Omni Presence

Mass ...Energy ...And ...God

- Mahesh Kulkarni

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One of the great poets of Marathi has said “Oh God I never asked for your darshana because I see you in everything I see”. Where another one said where should I search you in fact you have infinite temples. No he didn’t mean temple literally. In fact he gave a small list of god’s presence as a representation of that infinity. A small necked otherwise a dirty child of a roadside beggar , a huge water fall , a huge mountain, a star or a planet that is several time bigger than earth and even small tiny thin blade of a grass is also a complete presence of god.

Philosophers or thinkers of all civilizations have been attempting to define god where devotees of all religions do not seem to be wasting time in inquisitive act. My father used to say god is a subject of belief and not that of intellect. Yet scientific community does never accept this conclusion and prefer to keep god or mystery around him away. As some have tried, I too wish to look at god here from scientific perspective along with Hindu ultimate definition keeping myths away. Let me aim at making all kinds of reader comfortable.

Several people for several centuries have attempted to define, describe God. I would express, not by mere humbleness but by reality that, I extremely fall short. My small intent here is not to define but convey an observation or a perspective.

One of the universally accepted discoveries of science is close to spiritual philosophy of one religion.

Omni Presence : what Science finds.

What is common in all that we see or even don’t see but exists in world?

Matter is the only substance that can provide objective existence in space and physical reality to an entity. All real entities are made of matter. We had been using one

of the attributes of matter, mass, to represent matter content of real objects.

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was one of the greatest scientists of the world. Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity showed that energy has an equivalent mass and mass has an equivalent energy. Thus energy exists in every matter of this entire universe. Matter is the ‘material substance that constitutes the observable universe and, together with energy,

forms the basis of all objective phenomena’ (Wikipedea). The universe is immensely large and possibly infinite in volume. Scientists have claimed that there may be 100 billion galaxies in this universe. Everything that exists has mass and as said above it equates with energy. Mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing. So there is omni presence of energy accepted all over.

Omni Presence : what spiritual philosophy finds.
 

Hummm ! What is God? No I am not authority but I think concept of God might probably, have emerged out of fear or respectful fear. Hinduism has several deities. It follows polytheism. It is said that Hinduism believes in having 33 million Gods. We see around on every small street of every city or even a small village has temple and every Hindu family has specific deity. You see streets, you see walls, you see wallets, you see wall papers and find God all around you. Hinduism has extreme form of Idolatry. You find many different shapes, sizes of idols of their deities.

Yet the ultimate philosophy of the religion leads to monotheism. Perhaps the polytheism is supposed to be meant to lead to monotheism. No it may not be explicit but its unique in world that the religion that has polytheism, the religion that follows idolatry ultimately defines the omni presence of the God. Einstein said every matter has mass and so does it have energy. Hinduism believes presence of God (super power) in every particle of this universe. For Hindus God, as is, is beyond any attributes of form, colour, shapes ... That is, God does not have any specific form or name Such God is referred to as Nirguna , Nirakar. It is formless. We not only believe that God has created this universe or God is care taker of this Universe but we ultimately take follower to believe that this whole universe itself is God. Omni present God.

सर्वं जगदिदम त्वत्तो जायते
सर्वं जगदिदम तत्वस तिष्ठति
सर्वं जगदिदम त्वयि लय मेश्यती
सर्वं जगदिदम त्वयी प्रत्येति

These lines of Ganesh Atharvashirsha have a definition of God that is close to what Albert Einstein had defined relation between mass and energy. The whole universe is emerged out of you. The whole universe exists due to you. The whole universe destroys due to you. Merges into you. I find you in this entire universe.

There are several different matters in world. All have mass and that equates with its energy. Thus everything in universe has energy. So God is not staying somewhere else separately. You , me and everything around is energy thus is God as defined by Vedas too. 

(Temple owned once by our family: Jalgaon Dist.)

एकोहम द्वितीयं नास्ति

Advaita Vedanta... the doctrine of non dualism is one without a parallel. Propagated in the history of mankind by Adi Shankaracharya... Advaita Vedanta implies one and only one. The philosophy of Advaita Vedanta... the non dual characteristic of the supreme Lord, the Almighty God aka Parmatman in hinduism confirms that the Creator God does not have a dualistic nature.

When there is only ONE and no one else then there is no possibility of enmity, lust, ego etc

Omni Presence: what a common mind can see.

Keep aside what science says. Keep aside what spiritual philosophy says. If we look at any common mind in human race we find that it is comfortable with its assumption and it gets used to anything when done repeatedly with involvement for years together. And then it finds it difficult to give up such assumptions or even perceptions. 

Most of us have attachment with parents and siblings. And the blood relation today can even be proved by DNA test. But yet I would say it is more based on assumption and is only for the period of life span. Replacement by mistake or intentional in maternity hospital is not impossible. But the love continues on association and assumption. When we have a simple stone but carved as deity we worship otherwise a ordinary stone. And even observe sanctity. You might place a foot on any other stone but just join hands when it has Kumkum, turmeric like pooja material is applied. My point here is notice the assumption.

So likewise if we assume any human being rather anything that we see around is God, what difference it might make. If such assumption is made often and years together it becomes habituated by mind and body. It is extremely difficult because human mind has several reasons to run away and get attracted to many things around. It has to be done by frequent reminders.

The God that exists in me same do I find in a beautiful girl seen in front, same do I find in garbage or even night soil seen near around. It is not easy and several times the mind gets diverted but when attempted for several years and several times by reminding your mind it starts happening for few seconds or a minute. Imagination, assumption helps. The Universe is several billion light years big that means light like fastest matter will take some billion years to reach the edge of Universe but yet it is expanding rapidly so by the time light reaches there perhaps the edge would have gone yet farther. But if you close your eyes and try to imagine this infinity with zero thought in mind you see different light. If you insist your mind to accept and trust that a huge Himalaya, a tremendous rain fall, tiny blade of a green grass, a beautiful woman, stars , planets and whatever you see has a presence of God within; the same that is within you.

We come here…become old and get involved here and just forget that one day or the other we are supposed to “go”. Like the way edge of Universe is far beyond imagination the age of universe is also. The Universe exists for last 13 billion light years ever since big bang. You live for 50-60 years and then turn into ash within 10 – 12 hours. Yes a small amount of ash that disperses in a short while. This thought should make you as much as possible egoless, lust-less , humble. It should be done by a mind with devotion (Bhakti) to see Omni Present God in whatever we see. Perhaps that may be objective of concept of God.

I was blessed with these thoughts in early childhood and several times reminded by father.  If you follow up such thought by humble mind for years together it just goes deep.The movement you see anything or especially you feel anger, ego or lust just think and tell yourself by science or spiritual philosophy that what "energy", what "god" is within you is the same in what you are seeing infront. This frequest reminder over the period takes to 

that oneness. This should reflect in compassion and caring.

Lastly:    How come.....

How come a god with 4 hands or 5 heads be the creator of this universe. and if the creator is separate then who created HIM. The Advait philosophy of Hinduism very clear about oneness that HE not only created this. but it is HE himself all around. Yes both idolatry as well as a thought of omni presence are required by human mind. Most of our sorrows are due to hurting some individual or masses. This is again out of selfish, egoistic nature and out of inappropriate  lust. The human mind can attempt to become selfless, egoless and lustfree by extreme humble surrender, by devotion (bhakti). This is possible for a common mind by idolatry only. But after a prolonged devotion in temple a mind must develop ability to see the "god" all around within and out.

एकोहम द्वितीयं नास्ति

When there is only ONE and no one else then there is no possibility of enmity, lust, ego etc...as I said it happens by often and often reminders to mind.

ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात्पुर्णमुदच्यते

पूर्णश्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ॥

ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥

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Woman, you are Mother.
By -Mahesh Kulkarni
Mahesh_2k3@yahoo.co.in
Maheshmk.india@gmail.com
Woman is mother, woman is friend, woman is wife, woman is daughter, and woman is a usable item in sex. What a harsh extremity in one sentence indeed!
Sometime I bring this harsh reality deliberately to the notice of girls around. So that they should oppose this, discourage this, hate this. And not become part of it. Female, although not alone, but is a creative representation of the nature. This is more than a male because in mammals female holds the kid in womb for some months. India has a culture where women are revered extremely. Woman is compared with deity. Our all ethics, manners suggest us to give respect to woman. Women have potential qualities that have made huge contribution to the progress of mankind. Female is a technical word while girl or woman is social word referred to specific gender of human being. We never say girl dog or a woman cat. So there is more cultural attribute that encloses around these words. Nature has made her creative, caring, caressing, loving, and courting but a leading one. Although many civilizations and societies were and are today also conservative towards treatment to women but again it has been proved that woman plays important role in society in creativity, laying foundation of some thoughts and principles for centuries to witness.
Nature has given several qualities to female in general and human female in particular. She has utmost tolerance, love, forgiveness, caring and ability to lead because not only that she has to create but even has to grow the breed in as good as possible manner. See a naked child in a slum has a mother and president of a richest country also has a mother who must have brought him up from his kid hood, childhood up to his grown up age. There are several corners of a woman to make her highly venerable character in human life. Human society is based on culture that can be discussed in due course below in this text. But this culture in any civilization is passed from generation to generation by a mother. Even the mother that play significant role to build a character of a human child is also nursed and brought up by mother. In our cultured society latter even she plays a vital role to be a sister and to be a wife and to be a teacher. We find out there in society she leads thoughts and creativity and you notice that even in administration from a small to very large scale she manages by the built in qualities of caring mother and acquired qualities what any male also would have had. So projection of a female on medias and internet as a usable item of sex is certainly taking us towards horrible destruction of a society which may be severe than several nuclear explosions. Man and woman are the two otherwise distinct entities of one animal created by nature. Distinct, because naturally they are but except physical attributes and social responsibilities they both are human beings. And yet a woman is thus projected adversely, leads to the destruction of not half but the entire human society. These roles as mother, sister, daughter, wife, sister-in-law, mother-in-law even for that matter are the product of culture based society. A human society is ultimately a product of marriage and family systems.
Now where and how shall we define a culture? Where already several definitions are available, yet I would say intellect and vision (sight) for decency what looks for the beauty of life is a culture. The objective may be decency or beauty of life as a prime. There may be a scope of differences and debates here but I would observe they may be unnecessary and may mar by diversion the point of discussion here. So I will prefer to appeal the debate over culture’s definition to be avoided. The behavioral fundamentals that make human being different from other animals should be arrived at what is called as culture. Let’s elaborate or convince something here. The way cloths and way of cooking came out of need, intellect and then decency, similarly marriage system, family and ultimately relations came out of intellectual thinking and need of peace and settlement from nomadic nature to farming. But these fundamentals extremely differ from other animals. We must first accept a fact that humans are also animals and then start discovering what make them extremely different from other animals. Although we see most of the animals’ mother that produces a same breed but except few animals we have not seen father, siblings like relations and affection and constraints based on this relations. They do have sex with mother, daughter, and sisters. They do have sex that is exposed without any need to be shamed off. We, for so called culture do not accept this as long as we speak about culture. Animals do not marry and except few do not follow family system so they do not have issue of pre marital and extra marital sex. We see in porn stories sex between such above said relations and regarding pre marital and extra marital sex, I see that media and internet sites are, I would say, looks like indirectly advocating it. We always come across condoms while talking about AIDS. But we don’t see along with promotion of condoms the refrain based cultural values are stressed upon. The reality is that it can not be averted entirely but that does not mean we accept and indirectly advocate it. This is destroying one of the major differences between animals and humans. Several countries are heading towards free sex. They are becoming more and more casual about pre-marital and extra marital sex. Partial sexual activities and courting have started happening in public. We used to say that late night Navaratri utsav, Christmas etc were leading to several abortions of unmarried girls. Now fortunately or unfortunately the technology allows them to compromise on cultural values without loosing their image and in turn that gives them more confidence to continue the same way. Here one interesting point to be noticed. Any one opposing, criticizing this is considered conservative or some logical points are brought to convince otherwise. But the fact remains, reminds and asks us that then where do we have difference between animals and humans. And on top of this though females also are part of it or leading it, they hardly think that they have been made “item”. The porn projection of woman is perhaps the most ugly, dirty and unfortunate in human society today. Today, World has some common subjects of concern like smoking, terrorism, racism, global warming. I think downfall of a culture should be a matter of concern leading in a list for world in general and country in particular. Don’t you agree? Ok. Then we are very soon becoming wild animals. We had a ruler who used to eat human body stuffed in rice or we have gang rapes that are often seen, heard all over the world. What is a quality of life, just the intellectual development? Where is perpetual beauty of life? Where is decency of life what culture aims at?
Nature has made woman beautiful. But more than her beauty as a sex idol in fact her motherliness is beautiful, million time more beautiful. Lord Krishna said in Bhagwadgita that a sex done for producing breed is he himself. And thus it (sex) is beautiful. But nature increased it to great extent by across gender attraction, life styles. And today’s world brought the same sex to its extreme vulgarity. Do we advocate this? Or we the humans aim at decency, perpetual beauty and have many things to do since very creative and intellectual brain nature has given to human beings. I think women have played a vital role in building, safeguarding the culture for centuries. This women’s role is far more significant than men’s role in beautifying human culture in any civilization. The emergence of marriage and family system and its survival is caused by both men and women. But, I would say substantially by women. See nature has also made them suitable for that task. Females are passive at initial stage of sex. Let me not be that conservative. I would agree that craze for sex, premarital and extra marital have been their in human societies for centuries but may be in last one century since females fascinated, educated and started taking lead in sex, we see that situation has become most ugly and horrible. This is because already nature had made males active partner (Initial). It is the woman that can really lead society to maintain and grow values of life. And she has in fact done it so in any civilization of several centuries. So the period that sees downfall of woman sees downfall of human society itself. Woman in general has to be highly venerable in society for a society to maintain peace, pleasure, progress and piousness because woman in particular is a mother and thus collectively too. Lots of text, biographies and auto-biographies have been written of or by extra ordinary personalities of world giving credits to the immense contribution of their mother who brought them up to such high position in society. The list of great women who made great contribution to human society will be huge but we may prefer to mention few for the point. We have women who have done peerless achievements in every walk of life. The women show their impact of presence today in astronomy, civil aviation, space research, medical research, engineering and what not.
Oh Mother! You are Durga, Shiva, Kshama,Dhatri. You are mother Mary. Mother! You are Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, Mahasaraswati. You are Marie Curie. Yes Mother! You are that Marie Sklodowska Curie who was the first woman to be awarded Nobel Prize. Marie discovered two new elements Polonium and Radium when she did her work on radioactive materials. This mother lost her kids due to radiations, herself died of blood disease caused by her research. But today, several cancer patients and their dear ones should be grateful to her for cancer treatment enabled due to the research of this great woman, who was awarded two Nobel Prizes. Marie Curie, even was a mother of Nobel Prize winner. See the unique example in world history. But not only Marie Curie. Millions of pages may not be enough to express gratitude and appreciations to several such women who have done immense contribution to mankind. Even enlisting such women may take us away from the point in fact it should emphasize the objective of this writing. In such contrast see the mother on the other hand. Oh Mother! They made you naked on those porn sites. Mother, though you are the other name of forgiveness, kindly do not forgive them. But in fact you lead them, change them. Oh Mother! You are Gerty Theresa Cori (US – Glycogen – Scientist), You are Maria Goeppert (Us _ Nuclear Scientist), You are Lilavati, Lopamudra, Sister Nivedita,Mother Teresa, Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Sarojini Naidu, Annie Besant, Zansi ki Rani Laxmi Bai. Oh Mother! You were commander of an aircraft I traveled in last week and you are the president of my country too. Oh Mother! You are the mother of any good quality I am perhaps known for. Oh Mother! You are two at my home who call me Baba (Father). Oh Mother! More than a person you are a principle around. We the Indians call school as mother, our own country as a mother (mother land), and cow as a mother and pray, worship virgin girls as goddess during Navaratri. And there see mother that they have placed you as “item” on porn. Mother (women), do not forgive them but strongly, unanimously oppose them else breed of mankind will be destroyed.
Today there is lot of talk about equality and women rights but hardly is thought about projection of woman as just item to be used in sex. Is the technology achieved by intelligence taking us away from the culture? The words like harsh or horrible may be found insufficient in their intensity when we look at this projection. Difficult to put it in words here but we see this breaking the barriers of relation when porn stories depict sex. This is the most ugly, dirty, unfortunate page of human life. This is destroying young generation. Some percentage of school goers or early college goers is becoming victim of this.
We have technology available. Why don’t we do this?
1. Demand and apply vigorous content filtration by Internet Service Providers.
2. Highly vigorous laws for cyber café
3. Educating and motivating parents to become more and more vigilant.
4. Client side as well as ISP side restrictions.


Once again without opposing, criticizing we can think about one statement to conclude. I assert strongly that cultural downfall in general and porn in particular is several times more destructive and horrible than terrorism or nuclear arms.