Yesterday I was going through an old family photo album and saw myself in a snap with The Great Himalayas in the background. I was looking at the snap and noticed that I was looking very small in front of those peaks. And I don't know how the mind went towards the question of my existence in this world? Suddenly I started feeling very light.
The thought process reminded me the mail in which the comparison of our earth and some of the biggest stars and galaxy itself was portrayed. Our earth was looking like a tiny dot in front of the bigger stars. As compare to the size of galaxy, our earth is no-where. Take one step upwards and just think of millions of galaxies. Thinking about the vastness was like a conundrum to me. All of us know that human mind is a superpower. It can think beyond our expectations but the universe is spread beyond that.
An interesting data I want to quote here is, As a guide to the relative physical scale of the Milky Way, if it were reduced to 10m in diameter, the Solar System, including the Oort cloud, would be no more than 0.1mm in width (0.001%), source Wikipedia. People say one picture is worth of thousand word. So just watch this video and decide where we really stand?
Let's come back to the human form. If we try to see ourselves in the same scale, we would not be able to see ourselves. But the way we are living in this world and doing all types of nuisance, it looks as if we are superior to everything else. To satisfy our false ego we are fighting with each other, wasting all our resources, energy, power, time in maligning other person, country, and even race. When we are in a city, we fight for our blocks. When we talk in a state level platform we think only till our city limits. Then at next higher level, we talk about states, so called culture, languages which will not have any meaning once we are out of this world. Then at the next level we say that I am American, I am Bhartiya, I am from Africa and so on so forth. And within all this we keep fighting based on our race, caste, religion, origin.
How many of us can be so sure that our forefathers were of the same race, religion or the same caste and belong to the same place where we are living right now? Just take any history books and you'll get an fair idea that how frequently people changed (by their own wish or forcefully) their religion and places. Even then if we feel that we are so called pure blood then, I can only laugh at you.
We spend most of our lives in satisfying our fake egos rather than doing something "bigger and better". That "bigger and better" can be anything. I'll leave this to you to decide what can be the "bigger and better" means to you. I believe every living being in the universe has it's own purpose of living for which only, we take birth. And if we do not work towards that purpose, we are not only trying to make ourselves fool but also cheating to our respective GODs (or the power in which everyone believes).
Thats what I call Awakening !
ReplyDeleteNo-one knows exactly how big the universe is. All is just predictions and assumptions. And who knows, whether there are multiple universes or so on.....Also, there is another side of the story. The simple law of Physics tells us that, everything is made of molecules, which itself is divided into atoms, then further to electrons, neutrons, protons and they themselves are further divided into other smaller level particles.
Particle physics will tell us how smallest has the discovery been made, and still it is not the end. Still, the mystery is there around existence of particles. Therefore, human being understands neither bottom nor top of the structure of this universe, which size cannot be imagined quite easily (I suspect our old age Rishis or Saints would have known the reality).
To add the complexity, the dimension of time comes into the play. The structure of universe is now multifold. Doesn't this idea invoke a feeling to really realize the presence of God?
I seriously think that, Spirituality and Physics are not different areas. They are one, former being the super advanced class of the later.
And, realization of this is called Awakening !
Excellently presented..gr8 philosophy..What we actually see is not the only thing present..There are many such things in the world which are beyond human perception..anyways good one..keep penning..:)
ReplyDeleteVamsi, it great to read your comment. Thanks for the motivation. I totally agree that there are many things which are beyond human perception.
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