Our Existence

TSS Anjaneyulu

What all exists in the universe is matter. It is elemental. It is ever changing all vibratory and
perishable. It is the derivative and projection of the deep all pervading changeless, imperishable,
total perception, ocean of substratum-consciousness, on which it floats in its dynamic existence.

There is only one creator, the cosmic intelligence, the one God, the unmanifest absolute. It is the
reality which stays same all the time. Vedic people called it Brahman. Others called it by
different names. All Gods are one all majestic and all merciful. Niralambopanishad and
Chandogya Upanishad say that consciousness is everything and there is no other thing ( Sarvam
Khalvidam Brahma). As it is all pervading without any space to move, it is ever quiet. It is
boundless without beginning and ending and is eternal. It is said to have emerged from darkness
wrapped in darkness. Gita says that it is imperishable cannot be killed by weapons, nor burnt
by fire, nor wet by water, nor dried by wind.

The creation comes out from the creator. The creator is both the creative cause and the material
cause as silk come out from the silk worm. The creator and creation are inseparable. One is
unmanifest and the other is manifest in its embrace inseparable from it.

The cosmos rests on two pillars Dharma ( righteousness) and Satyam ( truth). The Vedic
Brahman is seen as two in one a tantra, the unity of opposites, being and becoming, creator and
creation. One is Purusha, the male seed energy (Kshetragnya - the knower of the field) and the
other is Prakruti ( the field of matter). They are our universal parents.

The reality is a whole desireless and actionless. It is the cosmic intelligence that meticulously
plans everything and every happening in manifestation. It has a signature on everything in the
universe and works for the welfare of all. The universe undergoes cyclic rhythm of periodical
evolution and dissolution. Writes Nobel Laureate, Roger Penrose that being a projection of the
reality, the universe is false. Adi Shankaracharya calls is mithya ( Brahma Satyam, Jagat
Mithya). It is believed that there are a large number of universes and each has its own
characteristics. Vedanta believes that there are fourteen lokas, seven above and including the
earth and sven below the earth. These lokas only refer to the levels of consciousness attained by
people who live there. Physicist Dr. Everett gave the theory of many worlds (universes)
multiverse.

Gita VII,4 speaks of two natures, the seed giving male nature and the form-giving mother nature.
Biologists today speak of the role of DNA and of mDNA referring to male and female natures.
Scientists express the universe and reality in different ways. Stansilass Grof thinks that one is
Cartesian-Newtonian mode and the other Quantum-Transpersonal mode. Dr. Robert Ornstein

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views one as the time and history and the other as eternity and timeless. Dr. Charles T. Tort sees
one as the perception of the external and the other as a scheme of eternity. Dr. Bohm calls this as
implicate and explicate order. Besides Vedanta (Gita and Upanishads) the statements of some
quantum physicists, biologists, management gurus and neurologists are given here.

Write Dr.Issac Asimov that the substance of the universe is essentially eternal and the matter
making cosmic egg is always present. Says Sir Julian Huxley that every organism predestined to
evolve into a new world has been no less predestined of the vanished predecessor. Vedic people
call it visarga bhava (remnants). When a man dies his mind seed (soul) is carried forward
through sub prana (dhananjaya) and gets into next life through karmic remnants. The universe
we live consists of 96% of dark matter (23%) and dark energy (73%) and only a small four
percent is perceivable. In this human vision is limited to a small band between ultraviolet and
infrared . Recently the 570 megapixel camera at an observatory in Chile (South America)
detected a black hole of the size of 660 million times the size of our Sun. Our world is ghastly
miniscule mirror of reality. Edison in despair said that we do not know one millionth of one
percent about anything.

The universe is elemental. So is man who consists of body (gross), mind (subtle) and soul
(causal). He is mortal and undergoes cycles of birth and death. In this cyclicity every birth and
conception is a sacrifice. The body and the mind being material die when a man dies. The soul
does not die being imperishable. It moves out to other worlds of consciousness. Cell biologist
Dr.Robert Lanza affirms it. Swami Vivekananda says that the cosmos is a sum total of souls
living or dead and alive elsewhere. Purusha Sooktha, a Vedic Hymn says that only a fourth of the
people live in the mortal universe. The rest are in immortal universe elsewhere. Said Lucretius in
first century B.C that there is a mutual exchange of people between mortal and immortal worlds.

Everything in the universe is interconnected to each other. It is a cosmic web meticulously

connected. It vibrates influenced by manifold activities, physical, thoughts, intentions and events
in the universe and interconnects them. Every man with a causal soul is a participant of the
universe. Being interconnected to everything in the universe - he has no independent existence.
His independence is robbed by universal interconnectedness. One cant touch a flower without
disturbing a star says Francis Thompson. Any action anywhere shakes everything in the universe
(Dr.A.N.Whitehead). You cant hurt or harm anyone without hurting or harming yourself. Your
independence is an aggression on the others independence. So one needs to be careful in ones
acts as a doer. thought (mind), speech (vac) and act (karma). The law of cause and effect
makes you a friend or a foe of yourself. It is formidable. Karma refers to individual (human)
consciousness and mass (collective) karma refers to universal consciousness.

The laws of nature are the will of God. Cosmos, nature and man follow the same laws. They are
universal and eternal dharmic and karmic. They are anthropic. Man has no scope to change
them. One has only to abide by them. All the laws are meticulously planned by cosmic

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intelligence for the welfare of everything in the universe. Any non adherence of the universal
laws will reflect on you as destiny as you are the cause of it through your doership.

All your acts get into the nervous system and neurons in cranium and get settled in memory.
Says Sir Francis Crick, the discoverer of DNA that all your joys and sorrows lie in your genes. In
the universe, every intention or thought is instantaneously communicated. Nobel Laureate Neihls
Bohr asserted it. Einstein and other scientists gave the EPR paradox highlighting the non logic
nature of quantum reality. The argument that these laws are theological and have no relevance as
scientific account is wrong. Scientists are now understanding that everything in the universe
including human life is a part of a larger design of cosmic order and also finding the efficacy of
pranayama and meditation. Dr. John Bell through his Bells theorem showed the instantaneous
communication between local (within space time) and non local (beyond space time) irrespective
of the distance separating them.

Said Nobel Laureate Physicist Schrodinger that man lives drawing energy from the environment.
We involuntarily breathe ( inhalation and exhalation). With the vital breath present in us we are
alive. If it leaves we become a corpse. Prana is biocosmic It is God ( Prana Vai Brahman).
Vital breath (Prana) is what connects all life everywhere it is universal. The Sun is the source
of prana (shakti). The sound of his breath is OM (Ekaksharam). It is Brahman.

Sun (energy), Moon (matter) and Fire, the communicators are all aspects of Brahman that sustain
the world, nature including all life. Cosmic energy is limitless. So is the solar energy which gives
light, heat and prana. It gives vitamin D to us. One can through prayer and intention draw cosmic
pranic energy from the Sun which floods our body, mind and soul. The flow of prana in our
spinal nerves, pingala (solar) and ida (lunar) purify our heart and soul through universal love and
influences our activity in spine and brain. They remove our negativity. They provide us energy
and strength (they are the shivashakti aspect of our spine). This brings us to the understanding of
our evolutionary nature, a harmony of the opposites (energy and matter). We may call them as
primary DNA of the father and epigenes (mDNA) of the mother. This highlights the importance
of the family, the aspects of parenting of children and the subtle psychological link to our
ancestors and progeny.

Solar and lunar cycles and other natural rythms influence man and woman respectively. Sun
provides the quality of the seed by proper ethical living and drawing prana. Moon influences the
woman through evolutionary ecological nature (alternate light and drak cycles). Nothing in
biology makes any sense without relevance to evolution affirms scientist Dr. Dobzhansky. Our
biology affects our psychology and further our neurology. The relation between matter and
energy and its understanding is important in all our philosophy. All life is linking our lower
nature (biophysical nervous system food, sleep and sex) to subtle mind (thoughts)
psychology through food, ethics, control of senses , mind (thoughts) to higher nature of
universal qualities of love, service and sacrifice here lies the importance if our identity, dignity
and the supremacy of our being (soul).

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In the life of a being the seed impressions (karmic) are carried from generation to generation and
get progressively accumulated in the nervous system (mind) and neurons. It is possible to
cauterize the seed impressions to some extent by subtle fire through pranayama and meditation
as roasted seeds do not sprout.

Faith is the union of attention, confidence, trust and love. Rig Veda speaks of acting in faith,
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad of thinking in faith and Gita as loving in faith. Faith is the subject of
the head, desire is of the heart and fear is of the mind. Ritual, prayer, pranayama and yoga are the
bridges between freedom and destiny.

The goals of life (purusharthas) according to Sanatana Dharma are, Dharma (righteousness),
Artha (Wealth and Prosperity), Kama (Desires) and Moksha (liberation) in the long run. It is
important to note that artha and kama are interspersed between dharma and moksha in life and
living as the banks of a river that regulates the flow of water. This brings in the role of self
restraint in biophysical life and pschyophysical (material and emotional) aspects of life.
Unfortunately man is confronted with six obstacles (shadvargas), kama (desire), kordha (anger),
lobha (covetousness) and moha (delusion), mada (pride) amd matsarya ( jealousy). While in
purusharthas kama is the third in order it is the first in shadvargas. All problems of life of man
arise as he identifies himself with the body (gross) and mind (subtle) and not the soul (causal).
Understanding this, grounds him in ethical living, service and sacrifice, to live in awareness and
dignity of being.

Developments in physics for six to seven decades and more recently in life sciences have
brought the limitations of objective science and understanding that consciousness is everything.
Though a man has certain limited autonomy through free will it is only to do good. The past
karma has also a role in this limitation (Paramahansa Yogananda).

Our senses are limited mind and our mind is limited consciousness as the reality is not revealed
to these as Taitthereya Upanishad affirms. Our eyes, ears, mind are only instruments which work
under consciousness. Man works at three levels of consciousness - wake, dream and deep sleep.
The mind and the senses are present during wake state, mind only is present in dream state and
consciousness only is present in deep sleep state. It energises man in sleep. So sleep deprivation
is hazardous in human life. Turiya is the fourth state beyond the above three.

Dr.Joseph Kaplan and James Clerks Maxwell were aware of the importance of mind-matter
relationship and their limitations. Physicists realize that the three constants Einsteins constant,
Plancks constant and Cybernetic constant constitute an umbrella under which the universe
works. So is the triangular guard of shakti, the diverse mother nature of Vjareswari, Kameswari
and Bhagamalini elaborated in Lalitha Sahsranama.

Dr.Einstein said in 1929 I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined the beginning as
well a the end by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as
the vegetable as for the star, human being, vegetables or cosmic dust. We all dance to the tune

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intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. Said Dr.A.D.Raincoat in his Eye of Shiva
Indian mystics have evolved as science of physics itself. The cardinal fact is that contemporary
physics finds a remarkable echo in the Eastern and not Western metaphysics and are of the prime
elements of conjunction, of monistic and not monotheistic vision of the underlying reality.
David Goleman and Richard Davidson wrote of the necessity of strengthening the tenets of
mysticism overcoming all prejudice when they say that if you learn nothing more from the
mystics that the need for humility they would have contributed to the Western culture.

Wrote Dr.W.H.Thorpe of Cambridge University that the behaviour of large complex aggregates
of elementary particles is not to be understood as a simple extrapolation of the properties of a
few particles , rather at each level of complexity new properties appear and the understanding of
the new regimes is as fundamental as anything but understanding by the elementary particle
physics. Physicist Geoffrey Chew said that a truly elementary particle completely devoid of
internal structure, would not be subject to any forces that would allow it to develop its structure
that where knowledge of the particle existence, to say, implies the particle posseses.

Nobel Laureate Sperry rejects that the mental phenomena can be ultimately reduced to physical
and chemical phenomena. He thinks that all evolutionary processes like downward causation that
the control of events as emotions have their own dynamics and associated properties that
causally determine their interests. The renowned cosmologist Fred Hoyle decades ago said that
success may issue one day, however, but only from non local form of physics the kind of
physics that is not at all popular right now. Sir Arthur Eddington wrote that in the world of
physics one watches the shadow graph performance of the drama of familiar life., Physical
science which operates within space time cannot formulate laws outside relativity, the very
structure and the fabric of the universe.

Said Marconi that the inability to solve life is absolute. The fact is fully frightening were it not
for the faith. The mystery of life is certainly the most persistent problem ever placed before the
thought of man. Wrote Max Plank who gave us the four laws of electromagnetism that reason
tells us that both individual and mankind as a whole together within the entire world which we
apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of nature whose
laws are in no way affected by human brain and on the contrary they existed before there was
any life and will continue to exist long after the last physicist perished.

Dr. Dewy. B. Larsen posits that the metaphysical sector involves space sector (material) and the
time (cosmic) sector which involves ethical control units in which behaviour, goodness, love,
compassion are involved. Dr.Brian Josephson, Nobel laureate, Cambridge University Physicist
said that the mystical experience by self development through meditation etc is not only the key
for ones own development but also the key to synthesize, science and religion in a solid
foundation. It is necessary for the intelligent man to behave properly with love, discrimination
and dispassion and suitably balance the body-mind complex to enjoy peace in life.

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Dr. Carl Jung the celebrated psychologist says, like Isavasya Upanishad, that any mortal has to
work out his own individual process.

The role of cosmic order is distinct and non distinct from the phenomena. No wealth, intelligence
and weapons have any meaning in the background of dharmic, karmic and anthropic nature
designed by cosmic intelligence which is universal and eternal. Everything in the universal
nature, man and mind, works under the substratum the eternal witness. Man does not have any
option except to see good, think good and do good if he wants to have good life.

Man is to be aware of his gratitude to his ancestors on one hand and his responsibility to the
progeny on the other in providing better genes to them. You will also be an ancestor shortly. Said
Nobel Laureate Schrodinger in What is life that the most essential part of a living cell, the
chromosome fibre, is an aperiodic crystal. He thought it is the career of life.

The universe is a cosmic expression. God created the universe in space-time (relativity) and man
creates his misery through desire, ego, intelligence, and attachment. All living species are
subtlelities of major planets in the zodiac. Man is involved in them in his spatio temporal
existence through his birth, location etc which are destined. Heinz Pagels in his Cosmic Code :
Quantum Physics in the language of nature (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1982 elaborates
this. Michael Drosni in Secret Code believes that there is a secret code in the Hebrew edition
of Bible that foretells the world events. In India there are such epics which speak about future.

Paranormal phenomena defy Newtonian biology says cell biologist Dr. Lipton. Scientists Stewart
and Penrose say that consciousness resides in the micro tubules of brain cells which are primary
sites of quantum processing and upon death this information is carried with it. Vedic scientists
think that the karma is carried by the sub-prana Dhananjaya when a man dies. This is transferred
as mind-seed (soul) into the later life. The above scientists think that consciousness of quantum
gravity (spatio-temporal) affects or at least proto consciousness the basic property of physical
reality accountable with quantum brain activity.

Breath which is verily Brahman is what unifies all humanity. Mind together with prana and
strong intemtion (vac, mind and prana) can take one beyond space-time and can perform
miracles. Word is Brahman, the universal consciousness. Speech is the essence of humanity. It
probably codes to form an alphabetical message of heredity to the metabolism.

Said eminent geneticist Dr.Dobzhansky that nothing in biology makes sense except in the light
of evolution. All our biology is linked to psychology and is securely grounded in our evolution
with linkage between ancestors, genes, hormones, birth and death and pleasure and pain in life.

Says Professor of Biology and genetics Dr. Vidyanand Nanjundaiah of the Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore that we are all products of evolution. They are simultaneously products of
HIS ways. They carry frozen traces of responses to contemporary - that are about the body but

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are forced by behaviour of ancestors. Dr. Nanjundaiah says that we are all products of natural
selection which may be said to represent a process of evolutionary learning.

Philosopher Eva Jabalanka and Biologist Marion Lamb wrote in 1955 about the epigenetic
inheritance on evolution Lamarkian dream that genome is which is seen as a far more fluid that
information can be transmitted to descendants in ways other than through the basic sequence of
DNA. Dr. Cadance Pert (1997) wrote about The molecules of emotion that limbic system
offers a major evolutionary advance through its ability to the sense and co-ordinate the flow of
behaviour regulating signals within the cellular community. As the internal signal system
evolved its greater efficiency embedded in the brain to increase in size.

Norman.H.Cousins said belief creates biology. Dr.Bruce.H. Lipton in Biology of Belief write
that our epigenes do not control our biology but the DNA is controlled by signals outside the
cell. This involves environment, a link between the body and the mind. But senses and mind
have no means to understand reality except to work under its surveillance (consciousness). This
profoundly influences our individual and collective lives.

Dr. Robin Holiday said that there is no basis to believe that the humans have some unique higher
function of mind which provides them much freedom of action and animals do not have such a
function. The outer are not determinable or predictable. He says that there may be some
decision making aspect that makes the brain take decisions which we are not aware of.
Recently Dr. Robert Lanza in his Biocentricism: How life and Consciousness are the keys to the
understanding nature of the universe says that biocentricism teaches that the life and
consciousness are fundamental to the universe. It is consciousness that created the universe. Dr.
Lanza says that the structure of the universe itself and the laws, forces and constants of the
universe appear to be fine tuned for life imply that intelligence existed prior to the matter. Space-
time are not objects or things or other tools of our animal understanding. He says that we carry
space time around with us like turtles with shells meaning that when the shell comes off
(space-time) we still exist. The human thought is influenced by embodied consciousness, the
mind, the memory and emotion and comes out as outer speech (vaikhari) and language. The
thought that comes out undergoes several modifications.

Dr. Philips Rendroff and his colleagues suggest that different parts of the brain cannot by
themselves account for conscious recognition of the self. Instead they propose that self
awareness is more a diffused cognitive process relying on many parts of the brain. What is
needed is to develop restraint in life and looking into ourselves than searching elsewhere. It is a
self enquiry, Who am I and so on to find a solution as ancient people have done for ages. It is
living pure, ethical and simple tuning ourselves to nature of our being and invest in love, service
and sacrifice. Experiencing love and peace has no relevance to place and time or language and
religion. Love is the essence for all our joy without love there is only distress.

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The end of physics is metaphysics and the end of biology is theology. This sets us to limits in our
behaviour in desire, thought, speech and action. We need not run away from the material world
but learn, take to any profession, to earn and enjoy within legitimate limits of control of body
and mind and use prana, yoga and meditation for clarity of mind, peace in life, and as a bridge to
reality. Man may, however, attempt to explore what is explorable through science and
technology to benefit mankind without loss of humanism.

Materialism

Mind is immanent in matter. It is limited consciousness. But consciousness is everything. It is the

whole mind (cosmic). Says Nobel Laureate Physicist James Clerks Maxwell The only laws of
matter are which our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by
matter. Matter deludes. Materialism pivots round the problem of mind and matter relationship.
It is limited to physical plane the wake state of consciousness but man is largely his subtle
body with mind and its vagaries.

Cosmologist R.A. Millikan felt that pure materialistic philosophy is the height of unintelligence
and in all material progress the limits of philosophical enquiry slides into mere symbols. Adi
Shankaracharya uses the term midhya that separates reality from the word reality though they
are not different. The involvement of man in pure material, grounds him in limited reality. Julian
Huxley felt that the errors of systematic materialism paralyse the energies and destroy the beauty
of life. The great physicist Maxwell in his satirical verse ridiculing the shallowness of
materialism of the philistines wrote If material becomes useful, meditation becomes more
useful. Barry Commoner said that anywhere in the world there is an evidence of deep seated
failure in the effort to use the competence, wealth and power of human competence, the power of
disposal for the maximum good of the human beings.

Adam Smith, the author of Wealth of Nations wanted a society that would be less violent and
more civil and that tempered human passions. He said that everyone as long as he does not
violate the laws of justice is left preferably free to pursue his own interest in his own way. He
believed in the harmony of the family as a moral force and a source of personal happiness where
children learn self control. He wanted a decent society to feel much for others and a little for
ourselves, to restrain ourselves and to indulge in benevolent affectations and efforts to protect
our human nature. Wrote Louis.R.Stevenson in the spirit of Adam Smith that he is a man of
our times less because he championed free market economy than because he cared much more
than free market. He was appalled by the Govts ability to cripple the market and the necessity of
fortifying legislature against the pressure of economic groups.

Peter Drucker who gave us Management by Objectives felt that successful concepts are not
planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunity and know their strengths and
purpose of work and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform ordinary persons,
hard working and competent. Stephen.R.Covey emphasize the importance of character ethic over

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personality ethic. Many eminent management gurus like Dr.Zaltman, Adair, Neils Frank, Charles
Handi, Dr.Khera and several others express the importance of ethics, social and spiritual
concerns in management. Many of these remain only in the books and not implemented in
practice today.

Universal Parents, Ancestors - Man, Woman and Progeny

Purusha and Prakriti are inseparable parents of everything in the universe. One is the cosmic seed
and the other moola prakriti. So are man and woman though both are born through a woman.
Everything in the universe is a harmony of the opposites a tantra. Man and woman are an
existential split, individually incomplete and together become a whole. Here comes the role of
marriage of man and woman bringing them to a whole. Here no one is more or less but have their
relevant evolutionary cosmic ordained roles. They are aspects of Sun and Moon respectively.
These aspects are reflected in their gender brains and our pranic flow involving Pingala (Solar)
and Ida ( Lunar) our spinal nerves. So a man and woman are their biologies influenced by their
psychologies. The father through Y chromosome propagates the primary DNA to the progeny
and the mother sustains the child through epigenes. Her biology and psychology are securely
grounded in ecology. She has intrinsic parenting role of universal mother through her maternal
protein roles.

A mother is more than a woman. The moment a woman becomes pregnant God influences her n
various ways bringing changes in her biology and psychology. So she has an influence on the
child to come from sex involvement, pregnancy, with important pre-natal, natal and post natal
development of the child. Cell biologists and geneticists speak about her pristine maternal roles
in development (physical and psychological), security of the child. She needs to develop control
not only in her food but also the thoughts she entertains at conception, during pregnancy and
during breast feeding to maintain the quality of the milk to sustain the child. While a drop of a
sperm gives innumerable seeds the single egg from the mother together forms the zygote. Here
the geneology through father and the environment to mothers epigenes have a role blended in
the progeny. The role in parenting by mother is paramount involving provision of elemental and
psychological energies through touch, hug, smile, skin contact, cuddle and sound besides breast
feeding which not only sustains the child through need based childs food but also benefit the
mother during lactation. It is said that breast feeding reduces the risk of breast cancer. People
now find that the quality of the milk the mother gives is different for a girl child and a boy child.
It also depends on the apetite and condition of health of the child. The mother has a link through
umbilical (solar plexus) link and lunar material link by breathing through the solar and lunar
nadis. Today the children are provided rich food, better clothes, and not parental time in their
material existence.

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Man and woman fit into their gender brains and hormones. So it is appropriate for them to take
to their evolutionary roles for good seed and fertility respectively. All the rest is ego and
intelligence. This needs their taking to appropriate lifestyles. WHO ( in a report dated March
24th, 2017) estimates that 13-19 million couples are infertile in India. This has led to
mushrooming of IVF clinics across the country.

DNA and protein, structure and function, mind and matter, primary genes and epigenes work
under the surveillance of consciousness. It involves factors like ancestors, behaviour of parents,
evolutionary roles and several other factors. Gita ssserts the role of food, sleep and entertainment
on one hand and beliefs, thoughts, intentions are involved in good seed and egg for better
progeny. Here chapters IV, VI, XIV and XV and XVII of Gita are relevant,

Parenting of children is a full time job for the mother. It involves her time and attention and her
psychological condition. It is much more than providing rich food and clothes, creches, that too
intoo early in infancy and childhood to engage the child in the very important impressionable
years of psychological development of the child. A report in Hindu, March 19th, 2017 published
in the Journal of Frontiers of Psychology points out that exposure of children to video games is
associated with generation of sensuality in their early teen years.

There is no greater sorrow than improperly raised children who are bundles of energy needing
parental time and care expressing love in various ways punping confidence against petty fears
and insecurity and development of interest in observing nature tree, bird, insect, fruit, flower
and leaf and so on. The child needs to develop love and respect for parents and elders and love of
God. Mothers constant presence helps the child to overcome child immaturity, sleep in
confidence , understanding what s right and wrong and develop conscience. They need her
assistance in adolescent years, the period of growth when secretions from the pineal reach the
genitals.

Womens education everywhere is the most important. An educated mother can help the child in
development of cognitive skills and laying foundation to understanding art, history, music,
science in a holistic manner. She only can help the child to develop biological, physical,
psychological, cultural, sociological foundations through stories involving body-mind, mind-
brain, heart-brain linkages in a subtle way through expression of love and not authority and make
them aware of the importance of discipline, punctuality, prayer, singing, chanting and so on.

In the past we have introduced fertilizer in agriculture to increase production and progressively
increased fertiliser input necessitating use of various pesticides to overcome plant diseases and
ultimately landed up in our bodies infected with pesticide residues. We have come up with the
industrial age using fossil and other fuels, drawing non renewable energy resulting in global
warming, climate change, increased snow melting, rise in sea levels, coastal inundation and so
on. All countries were discussing of this problem since 1970s that is almost fifty years and have

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brought little action if any. I dont know whether they can reduce any deterioration of the
situation.

We have come up with globalization, liberalization and urbanization. All that seemed as
beneficial to the poorer world resulted in exploiting the markets of sale of various goods through
brainwashing the people through global media. This globalization did not serve as an enlightened
idea. Besides reducing the diverse cultural space of various national traditions we are
everywhere thrown into a soup of market culture change in lifestyles, junk foods, carbonated
drinks, cosmetics of various shades, dress styles, increase of pharmaceuticals and in several
areas.

We have come up with information technology and brought in virtual reality into our already
mayic world of relativity. Ancient people and modern scientists like say Dr.Penrose and Dr.
Bohm have emphasized the importance of greater space in the mind and reducing its gravity with
a scope for clearer thoughts but we are clogging the mind and its spaciness in various ways.

Our civilization brought several material benefits but also polluted our physical and mental space
which we are not able to reverse. All the adverse actions have served in growth and progression
in the grade of diseases from pathological to pulmonological and brought in stress induced rich
lifestyle diseases - diabetes, cancer and neurological problems.

Alvin Toffler questioned decades ago of our technological change and social upheavels mean the
end of friendship, love, commitment, community and learning? Would not be the new
technological developments make our relationships more dangerous and vicious than today?
Though material comforts have evolved the above legitimate questions need answers.

We have sent our old people to old age homes and infants and children to crches. Women
leaving their evolutionary function are taking to various types of roles. The home is turned into a
house of material goods. The he and she return home with stressed minds and palsied hearts.
The mother of a child who tends and feeds it with ingrained love is missing.

Besides breathing impure air, drinking impure water, eating junk foods and clogged minds,
shopping of imaginary goods, we are now in for GM foods, video games for children, drugs for
sleeping, suppressing menstruation and for personal involvement in many ways without
relevance to time. If we have yet any concern for God today, it is only out of fear of disease,
death or loss or property security and of growth in jobs and our investments. What is missing is a
steadfast faith and strong intention in our acts which are primary. Belief creates biology, biology
influences psychology and neurology to rise to higher levels of consciousness.

Man has to explore what is explorable and pursue science and technology to benefit man
everywhere, eradicate poverty, provide universal education to create avenues for employment
and to raise men and women above our beastial ancestry which peeps out in us in its up and
down oscillation on the surface of deep, untapped, inner ocean in us. With our understanding of

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limitations of mere material to get attain peace of mind and peace in the world through riches
and weapons of destruction, we may benefit by looking within for a short while to purify our
affectations through love, service and sacrifice aside our struggle in life and living. It is desirable
for the individual being on one hand and the nations on the other, instead of seeking illusory
worlds, attempt to restrain to live in a better way.

Can we repair the hurt and harm we have wrought on environment and material notions sustain
the peace in the world. Does not man and nations have strength to understand the gravity of the
situation in their camouflaged vision, to meet in deference to the almighty variously say as Jesus,
Allah and Brahman and others to save the world through global communion with a
consciousness that connects all through same breath, love and humanity.

Besides our ancient knowledge of Vedas , Upanishads and Gita and other religious works, now
quantum mechanics and biology are gradually coming to understand that universal consciousness
is everything and is beyond matter and mind in all its diversity. Without fear of death, man has
no limits, without fear of disease, there are no limits for sense involvement in the world. The
world is a ghostly mirror of reality and presents appearances in various ways without being true
to our spirit in our spiritual ignorance (avidya).

There is a mismatch between various ways of our living and the way we have evolved from
microbe to mammal and from homospaien to anthroposcene today. Non adherence to universal
laws, respect to nature and environment and the elemental man will result in a steep fall from our
present level to the belly level of the beast.

Global population is increasing, people are demoralized and are also not becoming effective in
choosing. Science and technology besides providing material benefits also condition man in the
superficial thrill. Man and nations have to set up priorities by HIS grace to what is important for
the survival of humanity, diverse culture, living in better levels of consciousness and prepared to
undertake necessary restraints. Today everywhere there is talk of stress, depression, feeling of
suicide and so on.

Says Julian Huxley in his Evolution of life: Its origin and future in volume I Evolution after
Darwin says what mans complete aim is seen not as survival, not as material universe, not as
a complexity of organization nor increased control of environment but rather fulfillment and
realization of more possibilities fo human species collectively more of its component member
individuality. Man comes into the world alone and goes away alone after a small sojourn here
without knowing where and when but serves as a brick of the family, society and nation in the
world. What is needed is positive attitude and love. Most of the distress of the world is for want
of love.

There is wisdom in understanding harmonization of material and spiritual and adherence to

ethics, control of senses and mind through pranayama, yoga and meditation. Life is much more
beyond learning, earning and enjoying. It is also beauty, music, values, love, compassion and

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service and sacrifice. There is need to strengthening the family, proper parenting of children,
protection of nature by proper ways of living. They do not come in the way of mans ambitions
and legitimate aspirations. He has to discharge his responsibilities as a universal being to
ancestors on one hand and the progeny on the other.

May consciousness provide us understanding in humanity and nations and necessary strength.

Let all the worlds people be happy

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