Towards A Mathematical Theory Of Spirituality- Questions from Benjamin

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Dear Raju Chidambaramji,

 

Uncertainty provides a way out even in a universe with

invariant laws. Ishwara

has the freedom to choose whatever He wills from among

the many possibilities

Nature allows Him. One can now ask another question:

if the Ishwara must make

the choice consistent with the probabilities assigned

by Nature, does it not

also

constrain Him?

 

This question is anticipated with a response pointed

out in the paper (page 43,

footnote 37). Probability laws, it is argued, pose

essentially no constraint

in the short term in making individual choices. True,

in the long term they are

expected to follow the probability curve. Even this is

only an expectation!

Ishwara has thus ample room to display His sense of

compassion and justice in

individual instances and, yes, there is also room for

Him to "perform

miracles" (i.e. choosing possibilities whose

associated a priori probabilities

are extremenly small.)

 

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Here i would like to add to your point. There is an

incident in the life of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna. One

of his associate Mathur Babu who was the owner of the

dakshineshwar kali temple asked the same question. can

the lord break the law? Sri Ramakrishna said yes he

can break the law if he chose. This Mathur was

unwilling to accept he sticked to his opinion that

even the lord has to obey that law. Next day Sri

Ramakrishna was walking in the garden of dakshineshwar

the he saw that there were red and white hibiscus

flowers in a plant of red one. Immediately he broke

the twig of the plant and showed it to mathur and said

that See in the plant of red hibiscus a white flower

has boomed according to nature that cannot be. Then he

said that anything and everything is possible for the

lord. It is rightly said that one who can make the law

can break it as well ofcourse it is done in an

exceptional case only.

 

HARI OM TAT SAT

 

Yours in the lord,

 

Br. Vinayaka.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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