Mysteries of the Universe- a perspective by Narendra Nath

Votes or no votes, need not affaect our natural selves. I want to encourage U to continue your way to ascertain the truth. Only thing that may still help us all is to be self-critical and discriminatory while analysing the information that becomes available to us. That way we may have greater self-assurance to go ahead!

If I remember correctly, this essay received ZERO restricted votes before the number of restricted votes was hidden from public view. And since it's very easy to cast public votes repeatedly for oneself (a flaw in the fqxi voting system), the number of public votes received means exactly... NOTHING!

Dear Anonymous, yes you are correct that this essay received just 1 (single) restricted votes when the same was hidden w.e.f. 24 Dec., 2008. The multiple public votes possibility is within the domain of the Organizers to ascertain, as the undersigned has not resorted to such an unethical practice from his side. What ever prevails meets my objective of a healthy participationin this nice website essay contest.

Dear Narendra,

Thank you for your post. I do a lot of standing and staring. My interest is wildlife photography. The camera around my neck helps to remind me of what I`m doing.

I enjoyed the parts of your writings that I understood, and the parts I didn`t!

Narendra, I prefer to think, when you are standing and staring, that you are drawing water from your own well. I think we are all brighter than we imagine ourselves, and our meditative states allow us to listen to our own higher thought.

But then, if we were swimming in "the sea of love and bliss", while you were enjoying yourself Narendra, I`d be looking down in the depths, for sharks.

- The problem is, Narendra Nath, that you want to enrich a Method with Spirituality but the base of this particular Method, born in Europe around 1650, is to split Spirituality from Science (Ballistic that was Statics). You are catched in the same paradox than C. Rovelli although he seems to put the Cognition or the Spirituality on one side contrarily to you. Last comment of Rovelli on his forum proves that Space is useless in his mind 'at the fundamental level' (!): it is difficult to make more 'spiritual' in a way.

Free dialogue is a good idea, but I am not sure, Narendra, that free dialogue is as common as Algebraic Geometry is. Not sure at all.

Dear Le Rouge,

i have been a professional physicist all through my active career. Retirement forced me to rethink what i have been doing during the service with the Universities/research institutions. Also, i happen to come in touch with Yoga practices at that time, although i was doing meditation practice for around half hour daily for a long time. These actions have nothing to do with religion. Basically, i experienced such actions ( non-actions) to help make one's mind quiet. That indirectly affects one's personality and capability to do things differently, sort of enhancing selflessness over selfishness. It is not that one should claim but rather it should reflect in one's actions. That is all there is to it. Spirituality is a word i use more in the sense of what can be said best about 'humanity', again not in the sense of conventional religions. It is a kind of secular synthesis.Words are difficult to choose in what i wish to convey in response to your above post, hopefully i have responded to satisfy what was desired of me!

Dear Jim Snowden,

Thanks for the above post, so late in the contest. i enjoyed your nice hobby with Camera.I use to be keen too but lately i have more or less stopped taking pictures. The reality is more alive for me now than it use to be earlier as i get more time to reflect and work pressure and performance level no longer bother me. About the 'sharks'in the water underneath, yes, i am afraid as any one else will be. But then, these are all part of the reality of nature. Death came close to me already 3-4 times and what i eventually found that ' what will happen will happen, what one can do is to prevent any untoward event and leave the rest to the Creator of everything in the universe, unknown or known!

Await Le Rouge's response to my post Jan., 08. We all are first human beings and only then we can claim to be scientists or other professionals. Practice of Science should not come in the way of becoming a human being useful for the society around. If it means sacrificing Physics, it should be done. There are lots of problems today that humanity face just because of the technolgy science helped us to develop. It may even threaten the survival of civilized society. Science can not be above or beyond Humanity. That is what i mean by Sprituality!