, the Government of India.
Additional resources:
India on the boil
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27 Jul 2011 @ 10:05
Sometimes one is blessed with a moment of serene tranquility, which is otherwise a rare commodity in this tumultuous world, world within and world without. In those precious moments, one is left all alone to live by himself (please treat him as including her as well). This loneliness is not the kind of moment that saddens him. It is a heavenly moment. One simply enjoys being present there. One is free like a bird there, flying at will into the past of your life, amazing you how far you have travelled from your childhood; wondering at where you have put yourself in your present circumstances. This moment is much like the glimpse of a person on his death bed about to depart from this world. One can search to find such precious moments. One can try to create such heavenly moments; it is all a matter of making a certain mental attitude towards your life and this world. Once we experience such a moment, we can prolong its duration by conscious efforts and practice. It is bliss to be left alone. It is the height of individualism.
We are happy there at being face to face with whatever we are; we should try to prolong this happiness. We should try to be happy with our circumstances, in which we have put ourselves by our conduct. We were free and we had a choice; we did take a decision and made efforts to fructify that decision to our capacity. We must reap the harvest of our actions, with honesty and without rebellion; this is dignified attitude towards life. And, nobody stops us from changing our decisions and amending our actions henceforth; we are masters of our decisions, priorities and efforts but we are not masters of the circumstances our decisions and actions produce for us. The best, and the most rational, attitude towards life is to remain happy, in whatever circumstances we have placed ourselves. We have mind and let us be rational. This attitude towards life is not only logically correct but also to our own advantage. It saves us from the deadly weight of adverse circumstances trying to crush us; it saves our mental health.
Let us be happy. But it is not enough. Let everybody be happy. All are free to choose their actions but are not free to choose or not to choose the fruits of those actions; your actions follow you and my actions follow me. We all have been put alike in a peculiar position: half free and half slave! Let me be happy and let me see happiness around me. This additional positive element in our attitude towards life is not only justified but also, likewise, is advantageous to us; it saves taxing our mind with negative – and harmful – feelings of jealousy. We must have empathy with all and understanding of their difficult circumstances; let us be considerate to them and see them happy as well. This much is about our attitude towards life; but, what about us, when we are face to face with us and are left alone to fend for ourselves?
Suppose for a moment, our death is not the end of the matter; suppose, it is not the end of our existence (whatever this existence constitutes); suppose, something of us still survives after our death. Be with you in that happy moment and ask this question in the reigning tranquility. Enjoy the moment and enjoy the answer! It is an experiment and it is an experience. There is nothing more that can be said on this aspect; it is not a matter of reason and argument. But reason can be advanced against the supposition made in favor of survival of something after one’s death. Is this supposition reasonable at all? The liability to answer to this question squarely lies with science; one may surf the web and form an opinion of science’s answer on this aspect.
Imagine the supposition is correct; how should one react to the whole problem of life and his attitude towards it? Then, the life and its meaning would not remain the same for him. Then, he would search for his station in the Space and the Time; this search would bring a sea change in his attitude towards life.
Further reading links:
Our station in Space & Time
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26 Jun 2011 @ 07:05
New Civilization is not a day dreaming to escape the harsh realities of the Present Civilization. New Civilization is a new way of human life on Earth. We are inching towards it. It is a natural process of movement being propelled by the mechanism of humans' collective evolution. This evolutionary process may be guided by us to avoid the pitfalls on the way. It can be hastened by our conscious efforts. Human beings are not mere blocks of things being tossed this and that way by the current of Time. They are highly conscious beings capable of taking decisions. New Civilization is the next evolutionary stage of our collective life. It is a concrete object achievable in future. New Civilization calls for a concrete, comprehensive and practical program on the part of those who envision and cherish it. It calls for a total change in the way we think, in the way we conduct ourselves, in the way we live. This change does not exclude culture, does not exclude economics, does not exclude politics. It includes all these and more. For this, a start has to be made in a very practical way and this start has to be made by some people and at some place on Earth. We live in a world where we still live in nations, where we are divided by races, where we still nourish our separate economic interests. And, we have to make this start from this divided humans' collective life. This start has been made in India in a very practical and apparant way by launching a people's gethering under INDIAN PEOPLE'S CONGRESS.
Website: Indian People's Congress
Indian People's Congress may be accessed at this link: Indian People's Congress
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25 Oct 2008 @ 05:37
New Civilization would have:
1. Politics of democracy where people are empowered by technology to side-step the ill-effects of money in electing representatives and are entitled to elect and recall them constantly.
2. Economy of employing technology in the service of people, where it is used to reduce their working-time and thus free them from over-work for others, and not in the service of private profits.
3. Culture of knowledge where spiritual truth is reached by walking the path of scientific wisdom.
4. Society of tolerance where the intolerant breed – of ideological, religious or of any other kind – is detected isolated and decisively defeated by the united strength of tolerant breeds.
Further reading links:
Technology and democracy Self-governance
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4 Oct 2008 @ 14:50
Is there any law operating in nature that governs its creation or at least its functions? And nature here is meant in its widest scope, which range from inert world of dead and dark matter to highly intelligent human beings on earth and their complex society. If there is one, is it possible to decipher and understand the same? If there is one and we are able to understand it, is there any useful purpose that may be served by the discovery? These are some of the important questions that are of fundamental nature.
In our understanding things, we go by either by the evidence of induction or alternatively reach a conclusion by deduction from a confirmed premise. Nature is so big in dimensions and substance that it is not possible by either induction or deduction to say with certainty that there is one universal law governing its even functions, leave aside its creation.
Despite this colossal difficulty, humans have always been holding that there must such a universal law. Obviously, such a law is beyond our reach, either because the law is supremely complicated one or we are yet not up to the level of mental sophistication to grasp the same. Any way, if there is one and we are able to grasp the same, it is always advantageous to have the same at our disposal.
Any law, whatever it be, enables us to predict the future consequences in a set of given circumstantial parameters. Such prediction, in turn, enables us secure advantage in either of the two ways: if we cannot change the given circumstantial parameters, we can make a change in our choice out of the available set of alternative parameters and thus avoid pitfalls lying hidden in the path of future; or we can bring out a desired result in the consequential future by changing the circumstantial parameters required by the prediction. Therefore, the discovery is advantageous and desirable.
Let us scan the available knowledge that humans possess today to identify a possible mark that may turn out a trail leading forward on the path of discovery of such a universal law. There are two streams of human wisdom, which are opposite to each other, commonly possessed by the two opposite sets of people; one is founded on reason and is called science; and the other is: spiritualism getting its sustaining energy from mysticism.
Science is a self-correcting process of knowing things, because the human reason is fed with each passing day with ever newly discovered data and this reasoned-processing bring ever new results in the form of newer or refined discoveries. Spiritualism is not a self-correcting process; it is validating and revalidating process of a truth that has always been there. Therefore, it is advantageous for us to look and scan both these rival, perhaps complimentary, streams to smell a trail-brazing footprint, which may be dimply recognized today.
In physics we know that things which are fixed to a frame (which may be taken as a reference point) which is moving in relation to another frame (which may be taken as another reference point) possess their own private and peculiar quantum of space (length etc.) and time relative to that another frame. We also know that there are an infinite number of these points of reference in universe and therefore there is equal number of varied quantum of space and time properties for every single thing in universe. This much is known.
But suppose, there are not these two properties, namely, space and time, which a thing possesses but there are three of them: these two and the third one, namely, consciousness! And, then let us apply this very concept of relativity to this fourth item also. In this case also, if there are two frames (which could be taken as reference points) which are not connected to one another, things fixed to each of the two would have their own private and peculiar three properties of space, time and consciousness. In this connection we have to keep in mind two things: firstly, there is nothing in universe that has no space or time or consciousness; that is, every thing in universe has these three properties; and secondly, there are infinite numbers of points in universe which may be taken as reference. When we say that there are infinite numbers of moving frames, which may be taken as reference points, and that things fixed to them have different and private quantum of space, time and consciousness, what do we mean in substance? We mean that if there are things that are separated from one another either in space (or location), or time (past or present) or consciousness (kind of life, at least) or in all these three properties, then those things are in fact fixed to frames that are moving in relation to one another, whether we are able to measure this movement or not. It is so because modern relativity is limited to physical movement of things but in nature there are many more kinds of separation or gradation (and physical movement is only but one of them).
Can we give some practical examples of these differentiated gradations? One well known example is the case of a traveler moving in a rocket with a speed nearing that of light and comparing his watch with the watch on earth, both watch telling different times (at the same time!?). Another example is that of a person living in present and remembering past events; or a person living in present and imagining the future events, in fact both these cases are reverse situations: a person looking from past to present or from present to past. The third example is that of a human being putting himself in the place of, say, a cat. Or, we can putt it conversely, a cat putting itself in the place of a human being. In fact, the consciousness of a cat is a reference point and from that point one can look at human being. The cat’s judgment about humans is as valid as that of humans about a cat, though both these judgments are private and peculiar to the point of reference from which things are judged. Relativity is a tool of understanding of nature, while dialectics is a tool of process of nature.
The origin of every sincere religion is spiritualism. In Christianity there are two opposite forces: Divine and Devil. In Buddhism there are Divine forces and Mara. In Islam there are Divine and Saitan. In Hinduism there are Divine and Evil forces. In all religions these two opposite forces work in opposite directions. It is dialectics. Dialectics is a tool of process of nature.
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19 Sep 2008 @ 16:27
The truth, the eternal conscious being, which is perceived by humans variously – depending upon one’s Para psychological propensity as the Supreme father, the Divine Mother, the Ultimate State or whatever kind of thing It appears to that psychology – has always been there allowing Itself or Himself bound by the law of conservation of energy. It or He was there before the birth of great leaders of mankind like Lord Buddha, Lord Jesus Christ etc. and shall always remain there.
The supreme tool of human beings for knowing things, that is, Mind, as of today is not developed enough to resolve the dilemma of the ultimate – the primordial creator or the creation. The choices available to us are either to postpone the resolution of this problem to an indefinite future, to a point of time in future when humans would be evolved enough mentally or otherwise to tackle this supreme question and proceed further on our forward march or to pass our judgments today denouncing things Divine as against Science and vice versa. The wisest choice on our part is the former option.
This timeless truth has been spoken of by credible people and there is no reason for us to doubt their integrity. The truth spoken of by them is timeless but the context and the times in which it was spoken have changed with the passage of time beyond recognition today.
While passing our judgments on their statements we should always remember that a truth has to be clothed in words, context and circumstances to make it understandable to the people of the time and relevant to their problems. Today we speak of this truth in the words of Science. It is but natural. But this process inevitably puts ostensible limitations of time-specific culture and rigid frames of contents on its otherwise limitless substance. This truth is limitless from the weak human measures. Its relevance to times and circumstances includes not the past ages alone but our (modern) age as well.
Let the rigid religious moulds formed around it by lay followers of different leaders of mankind over the ages pursue their respective old-beaten tracks, take their own course and complete their natural run. And in the meantime, let these rigid, divisive and narrow moulds thus extract out of this eternal source their due life-sustaining nectar for their remaining period of life, for the period till humans pierce these moulds and get to the bottom, to the centre, to the essence. It is for them to follow this track of outlived utility and realize its diminished utility and not for us to dissuade them from that path.
We on our part should go to this centre of eternal truth and tap its benign flood-light to expose the rampant habitations of human miseries and misfortunes on earth and to heal them by its curative energy. The sweep of the truth of which the great human leaders have spoken is not confined to individual charity and good conduct on the part of an individual; it takes within its sweeps the charity and good conduct of the organized human society.
This truth is not permissive in the face of evil times; it is revolutionary to the core. It is more revolutionary in character than any of the ordinary revolutionary human thoughts. If revolution is understood a radical change, then this eternal truth is concerned with nothing but bringing a radical change in the individual and collective human living. Let this eternal light be inscribed by us as a war cry on the revolutionary banner of the New Age.
Further reading links:
A prediction about Earth
Freedom
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11 Sep 2008 @ 15:01
In the series of intended up-coming articles we would be using a few technical terms with their definite and precise meanings. It is proper to define them; the first in the series of such terms is 'machine', which is defined here.
Definition of machine:
From the earth-moving extreme machines to the tiny digital gate circuits of a computer all are machines. What is the definition of machine? Machine is a lever, of which fulcrum is some law of nature discovered by humans, that multiplies the force of humans applied in their struggle against the odds of nature present in the form of unknown secrets of dead matter and its world, where these humans carry on their struggle to survive against these dark forces, win a victory over them and overpower nature.
Further reading links:
Machine in the service of humans More >
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6 Aug 2008 @ 07:40
Summary of what the author has said so far in these pages and going ahead in quest of a new civilization:
1. The subject matter of articles posted on these pages is not haphazard in its organization but follows a certain logical sequence.
2. We had commenced by promising to talk about human beings, their society and their evolutionary course.
3. We have dealt with these subjects in the following sequence.
4. Our curiosity to know is the engine of our progress and evolution. The conclusion is that we should advance the cause of this curiosity by liberating our search from all corrupting influences.
5. The frontiers of modern science bring us to a point where we are able to see the vast span of yet-undiscovered things of bizarre nature. The scientific theories of relativity and probability offer inkling into this bizarre nature of things in nature.
6. The scientific mechanism of hypothesis, experiment, theory and law for understanding the truth of things is not sensitive enough for knowing the truth of those things (phenomena) that are not amenable to the scientific process of ‘controlled and repetitive experiments.’ There is a leaking hole in the ‘scientific mechanism’ in the form of ‘the effect of the remainder of the universe.’ The conclusion is that we should not be arrogant in pronouncing our judgments about things. Things are still mysterious and we should respect this mystery of nature.
7. The greatest mystery of all mysteries of nature is life. While studying life the fundamental question is not how it works but why it works. Life has a wonderful mechanism to function. But still more wonderful is the fact that it has a direction to go ahead, to grow from simple to complex and to evolve from lower to higher.
8. The highest evolved form of life on earth is the ‘intelligent Mind’ of humans. It reasons and the reason is equivalent of inter-relations of things present out there in nature, which relations are always harmonious (if they do not look so to a person, he or she is of defective Mind, that is, insane or fool).
9. Mind is a trans-receiver of thoughts. Thoughts in the form of inter-relations of objective things already exist in nature. We may receive them or not receive them, they are always there. What has been thought and what could be thought, both already have their existence.
10. It is not this inter-relation of things alone that consumes the entire picture of nature. There are not thoughts alone that exist in nature. There are other things also having their existence. The creative energy, the urge to unfold, the desire calling for attention also has its own place and relevance in nature. The whole creation is the expression of a grand desire. Like in the earlier case, we humans are trans-receivers of desires. Desires have their own beauty but still it is lower than thought in its rhythm (only from humans’ point of view and not absolutely). Desires have a very wide spectrum, which includes all sorts of cravings, attachments, hate and revenge, urges etc.
11. The lowest rung of life is the gross body’s instinctive mechanism. It is the first sign of life, the life that has just emerged out of the dark matter. This lower rung of life is represented in trees, insects and animals but it is not exclusively confined to them. Human beings also carry almost all the elements of this lower rung in their evolved self; the difference is that in the case of humans these elements are subordinated to their desires and, during the period of last 10-15 thousand years, to their mind. We are concerned in these articles with human beings and their problems, and not with animals etc. and therefore things should be taken in that context only.
12. Human self is composed of the physical body, desires and mind and these are processing instruments of data. These instruments are all the time connected to their respective outside worlds of these things (the worlds of matter, of desires and of mind) and receiving and transmitting information from and to those worlds. How these elements of human-self are connected to their respective outside worlds? There is a bridging medium between these personal elements and outside worlds. There is a subtle physical body behind our gross physical body, which connects us to outside subtle physical world; and it is so with our body – or bundle – of desires and mind. The subtle physical-body, the subtle desire-body and the subtle-mental body of person do not die immediately with the physical death of that person. They get anchored out of this physical world and remain for their assigned periods in their respective subtle worlds (and therein lay the explanation of sometimes appearing these bodies as ghosts in our physical world). After their assigned period of life, these bodies too are disintegrated only to be absorbed and recycled once again.
13. We live a life composed of the interplaying of our physical body needs, our desires and our thoughts. This is all what we call our life. Ordinarily we do not go beyond these formations. But beyond these formations, there is an element of human-self, of which we are not aware. What is that element cannot be described by words of language but it can be known by experience, just like our awareness of our desires or thoughts or even our physical body. This element is a reality; it is not a mere mental imagination. It is as real as our physical body or desires or thoughts. Any effort to describe this element of our self – the sweetest, the most satisfying, and the most peaceful element of our self – has created through out the long human history the maximum confusion and the maximum antagonism among different sections of mankind. Do the ordinary people have any way of finding – or having at least a glimpse of – it? Yes, there is a way. It is something like what we call the voice of our heart. What is the voice of heart? It is a like a voice in the first place. In some people this voice is (depending upon one’s Para-psychological evolutionary stage) often a very strong one, which makes itself heard despite objection from their desires (because it contradicts the legitimacy of those desires) and their thoughts (because it goes against their logic). However, almost in all cases, this voice is suppressed by the mighty ding of our desires and our thoughts. Our desires and thoughts rule this voice out as harmful and illogical one. Thus, this voice of heart is distinctly separate from one’s desires and thoughts; it is not only separate from them but even contradicts them and prompts us to go and act against them. This voice is not respected by our civilization; it is not allowed to be cultivated by us. It is ridiculed as worthless, harmful and foolishness. But the reality is that this voice is unfailingly correct in its decisions; its advice is always in the best interest of the person concerned under the available circumstances. This voice is the Gateway to the world of secret of all secrets. We leave this subject at that.
14. Our desires and, like wise, our thoughts have real existence. What is their nature? What are their properties? These entities are not material; they are not electrical charge; they are not made up of gravitational force either. Then, of what nature are they? We have to wait for our science to catch-up with them; it will take time; we must have patience. There are many things we not know yet; this is the lesson, our science teaches us.
15. With this understanding of our self and our life, we proceed further. Our self is a complicated instrument, which has come into being on account of the forces of nature and evolved to this state. Nature is geared to move forward. All her movements seem to move towards a goal; towards the goal of more good, more perfect and always from the better to the best. It is what we call evolution.
16. This evolution of humans is not confined alone to the stream of thriving Homo sapiens on earth. This constancy of biological evolution carried from generation to generation is only one stream. The complicated self of humans follows a pattern of evolution, which is spread over countless births and deaths, on material places (like earth) and on places, which are not material from our reckoning. We must understand this evolutionary pattern and help ourselves to move forward on to the correct course, avoiding pit-falls, zigzag straying off this course or lagging behind lazily. This gives us bacon to chart our course and build our civilizations. This bacon is the pursuit of ‘truth’. Around ‘truth’ we have to craft our new civilization.
17. Now we understand that our physical body disintegrates with our death to be absorbed by nature for the second recycling. We understand that the bundle of our desires – our desire-body – like wise disintegrates with our death only to be recycled once again by nature; and, like wise, the bundle of our thoughts disintegrates with our death to be absorbed and recycled once more – in countless such happenings in the past – by nature. All these elements of our self – our instrument – are provided to us by nature in our ‘one’ life – in this present life – to help us to become aware of that one element, of which we have spoken about herein above and which we do not know yet. Why should we proceed to know it? Because it is the most satisfying, the most enjoying, the most… (All those things that humans love).
18. Therefore, a civilization that is given to pander our body demands, our desires or our dry thoughts is not suitable for enlightened mankind. Such civilization assaults the nature and mauls it (and, today, beyond repairs), foments competitive ill will and violence and, per force, brings to the fore the traits of human personality that degrade him. But this is only one reason of this civilization being third rate (today). And, this is not the chief reason for its being so. The chief reason is that it in pandering to clamor of humans’ body demands, desires and thoughts this civilization effectively pushes behind that sweet element. Therefore, we need to search for a better, a new civilization.
19. The current civilization is exclusively dedicated to this pandering of human needs and demands and there is an engine that powers this civilization. The powerhouse of this civilization is that section of humanity whose sole business of life is nothing but to make available the means – manufactured products – to satisfy those needs and demands of the balance part – a huge number – of humanity. This tiny section of humanity is smart and intelligent. These people sense and search every opportunity to pursue their business – the business of making products available and earn profits in the process. Their one point program is to make profit and nothing else. All their actions are guided this one point agenda. They need machines – machines that are the creation, the fruits, of collective human genius and labor - to produce products and therefore they get possession of those machines; they become owners of those means so that they may earn profits. They need human labor – the work of human being, the most precious thing ever created by nature – so that they may put those humans to work on ‘their’ machines and therefore they create (artificially because they are man-made in nature) conditions – economic compulsions – for those human beings so that they are left with no alternative but to flock to them to work on their machines. They call it ‘creating jobs and providing employment’. Creating jobs or providing employment is not their concern (it is necessary evil sought to be avoided) and therefore they reduce the ‘jobs and employment’ to the minimum possible. (Incidentally, with the advent of modern age of computerized automation of manufacturing process, this minimum possible is further reduced to a bare few who are technologically highly skilled and economically highly paid; therefore, an era of great unemployment of general public looms large in coming future).
20. The current civilization is patently unjust and third rate in meeting the problems of enlightened humans. Why should the humanity not go deeper into the Para-psychological make-up of humans and investigate the forming elements there? Why should the humanity not delineate those elements and put them into their respective places of comparative utility? Why should the majority of humanity allow the tiny minority of her species today to ‘own’ machines, to ‘hire’ humans to work on those machines and to make ‘profits’ out of this whole arrangement? This arrangement is nothing but a misuse of machine. Machine is a lever that minimizes the amount of labor that is needed in the struggle of Homo sapiens against the harsh nature. Why should the mankind not wean away the use of ‘machine’ from generating private profits of a tiny section of her part and instead dedicate this lever – the ‘machine’ - exclusively to lessen the common human toil in her war against nature? Humans have come of age now, not only in their science but in their enlightenment also. They must rise fearlessly and fabricate a better civilization. In this venture there is no ill will towards any body and good will towards all. All those among us – we humans – who ‘own’ this lever – the machine – are not bad people. And, not all among us who are compelled – consciously or unconsciously – by economic reasons to work for those who ‘own’ those machines are good. We all are in this earthly world like the migratory birds, knowing not our destination. We are in a ship – an earthly ship in cosmic ocean – sailing together. We have common interest and common destination.
21. But still a large part of humanity is deeply steeped in ignorance of all these considerations. Mankind can come out of this dismal situation, in comparatively lesser time (we say lesser time because mankind would certainly come out this situation later than sooner on her own account driven by the force of her forward movement, that is, her evolution), by making a combined efforts on three fronts: enlightening people by education; empowering them through technology; and enabling them to manage their own affairs in accordance with the majority wish (effective democracy). It is suggested that based on these three basic principles new civilization zones may be established. But this approach is only ‘wait and watch’, which needs to be supported by an active program. This is what we have covered so far in our articles.
22. We propose to proceed further and examine other aspects of the subject, which have not been considered so far. We propose to examine certain other efforts, which were made in the past to replace the current civilization with a new one, and point out their deficiencies in understanding human life and its evolution. After pointing out their defects, we propose to suggest a decisively effective and completely peaceful method of ending the current civilization and substituting it with a new one.
Further reading links:
Empowered people's democracy People's self-governance More >
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31 Jul 2008 @ 15:06
This universe is fully packed with dimensions and we humans, like all other forms of living and nonliving things, exist in those dimensions as we exist in space (and time). Of course, all the things – it is absurd to distinguish them between living and nonliving – that exist in those dimensions also exist in some way in space and time dimensions as well. We are surrounded on all sides, by things we do not know. It is not a fiction; it is scientific reality; we are saying so by deduction; and science has already got its inkling but will take its own time to declare so. We are very much limited in our imagination and approach, despite the frontiers of our established science rubbing shoulders with the outlying domains of those dimensions.
We have life that is peculiar to space; all earth life – DNA et al – is contrivance of things in space. Similar contrivance could be possible in the time’s dimension; unfortunately we do not know much of any significance about this dimension, which we call time. Things exist in time as they exist in space and it is possible that things can be arranged in a peculiar manner in time using its elements as they are arranged in space in the form of spatial DNA etc. How can we insist that things exist in space only and that they can be arranged in the peculiar form of DNA etc. in space only? It is absolutely absurd on our part to so insist. It is possible to so arrange things in time’s dimension also. If we suppose it possible to so arrange things in peculiar fashion in the time’s dimension, what kind of properties or capabilities that life (!) would exhibit? We have no means to speculate on them; certainly, they would be miles and miles beyond our wildest imagination. Perhaps, things possessing that life (!) would be able to walk up and down in time (that certainly is past, present and future, as we humans understand them) as we humans possessing life in space are able to walk up and down earth’s continents and outer space’s planets and galaxies (of course, the last not yet).
We are talking here of the time’s dimension. But time’s is not the only other dimension there in the universe; the universe is fully packed with many of them. Can we talk about them? Talking figuratively, we are not more than little poor insect crawling tentatively in a dark corner of a vast forest, at a little corner of the vast earth, orbiting a poor star in the vast galaxy etc. etc. and trying to figure out the binary function of humans computer; of course, still we are arrogant on account of our vast knowledge. Any way, we can proceed a bit by way of deduction since we have sufficient knowledge of the things and the manner they behave in the dimension of space.
The first and the foremost coclusion is that things (we always say things because living and nonliving both are nothing but a single entity where certain properties – and life as we know it is one of them – are present in potential form, in one case, and in manifested or acting form, in another case) in each of those dimensions must be capable of arranging themselves in peculiar fashion by using the elements of the properties of those dimensions, as do things in space. The second conclusion is that a life (!) created in this manner must be the life in form and content other than the one we know that is solely created by using the elements of space dimension. It cannot be the life in the way we know it; yet it may exhibit basic properties of (our) life in a totally different way; life in those dimensions may exhibit preservation instinct, domination, love, hate, pity, anger etc. The third conclusion is that there must be very many kinds of such existence commensurate with the number of dimensions existing in universe. And, lastly the fourth conclusion is that each of the things exists, at every moment, in all the dimensions that may be there. What does it mean? It means that somehow each of these things is overlapping in all these dimensions, though a thing may not be aware of its existence in several other dimensions. Also, it shows that there is a strong possibility that a thing (that is, life in our parlance), which is aware of its existence only in one or two dimensions (e.g. space and time), may somehow and sometimes become aware of its simultaneous (simultaneity does not exist as we assume it to exist even in space-time dual dimensions; we know it is only relative) existence in one or more additional dimensions. Why only somehow and sometimes? Because here we are talking of awareness (and thus of life as we understand it), therefore we say ‘somehow and sometimes’; for, a nonliving piece of stone is taken by us as incapable of becoming aware of anything and therefore may exist in all the available dimensions without becoming aware of these dimensions (or of anything else). Therefore, let us say ‘some human beings somehow and sometimes’ become aware of the existence of some extra dimensions in addition to the usual space-time dimensions; and, then they become aware not only of the existence of these extra dimensions but also of things existing, creatures living and events happening there. It is ‘somehow’ because the conditions required for one to become so aware are extremely rigorous in nature and it is ‘sometimes’ because these conditions are not always complied by humans, who are very imperfect in their natural constitution. When such individuals become so aware, they see bizarre things there in those dimensions (e.g. a heavenly father talking to them, giving certain instructions to be obeyed, opening-up of the whole secret of this very existence of creation etc.) and speak words commensurate with the reality what they saw there in those extra dimensions for us who are aware only of the dual dimensions of space-time. What they have seen in those dimensions is not their subjective imagination born out of their minds, as is generally assumed by the so-called scientific minds. They have seen in those extra dimensions real things, creatures and events, as real in their domains as our in space-time. They forecast events for space-time domain and their forecasts come true; they perform acts in our dual domain, which cannot be explained by the law of this domain; we term them miracles and refuse to acknowledge their authenticity. An ordinary phenomenon of the memory of previous birth is one such act, happening on earth fairly regularly and on wide scale, which is simply dismissed by silence of these so-called scientific minds.
In fact, the scientific mind has yet to discover Lord Jesus Christ, Lord Buddha and countless other such individuals. In the floodlight of our advanced science, this discovery is imminent today, albeit this time not in old fashion but in an altogether different manner. Our universe is really vast and there is really much to know yet. It is very vast not only in distance, which is but one of its many more such properties, but also in kinds, which are many and beyond our imagination. Thus seen we should become aware that our journey to Mars, though arrogant pride-evoking, is a mere insignificant step forward, much like the proverbial insect. Any way, still it is a step forward and in a right direction.
(.... This article is concluded...)
Further reading links:
Our bleak future on Earth? More >
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20 Jul 2008 @ 11:46
We hear, so to say, the sound od approaching things beyond these two dimensions in the concept of probability. We all live in space and know it quite well. We are going to Mars and other places in outer space. We are exploring in space dimension; and it is really vast. Here in this world of space dimension the concept of relativity gives us an understanding of the nature of things. Here we deal with a little bit with the time dimension also. But the world of probability is totally different. It is only a speculative attempt on our part to say that the matter behave in a probable manner in assuming one of the two contradictory states - wave or particle - because our observation of this matter with the aid of our material scientific instruments affects it. It is not so. Things can really exist in two contradictory states at a single given moment.
The concept of probability is the first chink in the armour of our traditional view of things. The concept of probability is far more revolutionary than that of the relativity in depicting the real nature of things. There is a dimension (of existence) where things are capable of exhibiting properties that look contradictory while they are studied from the standpoint of space. What is that dimension, we do not know. But it is as real as our well known dimension of space. However, the fundamental law is that all things, whatever and where ever they are, have their exhibition in all the dimensions, whatever their number might be. This law is the secret of all mysteries, which humans are trying to unravel out. Our universe is packed with a large number of dimensions. How many of them are there, we (humans) can never know; it is so because to know them all is to know the secret of creation, which is not destined for a lower life like we are. This destiny is not in some mystic spiritual sense, but because this life is really lower and incapable of comprehending every thing that are there in this universe really vast in kunds.
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7 Jun 2008 @ 10:38
Let us proceed by analogy. We are dealing here with things; but it is wrong term to employ in this context. The correct term is reality; we are dealing with realities. Realities when placed in space are things; and when they are placed in time, they are events. Therefore, the term ‘things’ used here should be understood in the meaning of ‘realities’ of things when placed in space and events when placed in time. Let us proceed in the domain of time with the analogy of things in space; because we know many properties of things, that is, realities when placed in the domain of space.
Does time have only one property, that is, flowing in a direction – from past to future? Could there be some other properties also? It is instinctively correct to state that the time is full-fledged dimension; there must be many other properties also. Which are those properties, we do not know; we have no means to know them. However, we can proceed a bit by applying the analogy of space. Space has three sub-dimensions and we may try to apply then in the time’s domain. When things are placed in time’s dimension, they acquire the property of flowing in a direction – from past to future, which in relativistic manner is conversely a flow of time from future to past. This direction of flow from past to future or from future to past may be taken as an equivalent to one sub-dimension of space (say, length); through this property of time, it would be possible to go to past or future of things.
Then, let us apply this property of time to an equivalent of space’ 90 degree shift; with this shift the time would flow at an angle of 90 degree deviation from its straight direction of flow from past to future or vice versa. What is the meaning of this 90 degree deviated flow of time? It means that the time would cover not merely one thing in the universe but all the things that are there in the universe. This is by an analogy of space. If we, likewise by analogy, make one more deviation of 90 degree with respect to the time’s these two flows, what would be its result on things? What would be the additional property of things placed in this third sub-dimension? One thing that is certain is that in this new sub-dimension things would have the properties that are not the part of the other two sub-dimensions, namely, when things when placed in this third sub-dimension of time would not have, firstly, the flow of time from past to future or from future to past; and, secondly, things would be out of the cover of time. What does it mean? Precisely, it means that things placed in this third sub-dimension would not undergo the change associated with time and therefore they would be without a beginning and without an end. Also, things would not be covered by time, that is, they would be in the eternal state.
And, what about another property of things placed in time that may qualify the equivalent of ‘mass’ of things when placed in space? We do not know. But when the things are placed in the time’s dimension, those properties (of time) must enable them to acquire various formations (like things placed in space acquire formations of elements, molecules, compounds etc.). How do you rate the possibility of of the idea of capability of things when placed in time to acquire with the aid of time’s peculiar properties formations equivalent to spatial elements, molecules, compounds, including living DNAs. Certainly, it is not an idea born out of fancy. We need to have means to travel in the domain of time. Once we acquire these means, we would travel in the past and in the future. We would also travel in time to see all the things in the universe happening at a given moment. This world of time, like the world of space, would be a vast one; exploration of the time’s domain would be much more interesting than the exploration of space. Let us not think that travel to some distant planet in some far away galaxy, when accomplished by our science, would be the end of our search for the ultimate. Universe is more vast in its kinds than in its space.
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21 May 2008 @ 07:38
The universe is really vast. It is not vast only in the way that there are countless number of galaxies comprising solar formations with their planetary systems. It is vast in another manner also. The secret of this vastness lies in dimensions. In fact we in our science are only dealing mostly with space dimension. Though there are three sub-dimensions of the space, really it is only one dimension. The second dimension - time - is still little understood. What we have learned here is really very little.
How much do we know about time's dimension? And, how much do we know about space's dimension? We know that things exist in space and when they are placed in space they have the properties of length, width and height. These properties enable things to acquire (sine qua non) essentials of matter in the form of mass and the shape of (our well known) elements, their combination into molecules and then countless other formations of varied things, including life's building blocks DNAs etc.
What about the time's dimension? We know that things exist in time and that when they are so placed in this dimension they exhibit the property of floating in a flowing current that has a direction - from past to future; things flow because they exist in past, present and future (which constantly turns into present). It is not the time that flows but the things that flow; because the things constantly change in time we have an illusion of time's flow. You are seated in a running train and have an illusion of seeing things outside the train running backward. In fact, there is no illusion here because the phenomenon is governed by relativity; we can very well say that from the relative point of train the things outside train are running backward and conversely, from the point of things outside train the train is running forward.
Likewise, from the point of the time things are flowing in a direction from future to past and conversely, from the point of the things the time is running in a direction from past to future. In space it is possible for us to sit in a running train and watch things outside train (to get verification of our statement) and also to sit alongside the outside (stationary!) things and watch the running train on the track. While it is so possible for us in space, can we carry out this experiment in the time's dimension? We are associated with the things (placed in time) and get the illusion (!) that the time is running backward; can we change our relative station to observe the relativistically contrary fact of the things running in a direction from future to past? No. But, then, there must be such a station; it cannot be otherwise. It is our limitation. This is one limitation. There are other limitations also.
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21 May 2008 @ 06:36
And, language is not the only way to communicate emotions and thoughts, not even symbols or gestures of mathematical significance. These belong to the domain of life that we have on earth; there could be many more ways, each of which belong to a different kind of life. We have been sending but in vain our messages coded in radio signals to some ones who might be there in outer space with the fond hope that they would understand them and respond by saying ‘hello’. The case may not be so simple.
But, then, how can one communicate across the barrio of these different kinds of life? One way may be to communicate with one’s behavior. Individual’s behavior in a network of many is detected immediately through this behavior’s impact on the alien connected to the other end of the network, whether this network is horizontal or vertical (because of evolutionary gap). This behavior is detected and suitably translated at the other end. We can take the example of cells of human body. There, the behavior of cells – their demeanor represented by their wellbeing or distress – is detected and understood not only by the nearby organs etc. of the body network but also by the evolved self of the individual concerned. This communication may be the other way round also; a disturbed ‘evolved self’ of the person concerned sends signals that go down to the cells of the body, which translate this signal as ‘something is wrong’ somewhere. Here the signal emanating from one end of the network is communicated to the other end through a common medium – behavior or conduct – that is suitably interpreted and understood by the recipient.
In this approach to search alien form of life we may employ a suitable medium that is capable of transmitting our behavior, which term includes our demeanors in the form of our proper or improper actions, loving or hateful emotions and open or secret thoughts, to the other end of the network of different kinds of life that might be there, near or far.
Is it possible that cosmic systems around us in universe are communicating with one another through their behavior over the network of interconnecting natural forces? Are they talking around us and in our very midst? How are we to understand their ‘language’, their ‘meaning’ and their ‘intentions’? It is the problem that calls for our attention, if we are to search ET life, their world and their devices (and not only much curious UFOs may turn out be one of them but the sporadic reports of supernatural feats of natural persons also may be understood) from a new approach. The problem with us is that we associate thoughts with the way we think. Love with the way we love, anger with the way we exhibit it and goodwill with the only way we know to express it. It is not the correct approach to the problem as these our ways may not be the ones that are universally understood. It is not the only way universe functions; it is very narrow minded approach. Universe is much wide and it must as of necessity contain many more ways to express life and life’s wide domain. If it is so, then there is ome more thing of which one can be certain. It is this: because we know love, hate, anger, thoughts etc. are associated with our kind of life, therefore they must also exist somehow in other kinds of life and exhibited in many more ways that are different from ours.
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21 May 2008 @ 06:34
If we apply this defining feature of life to our surrounding universe, we find, surprisingly, all bodies – which are nothing but the systems of component parts – take birth, grow and finally die. Is there life in them? If yes, how evolved are these living systems? Can we communicate with them? They all are so near to us, almost in our midst. A cell in human body is a living structure; it is an independently living thing, though enabled by and thus connected to its surroundings network; it is as well a part of the whole system, which is human being. Can a cell communicate with nearby other cells? Can it communicate with its host, that is, the human being concerned who is highly evolved with the sense of a ‘self’ and whose simple component part it is? There are several kinds of pathogens, which are housed in our body (and now found that they pass on to our next generations through our own mutated DNAs); they are sometime component parts of our own life, our own DNAs. Can these pathogens communicate with the human being whose body houses them? No. Why can’t they do so? We know human cells and whole kinds of its activities but this cell does not know our evolved self. This is the problem that we face in this approach in our search of ET life that may very well exist in our midst, with all its capabilities beyond our comprehension (like fabricating devices a la UFOs, maintaining vigil over human activities on earth, intervening in human affairs by bringing their occasional destructions, which may look to us like innocent natural disasters, because in their estimation humans have gone astray in their activities of the desired course); this kind of life and their community, if existing, must be able, at least theoretically, to contrive things what we call UFOs, keep a watch over our thoughts and activities, while living in our midst and without ever being detected by us with our narrow outlook of life.
Could it be that there is life all around us and in abundance? Are we simply one of many kinds of life existing in material form? And, are we and these other kinds of life merely parts of a mega life existing in material form all around us? If it is so, how can we detect them? How can we communicate with them? What kinds of scientific tools would be required to communicate with our neighborly life? Can we employ mathematical tools to decode their k\life code? In this endeavor our knowledge of coding computer software and genetic coding may be a great help. We have to take their fundamental principles and apply them to our surrounding world. Even we may apply them to many phenomena present on earth, which in essence may be systems in operations.
In this approach to search ET life around us we assume that in a given case a particular kind of life program coded with the aid of concerned media is being executed through instructions. These instructions would be mechanism of elements involved propelling the whole system. In the life we have on earth, there is an intake of energy that comes from food. This energy propels the whole system geared to bring the programmed outcome, namely, the above mentioned three common properties of life.
Today we know that all other systems of bodies around us in universe behave in a way that amounts to taking energy from outside surrounding source and this energy keeps the system going on at the path of its programmed birth, growth and death. Are the component parts of these systems merely like cells of human body, which are simply executing a coded program? Definitely, all systems are nothing but programs in execution dependant on very many variants, which are akin to instructions. A system in action is akin to a cell in our body. But, we take for granted; these systems made up of inert matter are not living beings like our cells. Why do we associate life with ‘exclusively’ our kind of life? Why we are so narrow minded? We have come a long way on our scientific path.
We associate life with movement (trees do not move), with basic instincts (earth and its rivers try to repair damage done to them by humans), with procreation (there is constant cycle of birth, growth and death of stars, galaxies etc. going on in the universe and the differing time scale involved here in these different systems is not material. A life may very well have a span of time ranging from micro seconds to billions of earth years), with emotions like love, anger etc. and thoughts of humans. Are emotions like love and anger and thoughts possible of generating or expressing in the human-way only? Human thoughts correspond to something else independently existing in Nature; thoughts are the human mind’s version of inter-relations of material objects that already exist independently in Nature. Human way of thinking is not the only way of expressing these independently existing inter-relations of things. There can be very many ways to express them, though we would not be able to comprehend those ways because they would belong to a different kind of life. All working systems are equivalent to complex human thoughts. Or, rather, all systems are thoughts in concrete form, in material form, in visible form. Emotions like love and anger are, likewise, expressions in human-way of something else that exist independently in Nature. There could be very many ways to express them, which would be beyond our comprehension since they would be in the domain of a different kind of life.
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21 May 2008 @ 06:30
Life is present all around us - Let the science
search it in its own way
What we have here on earth is abundantly present there in the universe surrounding us on all sides, except a single and unique thing that we call life. This all-inclusive totality of things that we know existing and their abundance of supply all around us – here on earth and beyond it in universe – are so complete and universal – without a single exception save life – that there seems a scientific law of abundance operating in Nature. Speaking positively, this law states that every thing in universe is supplied by Nature in abundance and – negatively speaking – that there is nothing in universe which is unique because of its singular presence.
The evidence in support of this law of abundance is overwhelmingly consistent in Nature. One may turn to any entity available in Nature to find its abundance; subatomic particles, atoms, elements, their chemical compositions all are available here on earth and beyond earth in universe in abundance.
And, there is no exception save life to this universal phenomenon; there is no single breach save life of this seemingly scientific law of abundance. Yet, life as we know happily thriving here on earth is the single breach of this law.
We have sufficiently advanced science and technology at our command today, which is able to detect life – in the form we know it – in its primitive evolutionary stage as well as the highly developed one that might be present at some far away place in universe. With the advent of radio communication, we have been frantically searching Extra-Terrestrial life for the last half century with the fond hope that after all life on earth should be not so unique in its presence. But all in vain. We have put all suppositions against us in this goose chase; we have assumed life is a rare happening in universe because it needs extremely delicate balance of environment to create and support this phenomenon. Since we know life is there on earth, we assume that a similar life elsewhere on other places in universe would need a similar set of circumstances; so we are searching in the wide universe life’s so-called tell-tale signs – the right range of gravity (size of planets), temperature (distance from star), chemical compositions of atmosphere, presence of carbon, water etc. etc. We have already assumed – much against the universal law of abundance – that in our search we are looking foe a needle in a proverbial hey stack. Yet, we have not been able to find life any where else in this extremely vast universe, which we now comparatively know with sufficient details.
It is very interesting to deduce logical conclusions – and which conclusions are quite depressing in their impact on life, which in effect practically means us humans – from the negative results of our scientific search for ET life. Today, we are sure that there is no life around us to the distance of at least a few thousands of light years. This much is definitely known to us. If we apply this distance of non-availability of life as a rough estimate to the entire universe that is known to us today, then the conclusion would be that life might be available, if at all, in extremely short supply perhaps at a few score of places in the entire universe, known and unknown both. This means we – and that includes all our inferior cousins on the evolutionary ladder as well – are, if not alone, lonely in this otherwise abundantly rich universe. This is a depressing thought to the extreme. Our common sense rebels against such thoughts; it could not be so in our otherwise abundant universe.
It all looks illogical. Is there some thing amiss on our approach to the problem of ET life and its search? Law of abundance tells us that we should be terribly wrong some where in our approach. Our instinctive common sense – which does not always rely on reason – also prods us to think that in the face of such universal abundance of every thing, it cannot be the case; that it is not possible that in this otherwise abundant universe life is without supply or in exceptionally short supply; that there is something seriously wrong in our approach to the problem and in the direction of our efforts. Could it be possible that life – at least theoretically similar to the one we know on earth – is present all around us and in abundance? If it is so, could we develop scientific tools to communicate with this ET life in our midst?
There is really need to think this way; there is need to change our approach; there is need to change the direction of our efforts in the search of ET life. We are in real need to adopt a new approach to the old problem of ET life and their supposed UFOs. Why should we confine our search to detect in far away places in universe (planets, satellites) things like carbon, oxygen, suitable elements and their compounds like water, and all else that are definitely necessary to sustain life here on earth? This is wrong approach to the problem. These requisites – which are supporting life on earth and hence are considered telltale signs of life elsewhere – are not the fundamental requirements of a life that may have spectrum broader than earth-life. Such a broader life would include earth-life as one of its many forms. This broad life would require four elements: firstly, a fundamental principle for its operation; secondly, its necessary components; thirdly, its various models or different possible combinations of these component parts; and lastly, an isolated and self-contained body fluid or ‘an integrated medium’, which could ‘house’ these three elements. Such a life would be material (and not spiritual) and have many kinds totally different from one another, though operating on the same fundamental principle.
We know only one model of life, that is, earth bound living beings’ families. Life is a system organization; it cannot be studied as an isolated event. In human body there are many systems and subsystems of life operating in tandem with one another. Living beings, their internal organ, cells and genes have their own life. Complete body as a single unit also has its own life. All these subsystems combined into a grand system have a particular model of life. This is not the only one model of life that is possible. There may be many more possible models of life. We may draw many more models parallel to our earthly life. Genes, in the form of DNAs, have a complete chemical code of life. This code is nothing but a particular ‘order’ of the two pairs of AT and GC in the DNA helix. The fundamental mechanism of storing the life program, or coding, is not the particular chemicals of DNA but the ‘order’ of these pairs. If you change the order of these pairs from one kind to another, you have a different code of life and then this new code would create a new form of our earthly life. Can this way, the chemical way, be the only one possible way of creating order or coding instructions for a life program? No, it cannot be so. What is crucial is the order and not the medium of this order. In computer software we code instructions of a program, which is not life program, by two electric quantities. There we have two entities and we create a definite order of them, which carries instructions of a program. This program could even be (to begin with) of a (simple) life; if we make an open-ended computer software that performs certain dedicated tasks (like self-preservation, self-duplication, domination of its surroundings etc.), then learns from its mistakes committed in countering unforeseen odds present in the operating environment and thereafter self corrects these mistakes by making necessary amendments in the initially given software, what we would have will be a simple program of life. We can draw a parallel of a new kind of life where the medium of creating this order is other than chemicals. We should look to find in our universe possibility of similar coding or ‘order’ with the aid of different kinds of media, which are available in universe in plenty.
Such an approach to the problem would indicate that a life is essentially a program of which instructions are coded. Looking at the problem from this approach, it is apparent that all forms of life must have a similar program but the instructions to execute this program may be coded by utilizing altogether different materials. We cannot limit this coding by the use of only chemical compounds that are familiarly used by DNAs of earth-life. However, there cannot be many differing programs for different kinds included in such a broad form of life present in universe. And, the mode of instructions executing the program of life would depend on the kind of materials used in the code; therefore, there must exist very many modes for coding these instructions (this supposition in favor of multiple modes is in accord with the law of abundance because there are many kinds of materials in abundant supply in Nature). In essence, these instructions must remain the same in different kinds of life to a mathematical precision but still their modes should be so different that they may look a totally different things altogether, that is, beyond any recognition of similarity. In some cases, a mode of these instructions may even look a phenomenon of inert world and we may not be able to recognize any sign of life in its operation, which in reality it might be there. In one case, this code may be structured by using chemical compounds, as we said is the case with DNA of earth life; in another case, it could equally be structured by using atoms, or even subatomic particles, as medium of code, which are in abundant supply like chemical compounds. And, it all could very well be ‘housed’ in a well contoured isolated and integrated energy field of a particular shape. In still another case, this code could be structured by using assemblies of stars and planets in the like manner; the list of materials which could be used as medium of instructions in a code of life may turn out to be really long; and the only requirement there for materials to be used as medium is their abundant supply in universe.
In this approach a program would determine the behaviour and the fate of the given kind of life. And, there we can definitely recognize the signature tune of life and define it in the broadest scope. This approach implies that any and every kind of life must be programmed in such a way that when its coded instructions are executed, its outcome should be an exhibition of common properties of life. What are these common properties of life? These could be enumerated thus: firstly, there must be a process of change that looks like birth, growth and death; secondly, there should occur an intake of energy from an outside source (this outside is only a relative term), which propels this process of change, that looks like food consuming and thirdly, there should happen a multiplication of the given system as additional beneficial outcome of the change-process, which may look like the procreation of the living being. These are the only common properties of life that should define it. Then, there is another very important question of its evolution. Because life is a process that looks like a struggle against deterministic regime of inert world around it, in its fighting strategy change is brought in the working mechanism of these three common properties that is termed by us ‘evolution’. This evolution, this change over a period of time, would make these three common properties of life no more so simple as to recognize them instantly by applying our standards of earthly life; evolution would bring great innovations in them making them greatly complex, which could turn out beyond our comprehension in wildest dream. More >
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21 May 2008 @ 06:27
How to hasten the debute of NCZs on earth? It can be done by contributing our might to advance the cause on three fronts:
1) spreading the knowledge, particularly in various branches of fundamental science, extensively and intemsively. This can be done by establishing universities,colleges, institutes in different countries dedicated to the cause of knowledge and running on the model of NCZs ideals. These must be funded by awakened and enlightened ordinary peoples as against governments and corporates.
It can be done. It can be done. We would attract the best of human resources available on earth and would soon unearth the secrets of Nature, much more in potency and extent than produced by the shackeled science funded by corporate-houses' R and D departments and shaped by market forces.
Development of knowledge (or science) has always been critically dependant on human-resources than on capital. We can appeal to the good sense of enlightened scientists to join our NCZs universities and institutes. Of course, equipments and tools of modern science need money but that can be pooled from world-wide ordinary peoples resources, to begin with.
And, all individuals running the corporate giants are not opponents of a new civilization; there are always good people there too, who have no alternative but to be yoked to the nitty-grity of our current ill civilization; they may also come forward to help our initiative on knowledge front.
2) Helping the democratic self-governance of people worlwide by
A)supporting movements for establishing democracy, and
B) campaigning for the use of information technology for electing truely and constantly people's representatives, so that the distorting influence of money-power is eliminated in the matter of democratic self-governance. This element of our tasks needs urgency.
We must openly ask the question: why the electorate be not allowed to express their choices by means of the technology that is already available there and is surely fool-proof against an extreneous and impermissible influence of money in the matter of their choice of a representative?
It is a simple demand. It is logical demand. It is acutely needed today. It cannot be opposed on any ground. Let there be a movement for this demand in the democratic countries. Our current Information Technology is capable of meeting the challenge of faithfully expressing the true will or choice of electorates. It seems simple but once adopted will make a devastating effect on our ill-civilization.
3) uniting under one global movement seemingly dissimilar voices that oppose the current model of our reigning civilization. They seem to be disimilar because they individually address different issues, which are the problems produced by ill-mechanism of our current civilization.
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21 May 2008 @ 06:21
It is the duty of international community of enlightened citizens to insist upon their respective national governments and the relevant international organizations to discard the old index of partial development, like Gross National Product, Per Capita Income, Rate of Growth of National Economy etc. etc., and to refine, define and adopt the Integral Index of Human Wellbeing. Judged by this new index many political communities that are regarded as highly developed ones would go down on the scale as merely developing ones because of the ill health of their citizens' emotional and mental beings and assault by their activities on Nature and conversely, and surprizingly, many others now regarded as under-developed or undeveloped would go up the scale. We would find their citizens are more happy and satisfied in their human existence and that they do not injure Nature (that includes Earth and its environment) in the least, unlike the today's developed ones.
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21 May 2008 @ 06:18
Integrated human wellbeing of citizens and not their material affluence alone is the standard of progress and development, which only may be acceptable to New Civilization we are talking of all along in these pages. Material affluence of individuals or their nation is a crude and primitive standard of progress. All economics geared to accomplish this feat in individuals' or nations' life is hollow in its ideal and superficial in its achievement. The prime fruit of new civilization shall be the integrated well being of its citizens. This wellbeing is a concrete and objective thing, which can be measured. Affluence of a nation or of an individual is well studied subject of our old civilization and it is measured by its economics. What is an integrated human wellbeing? Can it be measured? Yes, it can also be measured by an objective test.
INDEX OF INTEGRATED HUMAN WELLBEING:
This index is a measure of human beings' individual and collective well being in relation to his self and to his surroundings. This index is the measure of health of 1) human 2) his own created circumstances in which he places himself; and 3) Nature. These three may be termed as 1) human self wellbeing 2) his material wellbeing; and 3) Earth's wellbeing.
Human wellbeing has three elements: 1) his physical well being 2) his emotional wellbeing; and 3) his mental wellbeing. All these three elements of human wellbeing are the subject matter of medical science and are well defined today by it. It is not the physical wellbeing alone, which is the disease-free state of human body, that consumes the entire spectrum of human wellbeing. One has to be emotionally healthy also, which is distinct from though connected to the physical wellbeing of humans, to be really adjudged as having made progress or development. And then, it is not these two elements alone that are necessary for an integrated wellbeing. We have to secure to our citizens the mental wellbeing also before we can claim our society has made a progress.
Material wellbeing has three elements, viz. 1) Production - gross national wealth indicator of the given society 2) Distribution - indicator of this wealth's distribution among its citizens; and 3) citizens' wealth consumption indicator.
Nature's wellbeing also has three elements; 1) Negative impact of human beings' activities on Nature 2) Sustainable or neutral impact of these activities on Nature' and 3) Positive impact of them on Nature, that is, these activities not only conserve Nature's health and state but they further suppliment or augument them. Nature's well being has direct bearing on human wellbeing and is a very important element of integrated human wellbeing or his true progress, which our egoistic society is vainly claimimg to have made. New civilization Zones, as and when established even in an scattered fashion here and there on Earth, would be the only place to secure this true progress to their citizens. Our present civilization, which is given to produce imbalanced material affluence and accompanying social conflicts in the society, give birth to disturbed emotional and mental state of its citizens as the concomitant byproduct of this material affluence and injure the health of Nature (Earth's environment) can never provide this true progress to its citizens.
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19 Feb 2007 @ 13:30
I. What is a New Civilization Zone?
NCZ is a goal-oriented community. This goal is the conscious evolution of human beings. The tool of this conscious evolution is knowledge – knowledge in the form of science and technology . This tool – knowledge - helps the human evolution at their collective and individual livings. At the collective living, it is done by subordinating the desire-dominated man-made institutions to the dispassionate discipline of knowledge. There, it helps in planning efficient self-governance in every sphere of human activity. Such planning ensures the saving of human-energy from wastful social conflicts. This saved energy when ploughed back to the common benefits of the society, provides people leisure-hours, high standard of life and peaceful life. These three things enable human beings to turn towards spirit. This collective turning towards spirit helps the evolution gain acceleration. In this way, the community is helped by knowledge in providing more freedom to its members,enabling them to become more efficient in the matter of their democratic self-governance and thereby making them available collectively a cultural ambience that is condusive to turn towards spirit. At the individual living, a person is helped by knowledge – or science – in understanding brain, mind, paranormal phenomena etc. and realize the existence of mysterious spirit, its world and laws.
New Civilization Zones are visualized democratic local communities of sponteneous growth, spreading slowly all over the world. From their very birth, these communities are seen motivated by the spirit of rebellion against the organized immoral force of multinational business corporations operating in tandem with nation-states, which adversely affect individuals’ spiritual well-being and communities’ social harmony. These communities are seen pursuing in different countries vastly different localized objectives of their initiative but still they are seen globally a single force united in certain common and well defined basic principles.
One of the most important halmarks of these communities is that they do not require for their birth and growth an outside initiative by an external force. They do not need the support of some conspiratorial organizational planning at national or international level.
In their birth they are seen sponteneous though geographically scattered in different places but thereafter they must grow further in their location, number and power.
Also, it is seen as a slow social process taking place over decades, which may run into centuries to overpower the present civilization. This process is seen fuelled by today’s deep discontent of human spirit and her disapproval of inafficient and wasteful institutions of our civilization. This rejection on the part of mankind seems the sheer historical necessity of our times in the evolutionary march of mankind.
The smallest New Civilization Zone may consist a single individual but to survive it must grow further into a communitity. This Zone is seen as an embroyo of a sovereign habitation of human beings governed by its own laws and far superior in institutions to the old world’s economics and culture. They must grow out of their miniscule size of a few individuals to a status of democratically controlling governments of villages, cities and eventually entire nations.The key to their defense against the strangulation by the old world lies in their superiority of number and capability.
II. The basic principles of New Civilization Zones:
1. NCZ, a community empowered by knowledge:
The community puts the highest premium on knowledge and assigns a grading to different branches of knowledge according to their relative importance to human life. The top slot goes to the human spirit. In these zones individuals are guaranteed the peace of one’s inner life against encroachments by uncalled for economic and political intrusion. In these zones, persons leading their peaceful inner spiritual life are regarded a valuable social asset, as being the fountain of social morality and good of fellow human beings and in return of this valuable contribution by them they are guaranteed means of sustainance without any further demand by molesting them with economic and political pressures. The second grade of knowledge in importance is Science. Out of the best available stuff of community, which has no inclination to pursue spirit’s demand, would be deployed to study science and uncover the mysteries of Nature. Next to the first slot, the highest respect of the community goes to scientists. The fruits of their labor are not available for sale, inside NCZs or outside to the old world. The contribution in the form of edge-technology made by the scientists is exclusively community’s asset, which would be a closely guarded community’s secret (and would be an important element in defending the community against coersion by the outside – old – world). In return for this valuable social contribution, these people would be guaranteed the best of the available means of life’s sustainance. The third slot in importance goes to commercial activities. These activities may be planned by the scientists so as to suserve the best interests (mind the grading here) of people and would include elements of planned production, distribution and consumption. The rest of the community that is not able to come up to the first three gradings would be a valuable human resource to be deployed that may be needed by the community in pursuit of its first three goals.
2. NCZ, a community of more freedom:
The zones are able to provide more economic freedom to individuals by eliminating the immoral element of cornering profits by those who plan and control economic engine in the old world. This is done by planning the three basic elements of economy: production; distribution; and consumption. The consumption element is guided by informed incentive; distribution element is controlled by community; and production element is planned to meet consumption- needs by scientific combination of human and natural resources for optimum output (no watage of human-energy in the form of unemployment etc. finds place in these NCZs). In NCZs production is a creative enjoyment. These communities are also able to provide more political freedom by employing the information-technology in constantly expressing the will of people in the matter of self-governance. These zones would be transparently self-governed by the available technology and zealously guard themselves against manipulation by money-power (which power would be under social scan and control). Also, these zones would transcend archaic monoliths of religions into the modern day systematic inquiry into things spiritual and thereby provide more cultural freedom.
3. NCZ, a community of less needs:
While the dissemination of information of whatsoever nature would be the backbone of these communities, advertisements to psychologically lure people to unnecessary needs would face non-cooperation and buycot by the community. Such activities would be starved of public's response and rendered meaningless.
4. NCZ, a community ensuring its defense by expanding into and absorption of the old world:
This growth and expansion are the sine qua non for the suvival of these zones against the hostile old world. There is a plain truth expressed in these columns, which is long and consistently recognized by leaders of mankind in different ages. It is the force of this truth that would surely find resonance within secret chambers of hearts of billions of ordinary people through out the world and get amplified over a period of time in the form of a compelling global demand by them for an alternative civilization. NCZs are nothing but this alternative civilization.
5. NCZ, a community owing alligiance to an alternative world and civilization:
By their very definition, NCZs are rival to today’s sovereign nation states. They aspire to absorb and eliminate the modern day nation states (which establish their hegamony by deceitful, immoral and brute force of violence and money, and supress a justified human spirit’s aspiration for real freedom). These zones rely on the power of people as against that of state. They promote decentralized lacalism as against centrlized multinationalism. They assert the rights of individual over community, of community over nation and of nation over the globe that is united to usurp individual’s freedom. These Zones make their own political constitutions and laws to govern them as islands amid the ocean of this old world. They print their own local money to give them financial security and stability. They recruit their own police to enforce their laws. More >
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3 Feb 2007 @ 07:57
You work for a living. You work and work hard. It is good. But the bad thing is that you work not in the interest of your own self but of others. You are working in a small organization – an organization always given to earn money and make profits – that is in mortal competition with other bigger such organizations. Or, you are working for a bigger one, which is in life and death competition with the still bigger ones. In their scheme of things your life – a supremely precious thing to you – finds no place at all. Even if they seem to care for you, they care for you because they care for their own profits more. You really work hard – almost all the time available to live your life – just only to be able to pay your bills, which are the necessities of your life, and to sustain your life in the needed working condition. You are a slave. If you do not relish this cobweb, in which you are entrapped, you are a rebel. Hey rebel ! get free your life out of this cobweb. But how?
You live in a democratic country. You are fed on the intoxicating dose of a supposed great nation. You elect your own government that rules you. You are made to believe you rule yourself. You are called upon to make sacrifice for your nation. It is good thing. But the bad thing is that you do not elect your government. The truth is that you are made to elect a government. The trick of the trade is money. The money manipulates democracy – lobbying, media and all the dirty money games. Money elects a government and the government provides protection to money. In their scheme of things, you as a person do not count anywhere. If they seem to care your life, worries and rebellious thoughts, it is because they care more for their money. It is a cobweb of modern democracy. If you have got wind of this snare, you are a rebel. Hey rebel, get free of this cobweb, which is indeed very strong. But how?
You have this your life. It is precious like no other thing. You do not live your life, you spend it and spend it serving the selfish interests of others. If you spend your life attending to and caring for your inner inclinations and urge, it is good. But if you do not live your life for your own sake but spend the same catering to the selfish interests of other people, it is bad. If you feel your precious life is being wasted in this manner, you are a rebel. Hey rebel, get you free of this cobweb. But how? More >
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1 Feb 2007 @ 09:03
The document is complete. It consists of two parts. The first part deals with the exposition of basic principles of a new civilization and the second one deals with the application of those principles to different facets of a collective living of human beings. What remains now is the carrying out of social experimenting by applying those principles to the realities of our world. Let us see how we are able to bring a change by shaping new things in this respect in coming time.
I, as a human being, cannot do anything except playing my part of the things ; and neither you as a person can do anything, except playing your part of the things ; in fact, no body can do anything, except being a part of the process taking sides, this or that way. In the ultimate analysis of things, there are certain subtle forces that are always operating behind everything that are happening and we human beings are only instruments of these forces. We human beings are nothing more than this, even in the cases where we plainly seem to be leading and determining things in the decisive way. Leaders and history-makers have only played their assigned roles (assigned by the forces that created, guide, sustain and determine the fate of all that we know as existing and all that we do not know that they also exist) they are held to have created history.
There are forces that do not want to allow any change to take place; they want to postpone the impending change, as along as possible, because that change will destroy the things they created. There are forces that want to bring a change to the present set of things and want this change to happen as early as possible, because it is the demand of time, which is due.
Let us be instruments of the forces that want change.
This document needs extensive grammatical editing. I hereby give license to every person who may be inclined, to so edit it. Also, it is desirable that this document is translated into other languages. Therefore, I further hereby give license to all those who may like to undertake the work to translate this document into any language.
Now, let us do our part by making efforts to replace words with actions and deeds. In my opinion, a secured mutual communication through e-mail of our ideas regarding conceiving and executing global action-plan is better than discussing them through our comments on these open pages. I invite and welcome e-mails from all those friends and comrades who may like to communicate in this regard.
Henceforth I intend to use my NCN newslog for communicating: (1). news about any action-plan or project that may be jointly conceived and undertaken by our friends. (2). my views on current national or international issues and problems. And (3). answer to any questions or comments that may be posted to my writings.
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27 Jan 2007 @ 12:17
Our world is divided, as ever, into two kinds of peoples. The ones who are satisfied with the present set of man-made institutions and circumstances, and those who feel the present is seriously fraught with serious defects on many counts and are restless to search for a better alternative; the ones who are charmed by achievements of modern science and hold that soon it is going to utter the last word on every thing, and those who feel that for the material science chiselled by Mind and its reason the horizon of ‘real truth’ shall remain as distant as ever. Let us accept this division of our world and let us take sides. The former category belongs to the current, the old civilzation and the later one to the new emerging one that is yet to get its due respect.
Let us recapitulate now what we have been saying in these articles so that logical conclusions may be derived from them and practical agenda may be formed for global action.
Beyond biological needs of life, the psychological anatomy of human being is of a very complex nature. Mind is there; it provides light of reason in the dark animal existence, but mind alone is not there. Neither mind is the highest light.
Reason should be used to the fullest extent as mind provides light and guidance to animal instincts and unguided desires of men. This light of reason must guide man till the light higher than mind is not received by human being.
Biological structure of man, with its organs and their senses, has its own separate workings and demands, like food, air etc. But biological nature is not the frontiers of human existence. Beyond body senses, there are desires and human cravings and impulses. They have real existence and constantly urge man, in plane and subtle manners, to satiate them and their liking. Not only desires are there mind also is there. Mind has its own separate world and its logical aspirations, and it demands their fulfillment. It is the world of thoughts, ideas, reason, logic and symmetrical harmony.
But senses, desires and mental thoughts combine together and create cacophony calling upon human being to pay attention to their respective demands. This cacophony is what we know as an individual's 'personality'. Depending on the sifting conglomeration of senses, desires and thoughts, this individual's cacophonous personality remains in constant flux of change.
If this cacophony is quieted and these urgings are subdued, then a guiding light descends upon human being that is higher than the blind darting urge of sensual pleasure, or the twilight of treacherous dark desires, or even the rational light of mind.
This higher light reveals the real nature of things. It lets human being know the absolute truth of all that exists by way of providing him a very personal experience of the essence of things by an identification with them rather than creating a mere hazy idea by mental analysis. This knowledge dawns on him like the morning light wherein his mind's limitations are exposed.
Once this light's dawning is there in an individual's experience, it becomes morally justified for him and for those who bring faith on him to accord to this light a place higher than mind. It also becomes justified to test all human decisions, however momentous they may be in importance, in the light of this power.
This higher light, power, truth etc. reveals itself to human being in a manner that is absolutely real and concrete, knowable only by identification (therefore, known to the person only who has received it), beyond mental comprehension, eternal in existence, beyond language's description, and therefore, mysterious to human mind.
This light reveals to the persons who receive this light that there are myriad gradations of consciousness beyond our material world. It reveals that these gradations of consciousness are as real as this earthly life existence. And it reveals that it is possible to explore their extent, nature and purpose in the universal scheme of things, and to utilize this knowledge to advance the cause of the purpose of human-stay in this material world.
In the light of this power, it becomes apparent that this world is transient, under constant transformation, illusory relative to the Truth revealed by this power and created for a specific purpose in accordance with superb plan beyond mind. For those who have experienced this light and those who bring faith on the truth of such experience it becomes morally justified to use the temporary stay of human being in this world to the maximum benefit in consonance with the supreme purpose and plan. In the light of that power it becomes clear that there is an element in human being that is eternal, that never dies, that take birth after birth till the purpose of coming in this world is achieved as per that superb plan.
Therefore, it becomes morally justified for an individual to pursue the agenda of human life in this mortal world as dictated by this light. Equally it becomes morally wrong to dedicate human life to cater to the demands of senses, desires and reason as these demands insist for their supremacy over the superior purpose that this light may reveal and create hindrance in the path of its agenda. It becomes proper thing for an individual, as revealed by that light, to control his desires, sensual indulgence and mental questioning that tries to put this light into doubt and lead human being astray from the sole agenda of this light. All means and methods (shown by religious teachers, yogis, sufis, saints, mystics etc.) that help to control, quiet and finally uproot sensual animal instincts, desires and doubts of mind are justified as they serve the cause of this eternal light.
At the individual level it is justified to control one's lower impulses. At the social level, logically, it is justified to curb the spread of desires and gearing of society to meet those desires. It cannot be the ideal of society to meet demands of these desires by resorting to means of demand and supply, cheap and excess production, competition, monopoly, advertisement, replacing men with machines to make goods cheap, using technology to render unemployment rather than creating leisure-hours for employed persons etc. Machines, ideally, should be used to curtail working hours of the people engaged in industrial production of goods by weaning them from the hands of those who use them to earn their private profits to the social detriment. It is justified not only to avoid the exploitation of natural resources to the maximum possible extent but also to leave them unused surplus so that on the one hand man may elevate himself to a higher level than a mere consuming animal and on the other these surplus natural resources may be available to the succeeding future generations of mankind.
Therefore, it is necessary to formulate an action-plan in consonance with this view point. This action-plan by virtue of its substance and reach should be comprehensive in nature and global in scope. We have already suggested an action-plan in the form of the Charter of New Civilization in one of our earlier articles, which is again given here for ready reference.
CHARTER OF NEW CIVILIZATION GLOBAL INITIATIVE
HAVING FAITH:
THAT planet earth is our common home and we human beings have inherited it from our forefathers, in trust for our own use and for the use of all other life-species dwelling on earth of the present and of the succeeding generations.
THAT all life-species are sacrosanct and they deserve survival and preservation at our hands.
THAT all man-made disputes – whether social, cultural, economic, political or any other - arising from conflict of interests are capable of being resolved by human beings in peace and amity;
THAT mankind is an evolving species being at the apex of life-evolution on earth yet being at an intermediate stage only; and
THAT mankind is capable of exploring the unknown micro and macro universe, harnessing the unveiled secrets of nature and its forces, and is capable of thereby to consciously shaping her destiny and the destiny of earth and of universe;
AND BEING CONVINCED
THAT mankind is living under the threat of annihilation at her hand by the use of weapons of mass destruction;
THAT a firm and sustainable human-unity is the only effective and workable guarantee to protect human race against such threat of self-annihilation; and
THAT such human-unity can only be established on the solid foundation of the commonality of human-interests, the commonality of purpose of life of human beings on earth and the commonality of the destiny of human race;
WE, THE CITIZENS OF EARTH, CALL UPON
PEOPLES OF ALL NATIONS, FAITHS AND CULTURES
TO
ACCOMPLISH, in common interest,
COLLECTIVE SURVIVAL of all life-species on earth by observing peace, good order, complete and global disarmament and respect for and conservation of nature;
FREEDOM, from political, economic, cultural and social oppression, within national and international organizations of human society, by guarding the individuals’ human rights and the interests of organized society;
COMMON PROSPERITY of peoples by utilizing technological advancements and scientific management of global natural resources to avoid waste, unsustainable exploitation and natural imbalance, and to bring efficiency;
GLOBAL UNITY among different subdivisions of mankind by promoting mutual respect for diversity, understanding and harmony in diversity; and
ENLIGHTENMENT of human beings by encouraging them to imbibe the knowledge of science, from material science to psychic science, and encouraging them to remain always open to change of convictions. More >
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14 Jan 2007 @ 05:34
There is necessity to shift our focus, in taking decisions and planning things, from this our one life to the one that is spread over many such lives. The happening of rebirth cases has to be studied, in the interest of human beings, by our science, the science whose scope and reach are enriched by its transformation from the present monolithic form to an elastic multidiscplined vibrant one.
There is the realization today on the part of science that there are some facts that exist there but are not scientific in nature. Its very movement, that is, the rapid progress of science, is hastening the moment of their admission. The more science uncovers the secret mysteries of Nature, the nearer would be the moment of dawning of New Civilization.
One such truth that exists there but is not admitted by science is the survival (of human beings) after death. One encounters almost daily across the glob cases of children who claim to remember the past life. We are not concerned here with any explanation of this phenomenon. It is the truth of the existence of such cases that is relevant here. Science realizes that they exist as hard facts but does not admit their existence. Or, it saves its face by ignoring their existence. It brings no credit to science. No body expects science to explain each and every thing existing in Nature. But one surely expects science to be honest in its commitment to truth. We all know today, science is developed enough to investigate “scientifically” and certify the existence of such cases
How “survival after death” cases are relevant to the culture of New Civilization? It is this way. We hold that there is this single life of us that we have at our disposal in this vast world and, logically, our priorities in life are determined by this fact – or, belief that is augumanted by science’s silence on the subject. We focus on this present life, plan for this life and take this life’s interests as the ultimate interests. What would happen if tommorrow science admits that there is survival after death? What would happen if such survival is taught in science classes in schools and a new generation steeped in such conviction takes over us?
It is apparent the focus of human society would then change from the interests of a single present life of individuals to the interests that may be there to be cared by them for a continued life after death. This dawning of the reality augumanted by the scientific aura would lay the foundation of a new culture – the culture of New Civilization. The culture of New Civilization would be qualitatively different from our present – the old – civilization. The habits, priorities and ends of our life would be different in New Civilization from our present one.
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5 Jan 2007 @ 16:29
We all know the transformation of classical physics into the physics of relativity and then of qantum mechanics. It was a leap forward in the unknown domain of knowledge. When one looks back today, he gets the uncomfortable feeling of the slow pace of our march forward on the path of knowledge. It seems really long for our physics to come out from the beliefs steeped in the simplistic Newtonian mechanical notions of Nature to astonishingly fresh concepts of Eiensteinian Relativity universally operating in Nature. But, then, humanity took an uncalculable span of time to put her knowledge that was mere of a speculative nature than a science onto a firm pedstel of Newtonian mechanics. It seemed obvious that on the part of humankind there is geomatric progression in the rate of uncovering mysteries of Nature.
Our science once more seems to be on the verge of a new and further transformation. What could be the nature of this lurking transformation? We may get a glimpse of this new understanding of Nature by comparing the essence of our modern concepts of unified field of energy with the old and outmoded Newtonian concepts. By this comparison, we find that matter and its properties are not absolute in quantum of content and their behaviour as was once thought. The impending transformation should bring a further new freshness to our understanding of Nature. In which way and on what front of our knowledge, it could happen? There is a grat probability that this time it should relate to the operating universe of human mind and brain, which is its biological seat. It may commence with the nenoscale investigation of biological brain. It may commence with establishing the co-relation of mind’s specific functions with brain’s specific chemical structure of neurons, the neurons’ synaptic connections between its various regions, the significance of transmitting of electric impulses therein etc.
If what we have been saying in all these articles here is correct, then one thing is certain to be established by science by such investigation. It is not only the brain’s biological structure at nanoscale that determines the mind’s thoughts – and other mental functions – but, equally, it is the mind’s thoughts and other functions that determine, change and rearrange the brain’s nanoscale structure. And, this mutual interrelation is not confined to brain and mind. It goes much beyond that. It covers the whole physical body. And, this interelation of biological and life’s functions is not limited to human beings alone. It operates universally wherever the duality of biology and life exist. It is much like wave and particle duality of quantum mechanics. You observe life only where it is bound to biology but it can exist sans biology also.
We have already indicated elsewhere in our articles on these pages, biology – and for that matter, all Matter – is pure energy, the amount of which is equivallent to mass multiplied by a number obtained by squaring the speed of light, as we all know. However, the fundamental energy is not only the ultimate truth but also conscious and blissful, which subject also has been dealt with by us in detail in our previous articles.
The transformation of science, which is being hastened by its rapid progress today, would not confine its scope to subjective feelings of mind alone. It would transcend human mind and relate itself to the reality existing there in Nature in an objective and verifiable manner. Here, at this point the essence of all religions condensed into a neat spiritualism may meet science and form a new confluence of two diverse streams of knowledge.
One such connecting common point for study between science and spiritualism could be the interrelation between nanoscale structure of biological brain and spiritual exercise of faith and prayer. Faith in Divine and a sincere prayer to Him are the commonest phenomenon in religions and spiritualism, and their impact on human brain at the molecular level may be conveniently studied by science today. The material consequences that might be brought into existence by these spiritual exercises not only in biological brain but also in in the surrounding material hard world may also be studied today. There are already signs that science is moving towards establishing some link between biological brain and the way we think, remember and deal with our surroundings. If we further find, with the progress of science, that religious or spiritual faith and prayer bring about a biological change in human brain at the nanoscale and a predictable “divination” takes place in the surrounding material world, what would it show? If it is repeated that yields the same consequences again and again, what would it show? Can one conclude that there is a force that is real and that is cannalised by altered biological brain and reflected in one’s changed mind, the change which is always brought in one's personality by religious or spiritual faith and prayer? And, if a predictable “divination” also takes place in the material hard world by the force of faith and prayer, what would it amount to? If the progress of science brings forth these interelations between “faith” and “Matter: in a positive direction, then one can truthfully say that the force is there, it is real, it is energy and it is conscious also. It would be a meeting place of two diverse disciplines of knowledge. It would be a confluence of two separate streams of knowledge.
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24 Dec 2006 @ 07:32
You worship a deity. You prostrate at the feet of the idol. What do you do in this case? You simply condition your mind. One does not do anything by praying to the idol. By such an act, one only affects his mind.
You worship your God. You prostrate before Him and offer your submission and subordination to Him. You do not do anything affecting anybody but your mind. It is not your mind alone that is affected by this very intimate and personal process. Your desires, your inmost wishes, even body feelings, in addition to your thoughts, are affected in a subtle manner. They all are conditioned. Thereby you bring a change in you.
You imagine there is God and that He is in the idol, or that He is all pervading and not in th idol alone, which is the same thing in its effect on your mind. You bow before Him and offer your complete self to Him. You do so unconditionally. What do you do by such an act on your part? You do not do anything but condition your mind, desires and body feelings. It is an act that affects nothing but you. You are completely changed by this process. Your inmost personality – subconscious and unconscious parts of the personality – becomes a totally changed new structure.
You read a holy book and bear faith on its sayings. What do you do to yourself by such an act? You change yourself. You bestow your inmost respect to this holy book and do not forbear a single thought of disbelief of the sayings, or the book’s desecration by anyone. Such a thought does not find a welcome place in your consciousness. By such an actone does not do anything to the holy book. He simply conditions his mind, urgings and feelings.
Or, you do not believe in the existence of a God or any holy book and believe that it is your conduct – your actions – alone that matters in realizing the ultimate wisdom, truth or enlightenment. You give a particular direction to your conduct in your life. What do you do to your personality? By this process you simply change yourself, that is, your thoughts, cravings and feelings.
In their substance and impact on human consciousness, what is the difference between one and another of these seemingly contradictory modes of religious faiths? None at all. Essentially, they all bring a psychological change in a particular direction in one’s total personality. One may follow a path that suits his nature and the path would bring a change in his personality, which is the sole means to progress on the evolutionary path of consciousness.
We all know the manipulation of semi conducting materials that science and its derivative branch – technology – are pursuing today. What is this manipulation? It is re-arranging the molecular structure of the material concerned to make atoms’ electrons flow in the designed fashion possible. Prescriptions of all faiths are akin to this manipulation of one’s consciousness whereby the flow of energy of supreme consciousness – and such energy is not a fiction invented by philosophers but a hard reality – is enabled in a desirable fashion. By resorting to these prescriptions you change yourself and then the miraculous consequences – bizarre, as termed by non-believers - follow that are there for all of us to see, observe and scientific study. You get something. You receive something – something that is as real as hard rock, that is incomparably enlightening and empowering, and that was not there before. Faith and prayer, in fact, help the one who is sincere in his resolve and call. It does miracles. It is a tool. It is a lever in the hands of human being – a being that is ordinarily ignorant, egoistic and unwilling to desire or even welcome a change for his betterment. More >
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Our apparently glittering civilization, with all its marvelous achievements, is hollow deep within and a new civilization, that would be richer in inner content, is striving to be born to take the place of the old one. The propelling force of this process is the 'PLEASURE' of man and the pleasure of a man is better than the pleasure of a pig, because man is never satisfied with himself and he longs to know the unknown while a pig is preoccupied with self-indulgence and satisfied with its existence. |
Previous entries
2006-12-24
Culture of New Civilization: Interrelation of faith and science
2006-12-21
Culture of New Civilization: Foundation
2006-12-11
Culture of New Civilization: (1) Preliminary
2006-11-04
Economics of New Civ.: Management of human self-governance
2006-10-19
In the interregnum: A reminder and an appeal
2006-10-14
Continued: Application of technology to democracy and economy
2006-08-27
Glorious task of New civ.:Let machine offer 23 hrs. leisure to mankind
2006-08-05
Economics of New Civ.: Role of Machine: It 'Use' and 'Misuse'
2006-08-04
Economics of New Civ.: Not Capitalism ! Not Socialism either !!
2006-08-03
Economics of New Civ.: Would it by-pass the ills of Capitalism and Communism?
2006-07-30
Economics of New Civ.: Marxist Dialectics, Communism and Perpetual Revolution
2006-07-26
Economics of New civ.: Hegel, Karl Marx, dialectics and Communism
2006-07-25
Economics of New Civilization
2006-07-22
History of New Civ. and evolutionary agenda of Mankind
2006-04-13
Cardinal place of Eternal Truth in New Civ: Buddha on Deathbed
Place of Buddha in New Civ: Past would repeat in future in new form
Historical elements of New Civ: Lord Buddha's determination to know the secret
2006-04-03
Historical elements of New Civ: Lord Buddha's Firm determination
2006-03-09
New Civilization: History: Birth and early life of Buddha:
2006-03-05
New Civilization: History (5): Lord Buddha: Transcient World
2006-03-02
New Civilization: History (4): Lord Jesus Christ: Why be Childlike?
2006-02-28
New Civilization: History (3): Lord Jesus Christ: Be childlike: Key to secrets
2006-02-19
New Civilization: History (2): Early followers of Lord Jesus Christ (100 AD)
2006-02-15
New Civilization: History (1): Lord Jesus Christ
2006-02-11
Verification of realty: Scientific experiment, hypothesis, theory & law
PART TWO: History and Economics of New Civilization
2006-01-30
Do you want your name included in the list? List would be upgraded time to time
2006-01-23
An Open Personal Letter and Apology
2006-01-21
New Civilization: Inlellectual Fundamentals (last article on Enlightenment)
2006-01-15
Deep Down the Heart: the seed of New Civilization
Immortality: Thought-body of human beings
2006-01-10
Immortality: Desires: Desires' subtle body: Release after death
2006-01-08
Immortality: Physical Body of Human Being
2006-01-01
Birth, Death and Recycling of parapsychological constituents of 'Personality'.
2005-12-31
Three dimensional Cubes of the Consciousness of Body, Desires and Mind
2005-12-28
Who am
2005-12-26
Enlightenment (4): Exploration Within - Hierarchy of Worlds
2005-12-19
Enlightenment (3): Riddle of Life
2005-12-16
New Civilization: Enlightenment (2)
2005-12-11
New Civilization: Enlightenment
Old Civilization: Summing Up
New Civilization: Mankind is one
2005-12-07
New Civilization Global Movement: Introduction, Activities & Charter
2005-12-05
New Civilization: its ambit
2005-12-03
New Civilization: its engine
2005-12-02
New Civilization: its Culture
2005-11-18
New Civilization: United Peoples Organization? And UPO's HQ??
2005-11-15
An Overview of Charter of New Civilization Global Initiative (*)
2005-11-12
Announcement
2005-11-10
Let's get down to the job of preparing Earth Summit.
2005-11-08
What is the difference between Old Civilization and New Civilization?
2005-11-07
New Civilization Global Movement: Some Suggestions
2005-11-06
New Civilization Global Movement - An Overview
2005-11-05
A call to hold Earth Summit of the Leaders of New Civilization
2005-11-04
On Global Collaboration, Common Grounds to Proceed and Language,
Human Consciousness
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