Ishwara - Efficient Cause of Mysterious coincidences

[Guest guest]

advaitin, "Chittaranjan Naik"

<chittaranjan_naik> wrote in his Part IX on Ishwara :

The evidence is all around us - ordered

> structures of beehives come into existence, honey is gathered from

> diverse flowers and accumulated, anthills come into being, seeds

> germinate and grow into beautiful trees, cars get made, particles

of

> sand turn into microchips, aeroplanes fly and reach their intended

> destinations, activities coalesce into coherent organisations,

human

> beings are born and grow - the list is endless. The loci of these

> tendencies to order are living beings - wherever we find life

there

> we find that the most wondrous order of things are brought forth

from

> the chaotic dispersions of inanimate matter. The element that

makes

> this possible is life, for intelligence is the mark of life.

>

> If one who wanted to make a clock were to sit shaking the pieces

in a

> box hoping that they would become a clock, we would not called

such a

> person intelligent. On the contrary, it would be quite fitting

with

> his actions to call him 'ignorant'. It may

> happen by a rare chance that one clock may somehow fall into place

> and get assembled, but the chances of clocks getting repeatedly

> assembled with clocklike regularity would need an extraneous

factor

> for sure. That extraneous factor is the directedness to the result

> that is provided by intelligence. Order and regularity can only be

> brought about by vidya. The word vidya has all these connotations –

> of intelligence, design and goal-orientation, etc. And Maya is to

be understood

> as the power through which Brahman brings forth this universe.

Maya

> is not avidya. The efficient cause of the universe is the

Intelligent

> Brahman and Brahman only.

>

>

Namaste.

 

Wonderfully said, Chittaranjan-ji. There are unbelievable

coincidences and a remarkable fine tuning of the universe at the

subatomic and cosmological levels. The intricate organization of

stars, atoms and creatures, the amazingly exact laws on which the

cosmos operates -- could a mindless force have created these? We all

know the signs of exceptional intelligence in man: the bright, alert

expression in the eyes, the prompt responses, and the general air of

competence. An intelligent person may pretend successfully to be

stupid, but a stupid person can never successfully pretend to be

intelligent. What then, of the universe, revealing as it does, so

many signs of extraordinary intelligence? To have an idea of the

fine tuning of design in the universe, from a scientific point of

view, see the following webpage:

 

http://www.geocities.com/profvk/evidence.html

 

PraNAms to all seekers of the Real in the Unreal.

profvk

[Guest guest]

Namaste Shri Professor VK-ji,

 

Thank you for your kind words Sir.

 

advaitin, "V. Krishnamurthy" <profvk>

wrote:

> We all know the signs of exceptional intelligence in man:

> the bright, alert expression in the eyes, the prompt

> responses, and the general air of competence.

 

 

Your words (above) bring back to me memories of how I first got drawn

to Advaita Vedanta... when I became aware of the distinctions of

consciousness, and the sign of its intelligence, as an 'entity' that

can never be truly implanted into a machine like a computer.

 

Pranams,

Chittaranjan