Universe: The Singular Song to Melt your Discordant Notes

 

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam: “Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.”

Spread the self. Mix in the infinity. You will feel light, love and harmony pervading your cells. It’s simply like a drop of water feeling the unchained extents of a huge sea. You will catch the harmony. Einstein said that only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. Come, drop your guard, abandon the stupidity and look upwards into the mystical distances. You will realize the oneness. You will comprehend how inconsequential we are, merely specks of dust, and over-bloated with ego and ignorance. Open your heart to the profound vastness. You will get lessons in life and living.

It's such a colossal system, so forget about nurturing any ego to change things. Forget it. The only point in the universe where you can be sure of fixing things is yourself. Nothing out there was ever fixed by a mere part of the system. That is an absolute reality. But there is always light. The picture is incomplete without you. You change your perspective and the universe changes.

Joseph Campbell says: “The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”

Try this fabulous matching game. A drop of water is just a small ocean. The ocean is merely a larger drop. There is hardly any qualitative difference. They hold the same seed of potential. Similarly, you are a small cosmos. The cosmos is simply a larger you.

Stephen Hawking: "We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."

And understanding the universe begins with understanding the small universe, i.e., you. The first step in the journey.

Look at your body and think, does it exist in abstraction, in exclusive totality. It doesn't. It simply cannot. It’s merely a few kilograms of matter clinging to consciousness, chetna. Just like electricity is the link between a computer’s hardware and software to make it an operating unit, similarly, prana energy is the link between the matter body and consciousness, the seat of your real being. You occupy the chair of your existence as a dynamic unit operating under the infallible laws of reciprocal transformations of energy.

You are just the karmic point, the soul DNA, having the code of your journey across other transformations, which we term for simplicity as the ‘previous births’. Just like semen and egg cells have the DNA imprint for the matter body, your consciousness has the DNA coded with all your experiences since the journey began. And this journey is just a journey within the largest, singular journey, the expansion of the present universe since the Big Bang in its current cycle.   

This ecosystem, which supports you and countless other beings, is your extended body. You are just a point of existence within this larger body. These trees over there are your bigger lungs. These streams of water are the larger replica of the water in your body. Calcium, phosphorus, zinc and other elements of your body are just the tiny replica of the vast mountains and plains containing mammoth amount of this matter. You retain your identity in this sea of ecosystem like a drop of water does in an ocean. It exists simply because the larger entity exists to define its existence. 

Moving up the hierarchy, this ecosystem also has an extended body. It is mother earth itself. Earth with dense metal in its core, its gravity, its spin and revolution, sets up the stage for the ecosystem to exist.

Further up, the solar system is earth's extended body. Earth cannot exist in exclusion from the solar system. Without it, it will just vanish like a tiny speck of dust and scatter its energy to be taken up by some mysterious, concurrent phenomena, God knows in what incidental, interesting way.

The Milky Way is the solar system's extended self. The solar system will collapse without the vast surrounding and balancing forces of the Milky Way. It’s just a tiny phenomenon cocooned in the huge galactic forces of matter and energy transformations prevalent in the Milky Way.

Super-galaxy is Milky Way's extended body, and so on so forth. Till you arrive at the roof of everything. Till you reach the farthest expansion of the universe. Then it’s nothing, simply because there the explosion is imploding, getting sucked into nothingness, only to be blasted out again for another cycle. And the cycle goes on and one. Self-sustaining with zero net energy! Doesn’t eternity sound plausible this way?

Mind you, all this endless play is being played on the mathematical sum of zero energy. How is it possible with net zero energy? Visualize a pendulum. It swings left and right simply because of the energy transformations taking from kinetic energy to potential one and vice versa. When it’s moving up, its kinetic energy is turning to potential energy. When it’s going down its potential energy is turning to kinetic energy. So much of drama without any loss or gain of energy! Just simple transformation of energy from one form to another! Same is the case with this cosmic pendulum. At its two extremes it explodes and implodes, expands and gets sucked up, and on and on, just like a cosmic swing, moving on and on.  

Now, can you guess, what is the meaning of ‘universe’? It is ‘one song’. If you still didn't get it, no need to waste time, carry on like before, but don't forget to smile and have fun. This is just one harmonious, ever-evolving song to which you can definitely add your melody and composition by being in tune with the natural laws. There is no specific need to understand it. It can be very easily lived. 

Closely watch nature. You will see the miracles happening with such magical effortlessness that they appear more mundane than even the simple task of you lifting your hand. And one more thing, like you see around, it's nothing but dynamic exchange and transformation of energy and matter. In any case, it’s basically energy, because matter, and its consequent shape and appearance, is just the apparent state of energy at a particular frequency.

Your own purpose in life always falls short of the universal will unless you link it to the causes beyond your own self. So while you strive to be happy and successful, try to do it in a way that it gets in sweet concordance with the very same desires of not just human beings but whole of the ecosystem.

Even a genuine prayer for someone will do. Enlightenment doesn't mean skies will shower flowers and earth will part and you will get a halo around your head. It happens when you become the commonest of the common and see yourself in the natural scheme around, as a part of the totality surrounding you. It simply means to be in a state when you accept in all humility that there is hardly any individuality around, when you feel that it’s all but a massive commonalty.

One seed contains the potential of a whole forest. The cosmic seed, the point, the bindu of Hinduism, is just the dot where explosion and implosion begin and end. At the highest hierarchy, this seed, this point, this vector of nothingness, contains limitless possibilities for the mutually interchanging interplays of energy. Look at the marvel of a tiny banyan seed. Look at the wonderful sprout of a huge tree with the lateral openings for birds, animals and humans. The cosmic seed, the point of nothingness, contains the seeds for everything. Quite stupendously, it’s nothing and everything at the same time. 

These little groups of words in this tiny sermon just try to take a picture of the infinite and its day-to-day reflection in our lives. It’s just a poor substitute for the ultimate reality. Just like a picture taken on your camera is a poor replacement for the lively panorama you wish to capture. With due regard to human limitations to express the infinite dimensions of reality, all our efforts through words, art and science are merely indicative in nature. They simply point to the largest reality far above the smaller planes of human-contrived tiny realities that make life easy, comfortable and somewhat comprehendible.

There is hardly any difference between ‘everything’ and ‘nothing’. This cosmic cycle, having a time-span of billions of years, is a blast from a point. The net energy is zero. You can have an endless interplay of energy, with nullifying factors at each step, like you go on adding and subtracting the same amount at all levels. Eternity then becomes possible. It’s possible to have ‘everything’ out of ‘nothing’. The so called Maya of Hinduism is nothing but the apparent reality, which involves the subject and the object. In quantum physics, they say that for the subatomic phenomena to exist, it’s necessary to have a perceiver. No wonder, they say that the world is as you see it.

Radiation is both wave and particle at the same time. How is it possible? It is a wave because it shows the properties of a wave like refraction. It’s particle because it can strike like a particle and get bounced off? Contradictions melt in probability. And that probability is never complete till you have the observer to define it.

Electromagnetic radiation, the wave, has particles called photons. These photons have zero mass. Then how can these be particles? They are particles through the probability to exist at a point within a specified zone in the wave path. The probability of their existence remains dormant until you have an observer. They are a wave without an observer, and turn to particle status the moment the observer arrives on the scene to define a moment of existence at a particular point in the band of probability. Scriptures say that all this is an extension of your mind. The latest researches in quantum physics prove the same thing.  

Explore your own space within the infinitely dynamic exchange of energy in the singular stream of primordial energy shooting off in countless directions, carrying fixed laws and supported by infallible universal intelligence. And all this is defined by the last law of all the lesser laws, the ultimate law. Call it God, supreme intelligence or the ultimate being. All this but is the same thing. Its reflection in our day to day life is through a feeling called love.