YOU ARE THE MASTER OF UNIVERSE SAYS UPANISHAT - Personal Mastery 2
Man is master of his universe. He alone writes his destiny on his brow. He has in him an inexhaustible power that can bend the mundane and fling him to highs unthinkable. How world evolved, from horse carriages to self driven cars is a sure proof of his abilities. Underneath all such miracles is the individual who constantly strives to tame the universe. It is not easy for everyone to believe in this power of man. Glare of reality restrains thinking and endeavors of ordinary man while traditions subdue him to a narrow living. He needs to free himself from chains of limiting beliefs and embrace new vision of being the master of his world, frontier of his life.
Universe unfolds to man's potential, to his earnest seeking. It may sound like a pipe dream. But then, Well, it is a proposition from high physics. Man is like an atom of the quantum science. Hidden in him is an explosive energy. He is born free to shape his happiness, his achievements, his actualization. Unfortunately too soon social environment shows his helplessnes, conditions him to lead limited life. World of Neil Bohr, Heisenberg David Bohm is crazier than fiction. A large section of quantum physics believes that our thoughts create as much of universe as universe creates us. It is a difficult hypothesis for even the enlightened but science has mathematical and experimental evidences to believe. In personal mastery we are at the heart of universe and creation. We, as individuals, are the single most powerful entity creating this universe, sketching our life. Our inner world , beliefs, thoughts limit or liberate what we can make, who we can be, whether we ascend to peaks of excellence or descend to pits of despair. Not the outside world. This is a new bold vision of the cosmos. In personal mastery we invoke this daring new idea of universe, of life where we stretch who we are and what we can attain, to a new high. Polemy, Egyptian mathematician said earth is the center, Copernicus said sun is the center, sage Mandukya says we are the very center. We are the very epicenter of creation of the universe. This whole universe is born out of you, says a verse from the Upanishat. Essentially we create our universe and our life in it. This is an important idea. Such worldviews of life can change everything. For long watch makers thought, watch was time telling machine. But, Swiss watch manufacturers thought it could be a jewelry, a thing of fashion. Whole new industry opened up. Initially imagining you to be co-creator of universe may appear to be a ridiculous cult ideology. Once you begin to embrace this new vision of life, you gradually come to a totally new realm of living. It is not an idea you learn with your reasoning. It is a picture you hold in mind, perspective felt in depth your heart. It slowly gradually seeps in. It is like how there is brightened perception of a new world as we gradually wake from dream in the morning. It takes long before we can tune our sensitivities to this brand new vision of one power. No, one's self.
About two hundred years back world we lived in was way too simple. People traveled in horse carriages. It took years to make a road or build connecting bridge. A small infection wiped out villages and towns. Millions died when plague broke out. Electricity, TV, internet weren't even imaginable. Tallest buildings palaces perhaps, were only few stories tall. Common man mostly walked for his transport. Most people didn't read or write and ploughed soil for living.
The world that has evolved today from that very soil is unimaginable even for best of science fiction writers like Asimov. Distance that took us months to traverse is covered in minutes today. Eighteen year college undergraduates in India are designing the world's smallest satellites for NASA to launch. Malaria is not a threat, cholera is cured in hours, plague itself is wiped out. People went to moon and came back. Millionaires are buying houses in space stations, few hundred thousand kilometres away from earth. Mobiles in remote villages in Africa are streaming UEFA football championship from Paris. Point is, world of today seemed only a fancy imagination, a mere fiction two hundred years ago. Today's world was impossible even to imagine. But impossible has happened. Nothing appears beyond man's dream, nothing looks impossible to master.
Beneath all these wonders is an individual. Fair black, young, old, man of wonder comes in all shapes and from everywhere. Einstein day dreamed and couldn't speak till he was four. He evolved to iconic status later on; celebrety CEO of Apple was a dropout and almost went into depression for few years, Thomas Edison was a failure till his many thousand experiments. Narayan Murthy founder of Indian IT was a middle class Indian with no capital when he started, world's biggest living scientist today Stephen hawking has only his brain alive, every other organ his is dead. Naveen jain who is building business of luxury travel to moon, yes to the moon, is an Indian while man who privately built rocket Elon Musk is an American. Write Brothers who invented aircraft were high school dropouts and built their aircraft in their home garage, while Abdul Kalam was a scholar scientis and did his experiments in government funded institution. Newton conducted physical experiments while Schrodinger and Einstein mainly conducted thought experiments. Beethoven, one of the greatest musicians remained part deaf throughout his productive years. Mark zuckerberg built billion dollar company before he turned thirty while founder of KFC, David Sanders was broke and remained a failure till his early sixties.
Man of excellence is anyone on the street.
If there is any lesson we need to learn from two hundred year history of individual excellence, it is this, man can do miracles. He can evolve not only to his dream but also leap to his whim and fancy, ideals and daydreams. Universe unfolds not only to man's potential but also to his passion, struggle, ardor. Excellence has no preferred traits, colours or continents. It is accessible to all and even sundry if only he can dare it. Wilhem Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher who had far reaching influence on society in general and Karl Marx in particular - said that to excel, to master things, is man's deepest craving. It is his thirst. History of achievement assures man of his abilities to rise to power, thrust himself to greatness, often despite his biting circumstances. Blind rose to show the vision, deaf evolved to compose soulful symphony, who could have been cripple ran the fastest mile in the world, living vegetable is theorizing greatest physics, miracle list runs long. Greatness is achieved as much by ordinary men as it is achieved by the born to privilege. Internet today is replete with such stories of ordinary seeming rising to extraordinary. Physically challenged pianist, thirteen year old millionaire, there are million stories at few clicks. I quoted the more famous for ready credibility.
It is not going to be easy though. To convince yourself that you are the master of your universe, that you can dream, that you can still be someone you idolize, rise from your dead hopes. It is not automatic. There are many roadblocks to come to this new cosmic vision.
Grey gloom hangs over the heart of people. History perhaps, has spilled too much blood. Man is frightened to tread an unknown path, venture a new idea. Our life and happiness is still in the grips of religious overdose. Good many believe that life, money we earn, fame we attain, our long- standing intimacies, and every other important thing - is shaped by our birth stars, planets on our horoscope, hand of destiny. Though philosopher and psychologist William James believed otherwise, most people think their own initiative is too weak before the destiny. For both orthodox and liberal, success is a chance fortune decided mainly by the stars on the brow. Temples and churches, which served priests and clergy, had secretly designed these stars to hand us a life script that is five centuries old, path that is safe but dull. It doesn't allow us live to our potential.
Society has ways of of injecting this idea of safe norms and fear of unknown into our bloodstream. We may not be aware of it just as we may not be conscious of our heart beat. Upon little closer observation you can trace this belief working. You see it in schools that standardize intelligence and grade Thomas Edisons dumb, in states that poisoned Socrates to death for perceived difference, in studios that refused Amitab Bachhan the role for his deep voice and lanky long legs, in community of physicists that laughed at theory of relativity for varying with Newtonian views, in intolerance on the part of Nazis justifying holocaust of Jews, in everything where we penalize the deviation from the norm, different idea or block the new path. Centuries of civilization, history of religion, traditions and rituals have engraved the destiny hard on our brain. The idea that our fate is fixed and we better not try shaping it ourselves is deep in our soul. For reasons its main voice has been here is the way of many, do it just that way. This is scripted in our everyday living.
It made sense hundred years ago. Also It was dangerous to live otherwise. Even small deviations could socially outcast you and even toll your death. You were too vulnerable with daring outlook, trying to change your faith, preach a new political ideology like Socrates did or even live simply differently wearing a new symbol on the sleeve. In America , slaves were killed if they learned to read and write. Society and communities were inhuman and forced every small rule by sword.
First thing is to undo this. Free ourselves from this phantom constraint.
There is another bigger roadblock to our excellence. It is the mirage called reality. On being realistic man compromises his highest potential. Pragmatic mindset is antipathy to belief in power of shaping one's life. Idea of reality influences our future, what we dare desire. Too quickly people succumb to pragmatism. Seeds sprouting into plants, clouds falling down as rain, milk turning cheese, how we fix the broken arm or heal the wound, pedal that turns the wheel, all such cause and effects of realities, of things we see, - bias our reasoning of more complex, intangible things of life such as ways of becoming prosperous, traits of building wealth, how one nurtures trusting relationships, habits of creating excellence -phenomenon that are not so readily real.
Every morning as we wakeup dome of reality encloses us. It is so immense, so vast, of such depth, and we are such a speck in it, the sky, the ocean, stars, ever expanding space and all that; it appears as if physical universe with its chain of cause and effects control our lives. All our life is a series of predetermined actions of this gigantic reality. We cannot get all we wish. Reality dictates what we get. It has it's own ways. Sun rises every morning. Apple falls down every single time. One cannot walk through the wall however intensely one thinks it not there. World of objects, the world we see and touch has something very predictable, about it. This universe we live in, appears to be a serendipitous, complex well oiled machine. In it, our life is a small arithmetic, a predetermined phenomenon , not a controlling cause. This is the world how our brain has seen first as a child and has shaped its understanding and bias towards what we call reality. Over long years, it has become our primary mode of knowing. How we reason and understand physical reality is how we reason and understand everything of life. We know for instance, if it is real it is visible, that which burns must be fire, all effects immediately follow the cause, if it looks like water it is water, when it thunders it showers, water flows downwards and so on. All these over the years make us believe that everything in this world goes as per realistic reasoning, life is series of actions one causing the other. And we are mere cogs in the all too powerful reality. Hence our life is not in our control at all.
But there is a pardox here. Reality is understood and known only by mind which is unreal. We have known reality only through our mind. Without mind who understands? Proof of reality starts with mind and mind is not real at all. For one we cannot see it, two we cannot touch it. That is the paradox. So scientists such as Descartes arrived at first of all real things, mind, cogito. This part always has been prick to reality logic. Now particle physicists are saying mind is bigger than universe. Our mind is bigger than even ten such universes. Our body could be small, our brain could be smaller, but our mind pervades all bodies and space. We are like an infinitely large invisible ocean whose one fold of wave is our visible body. We are feeling small because we think we are only body, not the invisible mind. Body that is visible confuses us. Mind of ours is larger than infinite space, higher than sky, deeper than ocean. Quantum physics says we are not body, we are a all pervasive soup of quantum energy visible as body at level of human perception.
Upanishats of India said it long ago. Here is an interesting verse from Ishavasya upanishat which Rabindranath Tagore mentioned very often.
Tadejati tannejati , Taddoore tadwantike, tadantarasya sarvasya tatsarvsyasya baahyataha.
It moves it moves not, it is both near and far. It is inside everything and also outside everything.
Mind is not a concept but real physical thing much like space, though nothing, still exists physically. Just as space pervades everything our mind pervades everything. Mind is to matter what brick is to the wall, what ocean is to its wave. It is the very mass matter is made of. Mind is cause and matter is the effect. Many experiments, such as "double slit" experiment have conclusively proved our thoughts interfere with physical body. In this experiment smallest particle that we can break a thing into, behaves as if it knows which one of the two slits scientist is expecting it to pass through. Mind is essence and matter is form just as paint is essence and picture is form. If we are mind we are not helpless speck. We are the very essence, the earth, the water, the air of all creations. World that we see could be huge but with mind attentive, we have access to the guts of this universe. In fact we are the very universe, say Upanishats. Therefore, though we may not understand alchemy of turning our dream into things in reality, our own mind is but all too powerful entity. Our intent, part of our mind, is a turbo force. It is not just a small feeling of sorts within our body. It is tip of the iceberg floating on the universal intent. It can churn the whole world, just as religion or isms do. Carl Jung, in his advanced years proclaimed thoughts arise from infinite space, from the sky of universe. It's not a weakling vibration inside your neurons. Entire sky is its abode. It is as though with intent you can stop the rising storm, move the mountains, suspend the rain midair, seize the rainbow and lay it on your wall. Our mind can move the heavens.
Continued...
Man is master of his universe. He alone writes his destiny on his brow. He has in him an inexhaustible power that can bend the mundane and fling him to highs unthinkable. How world evolved, from horse carriages to self driven cars is a sure proof of his abilities. Underneath all such miracles is the individual who constantly strives to tame the universe. It is not easy for everyone to believe in this power of man. Glare of reality restrains thinking and endeavors of ordinary man while traditions subdue him to a narrow living. He needs to free himself from chains of limiting beliefs and embrace new vision of being the master of his world, frontier of his life.
Universe unfolds to man's potential, to his earnest seeking. It may sound like a pipe dream. But then, Well, it is a proposition from high physics. Man is like an atom of the quantum science. Hidden in him is an explosive energy. He is born free to shape his happiness, his achievements, his actualization. Unfortunately too soon social environment shows his helplessnes, conditions him to lead limited life. World of Neil Bohr, Heisenberg David Bohm is crazier than fiction. A large section of quantum physics believes that our thoughts create as much of universe as universe creates us. It is a difficult hypothesis for even the enlightened but science has mathematical and experimental evidences to believe. In personal mastery we are at the heart of universe and creation. We, as individuals, are the single most powerful entity creating this universe, sketching our life. Our inner world , beliefs, thoughts limit or liberate what we can make, who we can be, whether we ascend to peaks of excellence or descend to pits of despair. Not the outside world. This is a new bold vision of the cosmos. In personal mastery we invoke this daring new idea of universe, of life where we stretch who we are and what we can attain, to a new high. Polemy, Egyptian mathematician said earth is the center, Copernicus said sun is the center, sage Mandukya says we are the very center. We are the very epicenter of creation of the universe. This whole universe is born out of you, says a verse from the Upanishat. Essentially we create our universe and our life in it. This is an important idea. Such worldviews of life can change everything. For long watch makers thought, watch was time telling machine. But, Swiss watch manufacturers thought it could be a jewelry, a thing of fashion. Whole new industry opened up. Initially imagining you to be co-creator of universe may appear to be a ridiculous cult ideology. Once you begin to embrace this new vision of life, you gradually come to a totally new realm of living. It is not an idea you learn with your reasoning. It is a picture you hold in mind, perspective felt in depth your heart. It slowly gradually seeps in. It is like how there is brightened perception of a new world as we gradually wake from dream in the morning. It takes long before we can tune our sensitivities to this brand new vision of one power. No, one's self.
About two hundred years back world we lived in was way too simple. People traveled in horse carriages. It took years to make a road or build connecting bridge. A small infection wiped out villages and towns. Millions died when plague broke out. Electricity, TV, internet weren't even imaginable. Tallest buildings palaces perhaps, were only few stories tall. Common man mostly walked for his transport. Most people didn't read or write and ploughed soil for living.
The world that has evolved today from that very soil is unimaginable even for best of science fiction writers like Asimov. Distance that took us months to traverse is covered in minutes today. Eighteen year college undergraduates in India are designing the world's smallest satellites for NASA to launch. Malaria is not a threat, cholera is cured in hours, plague itself is wiped out. People went to moon and came back. Millionaires are buying houses in space stations, few hundred thousand kilometres away from earth. Mobiles in remote villages in Africa are streaming UEFA football championship from Paris. Point is, world of today seemed only a fancy imagination, a mere fiction two hundred years ago. Today's world was impossible even to imagine. But impossible has happened. Nothing appears beyond man's dream, nothing looks impossible to master.
Beneath all these wonders is an individual. Fair black, young, old, man of wonder comes in all shapes and from everywhere. Einstein day dreamed and couldn't speak till he was four. He evolved to iconic status later on; celebrety CEO of Apple was a dropout and almost went into depression for few years, Thomas Edison was a failure till his many thousand experiments. Narayan Murthy founder of Indian IT was a middle class Indian with no capital when he started, world's biggest living scientist today Stephen hawking has only his brain alive, every other organ his is dead. Naveen jain who is building business of luxury travel to moon, yes to the moon, is an Indian while man who privately built rocket Elon Musk is an American. Write Brothers who invented aircraft were high school dropouts and built their aircraft in their home garage, while Abdul Kalam was a scholar scientis and did his experiments in government funded institution. Newton conducted physical experiments while Schrodinger and Einstein mainly conducted thought experiments. Beethoven, one of the greatest musicians remained part deaf throughout his productive years. Mark zuckerberg built billion dollar company before he turned thirty while founder of KFC, David Sanders was broke and remained a failure till his early sixties.
Man of excellence is anyone on the street.
If there is any lesson we need to learn from two hundred year history of individual excellence, it is this, man can do miracles. He can evolve not only to his dream but also leap to his whim and fancy, ideals and daydreams. Universe unfolds not only to man's potential but also to his passion, struggle, ardor. Excellence has no preferred traits, colours or continents. It is accessible to all and even sundry if only he can dare it. Wilhem Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher who had far reaching influence on society in general and Karl Marx in particular - said that to excel, to master things, is man's deepest craving. It is his thirst. History of achievement assures man of his abilities to rise to power, thrust himself to greatness, often despite his biting circumstances. Blind rose to show the vision, deaf evolved to compose soulful symphony, who could have been cripple ran the fastest mile in the world, living vegetable is theorizing greatest physics, miracle list runs long. Greatness is achieved as much by ordinary men as it is achieved by the born to privilege. Internet today is replete with such stories of ordinary seeming rising to extraordinary. Physically challenged pianist, thirteen year old millionaire, there are million stories at few clicks. I quoted the more famous for ready credibility.
It is not going to be easy though. To convince yourself that you are the master of your universe, that you can dream, that you can still be someone you idolize, rise from your dead hopes. It is not automatic. There are many roadblocks to come to this new cosmic vision.
Grey gloom hangs over the heart of people. History perhaps, has spilled too much blood. Man is frightened to tread an unknown path, venture a new idea. Our life and happiness is still in the grips of religious overdose. Good many believe that life, money we earn, fame we attain, our long- standing intimacies, and every other important thing - is shaped by our birth stars, planets on our horoscope, hand of destiny. Though philosopher and psychologist William James believed otherwise, most people think their own initiative is too weak before the destiny. For both orthodox and liberal, success is a chance fortune decided mainly by the stars on the brow. Temples and churches, which served priests and clergy, had secretly designed these stars to hand us a life script that is five centuries old, path that is safe but dull. It doesn't allow us live to our potential.
Society has ways of of injecting this idea of safe norms and fear of unknown into our bloodstream. We may not be aware of it just as we may not be conscious of our heart beat. Upon little closer observation you can trace this belief working. You see it in schools that standardize intelligence and grade Thomas Edisons dumb, in states that poisoned Socrates to death for perceived difference, in studios that refused Amitab Bachhan the role for his deep voice and lanky long legs, in community of physicists that laughed at theory of relativity for varying with Newtonian views, in intolerance on the part of Nazis justifying holocaust of Jews, in everything where we penalize the deviation from the norm, different idea or block the new path. Centuries of civilization, history of religion, traditions and rituals have engraved the destiny hard on our brain. The idea that our fate is fixed and we better not try shaping it ourselves is deep in our soul. For reasons its main voice has been here is the way of many, do it just that way. This is scripted in our everyday living.
It made sense hundred years ago. Also It was dangerous to live otherwise. Even small deviations could socially outcast you and even toll your death. You were too vulnerable with daring outlook, trying to change your faith, preach a new political ideology like Socrates did or even live simply differently wearing a new symbol on the sleeve. In America , slaves were killed if they learned to read and write. Society and communities were inhuman and forced every small rule by sword.
First thing is to undo this. Free ourselves from this phantom constraint.
There is another bigger roadblock to our excellence. It is the mirage called reality. On being realistic man compromises his highest potential. Pragmatic mindset is antipathy to belief in power of shaping one's life. Idea of reality influences our future, what we dare desire. Too quickly people succumb to pragmatism. Seeds sprouting into plants, clouds falling down as rain, milk turning cheese, how we fix the broken arm or heal the wound, pedal that turns the wheel, all such cause and effects of realities, of things we see, - bias our reasoning of more complex, intangible things of life such as ways of becoming prosperous, traits of building wealth, how one nurtures trusting relationships, habits of creating excellence -phenomenon that are not so readily real.
Every morning as we wakeup dome of reality encloses us. It is so immense, so vast, of such depth, and we are such a speck in it, the sky, the ocean, stars, ever expanding space and all that; it appears as if physical universe with its chain of cause and effects control our lives. All our life is a series of predetermined actions of this gigantic reality. We cannot get all we wish. Reality dictates what we get. It has it's own ways. Sun rises every morning. Apple falls down every single time. One cannot walk through the wall however intensely one thinks it not there. World of objects, the world we see and touch has something very predictable, about it. This universe we live in, appears to be a serendipitous, complex well oiled machine. In it, our life is a small arithmetic, a predetermined phenomenon , not a controlling cause. This is the world how our brain has seen first as a child and has shaped its understanding and bias towards what we call reality. Over long years, it has become our primary mode of knowing. How we reason and understand physical reality is how we reason and understand everything of life. We know for instance, if it is real it is visible, that which burns must be fire, all effects immediately follow the cause, if it looks like water it is water, when it thunders it showers, water flows downwards and so on. All these over the years make us believe that everything in this world goes as per realistic reasoning, life is series of actions one causing the other. And we are mere cogs in the all too powerful reality. Hence our life is not in our control at all.
But there is a pardox here. Reality is understood and known only by mind which is unreal. We have known reality only through our mind. Without mind who understands? Proof of reality starts with mind and mind is not real at all. For one we cannot see it, two we cannot touch it. That is the paradox. So scientists such as Descartes arrived at first of all real things, mind, cogito. This part always has been prick to reality logic. Now particle physicists are saying mind is bigger than universe. Our mind is bigger than even ten such universes. Our body could be small, our brain could be smaller, but our mind pervades all bodies and space. We are like an infinitely large invisible ocean whose one fold of wave is our visible body. We are feeling small because we think we are only body, not the invisible mind. Body that is visible confuses us. Mind of ours is larger than infinite space, higher than sky, deeper than ocean. Quantum physics says we are not body, we are a all pervasive soup of quantum energy visible as body at level of human perception.
Upanishats of India said it long ago. Here is an interesting verse from Ishavasya upanishat which Rabindranath Tagore mentioned very often.
Tadejati tannejati , Taddoore tadwantike, tadantarasya sarvasya tatsarvsyasya baahyataha.
It moves it moves not, it is both near and far. It is inside everything and also outside everything.
Mind is not a concept but real physical thing much like space, though nothing, still exists physically. Just as space pervades everything our mind pervades everything. Mind is to matter what brick is to the wall, what ocean is to its wave. It is the very mass matter is made of. Mind is cause and matter is the effect. Many experiments, such as "double slit" experiment have conclusively proved our thoughts interfere with physical body. In this experiment smallest particle that we can break a thing into, behaves as if it knows which one of the two slits scientist is expecting it to pass through. Mind is essence and matter is form just as paint is essence and picture is form. If we are mind we are not helpless speck. We are the very essence, the earth, the water, the air of all creations. World that we see could be huge but with mind attentive, we have access to the guts of this universe. In fact we are the very universe, say Upanishats. Therefore, though we may not understand alchemy of turning our dream into things in reality, our own mind is but all too powerful entity. Our intent, part of our mind, is a turbo force. It is not just a small feeling of sorts within our body. It is tip of the iceberg floating on the universal intent. It can churn the whole world, just as religion or isms do. Carl Jung, in his advanced years proclaimed thoughts arise from infinite space, from the sky of universe. It's not a weakling vibration inside your neurons. Entire sky is its abode. It is as though with intent you can stop the rising storm, move the mountains, suspend the rain midair, seize the rainbow and lay it on your wall. Our mind can move the heavens.
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