Ancient Indians – Satya Samhita

Light of course is what it is. The trouble is with humans. In the case of light – it is Physicists.

To illustrate : Let us take Vasantji for example. He has called me a guru, rishi, a spiritual scholar and so on. One of my work friends called me a “kasaiee” meaning butcher, about 20 years ago when I was actually quite a nice person in my own eyes. And recently some one wrote in their blog that, though my work was something of an oversimplification, it was at least unbiased and without an agenda. All these nice people are performing an action called stereotyping. They are trying to put me in a box, so that they can deal with me, manage me and predict me. Of course one of my managers said that I was unmanageable and unpredictable, by which he was saying that I did not belong in any box that he had previously found useful. Finally everyone told me from my childhood upwards that I was “different”.

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Physicists like to understand light. They like to model it with mathematical equations. They like to predict how it will be have in different situations. Engineers like to use this information and bend light to their will. For eg in a fiber optic cable.

When physicists first started to understand light, they did some experiments and tried to observe what it did.

They listed all its properties.

Some properties qualified Light for the Wave Stereotype box.

Some properties qualified it for the Particle Stereotype box.

Finally they said that light is produced and absorbed as if it were a particle (ie that particle mathematical model works) and it travels as if it were a wave. (ie that wave mathematical model works).

Then they tried to write longer equations taking more things into account to see if they could use one mathematical model which would describe the behaviour of light under all conditions.

That would be like saying that Satya is a nice enough person when she writes but if you meet her in person she is likely to bite your head off! Humans sit around in groups and gossip about other people, model and stereotype them. If housewives do this this called gossip. If corporate men do it it is called networking and ‘grapevine’ing. When Physicists do it about light it is called a conference.

What I am trying to say is that Light is Light and has been so before there were humans around to observe it and model it. We are the ones who initially evolved two different kinds of models and were astonished when Light does not fit the one or the other under all situations!

I have said that Light is an aspect of Sakthi Devi and that she is called Lakshmi, in the Vedas – Sri Suktham.

However many people worship Lakshmi Devi to get money (Dhana). No less a persona than Indra  called Lakshmi as Mahamaya  (the great illusion), Mahasakti (the great power/energy) and Jagan Mata (the mother of the world). People also worship for Siddhi, Buddhi, Bhukthi, Mukthi, Vijaya, Dhana, Dhanya for courage, illumination, metal stability, peace of mind and so on.

I am a firm believer that even thinking of Devi will make problems of every kind vanish and bring every form of prosperity.

This puzzles people too. They are surprised that someone who understands and trusts science can believe that praying to Devi will help. They see it as manas-s’anti.. not as reality. I am certain that Physicists have a far better understanding of light than I do and I look to their continued research for continued guidance. And I try my best to understand them.

My own personal, subjective experience shows me that prayer works wonders. I respect the different Rishis and try to understand what they understood and taught. I think they had a far better idea on these matters than myself.

I understand Devi can be Lalita, Saraswathi, Lakshmi, Durga, Parvati, Tripura Sundari, Kunda, Satya, Radha, Sarada, Ganga, Godavari, Narmada.. as well as Kaalika, Nidra, Krodhaa… and Chandi. And that in all of her aspects, she looks after us. I may have a particular love for Saraswathi and you for Durga, depending on our own natures.

I understand that though Lalita and Kaalika are so different, they are descriptions of the same Devi. Much has to do with the observer and the circumstances of the observation.

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Time

• Time : Past, Present and Future : Bhuta Bhavya Bhavan Nathah Vishnuh
• Time : Why study time ? : “Kaalah Aham – I am Time” – Krishna
• Time : Kalakantha, kalamurthi, kalagni, kalanasana, Siva : Markandeya : Maghamahatmya
• Time and Space : Are Time and Space “side-effect” of matter? Is Space empty? or full of some”thing” else?
• Time, Matter, Energy and Consciousness : Kaala, Sat, Sakthi, Purusha/Devi
• Life : Pranadah, Pranah, Jivanah, Vishnuh! : What is Life? In science and sanskrit texts : Eating.
• Consciousness : Pragnya, Chitta, Purusha/Devi : in Science and Sanskrit Texts
• Time : Movement : Motion: : Jagat : Charaachara : Understanding Devi and Purusha as Movement and Time.
• Light : Lakshmi : Vishnu
• Light : Bits of Light Energy (Photons) : suvarna rajata srajaa Lakshmi : mass energy equivalence, sat sakti equivalence, advaita, sat cit ananda
• Particles : The Very Small (sukshma) and The Very Fast (vega) : Photons : Lakshmi, Devi, Sarva Chaitanya, Atman
• Time : Dreams : Precognition : Cognition : Memory : A Rambling Post.
• Fire : A chemical reaction : Agni : Electron Motion : Photon emission : Lakshmi : Sri Suktham
• Light : Stereotypes : Wave, Particle Duality (Dvaita) : Lakshmi Devi and Me