Life comes from ( ? )

Contemporary Biology very diplomatically avoids the question: Where does Life come from?

Its main business is now to do cloning etc which are nothing but advanced carpentry. That’s all. These ‘scientists’ are no better than carpenters who are satisfied with this tinkering, avoiding the most important. Being of lesser intelligence, they are satisfied with the inconsequential issues.

 These ‘carpenters’ come up with theories which can be more of less like this:

 1. Life suddenly came from matter – simple chemicals started replicating and then after billions of years, complex life started flourishing.

 2.   Since I am carbon based life, anywhere where there is no carbon or water, life is impossible. ‘I am an ant – I know plane surface, hence 3-D does not exist’

 3.   All the varieties of Life from simple cells upward. How? Give me time of billions of years and your credulity (and tax money).

 There is a recent discovery of a planetary system predominantly filled with ethyl alcohol.

 What now prevents another system filled with milk, another with honey (sugar), another with amniotic fluid?

 It is surely possible. Who is that rascal who can say no ? Have you searched out all the planetary systems?

 Vedic Literature on Creation:

 The Supreme Living Being (the primoridal Living force) expanded Himself into core material ingredients and thus galaxies, universes, stars and planets are formed. Then He expanded Himself and entered each universe. Another expansion from Him entered into each living entity and they started manipulating the material elements.

 No scientist has ever come from some laboratory.

Every scientist has a father and mother and the process has been same – father’s living force in the form of a sperm inseminated the mother’s egg and the combination started manipulating matter inside the womb to produce a baby.

 The embryo reclines in the amniotic fluid and continues to manipulate matter to grow. Actually it is not growing – it is changing. The living force is changing the amalgamated matter – this living force can manipulate any matter: earth, water, air, fire, space but it is distinct from matter.

 However, this manipulation by the atomic living force inside a womb is not independent; it is under control by the Supreme Life through an eternal chain of connections.

 Life: all Life everywhere in this cosmos comes after the Supreme Living Force.

 Forty years back, Srila Prabhupada, one of the greatest Vedic Acharyas and a confidential and empowered devotee of the Supreme Lord Krishna re-delivered this message on the secret of Life.

 He did not experiment to learn this – nor did he speculate.

 The Supreme Lord – who created all this confided this to Him and hence there can be no higher or more reliable interpretation.

 If your computer breaks down and you start to speculate what has happened and how to fix, you can never do it on your own or considering the problem serious enough, your street side mechanic cannot fix it also. It has to either go to the manufacturer or some authorized mechanic (empowered and considered confidential by the maker) needs to come down and that is the ONLY  option. No, But…..

 And these petty and punny creatures, getting fat by tax-payers money claim to solve the greatest mystery of Life on their own – by speculation and  experiment ?

 Do you see the level of ignorance, stupidity and nescience ?

 

The Dream Home Illusion of debt-slaves

A colleague of mine remarked that he has a co-worker who owns a flat in Calcutta which costs around INR 65 Lac and he openly admits that he has no choice but to slog and pay the EMI. In other words, he has surrendered his fate of being a debt-slave. He returns late and sleep has never been costly. In his illusion, he thinks or consoles himself that after some 10 years, the price of the home will be INR 650 Lac. What an intelligent investment!

 The text below is for the most-intelligent class. Rest may ignore it altogether. It will cause vertigo and cerebral palsy.

 

• The same co-worker could have remained a free man if he had purchased something at one-fourth of the price and trying his best to avoid EMI – may be sacrificing significant creature comforts.

 

• The debt-slave who thinks himself smart does not understand that the pricing, the mind-programming, the inflation, the demand-supply skewness, the information asymmetry, the tax-incentive, the regulatory framework – all might have been in collusion and they are – consciously or unconsciously.

 

• This salaried, middle-class and always trying to maintain pretense and forever anxious (because he is not independent in maintaining himself – I was one such) gentleman does not know the ‘pyramid’ and his position in the ‘pyramid’ 

The land is constant. You can print money as much as you please but you cannot create even a grain of sand. So as people concentrate, there will be more demand and less supply. In illusion, the debt-slaves will be keen to acquire badges of honour and achievement and their mind will be programmed by subtle and gross means to accept the illusion as ‘achievement’

 A cartel (Kaliyuga Development Ltd or KDL) will now form and they will divide the scarce recource within themselves. This process will be funded by an entity called bank – let us call this is a Vulture Brothers Bank  Incroporated (VBB). KDL and VB will now approach the Government and will get some tax incentives for the debt-slaves so that they can satisfy the reason of participating in the illusion as a reasonable thing.

Price offered in the market by KDL will be = Cost + Profit of VB + Commission for regulatory authorities + Government’s cut in the form of various regulations + Protection Money + Taxes of various kind + Advertisement Fee + Processing fee for enslavement + Legal expenses to protect the whole entity from the enslaved + inflationary escalation

 Now this price will be finally borne by the salaried middle class ‘dream-home’ owner.

 Now Vulture Brothers lends to KDL as well as to hundreds of thousands of debt-slaves. In the first cycle, VBB deliberately will entice debt-slaves by various temptations to fall into the trap. These temptations include cheaper loans, giving more than the person can repay, softer repayment options etc. KDL will be duly notified and KDL will collect 15% of cash and handover a key to anyone that can sign.This will continue for 3-4 years and they will recover the interest on the capital. This interest was paid by the labour of the debt slaves.

 It is quite clear that at least 10% of the debt-slaves will have repayment problem and VBB will take their posession and then add to the inventory of KDL to be resold at a better time and to a better debt-slave.

 The debt-slave will have no idea that there is rampant speculation going on and he is not owning a dream home but servicing a debt that will eat more and more of his labour.

 Debt slaves will be happily discussing among themselves as how their property is escalating, understanding little that he is at the final phase of his illusion.

 Then one day, there will be some orchestrated crash or something which the debt slave will have no idea except what is fed to him.

 He will now find his labour price offered in the market going down, his debt burden increasing and there is no hope except to go for the fire sale.

 KDL will pick it up through VBB and the cycle repeats.

 A man in 30 with a loan of 20 years, if all goes well will own a home when he is 50.

 By that time his children are in the need of a loan for various reasons.

 In next 10 years, he will be 60 – most likley retired and just living in an ‘ownership’ which his 20 years labour produced.

 But then, Death awaits and will kick him or for that matter anyone from this dream-home.

 Isn’t this an illusion ? The Illusion of ownership

 Behind all our anxieties lie this anixety of thief : we don’t own anything. It is sinful and ignorant and criminal to demand that we own anything.

 We toil like slaves, like animals because we remain in the illusion.

 Isopanishd Invocation: Everything is Owned by the Supreme Lord.

 

Dream Home’ – the grand illusion of debt-slaves

‘Every home-loan-lender cannot just refrain using the term ‘dream home’. We know why having a home in a city is a dream now – no longer in the realm of possibility.

I was born in small town and home was never dream – it was a commonplace thing. We never thought about it.

Modern Civilization – especially big cities are such designed that its inhabitants are programmed to believe that they or whom they consider powerful really ‘own’ something. This is the start of illusion: aham mameti. Me and mine.

In 1998, a wage-slave myself, I met a man in Bombay who told me that his ‘dream’ is now getting materialized – an owned flat in Bombay. What is this ownership? Who owns and what?

A flat is basically space surrounded by walls made by bricks and sand made into shape by human labour. The ‘dream home owner’ neither owned the sand, the space, the bricks – only rented the labour. This renting power has come because he has a body. Now this body is also made up of five elements not owned by him.

 His labour by which he earned the symbols to rent the labour and capital cost?

 Agreed. But his labour finishes as soon as he dies or diseased or accidentally fired. Then renting also stops and so called ownership finishes with regards to his body.

 How long that renting can be ? 20 years, 30 years, 50 years,. 60 years….

 So, there cannot be any ownership – only renting for a specific period and that is also quite uncertain.

 Home-loan lenders survive on this illusion.

 See Next post

 

Impersonalism and Personalism : the crux of the debate

A pure impersonalist philosopher reasons this way:

That who worship and serve a personal god with a form does it from a need. He cannot conceive of an immanent god because of his experience with name and form. He cannot conceive the abstraction and hence imagines a god – the anthromorphic principle.

A pure personalist philosopher reasons this way:

Worship means a person. But God as a person is a transcendental person – not conceivable by our limited abilities of perception. Hence impersonalists cannot conceive that such potency can emanate from a person. Due to their lack of conception, they imagine impersonalism.

Please note that both the school of philosophers acknowledge and use it to their advantage the inconceivable potency of a personal God or the all pervading Consciousness.

This debate can never be settled because of the inconceivable factor. Hence the impersonal and personal debate can never be resolved and is eternal.

It can only be resolved by someone who knows thoroughly about the Science of God. But how one can conceive which is by definition inconceivable. Or in other words, whom God has revealed Himself.

Who is that?

The author of Vedanta Sutra – Lord Vyasadeva delcares

Vadanti tatta-vidas tattwa ja jyanam-adyam

Brahmeti paramateti bhagavaneti sabdyate

Those who know the Supreme Absolute Truth has told the Truth to be non-dual and is realized in its impersonal Brhaman form, localized paramatma form and as Supreme Personality of Godhead form. 

From this, the immediate logical clarity, sparkling like light comes from Lord Krishna’s pronouncement in the Bhagavad-Gita where he establishes Himself as the Supreme Personality of Godhead:

bhaktya mam abhijanati
yavan yas casmi tattvatah
tato mam tattvato jnatva
visate tad-anantaram [ Bg – Chapter 18, Text 55 ]

One can understand the Supreme Personality as He is only by devotional service. And when one is in full consciousness of the Supreme Lord by such devotion, he can enter into the kingdom of God. (Translated by Srila Prabhupada, BG As it is, 1974 McMillan Edition at www.asitis.com ]

 The purport by Srila Prabhupada below, finally settles the debate conclusively – Note the word visate

The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, and His plenary portions cannot be understood by mental speculation nor by the nondevotees. If anyone wants to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he has to take to pure devotional service under the guidance of a pure devotee. Otherwise, the truth of the Supreme Personality of Godhead will always be hidden. It is already stated (naham prakasah) that He is not revealed to everyone. Everyone cannot understand God simply by erudite scholarship or mental speculation. Only one who is actually engaged in Krsna consciousness and devotional service can understand what Krsna is. University degrees are not helpful.
One who is fully conversant with the Krsna science becomes eligible to enter into the spiritual kingdom, the abode of Krsna. Becoming Brahman does not mean that one loses his identity. Devotional service is there, and as long as devotional service exists, there must be God, the devotee, and the process of devotional service. Such knowledge is never vanquished, even after liberation. Liberation involves getting free from the concept of material life; in spiritual life the same distinction is there, the same individuality is there, but in pure Krsna consciousness. One should not misunderstand that the word visate, “enters into Me,” supports the monist theory that one becomes homogeneous with the impersonal Brahman. No. Visate means that one can enter into the abode of the Supreme Lord in his’s individuality to engage in His association and render service unto Him. For instance, a green bird enters a green tree not to become one with the tree but to enjoy the fruits of the tree. Impersonalists generally give the example of a river flowing into the ocean and merging. This may be a source of happiness for the impersonalist, but the personalist keeps his personal individuality like an aquatic in the ocean. We find so many living entities within the ocean, if we go deep. Surface acquaintance with the ocean is not sufficient; one must have complete knowledge of the aquatics living in the ocean depths.

Because of his pure devotional service, a devotee can understand the transcendental qualities and the opulences of the Supreme Lord in truth. As it is stated in the Eleventh Chapter, only by devotional service can one understand. The same is confirmed here; one can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead by devotional service and enter into His kingdom.

After attainment of the brahma-bhuta stage of freedom from material conceptions, devotional service begins by one’s hearing about the Lord. When one hears about the Supreme Lord, automatically the brahma-bhuta stage develops, and material contamination–greediness and lust for sense enjoyment–disappears. As lust and desires disappear from the heart of a devotee, he becomes more attached to the service of the Lord, and by such attachment he becomes free from material contamination. In that state of life he can understand the Supreme Lord. This is the statement of Srimad-Bhagavatam also. Also after liberation the process of bhakti or transcendental service continues. The Vedanta-sutra confirms this: aprayanat tatrapi hi drstam. This means that after liberation the process of devotional service continues. In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, real devotional liberation is defined as the reinstatement of the living entity in his own identity, his own constitutional position. The constitutional position is already explained: every living entity is the part and parcel fragmental portion of the Supreme Lord. Therefore his constitutional position is to serve. After liberation, this service is never stopped. Actual liberation is getting free from misconceptions of life.

An old man’s challenge to MIT

In late sixties, an old Bengali gentleman born near Harrison Road, Calcutta went to Massachusetes Institute of Technology and delivered a challenge. The challenge is still alive after fifty years.

What is the challenge?

He asked, point blank: In your institution, where is the department which studies about that technology which makes a body alive? Which department studies about the active principle without which the most valuable body (that of an Einstein, of Tesla) is discarded?

In other way, where is the technology that can make a body alive again by engineering this active principle called living force?  Can you have that technology ?

In last two hundred years, of all Indian teachers who went to West did not or could not ask this question.

The question this old man asked was not new, nor his question. The question is eternal – philosophia perennis – the eternal question of all philosophy –

Atahtho Brahmajigansa?

Now (in this human form of life) is the time to enquire about Brahman – Who am I ? What technology makes a body alive ? What makes it die ? Where do I come from ? Where do I go ?

 What is the aim of human life ?

Birth Control Pill – A scientific enquiry

The discovery of birth-control pill has been explained by an old man of Bengal to me in a conversation and one can trace all discoveries or invention by following the logic. I have not heard anything like this from anyone : the ancient greeks to modern thinkers. None.

99% of men live on bodily platform of life and consider that body (mind and false ego included – I am this, I am citizen of that country, I am a scientist etc – the false comes because if we move time some decades, death comes and the person;s body becomes unmanifest) as everything. Body and its extension (family, land of birth, species of birth, inter-stellar position etc) are the only realities for them. Hence, all their activities are related to body. Sex is the greatest psycho-somatic pleasure and is achieved by direct bodily friction.

Now the more covered the body is, sexual pleasure is somewhat hampered. But sexual pleasure comes with a price or a future risk: potential of birth. So here is a catch 22 situation: Unhampered sexual pleasure risks birth and sterilisation may influence mind to insanity and castration is burning the boat.

In order to balance this: to have unhampered happiness and also to negate the risk of birth, pill is invented. That is the motivation.

This old man then went on to draw an incredibly relevant parallel and generalized it more powerfully than any mathematical generalization known to man: Just like a condom hampers happiness or fully dressed-condition coitus hampers happiness or sexual enjoyment, can we think for a while that this body, our gross and subtle body is some kind of a condom that is hampering our enjoyment for some entity that is encased within this body?

 Are all our activities in the body platform are a proof of our hampered happiness?

 Is this body of ours like a condom for the owner of the body?

 Where is the pill-solution for unhampered happiness for this entity ?

 From this query, knowledge begins : Who am I ? Who is that who enjoys ?

 Atatho Brahmajigansa ?

 

The Bluff of Modern Biology

When I was young, say thirty years back from now, we used to hear lots of noises coming from top end biologists that they are just around the corner creating life from matter. They are just going to unveil the supreme secret: Origin of Life.

After thirty years of research and spending huge amount of tax-payers money and some of the best brains utilized, we have not progressed an inch.

What has been touted as a the name of progress in biology is mere craftsmanship – engineering expertise. That’s all. We have mapped human genome : it is more like counting the springs, the coils, the arrangement of a complex watch and then getting joyous – a feat which befits a kid. That’s all.

The profound question, the most important question remains untouchhed: Who designed these structures called genes?

 It is not the genes or the structure that are causing the trouble.

 The trouble is with ‘Who’. The solution from these rascals are of two kinds  :

 1. There is no ‘Who’. This is a claim which can be immediately rejected because of being axiomatic and counter-intution.

2. Anyone who is against removing the ‘Who’ from the question is an insane, a heretic, and believer of outlandish theories.

 I would have agreed to them if they could have simply made a small insect from matter. I would have become their disciples instead of telling them fools and rascals. I would have served them with my life.

 Why I say counter intutuive?

I happened to be married for 9 years – not a biologist or a genetic expeprt and lo, I find 2 young boys resembling me and my wife pounding us with question which neither I know nor the Nobel Lauretes of Life Sciences know

 Wherefrom did I come from ?

Before you two got married, where we were ?