There is much confusion regarding causality – specifically backwards-in-time causality. Also how consciousness is derived from causality. We will clarify these issues.In our paper for the Kathmandu conference during April 2015, we had discussed causality to show that backwards-in-time causality is impossible. Consider an example: A + B → C + D. Here a force […]
Some friends have raised queries about one and many in our earlier post – specifically those relating to Shankar’s description. Some have pointed out to Vartika (563-564) of Sureshwar, who quotes Brhadaaranyaka Upanishad (4-3-23) to establish Adwaita. According to it, “But there is not that second thing separate from it, which it can see (during
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द्वादशविधपुरुषः तत्वम् । केवल निजस्वरूपेण अवस्थितस्य यदा वहुस्यां प्रजायेय इति इच्छा-ज्ञान-क्रियात्मिकाः शक्तयः ताभिर्योगे क्रमेण अर्थ-शव्दसृष्टि अङ्कुरछायावत् युगपद् भवतः । तादृशसिसृक्षारूपोपाधिविशिष्टः परमशिव एव केवल निष्प्रपञ्चचिदेकात्मा शिवपदवाच्यो परम्ब्रह्म वाच्यो वा भवति । स एव आदिमः तत्वः । परमशिवो जगत् कवलयन्नपि न सार्वात्मैन । अपि त्वंशेन संस्कारात्मना तत् स्थापयति । स एव संस्कारः ईश्वरः सिसृक्षायां सहकारीभूतः । सा
The famous Gita dictum: कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन explains uncertainty scientifically in a much better way. When Heisenberg proposed his conjecture in 1927, Earle Kennard independently derived a different formulation, which was later generalized by Howard Robertson as: σ(q)σ(p) ≥ h/4π. This inequality says that one cannot suppress quantum fluctuations of both position σ(q) and
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Brahman has all powers. But we are a limited being with the same Brahma inside us also. Our limitation spreads to all spheres. The nature of Brahman’s desire (इच्छा) is (नित्यप्राप्ति). Brahman can get anything it wants. But we cannot do so. We can get our wishes (इच्छा) fulfilled in a limited way (सङ्कुचित शक्ति).
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