Matter Life and Spirit Demystified (To Mahavatar Babaji and His Mission Comprehensive Answers to All the Ultimate Questions of Life)

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This world of ours has been created by a God which is 'Without a Beginning', 'Eternal' and 'Infinite'. He has created it as a part of himself through his sankalpa (resolution) through the faculty of his Yogamaya and he can also reabsorb the same in a like manner. As a person in dream can effortlessly create a dream world comprising of things, persons and places out of its own 'self', manifesting as a 'self', Parmatma (the Universal Soul) is also able to create the world with all its beings. The whole world, as it is known to us, remains manifest and illumined by the same principle of consciousness which is referred to by us-the humans, as 'God'.

This God is known by its three attributes, Sat, Chit, and Ananda, or existence, awareness and bliss, and it is supremely independent. It is capable of creating anything and everything out of its own 'self'. The saints and philosophers who were conferred with the status of a 'wisdom holder' by the ancient tradition were called the Rishis. These ancient Rishis of India have described this eternal truth in a variety of ways in the holy writings that have been left behind by them for the benefit of the posterity. Nevertheless, the proponents of the doctrine of a material world and the many self-proclaimed intellectuals among them have continued to insist on physically verifiable proofs and to raise doubts about existence of an intelligent cause.

Matter, Life, and Spirit Demystified is an intelligent work created by a very knowledgeable person, which should be able to remove many of the doubts and misconceptions currently harboured by most of the present-day intellectuals. However, they need to keep their minds open and make a genuine effort to understand the discoveries made by the Vedic seers in the past. Then they can fathom the realizations about the ultimate truth gained by the ancient wise and lend a sincere thought to re-evaluate that knowledge in today's context in the light of modern scientific discovery and research. Further, they need to bear in mind that any set objectives and preconceived notions could be an obstacle in perceiving the fine truths both about the reality of the world and of our human existence.

There is little doubt that while the ways to perceive the truth may vary, the truth remains what it is and it does not change. In fact, there is a famous Vedic aphorism too- -Ekam Sad Vipra Bahudha Vadanti. This means that while the truth is 'one', often it is spoken about differently by various knowledgeable persons. And this is eternally true as well, as a part of our human nature. There has been extensive research and investigation in the West about cases of rebirth, the strange yet similar narratives provided by persons undergoing near death like situations, distant seeing, distant hearing and the psycho-kinetic powers exhibited by a number of persons over the last several decades, among others. Renowned scientists, particularly in the field of medicine and human behaviour, have extensively investigated such phenomena. They have written books that are highly informative and have expressed wonder too, but there may be little by way of gaining of a real understanding. I am in full agreement with this book's author that keeping within the self-imposed limitations of the modern science, it is not possible to understand or explain these subtle and finer realms of existence. Knowledge of yoga and the consciousness has to be gained first to know the fine and the subtle. In fact, there are separate disciplines and sciences with their own procedures to come to such understanding. It is just not possible to access these realms through the action of gross physical instruments, placed by the Nature at our disposal.

It is a precious beautiful world, in which we live full of wonders and mysteries of many kinds. This world may be experienced differently by different living entities however, depending on the means provided to them by Nature and their placement with the objects of their interest in relative terms. As human beings, we are in an excellent position to explore both the wonders of the world on one hand, and its mysteries on the other.

"We humans", according to Late Prof. Stephen Hawkings, "are a curious lot. We ask questions and seek answers. How can we understand the world in which we seem to live or find ourselves? How does the universe behave? What is the nature of reality? Where did it all come from? Did the universe need a creator? Most of us do not bother about these questions, but almost all of us worry about some of such questions some of the time."

There was a time in the past not that remote, when it were the Philosophers who were supposed to address all the questions of this nature. Now, due to rapid advances in material science and not being able to keep pace with the same, they do appear to have been left behind. The torch for finding adequate answers to these age-old but still unresolved questions too, which have been cited by the legendary professor, is now said to have been passed to the science fraternity. This book is an effort to break this myth.

The investigations relating to the mysteries of our human existence, and of the world we seem to live into, have been carried out from two different perspectives. Even if the gap between the two should run into thousands of years, both remain equally relevant as we try to satiate our quest for true knowledge. Taken together, they should be able to provide a picture that is fuller and more complete.

The focal point of the investigations carried out by modern science has been 'matter' in particular, and the 'observed' in general. The ancient philosophers In the East, on the other hand, kept the 'observer in the center of things, as they investigated 'matter', 'life' and other constituents of the world, and tried to find the answers they sought.

It seems to be the need of the hour to update the philosophical theories proposed by the ancient seers in the light of current scientific developments. Accordingly, as the name of this book implies, we aim to focus on trying to find answers to some of the key mysteries that continue to baffle our human minds in general, even today.

It is Nature which makes our bodies and our minds, and it has been helping us, humans, to understand things and to gather knowledge. It has been doing so by leaving clues, by creating situations, and by giving rise to instincts into our awareness, prompting and inviting us to probe. Further, Nature does all this, like everything else, in its own time and at a place of its choosing.

RISE OF THE HUMANS AND CIVILIZATION

The world we live in is believed to have been born about 13.7bya (billion years ago). The Sun formed out of a cloud of dust about 4.6bya and the Earth some 60 million years later. Life appeared on our Earth about 4bya and it began to turn complex some 3 billion years later. Fully bipedal primates, called hominids, evolved out of the apes about 5.5mya and Homo-erectus, man's immediate ancestor, by about 1.8mya-to further radiate into archaic Homo-sapiens over the next 1.5 million years. It came into its own after the human speech had come to evolve, about three hundred thousand years ago.