Muthukaruppan
Very well put forward thoughts..
Yes as you said, the realization of what goes beyond what is otherwise known as “”common sense”" is the key here.

As Einstein once said “”Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age of 18″”

I read your SPLENDID writeup presenting an update on RATIONALISM. I have since recently been interested in this topic (rationalism whether in scientific or religious debate), and was led to browse a lot on topics such as Consciousness (especially Universal C.), Spirituality Vs. Science, Spirituality in religions, and the like. I have come to understand that as a result of the fantastic amount of work – theoretical and experimental – done by great thinkers, mostly scientists, they are themelves totally NONPLUSSED when they observe that, as you say “” somebody in India can instantaneously convey a message to somebody in USA without using any known external medium of communication just by using the thought process”".

Of course I chanced upon this state of wonder of the scientists in the context of particle physics. I am no physicist, particularly any wellversed in particle physics, but only a mathematical statistician (by qualification) so I did not find it necessary to go into the kind of technical details of particle physics for this instantane-ity which is attributed to a UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS.

And Universal Consciousness is no doubt the essential discovery – conveyed to us, ordinary mortals, through the Mantras that they “”saw”" with their Inward Eyes, Divya-netras – of our ancient Rishis of forgotten eras eons ago. [BTW, the other religions like Christianity, Islam, have no such spiritual dimension of a Universal Consciousness, nor would they be willing to consider anything beyond Jesus or Nabi for their enlightenment, thereby most severely restricting scope for investigation. However, I have also perceived a wistful realization among the other religions when they are challenged by this SCIENTIFICALLY INFERRED truth, of U.C. The preachers of these lower religions now try – amusingly enough – to estalish that Universal Consciousness is also spoken of by Nabi and Jesus!! But in order to understand and develop faith in this truth, these preachers of inferior religions (even if they hail Tuth, Love, and such positive emotions as God) will have to bring themselves to recognizing that Jesus and Nabi were saints (and not God-incarnate or Gods son or Prophet) of whom we in the Sanaatana Dharma we have thousands. They will not do so, since they (the preachers) are not very much above the common man given to sensual pursuits, when it comes to spirituality. The religions they preach are predestined by their definition to be concerned with the senses and the soul – meaning life – of individuals, and not really the Universal Soul of which the individual souls are a divine speck.

This is precisely the ‘borderline’ where scientific rationalism gets stumped because it has continued to be the basis of all scientists who thought, nay, stipulated, that all of reality be understood with the ordinary human’s gift of the five senses and within the framework of the four dimensions of time (1) and space (3). Far from being a scientist of any high calibre myself, I have however mused that if the lesser animals like ants, elephants, snakes, lions, dogs, and so on are gifted with FEWER SENSES than man, even by rational scientific extrapolation we can easily surmise that there must be beings of more than man’s five senses (plus one in his discriminating mind). The Mantras of the Vedas declare, thru their Mahaavaakyas, that Prajnaana (Consciousness) is the Absolute Truth (Brahman), all that is observed, in perpetual motion on the time axis (Jagat) is an illusion, myth (Mithyaa). It also says this (the Absolute Truth) has infinite dimensions, so much so that the Absolute Truth of Universal Consciousness will evade all processes resting on our five sensory perceptions (vaachaam-agocharam, anirvachaneeyam) ! Alll attempts at explaining the Absolute (Cosmic) Consciousness will always fall short of any “”objective”" explaining of it. Only a subjective perception enabled as a result of transcendental meditation such as was practised by the ancient Rishis will enable an ordinary human being to comprehend this UC. And, Rishis, though man-like are said to have attained through (to us) unimaginable self-control attained extrasensory perception

Probably non-locality exists because at a quantum level the entire universe is a local phenomenon! ???…please explain in simple words as u normally do…gurudev
Thanks