East and West approach the ultimate differently but meet

'East is East and West is West and never shall the twain meet' said Rudyard Kipling. 

Not so. It does meet. East moves towards West, and West moves towards East. At one point, they meet, no matter how they approach it.

For long, there has been debate around Vedic truth of ‘ultimate reality’ – brahman and its scientific integrity. Science is a hard taskmaster. Unless experiments and Causal relationship is established by repeated occurrences, it will render all Sabda (divine knowledge) as bunkum. Science disregards the experienced, and values the mathematical.

Five thousand years ago, living in forest, our sages experienced the ultimate reality, through the technology of staying deep in one’s own interiority, through the technique of mediation. Back then, it was clear that one had to transcend both body, nor mind to delve deeper. Rightly so, little time was spent explaining the mind, or body, as they were seen as mere tools to move elsewhere. That said, comprehensive work has been written by way of Ayurveda to support harmony of the body (the three doshas: Vata, Pitha, Kapha).

In the East, the notion of the Universe is explained as an Infinite field of Infinite Silence, with infinite potential, (the Purusha) that takes form and manifest through the forces of Prakriti, and the energy of Shakti is unleashed

Which is somewhat similar to what is explained in Science as the Unified field. In physics, these bubbling emergent geometric structures are called super strings – tiny infinitesimal plastic loops. Interestingly, this was termed Sutratma (the silver cord in metaphysical studies and literature, also known as the sutratma or life thread of the antahkarana, refers to a life-giving linkage from the higher self (atma) down to the physical body) the emerging reality of Prakriti in Vedic literature. Vedas and Science now agree that all experiences exist in vibrations. When Science calculates the energy of the superstrings, it confirms that the higher energies have more mass, than lower energies. Science confirms that the Universe is made up of five ingredients (Five Spin types) that are part of the unified field existing in three super fields.

For example, it is stated in the Bhagavata Purana:

“The material manifestation’s ultimate particle, which is indivisible and not formed into a body, is called the atom – Param anuh. It exists always as an invisible identity, even after the dissolution of all forms. The material body is but a combination of such atoms, but it is misunderstood by the common man. ” (Bhagavata Purana 3.11.1)

In Vedas, there are five basic elements: Akasha (sky), Wind (Vayu), Earth, Ether and Fire (agni)

On the surface (like waves on the surface of the Ocean) there is every changing dynamism, movement, energy, and restlessness. Yet it is to be remembered, that these are all ‘one and the same’, not distinctive and separated, though maya may cause it to be perceived as such. The vedas repeatedly call out, that the ultimate consciousness is ‘never created, never ending’ – it is.

Let me delve further into structures explained by Unified field and the Vedas. Beyond the Planck Scales. Let me take some numbers: 8 ~24~64~192, which explains the humming and frequency of vibrations. In physics, if we take a guitar string, to explain, it can vibrate independently up/down (2) and independently sideways (2), and it exists in a three dimensions space – it has 3 aspects. In physics, the universal vibrations (super string) exists in 9 dimensions and in space, the 10^th dimension. The unified field therefore has 8 independent vibrations (tones), although it has just one string. In the process of creation, the strings, at a transcendental level, undergo many transformational changes (26), to the Bosinic level, (of 24 independent levels of tone/sounds) which converts to the Fermionic Scale of 64 tones, which moves finally to the stage of space time super compactification of  192 tones. That is, 192 vibrations reverberating within itself.

In the Vedas, the one sound is captured in ‘Aum’, and explained in the Apaurusheya bhashya (Rig Veda). The Vedas unfold, from 8 to 64, from 64 to 192, explaining the same spectrum. Vedas confirms that it is the ultimate reality. The absolute giving rise to the ever changing.

The Vedic technologies of Yoga, Vedas, Ayurveda are based on unified and holistic living.

In Vedas, there is no separation of mind and body, it is one ‘mindbody’ – subtle to gross. Consciousness, in vedas, the mind has a parallel structure – superficial to profound. Starting with Vaikari (articulated thoughts), Madhyama (abstract conceptual), Pashyanti (subtle feelings) and then Athma (beyond the mind). Compare this to mathematical world of numbers, whole numbers, integers, and fractions, one set of articulated maths. The next level of Madhyama maths (real numbers, complex numbers and function spaces. Most expansive concepts, limits of function spaces (at the Pashyanti level), finally to the Universe of Sets, the final part, admittedly beyond human sense.

Vedic civilization is truly founded upon the complete and ultimate knowledge.

(Inspired by Dr. John Hagelin,an eminent Physicist )