A long time ago, people interested in discovering the truth, would make observations on an occurrence. After observing the same thing happen over and over again they would make a theory on the cause and effect relationships involved in this occurrence. Often times they would share this theory with others and many times this theory allowed the originator and others to make better choices related to this occurrence and live better lives.
This is science conducted with the intention of discovering truth.
What happens when other begin to heap praise and recognition on this astute observer. He begins to desire this praise and recognition over his search for the truth. Others see him receiving praise and recognition and become jealous. They to start making observations and theories and compete with each other for the praise and recognition of others. They form societies and invent awards that allow them to trade with each other not using money or goods but recognition and status.
Other people who have already decided that they prefer money over the truth begin to hire these observers to think of theories that will help create and sell products.
The original observer who made his original observations in an environment free of pressure and with intentions of purely discovering the truth now is forced to make observations and theories under great pressure from his society of colleagues who now withhold their praise and recognition until this observer produces a new theory or observation. Likewise his activities now being sponsored by corporations who visit him every few months threatening to withhold their money if he does not produce a new theory or observation that can help them market a new product.
This is the story of the fall of science. When science became uninterested in the truth, everything fell apart and science became a tool in which man accelerated his own destruction.
If you are participating in a system like this I challenge you to rediscover your passion for the truth. To purify your intentions realizing that passionately and relentlessly pursuing the truth will satisfy the desires of your heart.
I challenge you to first live your truth seeing if it serves the highest part of you, making your life better before sharing it with others. To discover and eventually share the difference between knowing truth and experiencing truth.
If you make to choice to renew your passion for the truth, I challenge you to relentlessly challenge every choice that you make asking yourself, does this choice get me closer to the truth or am I serving some other desire or agenda?
If there are enough of us that choose to serve the truth over everything else, we will discover that God and the truth are one in the same, and we transform the world into the best version of its current form.
Mais, parce que selon le saige Salomon sapience n’entre poinct en âme malivole, et science sans conscience n’est que ruyne de l’âme, il te convient servir, aymer et craindre Dieu, et en luy mettre toutes tes pensées et tout ton espoir, et, par foy formée de charité, estre à luy adjoinct en sorte que jamais n’en soys desamparé par péché. Translation
But as the wise Solomon said, wisdom enters not into a malicious mind, and science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul, thus it behooves you to serve, to love, to fear God, and on him to repose all your thoughts and all your hope, and by faith formed in charity to adhere to him, so that you may never be separated from him by your sins.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedanta
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J. Robert Oppenheimer, theoretical physicist and director of the Manhattan Project, also was a professed Vedantist.In reference to the Trinity test in New Mexico, where his Los Alamos team tested the first atomic bomb, Oppenheimer famously recalled the Bhagavad Gita: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one. Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
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http://en.allexperts.com/q/Hindus-946/2008/5/Oppenheimer-Atomic-Bomb-Bhagavad.htm
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Question
Dr. V. Siva Prasad
I'm confused about something and don't understand the meaning of it. When Oppenheimer, developer of the A-Bomb, saw the first atomic explosion he said: “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
This was a paraphrase of a sentence from the eleventh chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. Based on the Hinduism faith, what did Oppenheimer mean by saying that phrase right when the A-Bomb went off? Was it symbolic?
As Vishnu said in Bhagavad Gita, chapter 11, verses 31-33, that all the enemies are already destroyed and that he is death, the mighty destroyer of the world. Does that mean that no matter what humans do, we are doomed anyways? What did Oppenheimer mean by saying that phrase?
I really don't understand why Oppenheimer said it and how it relates to the phrase in the Gita.
Would you be able to answer this question?
Answer
Bagavad Gita, Chapter 11 Verse 32 says:
"I am the mighty world destroying 'Time' - engaged here in annihilating all beings. Even without you, not one of all the warriors arrayed in these rival armies shall survive"
The interpretation is that every thing in creation is subject to cycles of creation, sustenance and annihilation through Time. Only Almighty is beyond the influence of Time - He is eternal.
The Upanishads, whose essence the Bhagavad Gita incorporates, say that Almighty created the entity Time and gave it all the powers of creation, sustenance and annihilation. No created being can control Time. Only Almighty, the creator of Time, can control Time if necessary. In the verse, "I am the Time"
means "I am the creator of Time".
What Mr. Oppenheimer said was symbolic in nature. The rest of the world thinks that humans are doomed anyway no matter what they do. The Upanishads provide methods to go beyond it.
The law of cause and effect is known in philosophical texts also. There is a very specific law in science. "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction". If you write it in English, it becomes
Newton's Law. If you write it in Sanskrit, it becomes Law of Karma. However, Karma is not fatalism. The very wording "for every action" says that we have the freedom of action. But it cautions about the inevitable reaction.
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Science for power is a huge threat to life as we know it.
I am quickly understanding that we live in a relative world. Although we see humans acting terribly and we call those humans evil, this is not really the ultimate truth.
Everyone does the right thing given what they believe about the world. If you believe that we live in a world of scarce resources and that we are all separate, then the law of the land will be survival of the fittest. Kill or be killed.
If that was your reality, wouldn't you work as hard as you could to acquire the means with which you could assure your survival? After all the world is a scary place filled with all kinds of people who are different from you. The only way to assure your survival given this reality would be to acquire enough power so that you could destroy anyone who threatened you.
Given this scenario, you could even justify genocide as a means of survival.
On the other hand, what if the ultimate reality was that we were all connected. Even further, that we were all one. What if that which you did to the least among humans, you did to yourself? That self-preservation was a natural and healthy instinct but most people have forgotten that they were a individual piece of a much bigger self.
I like Moreless' concept of the fruits of the Spirit, but I think the concept that we are all one is an even simpler view that one could adopt that would instantly heal the world.
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