Clarification of savikalpa and nirvikalpa - Digression into String Theory

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Namaste

 

Sunderji, none can beat you! Yes, you are right. M-Theory and

D-Branes are gobbling up the ten-year old ideas of string

theory. All these form part of the latter half of the book I was

listing. There are actually five string theories and all these

are expected to be unified by M–Theory which in addition also

unifies what is called 11-dimensional supergravity theory.

Strings were thought to be one-dimensional, but later they found

that the fundamental ingredient could as well be two-dimensional

membranes but now they have increased the dimensions up to nine.

The corresponding extended objects are called 3–branes, 4-branes

and so on.

Well, let us not put the cart before the horse. And let us also

not frighten the non-specialist and make him run away. In fact

all my life I have been advocating, from various platforms, --

my Presidential address as President of the Indian Mathematical

Society in the early seventies, my Presidential address as

President of the Mathematics Section of the Indian Science

Congress in late nineties and so on – that expository writing in

Science, particularly Mathematics, must find takers from the

highest echelons of research. But there are very few (good and

substantial) expository books and authors in science and even

fewer in those areas of science that require deep mathematics.

As a consequence, subjects like string theory have very few

expositors, almost none. The website that you referred to,

Sunderji, and many other books that I know of, are all so

technical that they repel even the interested lay reader! It is

in this context I was appreciative of Brian Greene’s book: The

Elegant Universe (Vintage, 1999). It is written in such a

wonderfully enjoyable racy style that laymen who are not averse

to science as well as scholars like Sadanandaji can equally

benefit from the book.

Sadanandaji, I will not say the book is non-mathematical, but it

is readable without a note-book on hand. It is as highly

readable as your explanation on savikalpa and nirvikalpa!

I shall wait until I finish reading the book and then I expect

to come back on this list with a post on the subject.

 

praNAms to all advaitins

profvk

 

 

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My website on Science and Spirituality is http://www.geocities.com/profvk/

You can access my book on Gems from the Ocean of Hindu Thought Vision and

Practice, and my father R. Visvanatha Sastri's manuscripts from the site.

 

 

 

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Namaste,

 

Its enligtening to read such great articles.

 

While reading the string theory and nivikalpa samadhi, i felt some

similarities... both stages manifest amidst the flow of highest energies...super

string remains the root state which can answer the million variations of objects

and energies on this earth... same as the nirvikalpa state which is the true

root state where from the dance of the million life forms is visible...

 

Pranams to the great souls that are striving to know the brahmam!

 

Srini Veerasakthi

 

 

 

 

 

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