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How Science and Religion Come Together
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There has always been science, and there has always been religion as
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long as the human race has walked on this mother Earth. In fact, these two
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are not only related to each other, but they are really, in essence,
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identical.
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Examining the meaning of the word "science" we can see that it is
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derived from the Latin "sciens" which is the present participle of "scire"
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which means "to know or to understand". The word "religion", on the other
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hand, comes from the Latin "religio", which means "to return to the origin".
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In other words then, science is the technology of knowing or understanding
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the essence of the universe, and religion is the actual experience of one's
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own identity with that essence.
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- The Nature of Religion -
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We must understand that true religion is experiential. That is,
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religion is not a set of beliefs or ideals, or even a philosophy or manner
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of behavior, but it is the moment to moment experience of one's origin, the
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source of one's being, God.
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Where can this experience be found? The answer is: everywhere! For it
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is not really a question of where at all, but one of how. Obviously if one
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is experiencing the living presence of God, which is by nature infinite and
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inexpressible, the experience can only be that, an experience. It cannot be
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written or told. Over and over in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib we hear the
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phrase:
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"Nanak tells that story which can never be told..."
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Both science and religion are the attempt to tell "that story which can
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never be told", to share the experience of the infinite and inexpressible
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with our fellow travellers on this beautiful spaceship we call Earth.
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Science and religion are identical in purpose, but they are opposite in
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method. In fact, one might almost say that science is religion without a
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heart, and religion is science without a head; two opposite approaches to
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the identical task: to express the inexpressible so that it may be shared by
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others.
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- The Nature of Science -
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The task that science has set itself is to describe the essential
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nature of the entire universe precisely and mathematically in the totality
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of its creation. The irony of this task is that it is endless in nature.
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The supposed ultimate goal of science, to propose a theory that explains
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neatly and logically how everything in the universe operates and fits
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together into a whole, is actually an impossible task. The reason that it
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is impossible, is that science itself is part of our constantly growing,
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evolving, moving, and ecstatic universe. The very act of scientific
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observation affects not only the specific process under observation,
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but the entire universe.
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When, at the dawn of the twentieth century, Albert Einstein proposed
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his general theory of relativity, and Max Planck proposed his principle of
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uncertainty, the world was stood on its ear. Suddenly the seemingly
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explainable, mechanical nature of the world as understood by science until
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then, was dissolved in a sea of uncertainty. The sudden and unexpected
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announcement by Einstein that everything in the universe is connected to
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everything else, and that every action no matter how seemingly small affects
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the whole, and Planck's discovery that absolute measurements within the
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realm of time and space were impossible because both could not be measured
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simultaneously, made the hard facts of science suddenly seem a lot less
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solid. The realization that all scientific models and theories are only
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approximate, and that their verbal interpretations always suffer from the
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inaccuracy of language itself was now inescapable.
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It now seems that the totality of science's accomplishments is
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asymptotic in nature. An asymptotic function, of course, is one that
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approaches a limit without ever reaching it. In other words, while the
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scientific method can approach closer and closer to its goal of describing
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the essential nature of the universe, it can never actually get there. It
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is like Zeno's bridge, crossing it takes forever. The discovery and
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exploration of the sub-atomic world of modern physics has revealed a reality
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which transcends both language and reasoning.
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At the dawn of the twentieth century science and religion have entered
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the common ground of inexpressibility.
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- The Image of the Infinite -
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All religions seem to have begun with the transcendental experience of a
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single individual or a small group in individuals. Let's take as our
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example here, Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the founder of the Sikh faith. As a young
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man, Guru Nanak underwent an ecstatic and transforming experience; an
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experience in which he understood the essential nature of existence. It is
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said that after undergoing this experience, his first impulse was to express
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in words what had happened to him. The great poem we call "Japji" was the
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product of that effort. The first part of the Japji, known as the root or
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"Mool" mantra is the expression, in as few words as possible, of Guru
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Nanak's experience of reality.
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Ek Ong Kar ONE Creator/creation
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Sat Nam called TRUTH
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Karta Purkh does EVERYTHING
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Nirbau beyond fear
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Nirvair beyond anger
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Akal Moorat beyond time
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Ajooni Saibhang beyond birth and death...
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full of light
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Gur Prasad this EXPERIENCE is a GIFT
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of grace
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Jap Remember!
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Aad Sach primal Truth
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Jugad Sach True through all times
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He Bhe Sach True at this very instant!
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Nanak, Hosee Bhe Sach Oh Nanak, forever True.
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The utter simplicity of the Mool Mantra is striking. It is the very
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essence of which all religions are made. It is interesting to realize that
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the very first line of it expresses exactly the same concept which is the
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foundation of all modern relativistic science:
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E=MC}
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Ek Ong Kar: The Creator (energy) and the Creation (matter) are ONE!
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This primal truth is expressed in various ways in all the world's
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religions. Let's take as another example the Taoist symbol called the
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"Tai C'hi", which many people know as the "yin-yang" symbol.
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The Tai C'hi is an attempt to express the experience of the infinite in
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an image or picture. In reality the Tai C'hi is not a two dimensional image
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but a four dimensional one. While such a symbolic representation is
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difficult to express in words, I hope that you will bear with me while I
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attempt to do so. Examining the Tai C'hi, we notice that in the center of
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the black teardrop shape is a point of white, and in the center of the white
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teardrop is a single black point. Now imagine that the "tail" of the white
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teardrop actually continues "behind" the symbol itself and is connected to
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the white dot at the center of the black half, while the "tail" of the black
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half comes around the "front" of the image and connects to the black dot at
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the center of the white half. Got it? Ok, now imagine that the Tai C'hi is
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not static, but that it is in constant flowing motion within itself. i.e.
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that the white portion is constantly flowing out of the center of the black
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portion and the black portion is continuously being born out of the center
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of the white portion. In other words, the Tai C'hi is not a circle divided
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into a black half and a white half, but an attempt to express in a
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beautifully simple image the constant process of creation, growth and
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evolution itself. It is a picture or image of "Ek Ong Kar". It is an "Akal
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Moorat" a timeless, infinite image.
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- The Power of the Word -
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In the Christian bible, in the book of John, is written:
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"In the beginning was the Word,
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and the Word was with God ,
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and the Word was God."
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What is the Word of which John was speaking?
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For thousands of years the sacred texts of India, the Vedas, Shastras
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and Smritis, have taught that sound vibration holds the key to the mysteries
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of the universe, to the actual creation and sustenance of our world, and to
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the means of extricating ourselves from its bonds. In the Vedic tradition,
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the world we see, the world of phenomena, is said to be the visible
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manifestation of the infinite combinations of sound patterns, all derived
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from the soundless sound (Anahat Shabd) of the One who is both the Creator
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and the Creation. To express it another way, the Word of which John is
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speaking is the Anahat Shabd of the Vedic teachings; the continuous
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vibrating of the Creator/Creation in action.
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Once we accept that what we call "time" is really only a matter of
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appearances, and that what we know as "past", "present", and "future" are in
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reality just ways of describing what appear to us to be different parts of
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what is actually a continuous, infinite, timeless process, then we can begin
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to understand that the actual manifestation of that process is vibratory in
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nature.
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In order to explore the nature of creation itself, we must correlate
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the sciences of biology, sub-atomic particle physics, chemistry, and
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mathematics because sound vibration is the integrating phenomenon of life,
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the common denominator, through which and by which everything in the
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universe operates.
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The ancient Indian texts explain that sound is the cause and not the
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effect of vibration and that there can be sound without any vibration, even
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without the usual media of conveyance such as air, water, or so called solid
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matter. This is the concept of the "Anahat Shabd", the driving energy and
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force behind all manifestation; the "soundless sound" or "unstruck melody"
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which is the infinite, endless continuum... indivisible, unfragmented, and
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unimaginably potent... the most powerful source of all... the sound of the
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Creator/Creation constantly creating itself.
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This constant hum of creation, the primal AUM, is the vibratory
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activity od all energy aed matter. The power within the atom's core is but
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a minute pinpoint of this infinite energy, and yet even this is able to
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utterly destroy cities, nations, and even our planet itself. With the
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exception of the work of a few advanced scientists (most of whom were
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ostracized by the traditional scientific community) such as Nikola Tesla and
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John Keely, the relatively coarse instruments of modern science have barely
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begun to probe this infinite energy source.
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The Anahat Shabd, the "soundless sound", is the subtlest element of
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all. It is the etheric essence, finer than earth, air, water, or fire,
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beyond the speed of light... all pervasive, the source of cohesion, of
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electricity, of magnetism and gravitation, of all that exists.
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The modern physicist E.C.G. Sudarshan has described the etheric
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essence of the Anahat Shabd in scientific terms as follows:
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"The ether as superfluid is consistent with relativity and quantum
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theory. It is the support of all light, in it all bodies exist,
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it is attached to none, it is ever present beyond the limitations
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of time and space. It has no inertial qualities, no interactions,
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yet it is the very substance of illumination."
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E.C.G. Sudarshan (preprint, University of Texas, 1974)
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This is the secret of the power of the Word. If the creative activity
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we know as God is manifested through vibration, and if the entire universe
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as we perceive it is nothing but a constantly changing pattern of
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vibrations, then the knowledge of how to consciously create vibrations which
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affect the vibratory continuum in a specific manner is the knowledge of how
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to consciously participate in the creative process itself. This is the
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ancient science of sound which is known as "mantra".
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In the Japji of Guru Nanak, he speaks in great length and depth of the
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Anahat Shabd and of the effects of both listening and speaking:
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"Akharee Nam Akharee Salaah. In sound is naming and praising.
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Akharee Gian Geet Gun Gaah. In sound is all knowledge and song.
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Akharee Likhan Bolan Baan. In sounds spoken and written.
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Akharaa Sir Sanjog Vikaan." In sound lies the destiny.
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Guru Nanak, Japji Sahib, pauri 19
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"Ant Na Vekhan Sunan Na Ant. There is no end to seeing and hearing
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Ant Na Jaapai Kiaa Mant? There is no end in sight...
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Ant Na Jaapai Keeta Aakaar. What Mantra lies within God's mind?
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Ant na Jaapai Paaraavaar." The structure of the universe is
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infinite.
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Endless vibrating expansion.
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Guru Nanak, Japji Sahib, pauri 24
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"Suniai Sidh Peer Sur Nath. Listening...saints, heros, masters
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Suniai Dharat Dhaval Akash. Listening... the earth, power, ethers
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Suniai Deep Loa Pataal. Listening... high and low realms
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Suniai Poeh Na Sakai Kaal oceans of light.
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Nanak, Bhagataa Sadaa Vigaas. Nanak, God's lovers bloom forever.
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Suniai Dookh Paap Kaa Naas. Listening destroys all pain and error.
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Suniai Eesar Baramaa Ind. Listening... men become gods.
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Suniai Mukh Saalaahan Mand. Listening... praise comes from the
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Suniai Jog Jugat Tan Bhed. mouth of the most negative person.
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Suniai Saast Simrit Ved. Listening... the way of yoga and the
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Nanak, Bhagataa Sadaa Vigaas. body's secrets.
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Suniai Dookh Paap Kaa Naas. Listening all holy books and scriptures
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Nanak, God's lovers bloom forever.
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Listening destroys all pain and error.
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Suniai Sat Santokh Giaan. Listening... Truth, patience, wisdom.
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Suniai Ath Sath Kaa Ishnaan. Listening... bathing at all holy places
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Suniai Par Par Paaveh Maan. Listening... reading and reading
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Suniai Laagai Sahej Dhiaan. gains honor.
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Nanak, Bhagataa Sadaa Vigaas. Listening... concentration comes easy.
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Suniai Dookh Paap Kaa Naas. Nanak, God's lovers bloom forever.
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Listening destroys all pain and error
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Suniai Saraa Gunaa Ke Gaah. Listening... deep oceans of grace.
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Suniai Sekh Peer Paatishaah. Listening... kings, emperors, saints.
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Suniai Aande Paaveh Raaho. Listening... blind ones find the Path.
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Suniai Haath Hovai Asagaaho. Listening... the unknown is known.
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Nanak, Bhagataa Sadaa Vigaas. Nanak, God's lovers bloom forever.
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Suniai Dookh Paap Kaa Naas." Listening destroys all pain and error.
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Guru Nanak, Japji, pauris 8 - 11
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All religions use sounds to affect consciousness. From the shaman's
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drum at the peyote meeting, to Gregorian chant and the Latin Catholic
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liturgy, the effects of sound on the human consciousness, and on the
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perception and creation of reality, are universally experienced.
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If all matter is in reality the interplay and patterns of waves of
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sound, then it requires no great leap of imagination to see that all form in
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nature is the outpouring of causative sound. If God as the constant Creator
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can form and change the vast array of the plane of matter, then we as co-
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creators can use the science of sound to form and change the patterns of the
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world and of our own inner beings. In the Vedic view of the cosmos, the
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whole universe is an ocean of sound and light of varying degrees of density
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or luminosity. It is understood that sound precedes even light.
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- God and the Superforce -
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During this latter part of the twentieth century the forefront of
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scientific research has been theoretical physics. Theoretical physics
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consists of the postulation and subsequent proof of the actual manner in
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which the universe is constructed. Most people are aware that the "stuff"
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of reality is made up of molecules, and that molecules are made up of atoms.
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Most are also aware that atoms are made of so-called particles known as
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protons, neutrons, and electrons.
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These things were understood at the turn of the century, but with the
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arrival of Neils Bohr's quantum mechanics in the early part of the twentieth
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century, a whole new world of sub-atomic particles has opened up. As
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physicists began to discover and name these new particles they were looking
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for an underlying symmetry, a pattern that would make sense both logically
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and aesthetically, just as all patterns in nature seem to have an inner
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rhythm and beauty to them.
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The Newtonian image of the atom, that of a tiny "solar system" with a
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sun/nucleus made up protons and neutrons, and a whirl of little
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planet/electrons surrounding it has now become obsolete. It now appears
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that what at first seemed to be three different basic types of particles,
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and later was understood to consist of these particles made up of, and
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interacting with, smaller component particles, mesons, neutrinos, quarks,
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and charmed particles, etc., are in fact simply one energy; one energy that
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is constantly transforming itself into different frequencies of vibration,
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spinning right and lift, up and down... a constant flow of changing ripples
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and waves in one cosmic sea of energy.
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Compare the description of God given by Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth
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Nanak, in his poem "Sukhmani Sahib", The Jewel of Peace, to the quantum
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concept of the universe described above.
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"Parbrahm ke sagle thao. The entire Creation is One with God.
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Jit jit ghar rakhai taisa tin nao. But we call its parts by different
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Aap karan kravan-jog. names.
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Prabh bhavai soi phun hog. God is the Doer of everything.
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Pasrio aap hoe anat tarang. Whatever He wills happens.
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Lakhe na jaah Parbrahm ke rang God is an ocean, pervading everywhere,
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Jaisi mat dee taisa pargaas. filled with endless waves of creation.
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Parbrahm karta abinas." His play cannot be described.
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But each man has a vision of Him
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according to the light granted to him.
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Guru Arjan Dev Ji, Sukhmani Sahib, Ashtapadi IX
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The appearance of separate and definable "particles" is only an
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illusion, a trick of perception that occurs in the same manner that a
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baseball seems to be suspended in mid-air in a short exposure photograph,
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when in fact it is hurtling through the air quite fast and, in actuality, is
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in another place completely by the time we ever see the photograph. Even
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with the "high-speed photography" possible with our modern atomic
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accelerators such as Cern in Geneva, and Fermilab in Chicago, the
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"snapshots" of our bubble chambers and tracking emulsions are much to slow
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to catch the divine dance of energy as it actually occurs.
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In fact, it is our minds that are too slow to catch the divine dance!
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But it can be experienced, and this experience, beyond the limitations
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of time and space, beyond the mind and it's symbolic and linear thinking, is
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the experience of constant ecstasy and immense joy which is the very flow of
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the Anahat Shabd itself.
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In addition to the illusion of separate particles of matter, science is
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now beginning to discover that what was previously thought of as separate
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types or kinds of energy, are really only one. The very latest concept of
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modern physics is the idea of a so-called "Superforce ". What were
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previously thought to be the five basic separate energies of the universe,
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electricity, magnetism, weak atomic bonding force, strong atomic force, and
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gravitation, each with it's own mathematical expression and laws, are
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currently beginning to be understood as merely separate expressions of ONE
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force, which physicists call the Superforce. These energies are constantly
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transforming themselves into each other, just as the "particles" of matter
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are constantly transforming themselves into each other.
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The One appears as many in all His manifested forms.
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- Ek Ong Kar -
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There is One Creator/Creation. This is the fundamental discovery of
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modern science. That not only is all matter convertible into energy, and
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vice versa, but that energy and matter are simply different appearances of
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the very same thing. And that not only are energy and matter the same
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thing, but that the constant interplay of this energy is the very play of
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God itself, the divine play of "lila".
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The religious experience is the experience that we and God and God and
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we are one and the same. It is only our minds, our egos, that make us ever
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feel that we are observing, that we are separate from other forms of
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consciousness and energy. But science is the process of observation, and
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observation implies an observer. How wonderful it is to realize that there
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is only One observer... and that He is constantly observing Himself through
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His/our eyes, and enjoying it immensely!
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The modern scientific view that consciousness is within everything has
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been expressed by E.H. Walker:
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"Consciousness may be associated with all quantum mechanical
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processes. The uniqueness of our consciousness lies in the fact
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that it is a part of a logic machine, which in turn is the brain
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of a particular kind of physical system, a living organism. That
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is, the terms "life", "thought", and "consciousness", properly
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defined, are separable. An organism does not have to be conscious
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or capable of thinking in order to be alive. A brain does not
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have to be conscious to be capable of "thought" (we are using the
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term in the restricted sense of "data processing"). Only the
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higher organisms have brains for data processing, and only under
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very special conditions, when a large part of the data processing
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functions of the brain is handled by an irreducible quantum
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mechanical process, does the organism become a conscious, thinking
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being.
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Any of these attributes may exist independently of the others, or
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in conjunction with only one other. A non-living computer that is
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capable of both thought and consciousness would be a real
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possibility. Consciousness may also exist without being
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associated with either a living system or a data processing
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system. Indeed, since everything that occurs is ultimately the
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result of one or more quantum mechanical events, the universe is
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"inhabited" by an almost unlimited number of rather discrete
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conscious, usually non-thinking entities that are responsible for
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the detailed working of the universe. These conscious entities
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determine (or exist concurrently with the determination) SINGLY
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the outcome of each quantum mechanical event, while the
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Schrdinger equation (to the extent that it is accurate) describes
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the physical constraint placed on their freedom of action
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COLLECTIVELY."
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E.H. Walker, "The Nature of Consciousness",
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Journal of Mathematical Biosciences 7 : 175-176, 1970
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- The Heart of Science and the Head of Religion -
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Earlier we said that science is sometimes thought of as religion
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without a heart, and religion as science without a head. The current
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evolutionary state of human consciousness is that these two are finally
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becoming one. Religion is giving its heart to science, and science has given
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its head to religion.
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In the 1980's we are experiencing the continuing explosion of
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information sharing and group consciousness on this planet. Our entire
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planet is linked electronically by a network of computers, televisions,
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radios, electronic cables, optical fibers, and satellites. Ideas and images
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that affect us all are instantly transmitted and shared with others of our
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species all over the globe. We have even begun to acknowledge and connect to
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the consciousness of other species, as John Lilly's research with dolphins
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has shown.
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The group sub-conscious described by Carl Jung is now openly reflected
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in a visible planetary group consciousness.
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The age of blind faith is over. The age of belief without knowledge
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died with the advent of instantaneous global information sharing. We have
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irrevocably entered the age of conscious knowledge, experience, and
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responsibility. The union of science and religion is now taking place. The
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people of planet Earth can no longer march under a banner that reads:
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"I believe, therefore I know"
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but are joining together under a new banner which proudly proclaims:
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"I know! Therefore I believe".
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- The Age of Khalsa -
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This is the age of the joining of all the Dharmas. This is the age of
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sudden transformation. Not since the incredible evolutionary speedup which
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marked the beginning of mankind's use of the forebrain, the factor that
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separated us from the apes, has such a quantum leap in consciousness
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happened on this planet. We are entering the age of the Khalsa. The age of
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purified and subtle creative behavior and consciousness.
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The religion of the future, which is evolving out of the union of
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science and traditional religion, is the worship of God as Truth.
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I'd like to close with my translation a poem of the Khalsa, originally
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written in Gurmukhi, and transmitted to this Earth by the most pure, humble,
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and devoted channel I have ever met, Yogi Bhajan.
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From the volume called the "Furmaan Khalsa", The Inner Command of the
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Pure Ones, here is the poem called "Lohe da Mandir", The Temple of Steel:
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The Temple of Steel has been built!
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The Light of Wisdom is Shining !
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Today the sinners are filled with fear.
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Today the Sovereign Khalsa Nation has proclaimed:
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"Only the Righteous will survive!"
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Today Satan is dead!
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The New Nation of the Earth comprises all the Dharmas.
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This Order comes direct from God!
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The cycle of births and deaths is ended.
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Today, only TRUTH will be accepted!
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Today, no one is weak.
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Today, the power of the Will reigns Supreme.
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Today, by the grace of the Lord of both the Worlds,
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The being is reborn as Khalsa!
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Strong as steel
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Steady as stone.
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A face radiating sweetness...
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A forehead shining with self-respect...
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An inner voice that calls out to all people...
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And carries them across the Ocean of fear.
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The Flag of TRUTH is flying High!
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Falsehood lies in ruins.
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The Path of Love is simple:
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There is no loss or gain.
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White Hot Steel, heated in the fires of the times,
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Has branded "TRUTH!" upon our foreheads.
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The Temple of Steel has been built!
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The Light of Wisdom is Shining!
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We shall live our lives in TRUTH!
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For this is the Priceless Blessing of our Guru.
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S.S. Guruka Singh Khalsa
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Research Associate
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Department of High Energy Physics
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Ohio State University
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Columbus, Ohio
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December 13, 1987
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