tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20336474.post1470813092422154630..comments2023-12-04T20:18:25.020+05:30Comments on Jag's Blog: About TimeAnil Jagalurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845606104258184363noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20336474.post-19854081698689083582014-09-13T18:01:58.171+05:302014-09-13T18:01:58.171+05:30Nice article. Good questions.
For the ones - &quo...Nice article. Good questions.<br /><br />For the ones - "Oh we have this in our scriptures" - I often feel like some one has this hodge-podge dictionaries to which they map the recent discoveries. They themselves dont understand their meaning in entirety and they need latest discoveries in science to unravel meanings in scriptures. I do not want to deny that scriptures has some modern physics (Tao of Physics). But we should openly acknowledge the fact that they have been stagnant for a millennia and more. And importantly given our history - scripture's knowledge has not helped in development of human society in any sphere for last 1000+ years. <br /><br />For poet seeing the unseen - reminds me of imagination is important than knowledge quote from Einstein. That props up interesting question - how much of our scriptures are "right imagination" ?Naveenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17582636112523751248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20336474.post-61866327883204913512013-12-08T09:19:56.900+05:302013-12-08T09:19:56.900+05:30Ha! Thanks for the addition Ravi.
Dear Anonymous,...Ha! Thanks for the addition Ravi. <br />Dear Anonymous, thanks for your comment. What you call Vedic world view has also been referred to as the more wider Eastern Mysticism by many. Fritjof Capra (Tao of Physics) and others. The main thesis of The Dancing Wu Li Masters is the surprising similarity between the language of Eastern mysticism and modern Physics and not exactly that the Eastern religions or mystics knew the same thing as the what modern physicist know. (it is completely another matter as to what know means). <br />The difference, for me, is that mystic thought became more or less stagnant somewhere along the line and Physics (there is no western or eastern there) is still WIP. Physics makes predictions based on current theories, tests if they are true, and tweak the theories for better understanding of the world. That is where the difference lies.<br />I can assure you that I wrote the last paragraph with a lot of care. The aim was to point out that it is not as simple as "we knew it all". Do we really believe that Akhtar "knew" the latest theories on time or is it just astonishing that a poet can imagine such a thing. Anil Jagalurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17845606104258184363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20336474.post-13800568302201434112013-12-08T08:13:31.552+05:302013-12-08T08:13:31.552+05:30Nice article but the last para was unnecessary and...Nice article but the last para was unnecessary and in poor taste.<br /><br />There are similar theories on illusion/Maya and the following article reads "The prime objective of these science-and-spirituality books has been to show similarities between the theoretical subatomic world of quantum physics and the Vedic world view. By demonstrating that Western science and hoary Eastern spirituality are moving toward the same end.."<br />http://www.krishna.com/escaping-reality-illusion<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20336474.post-41193643206309164912013-11-13T03:08:33.889+05:302013-11-13T03:08:33.889+05:30Great, Anil. About Rajaratnam's poem, the nex...Great, Anil. About Rajaratnam's poem, the next line was kavi kaanad kudka kanda!, Undoubtedly, we Indians knew about somarasa long before the Westerners invented Whisky.Ravihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15845839408269118581noreply@blogger.com