During
early childhood days my father made me worship God regularly, but gradually
this strict discipline faded away in my life when I started questioning the
reason for worship. I slowly became totally against idol worship. I remember having a heated debate with my high
school class teacher where he was trying to convince me to believe in such
concepts. Although many tried, I never believed that some stone should be
worshiped as God, but deep within I was wondering what people are doing. People
say “God is all powerful, you need to surrender to him, you need to worship him
daily, you need to do pooja, visit temples” etc etc, but no one were able to
provide proper and logical explanation for what they are doing. The question: “What
is God?”, always remained.
When
I started understanding it in detail, I could make striking similarities
between concept of God and the concepts had read in my physics text book during
my school days. We all know the famous Newton’s law of conservation of energy
which states “Energy can neither be created nor be destroyed; it simply changes
from one form to another”. Wondering where is Newton talking about God here? Basically,
what is called God is nothing but a generic name given to Energy and some
people call it as consciousness. You are so and so but you generic name is
human being, next comes animals, living beings, and so on. Similarly the highest
idea of generalization is called ‘God’ or in scientific word ‘Energy’. Let me elaborate
this concept little more.
Science
is doing constant experiment to find the smallest particle. During my school
days I was taught that it was atom and then during college I was told it was
neutrons, and then it became quarks so on and so forth till it came to the
recent ‘God-Particle’. From Einstein’s famous relation E=mc2 we know that
for every mass there is energy. So every smallest particle has energy
associated with it. Science is interested in this energy and trying to
understand how to control this energy so that they can get more control on the
matter. Through this control anything is possible. You can change the property
of matter, make matter transform in to something totally different (what
science call ‘alchemy’), transfer matter from one place to another (what
science call ‘teleportation’) etc. This is exactly what our Vedas talk about
but just that they called this energy as Prana and through realizing this Prana
i.e nothing but complete understanding and controlling, we can realize God.
Because
of the same concept there is nothing called non-living thing in our ancient
science. Every non-living thing has energy but just that it is manifested in
different ways. Just like energy comes in different forms-Kinetic, potential or
electrical, chemical etc. Like every living being even non-living things die,
just that its life span cannot be experienced fully in our life term. Think of
all basic science lessons on erosion of stones, friction between materials
leading to its destruction, rusting or oxidization of metal, etc all these concepts give us just a glimpse
of the life cycle of non living things. Ultimately even they disintegrate and go
to the earth. When we say it disintegrates and goes to the earth we are saying
matter is transformed or energy is transformed from one form to another.
Energy
is everywhere, and similarly Prana/God is everywhere. Energy cannot be seen
but just be experienced/felt, just like God. Now we know why many people say,
rather very lightly “God is within you”. All that they are referring is
Prana/Energy which is there in everyone. Some people know how to get good
control on it where as many people doesn't If you can completely control the
energy within you, you can control any energy because eventually everything in
the world is made up of tiny matter and by controlling energy you are
controlling the tiny matter. People whom we call ‘Yogis’ is nothing but the Vedic
name for our modern day scientists.
Day-by-day
what science is explaining is the concept of Prana or God in our ancient
texts. Finally science community realized it recently and aptly named the
latest discovery as ‘God Particle’. Whether this is the end? Frankly even they don’t
know. On a positive note, through this people are getting some insight and
understanding of our ancient texts. What Newton and Einstein explained is nothing
but the age old concept recorded in Vedas around 5000+ year back. Just that
they used right terms to explain modern community. Similarly this blog is my
attempt to explain “What is God?” using right terms for modern community J.
I
hope you enjoyed reading it. I would like to thank my good friend, my philosophy
teacher, Research scholar - Swaroop Sharma, for giving me this concept of “God
as Energy or consciousness”, through which I could relate back to science to
understand it better.
Still,
why do people go to temple? Why they do idol worship when they have God within
them? This is a topic for another blog J.
Again I will try to bring out scientific reasons for this to the best of my
knowledge.
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