Guru-God
I, a firm believer of existence of "the only one", omnipresent, eternal, and pure, often encounter the question from my fellow students, and researchers who are not convinced enough to accept this idea. Which in certain ways transforms into questioning the scientific legitimacy of for instance Bhagavad Gita, or Srimad Ramayana.
Without pursuing the idea of the only one, I wish to explore the legitimacy of such epics as follows:
As an aspiring scientist, and reasonably inquisitive student, I can establish it objectively, that text books, and journal publications among others provide reasonable source of information, and ideas that one could rely on, albeit subjective reservations, to further science. So, loosely put, one would "bank" on existing ideas to prove, disprove, extend, expand or generate new set of ideas in the process of scientific study.
Phenomenology, and reproducibility of observations, form major aspect of credible scientific innovations or discoveries. Qualifying the idea of phenomenology, and reproducibility are bounded by the scientific tools at one's disposal at the given point of time, a scientist at heart is one who could accept, imagine and construct ideas of world that could stand the test of time, beyond the realm of time bound tools. For instance, Einstein's idea of Relativity, though not Scientifically proven for over hundred years served as a reasonable tool towards other ideas, e.g. LHC at CERN.
In essence, a scientist would and could place his trust even on unproven ideas besides reasonably well proven ones, owing to his conviction that one day, he could establish them scientifically.
I am reasonably convinced that proof is an objective idea, while realization is relatively subjective. So, ideas provided by self-realized ones, might not yet to be scientifically proven for objective acceptance but that doesn't relegate them. For instance, the idea of Heliocentric theory though conceived well before Ptolemy, was not accepted, and in fact condemned by the Church.
As a student who wants to understand essence of life, i.e., synthesis, maintenance and receding, beyond mere biology, and chemistry, I am fascinated, and intrigued by the idea of soul or aatma, that by definition is eternal and one. Here, I take a leap of faith with intuition and conviction that one day, I could either realize this idea or even better establish it objectively. So, towards this end, I seek the teachings of 'realized ones' in say Ramakrishna Paramahansa or Swami Vivekananda, or Ramana Maharshi, who refer to the ideas in Bhagavad Gita, for instance. This way, without compromising on the process of scientific inquisitiveness, I rely on idea of aatma, that has withstood reasonable test of time, and hence, am motivated to read Epics as texts or journals, that help me understand this.
In vedic literature, Guru is the term used towards someone who can guide one towards realizing aatma. So, in this context, the epics mentioned above or the individuals that have given them serve as Gurus or teachers that I can appeal to, in this journey of inquisitiveness. in vedic literature, it is said that one who realizes aatma, becomes one with God. Even if, one doesn't accept the previous statement, that doesn't provide one the justifiable means to desecrate epics that provide invaluable source to know aatma.
Without pursuing the idea of the only one, I wish to explore the legitimacy of such epics as follows:
As an aspiring scientist, and reasonably inquisitive student, I can establish it objectively, that text books, and journal publications among others provide reasonable source of information, and ideas that one could rely on, albeit subjective reservations, to further science. So, loosely put, one would "bank" on existing ideas to prove, disprove, extend, expand or generate new set of ideas in the process of scientific study.
Phenomenology, and reproducibility of observations, form major aspect of credible scientific innovations or discoveries. Qualifying the idea of phenomenology, and reproducibility are bounded by the scientific tools at one's disposal at the given point of time, a scientist at heart is one who could accept, imagine and construct ideas of world that could stand the test of time, beyond the realm of time bound tools. For instance, Einstein's idea of Relativity, though not Scientifically proven for over hundred years served as a reasonable tool towards other ideas, e.g. LHC at CERN.
In essence, a scientist would and could place his trust even on unproven ideas besides reasonably well proven ones, owing to his conviction that one day, he could establish them scientifically.
I am reasonably convinced that proof is an objective idea, while realization is relatively subjective. So, ideas provided by self-realized ones, might not yet to be scientifically proven for objective acceptance but that doesn't relegate them. For instance, the idea of Heliocentric theory though conceived well before Ptolemy, was not accepted, and in fact condemned by the Church.
As a student who wants to understand essence of life, i.e., synthesis, maintenance and receding, beyond mere biology, and chemistry, I am fascinated, and intrigued by the idea of soul or aatma, that by definition is eternal and one. Here, I take a leap of faith with intuition and conviction that one day, I could either realize this idea or even better establish it objectively. So, towards this end, I seek the teachings of 'realized ones' in say Ramakrishna Paramahansa or Swami Vivekananda, or Ramana Maharshi, who refer to the ideas in Bhagavad Gita, for instance. This way, without compromising on the process of scientific inquisitiveness, I rely on idea of aatma, that has withstood reasonable test of time, and hence, am motivated to read Epics as texts or journals, that help me understand this.
In vedic literature, Guru is the term used towards someone who can guide one towards realizing aatma. So, in this context, the epics mentioned above or the individuals that have given them serve as Gurus or teachers that I can appeal to, in this journey of inquisitiveness. in vedic literature, it is said that one who realizes aatma, becomes one with God. Even if, one doesn't accept the previous statement, that doesn't provide one the justifiable means to desecrate epics that provide invaluable source to know aatma.
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