A Couple Things

[Guest guest]

Greetings:

 

1) I am aware that George Harrison was also an admirer of Paramahansa

Yogananda.

 

2) jay, great comparison of the three gunas to the three laws of

thermodynamics! Do you (or anyone else) know if that comparison has ever

been studied before? (I read the " Tao of Physics " some years back, prior to

my knowledge of Vedanta. I may have to re-read it to see if his analysis

included Hindu cosmology.)

 

Several months back, I sent an inquiry into www.allexperts.com , asking:

" Is there anything in our physical universe that is absolutely still? " The

response from a secular scientist was: " Absolute zero (approximately -273

degrees Celcius) represents absolute cessation of motioin and we have not

yet been able to attain it. The figure was deduced backward from temperature

to motion equations. As a quantum theorist, I look at absolute zero as an

infinity because the absolute cessation of movement produces no time or

energy. "

 

My interest in this question is based on one definition of Samadhi as being

the absolute cessation of thought (i.e., stillness - For Christians on the

List: " Be still, and know that I am God. . . " Psalm 46:10). My broader

interest is: How close can scientific inquiry bring us to God? I believe

God is the ultimate Scientist, so will the study of creation through the

scientific method ulitmately lead us to our Creator? Is there a mathmatical

formula, theoretical insight or a technology that, someday, will bring us

Realization? (If so, would that be consdiered a form of Jnana Yoga?) Or,

will all avenues of scientific inquiry ultimately lead us to infinity - a

chasm that logic will never cross? In either case, will scientists someday

be the " Rishis " of the Kali Yuga - after all Sadhakas and Sadhus have

achieved Moksha?

 

Another thread for interested List members to chew on . . .

 

God Bless,

Brad