The other side of the Valley

I started publishing articles on my blog a month ago about clean technologies. The main idea of the blog is to create awareness about the environment and how we should treat Nature with respect and reverence. It is a human nature to ignore certain things when they are within our reach. We always take such things for granted and look for something beyond, because we believe ‘the other side of the valley is always green’. I had several such experiences in my life. Once you ignore what you have on hand and move away seeking better things, only then you realize that other side is not as green as you think. We learn from experience. ’Wisdom comes from experience; but experience comes from foolishness”. It was absolutely true at least in my life. Human consciousness is constantly expanding and evolving and exploring. This constant quest for something new allows our conscience to expand exponentially. As our conscience expands we start acting physically trying to implement certain ideas without knowing the consueqences.We believe such action will yield certain results, which should be beneficial and expect certain positive outcome from all our actions. But most of these thought and actions are actually irreversible. You cannot reverse what your thought and you cannot reverse your actions. Once you finished thinking and acting then, you can see the results. Only based on the results, you can retrospectively look back your thought and actions, and evaluate how far your thoughts and actions helped you achieve your goals. This process is never ending and we peruse our thoughts and actions till our death. Science is nothing but a form of human thought, orginates from human mind. It speculates, hypothesizes, experiments and draws certain conclusions by physical observations. Seeing is believing and proving is science. This is how the science and civilization evolved over many certuries.All such thoughts and actions are available for us in the form of document or product or books from which we learn lot of things, even without thinking or experimenting. It is the result of a set of human beings who were born before us and died before us. But does it all make any sense? Nothing makes sense to me when human beings die one day. What happens to all their lifelong pursuits and goals and achievement? It comes to an abrupt end. It looks like a dream which vanishes into a thin air as you wake up. Hinduism describes this as ‘Maya; a grand illusion. Can science explain this ‘Maya’ with theories and instruments? Therefore, the beginning of all these pursuits starts with simple expansion of your consciousness. This is what patanjali explains in yoga sutra eloquently.He defines ‘Yoga’ in Sanskrit. Yoga is ‘Chita vriti nirodha’. Yoga is nothing but restriction of expanding conscience.When conscience is not allowed to expand exponentially, and the mind is quieted or subdued, there is an absolute silence and there is no mind. In the absence of human consciences ( “I” thought) and in that silence, what remains in only Universal consciousness or supreme consciousness, called ‘Iswara’ (The God). Eastern philosophy says only when your mind becomes calm, silent and serene, you can witness the ‘seeker’. During this process you realize that you the ‘seeker’ is the ‘sought’. You have not realized it earlier because of your ‘Avidya’ ignorance. When the expansion of mind stops completely what remains is your physical body. In order to achieve this quietness of mind and integrate with supreme conscious, one should be able to meditate. Meditation and integration is not possible without purification of mind. That is why purification of mind and thought is the fundamental to ‘Yoga’. In fact such purified existence is not practical because they cannot survive in this world. That is why the wise men of the East practised ‘Samadhi’, a suspended animation by which one’s body can exist in this world but his consciousness merged with super consciousness in a great bliss. Aravinda of Pondicherry in India is an example of one such human being who achieved this ‘Nirva kalpa samdhi’ an eternal bliss, while his physical body remained alive.