Saturday, April 16, 2011

April showers bring May flowers

Fleur de vie, from the journal of Leonardo da Vinci

3 comments:

JC said...

Ancient Hindus indicated similarity between trees and humans by stating that while trees have roots in earth, man has his roots in the sky (space), ie, man is an inverted tree (formed of panchbhootas: sky (space); earth (including Ganga water with moon as its origin); fire (energy); air; and water (with impurities or pollution as in relatively smaller River Yamuna, or large volume as in Rver Brahmaputra)...Where the above named typical rivers (related with Brahma-Kishna, as the representative of Vishnu-Mahesh that is Shiva, all three) have their common origin in Mansarovar Lake-Mount Kailash the abode of Shiva-Parvati!...

amruta patil said...

JC: The delightful Einstein said, 'Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.' Night before last, I watched the film 'Contact', based on a story by Sagan. Also been re-reading 'Cosmos', while 'Broca's Brain' waits on the desk.

JC said...

Amruta, In the Eighties, Sir Fred Hoyle, looking at the complicated chemical structure of life reportedly agreed life on earth to have been a result of 'design by some intelligent being,,,and not an accident, or having the hand of a Divine Person'...

At the beginning of this millennium, when he was in New Delhi, on being asked if he believed in God, Stephen Hawking reportedly said that he wanted to enter the mind of God!

And although 'I' have read 'Cosmos', from the info on 'Broca's Brain' on internet, 'I' learnt Carl Sagan's views on God, as follows (in the Seventies).

“ My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence were provided by such a god...on the other hand if such a god does not exist then our curiosity and intelligence are the essential tools for survival. In either case the enterprise of knowledge is essential for the welfare of the human species."

And the ancient Hindus indicated lack of knowledge as the cause of all faults and advised surrender in God! (Vide Gita)...perhaps because they realised total information or Supreme Knowedge available only to Him by design!...