On A Mathematical Theory of Spirituality Based on Advaita

[Guest guest]

There have been postings by several advaitins in response to the MTS series and

I thank each one for taking the time to do so.

 

Nair ji: It is going to take me sometime to read and correctly understand all

the points raised. Some of the questions are best answered when I present the

appropriate section of the paper in future postings of this series. The

questions you raise are important and I hope to answer them with the care they

deserve before concluding the series.

 

Hersh ji: Thanks for the links to Swami Vivekananda’s efforts to bring science

and Advaita closer. I have printed out these interesting papers and am reading

them as time permits.

 

“Adi Shakti’s” posting about the “Ramanujams” was not in response to anything

specifically in the paper, but it is interesting that he brought up the name

Srinivasa Ramanujam. In the biographical work on Ramanujam’s life entitled “The

Man Who Knew Infinity” I found something very stirring: How Ramanujam sincerely

believed that all theorems that he discovered came to him as revelations from

the reigning Goddess of his village temple. He had no other explanation for his

own genius.

 

Ben: I have your recent question regarding the meaning of the cartesian axes. I

will respond to it either as part of the next posting that I am working on or

separately.

 

Hari Om!

 

- Raju

[Guest guest]

Respected Dr. Raju-ji !

 

Thank you for even acknowledging my post which was really an attempt

on my part to say a few words of Encouragement to my friend Ben Who

has taken the lead in supporting on your 'Mathematical theory of

Spirituality based on Advaita' ...

 

sir, I am a 'she' not a 'he '- second time around somebody has

mistaken this jiva as a 'male' ... i guess , 'advaita' is a domain

for Males only? smile ! Maths certainly is not ! We have ALL heard

of the Woman Genius Smt. Sakuntala Devi, the Human computer !

Smile ! well, little 'me' is neither a great mathematician nor a

great advaitin - but a simple minded devotee with her 'heart' in the

right place !

 

Sir , in Thirukural there is a two line verse which goes thus

 

" Yen Yenba Yennai Yezhathu Yenba

Evvirendum Kann Yenba Vazhum Uuzhirukuu "

 

Translation

 

Numbers and letters - these are the twin eyes of the mind.

 

Reading, (W)Riting and (A)Rithmetic constitite Full learning!

 

Sir, You write :

 

(In the biographical work on Ramanujam's life entitled "The Man Who

Knew Infinity" I found something very stirring: How Ramanujam

sincerely believed that all theorems that he discovered came to him

as revelations from the reigning Goddess of his village temple.)

 

The Goddess indeed in all powerful! It is Devi herself ( Kali ma) who

blessed the great poet Kalidasa with speech and eloquence and he was

able to write such classic plays like Kumarasambhavam, Meghadhootam,

Raghuvamsham, Malavika Agnimitram and Shankuntalam etc- due to Devi's

infinite grace ( anugriham) From a dumb person, Kalidasa became a

world renowned poet and is called the Shakespeare of India! We all

know of 'mukakavi' ( the dumb poet) also who was made eloquent by the

grace of Ambaal.

 

Yes! Dr. Raju! The temple deity who whispered 'equations ' in the

ears of Sri Ramanujam is none other than 'NAMAGIRI Thayar OF

NAMAKKAL', THE CONSORT OF LION GOD NARASIMHA ! It is believed that

the Goddess visited him during the dreams and wrote equations on his

tongue! and it is the same Family deity who advised his mother to

send her only son to England to pursue his dreams!

 

"Sri Ramanujam united mathematics and spirituality together. He felt,

for example, that zero represented Absolute Reality, and that

infinity represented the many manifestations of that Reality.

Ramanujan felt that each mathematical discovery was a step closer to

understanding the spiritual universe. He once told a friend, "An

equation for me has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of God."

He saw the 'divine in numbers' "

 

(SOURCE: http://www.atributetohinduism.com/quotes321_340.htm )

 

well, Our beloved Ben mentioned about Greek Philosopher Plato and

Mathematics!

 

'I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of

reasoning. ( plato)

 

and Albert Einstein says :

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not

certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to

reality.

 

 

Now, i am even ore confused abourt both 'mathematics' and 'Reality' -

SMILE!

 

and the funny part is sri Ramanujam and i have something in common!

both our grandparents belong to Erode in Tamilnadu ! I have spent

many of my childhood summers in Erode and Kumbakonam- Had i known , i

would have also prayed to that village goddess ! i was too busy

playing on the shores of the 'kaveri river building sandcastles ! )

 

Sri Lalita Sahasaranama says :

 

Sri Mahabuddhih

 

— The Greatest Intelligence.

 

— "To the Devi who abides in All beings in the form of Pure

Intelligence." Sri Durga-Saptasati 20-22

 

Sri Lalita Sahasranama

(Sri Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Assoc. Advertisers and

Printers, 1989.)

 

 

"When the intelligence is directed towards Her, nothing remains to be

known. The Sruti (Cha. Up., VI. 1) says, "Which, when known, the

whole universe is known." Or, from whom one obtains the highest

(mahat) intelligence."

 

R. Ananthakrishna Sastry

(R. A. Sastry, Lalita-Sahasranama, The Adyar Library and Research

Centre, Madras, 1988, p. 126.)

[Guest guest]

Adiji,

 

If "shakti" means "life energy as expressed in nature",

then you have more shakti than the rest of this list

put together!

 

Hari Om!

Ben

 

 

advaitin, "adi_shakthi16" <adi_shakthi16> wrote:

>

> Respected Dr. Raju-ji !

>

> Thank you for even acknowledging my post which was really an attempt

> on my part to say a few words of Encouragement to my friend Ben Who

> has taken the lead in supporting on your 'Mathematical theory of

> Spirituality based on Advaita' ...

>

> sir, I am a 'she' not a 'he '- second time around somebody has

> mistaken this jiva as a 'male' ... i guess , 'advaita' is a domain

> for Males only? smile ! Maths certainly is not ! We have ALL heard

> of the Woman Genius Smt. Sakuntala Devi, the Human computer !

> Smile ! well, little 'me' is neither a great mathematician nor a

> great advaitin - but a simple minded devotee with her 'heart' in the

> right place !

>

> Sir , in Thirukural there is a two line verse which goes thus

>

> " Yen Yenba Yennai Yezhathu Yenba

> Evvirendum Kann Yenba Vazhum Uuzhirukuu "

>

> Translation

>

> Numbers and letters - these are the twin eyes of the mind.

>

> Reading, (W)Riting and (A)Rithmetic constitite Full learning!

>

> Sir, You write :

>

> (In the biographical work on Ramanujam's life entitled "The Man Who

> Knew Infinity" I found something very stirring: How Ramanujam

> sincerely believed that all theorems that he discovered came to him

> as revelations from the reigning Goddess of his village temple.)

>

> The Goddess indeed in all powerful! It is Devi herself ( Kali ma) who

> blessed the great poet Kalidasa with speech and eloquence and he was

> able to write such classic plays like Kumarasambhavam, Meghadhootam,

> Raghuvamsham, Malavika Agnimitram and Shankuntalam etc- due to Devi's

> infinite grace ( anugriham) From a dumb person, Kalidasa became a

> world renowned poet and is called the Shakespeare of India! We all

> know of 'mukakavi' ( the dumb poet) also who was made eloquent by the

> grace of Ambaal.

>

> Yes! Dr. Raju! The temple deity who whispered 'equations ' in the

> ears of Sri Ramanujam is none other than 'NAMAGIRI Thayar OF

> NAMAKKAL', THE CONSORT OF LION GOD NARASIMHA ! It is believed that

> the Goddess visited him during the dreams and wrote equations on his

> tongue! and it is the same Family deity who advised his mother to

> send her only son to England to pursue his dreams!

>

> "Sri Ramanujam united mathematics and spirituality together. He felt,

> for example, that zero represented Absolute Reality, and that

> infinity represented the many manifestations of that Reality.

> Ramanujan felt that each mathematical discovery was a step closer to

> understanding the spiritual universe. He once told a friend, "An

> equation for me has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of God."

> He saw the 'divine in numbers' "

>

> (SOURCE: http://www.atributetohinduism.com/quotes321_340.htm )

>

> well, Our beloved Ben mentioned about Greek Philosopher Plato and

> Mathematics!

>

> 'I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of

> reasoning. ( plato)

>

> and Albert Einstein says :

> As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not

> certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to

> reality.

>

>

> Now, i am even ore confused abourt both 'mathematics' and 'Reality' -

> SMILE!

>

> and the funny part is sri Ramanujam and i have something in common!

> both our grandparents belong to Erode in Tamilnadu ! I have spent

> many of my childhood summers in Erode and Kumbakonam- Had i known , i

> would have also prayed to that village goddess ! i was too busy

> playing on the shores of the 'kaveri river building sandcastles ! )

>

> Sri Lalita Sahasaranama says :

>

> Sri Mahabuddhih

>

> — The Greatest Intelligence.

>

> — "To the Devi who abides in All beings in the form of Pure

> Intelligence." Sri Durga-Saptasati 20-22

>

> Sri Lalita Sahasranama

> (Sri Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Assoc. Advertisers and

> Printers, 1989.)

>

>

> "When the intelligence is directed towards Her, nothing remains to be

> known. The Sruti (Cha. Up., VI. 1) says, "Which, when known, the

> whole universe is known." Or, from whom one obtains the highest

> (mahat) intelligence."

>

> R. Ananthakrishna Sastry

> (R. A. Sastry, Lalita-Sahasranama, The Adyar Library and Research

> Centre, Madras, 1988, p. 126.)

>

[Guest guest]

wow!

 

do you expect me to take this compliment seriously! Yes , i do have

boundless 'energy' ( may be of the wrong kind! smile! ) but real

energy is in 'silencing the senses' specially the 'Tongue' ! Silence

is the Language of the Sages! in Silence, one can hear Sri Krishna's

footsteps appreoaching us with the melody of music from His Divine

flute, our beloved Venu-gopala , Murali-MAnohara! bh ! Thank you,,

anyway !

 

BENJI, may i share an anecdote with you about Sri Ramanuja ?

 

In an arithmetic class, the teacher said that if three bananas are

distributed to three students, then each student would get one

banana. The teacher generalized this idea of division to say that an

integer divided by itself will always be 1.

 

Ramanujan is said to have surprised every one by asking:

 

"Sir, if no banana is distributed to no student, will each student

still get a banana?"

 

Ramanujan has been quoted to have said:

 

" Zero divided by zero may be anything. The zero of the numerator may

be several times the zero of the denominator and vice versa".

 

This anecdote reveals that Ramanujan was thinking of limits and

limiting processes.

 

http://www.imsc.res.in/~raoramanujan/newnow/main.htm

 

well, to Sri Ramanuja, the child prodigy , every integer was a

friend !

 

and Ben-ji, you are right- i am told in all IIT entrance exams ,

there are still some questions pertaining to Sri Ramanujam's

theorems ! No wonder, ONLY THE BEST GET ADMITTED TO THESE SCHOOLS AND

THE SAD PART OF IT IS THE BEST MIGRATE TO U.S.A a is evident in my

family- SOME OF MY cousins and nephews are top graduates from IIT Who

are now in U.S.A from east coast to west coast!

 

in another note, both Einstein and Sri Ramanujam had something in

common ... These two geniuii had uncouth appearance with unkempt hair

and both worked as ordinary clerks with extraordinary brains !

However, Einstein won the prestigious nobel prize and Sr Ramanujam ?

i think he should be given the nobel prize postumously and the award

money should be used for helping the 'poor' and orphan students! why

not ?

 

Benji, how else can we explain sri Ramanujam's Genius except by

acknowledging the 'GODDESS'S divine intervention? Devi Kripa ! When

you have Goddess as a guru , do we need textbooks ?

 

Devi is Medha shakti!

 

btw, i read that in England they are trying to use mathematical

models to save the rare species of Red Squirrels ( as againstb the

grey squirrels) who are estinguishing at a fast rate ! smile!

 

love and blessings

 

 

advaitin, "Benjamin Orion" <orion777ben>

wrote:

>

> Adiji,

>

> If "shakti" means "life energy as expressed in nature",

> then you have more shakti than the rest of this list

> put together!

>

 

 

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