Yoga
Multi Dimensional
Awareness,Science, Physics and Cosmology
One great yogi and true ‘scientist’
comes to my mind when I reflect on what he has given to mankind. I refer to Paramahamsa Satyananda
Saraswati.
To me a great scientist is not only a person of great intellect or scientific
genius with the ability to ponder the questions of the manifest reality. A
great scientist should also have the capacity and ability to explore and
experience the hidden potential of his/her mind and tackle their spirit.
Paramahamsaji has revealed through his insight and piercing intuition that in
the next century Science
will discover Bhakti.
The area or branch of science that will make this discovery remains a mystery
to all but Paramahamsaji himself. This is surely reassuring to hear when there
are numerous so called mystics today cashing in on their doom and gloom
predictions, making the best seller list overnight. Their audience: the
fearful, uncertain, worried and insecure people of the world.
Paramahamsaji’s revelation about science and bhakti give hope, faith and
light that we are not about to self-destruct. Just imagine science talking
about love, devotion, surrender and God. Wow! What a change this will make to
humanity’s understanding and ways of thinking. Hope I am around to see
it.
Science is definitely working in this area with many scientists doing research
into consciousness etc. For example, Quantum Physicists’ pondering of
deep reaching theories which don’t sound so crazy when you compare their
possibilities with some of the theories and teachings of enlightened yogis who
are experiencing then leaving behind their findings for future generations.
Some quantum theorists are exploring the possibilities of Parallel Universes
with what they call the Multiverse
theory. Some are even saying that the experience of deja-vu might be possible.
The feeling that you have been somewhere before, seen something or experienced
something before or have some hazy notion or perception that we have been here
before, maybe in a dream, vision or past life. Who knows! These are some of the
thoughts of some of the most respected scientific intellects of our time.
The extraordinary professor Steven Hawkins, acknowledged as one of the most
brilliant scientific minds since Einstein, has stated that these other
dimensions of the multi-verse do in fact exist and are as real as the one in
which we are experiencing right now.
Some yogis aspire for Darshan, Laya, the
experience of divinity etc. They also talk of the Kundalini phenomena, Lokas,
the various dimensions or fields of consciousness, different bodies, astral
travel and evolution of awareness through the Chakras.
Aren’t these realities worthy of thorough scientific investigation?
Yogis are definitely capable scientists, putting their theories to the test in
the laboratory of their mind. Not looking to an outer universe for the answers
but looking in the inner universe with their expanded awareness and illumined
minds. This being the result of decades, or even lifetimes of learning and
experiencing along their journey of self-discovery.
Indian History is full of the messages of
Great Siddhas and Yogis. Yogic Masters, Paramahamsa Satyananda
Saraswati and Paramahamsa Niranjanananda
Saraswati. and others are revealing the way to attain the highest
illumination. They are also showing the extent of inspiration and surrender to
the divine will that is needed.
Artist’s impression of a
black hole deep in space
Credit: ESA, NASA, and
Felix Mirabel (French Atomic Energy Commission and
Institute
for Astronomy and Space Physics/ Conicet of
NASA – Hubble Space Telescope Pictures ( Unreal )
Scientists are trying to understand the black
holes of space, which are formed by the gravitational collapse of a star. They
rotate like glowing vortices of energy consuming matter and light. Paramahamsa
Niranajanananda has said that the black-hole of our physical body is Mooladhara
Chakra.
If you look at the picture above which
resembles the diagram used in Prof. Steven Hawking’s “ who has been described as one of
the most brilliant scientific minds since Einstien” record breaking
best seller A Brief History of Time, from the Big Bang to Black holes p102 and read on I will try to draw
parallels between two cosmic events one microcosmic and one macrocosmic.
According to Swami Satyananda Saraswati, if there is an outer universe which
we can perceive through the five senses there is also an inner universe within.
This is perceived with intuition or expanded awareness during communion
with the higher Self or Kundalini
in Samadhi. In the picture above the unwary visible star in the foreground,
which could be a sun with its own solar system is being drawn inwardly with
centripetal force towards its evolutionary destiny, which is to dissolve into
anti matter beyond time disappearing through the inner vortex of the black
hole.
Imagine that the star being drawn inwards is like the life we live, a
life which is devoted to sensorial and material pleasures. Then one auspicious
day during our current lifetime we begin to question the purpose of our
existence and ponder our deeper spiritual birthright.
It could be just looking into the vastness of a star filled moonless
night and wondering how minute we are compared to the infinite space before us,
or asking yourself who created this? Who is God? If there is a God, then who
created God? And if there is a God, can we know God and have a spiritual
experience related to God. These sorts of questions have for millennia
initiated human beings to search for the answers to these questions. Some have
been ordinary people, others religious seers or even scientists. Everybody may
ask these questions for it is a part of our spiritual evolution. From the
gross” material” to the subtle “divine”.
Yogis say that the inward path called the Nivritti Marga is the path back towards the source from which we
have come. Through Sadhana or spiritual practices eventually we may begin to
awaken the Mystical Chakras. One may then reach a point where energy starts
manifesting intensely at Mooladhara Chakra. Through a process of awakening
dormant energy within the nervous system, psychic energy is exploded and
released not unlikelike nuclear fission . In Physics and Cosmology there
is a threshold point at the outer rim of the black hole known as the Event Horizon. When the inwardly attracted star reaches the event horizon, there is no
turning back. We can hypothesise that the event horizon in the microcosmic
human body is the opening of the Sushumna Nadi. Once this threshold has been
reached the yield of awakened energy or Kundalini Shakti can ascend, entering
the black hole of Mooladhara Chakra. Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati suggests
during the inward path to Laya, that your individual awareness continues travelling
inwardly through the different Chakras emerging through the white hole at
Vishuddi Chakra and then continues into the beyond.
See my diagram below for a visual of the above
This event of experiencing dimensions beyond time (called in Yoga Lokas) can transform your awareness from gross to subtle. Even to once
experience the event horizon in the microcosmic human body, your awareness will
be for ever more mystically drawn in competing degrees back to the threshold of
inner experience. Hence forth your mind will always want to return, almost
magnetically and surrender to the evolutionary mysteries beyond the interface
realm “Sushumna Nadi” existing beyond the event horizon. The
competing forces, one drawing you spiritually inward “Nivritti Marga” and the other drawing you materially back to the path of
expansion and manifestation “Pravritti
Marga”.
Conclusion
I feel that with the awakening of shakti in
Mooladhara Chakra and Sushumna, the cosmic trigger and vortex (Centripetal
force) that swallows the sadhakas awareness, also has a relationship with
gravitation. Some sadhakas or spiritual aspirants experience astral levitation
as the awakened shakti propels the aspirant through different experiences and
perceptions. There are also biographies recording the lives of masters of
pranayama from India, Nepal and Tibet who have control over the forces of
nature. One example is physical levitation of the body.
Param Guru Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati of Rishikesh during his mahasamadhi
and final exit from this worldly plain, started rising off the ground, luckily
some of his disciples and devotees were present to hold him down. A supreme
Bhakta, Swami Sivananda’s last message to the world, which he wrote down
before the death of his physical body, was
“Pray – When you pray, God prays
with you”.
The Big Bang theory of quantum physics and the black holes of space are
comparable, on a microcosmic level, to the state of Laya. Laya is returning to
the source of the mind and manifestation, total dissolution beyond time, space,
the body and the mind. Consider also the Tantric and yogic concept of Bindu
Visarga which is the ultimate source of creation out of which all things
manifest and into which all things return.
I feel that science will need to look toward Yoga to find answers to their many
unanswered questions, to the hidden potential energy of the human nervous
system and to the illumined mind and spirit of great yogis such as Paramahamsa
Satyananda Saraswati.
Following is the concluding quote from Steven Hawking’s A Brief
History of Time, from the Big Bang to Black Holes
“if we are to discover a complete theory, it should be
understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then
we shall all, philosophers, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in
the discussion of the question of why it is, that we and the universe exist. If
we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason
– for then we would know the mind of GOD”.
Copyright © 1999-2005
Swami Mounamurti Saraswati
mailto:satyamyoga.com@bigpond.com
Reference
Hawking, Prof. Steven
A
Brief History of Time, from the Big Bang to Black Holes
© Space
Time Publications 1988
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Updated 25th Sep, 2005