Immortality Pill.

During our usual lunch conversation, we came across a topic in which we were talking whether the medical science is in the right direction. I was in the position that even if it is in the right direction it is not in the right interests. My friend asked me what if the medical science can discover an immortality pill which can keep us physically alive eternally. The topic shifted direction when I told him that it is possible to be alive for a long time using some yogic methods - with total control of prana. And then I told him that there are yogis who live for more than 200 years in Himalayas and the right approach for the medial science to understand immortality is not through fragmentary and divisive studies but through a unified understanding of what consciousness means.

On retrospect, I think that we don't need to go too far on the idea of immortality and the magic pill the medical field can possibly discover. Even if the medical community discovers a pill that could make us immortal, how does it help from the social conditioning that we find ourselves today? I can still shoot a person at will, can't I?

Vernon Howard

Vernon Howard - It was only last week that I came across this wonderful person. He is one of the enlightened masters and his philosophy looks similar to Jiddu Krishnamurthy's. Here are some YouTube links in which he speaks.

Right Ideas for a Right Day

Way to True Command (3 part series)

Inner Power for Today (3 part series)

Sense of self.

Ultimately everything depends on from where we derive our sense of self. It could be from our culture, religion, political affiliation, nationality, our dress, new hair style and all things external to us - the world of forms. Or it could be from deep within, from our very existence or the feeling of I. In this case, our sense of self is not actually derived from an external entity but it is the feeling of being or completely present. Even the thought can be considered as something external since its away from the feeling of being. Ego is nothing but the derivation of the sense of self from anything away from the complete presence. Being in thought is being in ego. There is nothing wrong to be in ego (we will be forced to) but we will just miss the wonderful feeling of being present, of being alive.

Big Bang in Your Closet?

For long I knew that all the problems of the mind cannot be solved in the level of the mind. For instance, the question of death. Mind as I has envision is like a field which is not algebraically closed just like how the real numbers are insufficient to solve the equation x*x + 1 = 0. However, I did think that the mind is capable of solving almost all analytical questions. By analytical questions I mean the ones that are put forth by science. But yesterday, I had this incredible revelation about a question in science that the mind won't be able to arrive at a solution.

Modern science tells us that there was Big Bang from which the visible universe has expanded from a primordial hot and dense singularity at some finite time in the past. Now we can ask a legitimate question within the domain of science on where was that singularity present - I mean the spatial coordinates of the dense particle. Once we pose this, we realize that the question depends inherently on the notion of distance. Now the concept of distance is a relative measure - we need at least two objects have a distance measure. When all the objects are condensed as a single small package, where does the concept of distance come in? In other words, the Big Bang singularity can never be traced to a specific location in space. Assuming such a thing happened, all we can say is that the singularity could have been anywhere in space. Who knows, it could have been in your closet too.

The Eternal Warrior