Thanks Phani and sk!

You are improving man!!

I think man should always keep himself in the region of “”may be/may not be’s”", those who are in that mode tend to be open minded than people who blindly believe in god or discard him or forget him entirely.

I hope one day Astrology attains recognition as a statistical science…

hoping for a better and more insightful future,
Phani

When we watch an interesting movie, we get involved in it and forget about the surroundings, i.e the real world..

Similarly vedic texts say that what we think to be the real world, is just like watching that movie, experienced by the physical senses and interpreted by the brain.. which is why ancient vedic seers used to get into deep meditation to get rid of interruption by physical sense, when they wanted to experience the true consciousness of the universe, which they used to describe as becoming one with the paramatma!
This is my understanding

If you have already written about Mandukyopanishad, and if you have the explanations about the various levels of consciousness and in each level several openings (doors) to other consciousness ….please let me know. It has been a puzzle to me though I know what it basically means, but cannot yet figure out the other properties each conscious level has as described in those chapters.

Thanks.

Yes, we need to probe everything and exercise our brains to arrive at fascinating discoveries, whether those discoveries prove our long held beliefs right or wrong would be interesting. Emotions for me form a big part in such discoveries, because emotions should be there, else what are we as humans in a society. But still emotions should only be positive, constructive, and controlled for one to achieve success in any aspect. The hunger for us to probe is itself a form of pure emotion. Its very interesting though that till now we as researchers have been explaining emotions as to how they occur medically, rather than what emotions actually are. If we think deep, “”what are emotions? “” is a big question. Note that we always end up answering how emotions occur/when emotions occur, but have never tried to go deep in our quest for this ultimate answer.

The other fascinating question or probably the final answer in the quest for GOD comes when we are able to answer the question – “”does universe have a boundary, if it has then something should exist outside this boundary, which inturn must have a boundary and so on, in other words defining infinity”" – Can we run our imagination as far as the universe streches, where does this universe end, and if it ends what is there after it. These are probably inconceivable by our brains, but we can give it a try in our quest for the ultimate truth.

One way of probing the truth is to have immense unshakeable belief in what our superconcious tells, which may lead to opening up of our thought process and taking our brains to another level from which we would be able to see things crystal clear. I fell this is the path many devotees like Purandaradasa, Kanakadasa, RaghavendraSwamy, etc took. Have we tried it, probably not. Or we could try the path of scientific reasoning which would itself lead to the truth, but are we mentally strong enough to tred this path? This is generally called the path of Gnana, which again leads to the same goal. Many like, Vadirajaru, VyasaMahamuni, Shukracharya could be said of tredding this path. Have we tried this either, probably not.
Both these paths lead to enlightenment, but they need to be tredded slowly and with lots of patience. Every science needs to be learnt from the basics not the other way round, which we often do in our religious pursuits.

I find it funny that people outrightly reject astrology, astronomy, palmistry, etc. Have we studied even the basics of it to conclude that they are sham. How can a non-cricket playing person tell a cricketer how to play. I played some proper cricket myself for 2 seasons and have come to realize the secrects/pains/skills/thinking-processes, etc in cricket. So one needs to study and accumulate right knowledge on a topic and only then can proceed further to unravel bigger mysteries. We definitely need to keep our brains/minds/souls open to reach such levels.

I cant end more correctly than by copying Guru’s wisely put words “”At the same time, I do believe that destiny even if pre-written can be altered, for I do think that human consciousness is powerful enough to overcome the pre-woven space-time curvature provided the dedication and will exists. Just like the way the path of an asteroid which is otherwise pre-defined (destined), can be altered by using a rocket guided by human consciousness! Without our involvement we can’t succeed. With our involvement we can’t fail”".