Just another one???
Iam back. All these days i did not get a good thought to share here. My waiting has finally culminated in this post.
Is there only one earth like our's in this universe or there are many??? Please dont brush aside this question as a mere rhetoric......that is not the purpose of this blog. Lets try and answer this question from....well......scientific......and some.....well......metaphysical..stand point. If not answer this question, lets try and understand the question first.
Look around yourself.....ofcourse i mean not just the room where you are reading this, but go outside for a moment and look up to the sky (night time is recommended for more effect!!!). Do you get this feeling that there is something strange about that emptiness above us? What is there in that empty space out there??? Scientists show us other planets and light emitting bodies out there. With their sophisticated astronomical instruments they have found somethings amazing out there in that emptiness...........which, ages back denizens of this planet seemed to have found with naked eyes!!! Doesn't that amaze you? Iam more and more becoming a fan of these guys-from-the-past who have done everything so easily what we are trying to do with sophisticated instruments. I only wish that someday we understood the ways of our ancients.
We hear that there are billions and billions of moving objects in that emptiness and this planet earth we are on, is just one among them. Is it just a stroke of luck that only this planet is inhabited?? Or is there something special about this planet alone that it has the unique ability to nurture life?? And if that is so, how is that only this planet, which shares its origins with the other planets, alone have this unique feature? It is something like this: you take sea water in one large mug and pour it into several glasses. Is there a possibility that one glass alone contains palatable water while the rest salty? Some could argue that there is surely some probability attached to the composition of the water in each glass. Well lets say we accept that for argument sake, then we should be talking about probabilty distribution. In short what we mean is that, this kind of life-friendly planet(s) should be scattered (guided by the probability distribution - lets call it "cosmic distribution") and so we should surely find more such planets like "Earth". Does that sound logical??
Now lets talk 'metaphysical'. All the ancient life was guided by some code-of-conduct. If you look at them, all of them talk about things like "heaven" or "svarga loka" and "hell" or "naraga loka". The famous "Gayathri Mantra" talks about Bhu loka, Bhuva loka and Svar loka (Bhur Bhuvah Svaha....). Now, what are these three worlds the ancients were talking about??? One world is surely the world they (and now we) were living in. How about the other two worlds??? The ancients in fact went to extent of creating the code-of-conduct basing on these worlds. If you committed sin, you shall be sent to "hell", and if you behaved like a good boy, you will be sent to "heaven". And they have defined hell and heaven and the way of life in these worlds to illustrate how a pleasant or a gory life awaited them . The prospect of such a life in that after-life acted as a good motivator or demotivator to the people then.
Can we say that the ancients had known about some similar planets which were "life-friendly"?? What if they chose to call a more evolved world "heaven" and the lesser evolved one as "hell"??? And what if they looked at the more evolved world as a source of inspiration.....WHERE........THE....... GOD......LIVED!!!!!!!???
If you remember we did make a mention in our previous post that 'may be our ancients looked far far ahead into the life cycle on this planet and chose to call that being on the highest rung of evolution, "God".
And there are only three worlds then??? Why three??? We could argue that it makes a good illustration to talk about something above and below a point of reference. Thus three. The thought to be surprised about is, if the above arguments were well-founded, then this planet "earth" is svarga loka to some distant world and naraga loka to another distant world!!!!!! It is just a question of where we are (relatively) on the ladder of evolution.
Is there only one earth like our's in this universe or there are many??? Please dont brush aside this question as a mere rhetoric......that is not the purpose of this blog. Lets try and answer this question from....well......scientific......and some.....well......metaphysical..stand point. If not answer this question, lets try and understand the question first.
Look around yourself.....ofcourse i mean not just the room where you are reading this, but go outside for a moment and look up to the sky (night time is recommended for more effect!!!). Do you get this feeling that there is something strange about that emptiness above us? What is there in that empty space out there??? Scientists show us other planets and light emitting bodies out there. With their sophisticated astronomical instruments they have found somethings amazing out there in that emptiness...........which, ages back denizens of this planet seemed to have found with naked eyes!!! Doesn't that amaze you? Iam more and more becoming a fan of these guys-from-the-past who have done everything so easily what we are trying to do with sophisticated instruments. I only wish that someday we understood the ways of our ancients.
We hear that there are billions and billions of moving objects in that emptiness and this planet earth we are on, is just one among them. Is it just a stroke of luck that only this planet is inhabited?? Or is there something special about this planet alone that it has the unique ability to nurture life?? And if that is so, how is that only this planet, which shares its origins with the other planets, alone have this unique feature? It is something like this: you take sea water in one large mug and pour it into several glasses. Is there a possibility that one glass alone contains palatable water while the rest salty? Some could argue that there is surely some probability attached to the composition of the water in each glass. Well lets say we accept that for argument sake, then we should be talking about probabilty distribution. In short what we mean is that, this kind of life-friendly planet(s) should be scattered (guided by the probability distribution - lets call it "cosmic distribution") and so we should surely find more such planets like "Earth". Does that sound logical??
Now lets talk 'metaphysical'. All the ancient life was guided by some code-of-conduct. If you look at them, all of them talk about things like "heaven" or "svarga loka" and "hell" or "naraga loka". The famous "Gayathri Mantra" talks about Bhu loka, Bhuva loka and Svar loka (Bhur Bhuvah Svaha....). Now, what are these three worlds the ancients were talking about??? One world is surely the world they (and now we) were living in. How about the other two worlds??? The ancients in fact went to extent of creating the code-of-conduct basing on these worlds. If you committed sin, you shall be sent to "hell", and if you behaved like a good boy, you will be sent to "heaven". And they have defined hell and heaven and the way of life in these worlds to illustrate how a pleasant or a gory life awaited them . The prospect of such a life in that after-life acted as a good motivator or demotivator to the people then.
Can we say that the ancients had known about some similar planets which were "life-friendly"?? What if they chose to call a more evolved world "heaven" and the lesser evolved one as "hell"??? And what if they looked at the more evolved world as a source of inspiration.....WHERE........THE....... GOD......LIVED!!!!!!!???
If you remember we did make a mention in our previous post that 'may be our ancients looked far far ahead into the life cycle on this planet and chose to call that being on the highest rung of evolution, "God".
And there are only three worlds then??? Why three??? We could argue that it makes a good illustration to talk about something above and below a point of reference. Thus three. The thought to be surprised about is, if the above arguments were well-founded, then this planet "earth" is svarga loka to some distant world and naraga loka to another distant world!!!!!! It is just a question of where we are (relatively) on the ladder of evolution.
posted by Solitude at 3:42 AM
