HIGGS BOSON PARTICLE - A FIVE SIGMA WONDER DISCOVERY FOR EXTENDING HUMAN FRONTIERS - WHAT INDIA CAN DO? - EXPLORE THE INNER WORLD FOR BETTER TRUTHS

THE HIGGS BOSON PARTICLE

A FIVE SIGMA WONDER DISCOVERY

 FOR

EXTENDING HUMAN FRONTIERS

WHAT INDIA CAN DO?

Physicists all over the world, especially those at CERN Research Centre, are extremely joyful at the discovery of a New Sub (or Sub-Sub) atomic particle, which, according to their thinking and reasoning, is the Higgs Boson Particle. Whether it is the HIGGS BOSON particle or a new, yet unnamed particle, its discovery is a very significant scientific discovery.  

The sheer scale of scientific Investigation and the accuracy thereof are extremely commendable. This discovery will no doubt be followed up with further investigations – to know more about the particle – which they believe is the key element in shaping an orderly Universe.

Here are some details of this discovery :

Ø  Scientists at Europe's CERN research centre have found this new subatomic particle, a basic building block of the universe, which appears to be the boson imagined and named half a century ago by theoretical physicist Peter Higgs.

Ø  CERN uses a giant underground laboratory - the Large Hadron Collider –outside Geneva -  to search for the particle. Protons are smashed together at nearly the speed of light, yielding sub-atomic debris which is then scrutinized for signs of the fleeting Higgs.

Ø  CERN's Hadron Collider is the world's biggest and most powerful particle accelerator. Two beams of protons are fired in opposite directions around the 27-km looped pipe built under the Swiss-French border before smashing into each other.

Ø  The task is arduous - as there are trillions of signals, occurring among the particles at different ranges of mass.

Ø  The interaction gives rise to three fundamental forces - the strong force, the weak force and the electromagnatic force. There is a fourth force, gravity, which is suspected to be caused by a still-to-be found boson named the graviton.

Ø  Bosons are non-matter particles which are force carriers, or messengers that act between matter particles.

Ø  When some particles encounter the Higgs boson, they slow down and acquire mass. Others, such as particles of light - or photons - are not affected and have no mass.

Ø  The collisions, which mimic the moments just after the Big Bang, throw off debris signals picked up by a vast complex of detectors and the data is examined by banks of computers.

Ø  The two separate CERN teams worked independently through that data, hunting for tiny divergences which might betray the existence of the new boson, a class of particle that includes the photon, associated with light. The class is named in honour of Albert Einstein's Indian collaborator Satyendra Nath Bose.

Ø  Two CERN laboratories worked independently of each other to avoid bias. They both found the new particle in the mass region of around 125-126 Gigaelectronvolts (GeV).

Ø  The teams said that the results were "five sigma," meaning there was just a 0.00006% chance that what the two laboratories found is a mathematical quirk.

Ø  Both teams found strong signals of the new particle at around 125 to 126 gigaelectron volts (GeV) - a unit of mass-energy. That makes it some 130-140 times heavier than a proton.

Ø  Higgs, now 83, from Edinburgh University was among six theorists who in the early 1960s proposed the existence of a mechanism by which matter in the universe gained mass.

Ø  The boson is believed to exist in an invisible, ubiquitous field created a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang, 13.7bn years ago.

Ø  Some commentators have labelled the new particle as "God particle", for its role in turning the Big Bang into an ordered universe.

Ø  The scientists say - "We know it must be a boson and it's the heaviest boson ever found. The implications are very significant and it is precisely for this reason that we must be extremely diligent in all of our studies and cross-checks."

Ø  "For physics, in one way, it is the end of an era in that it completes the Standard Model," a scientist said of the basic theory physicists currently use to describe what they understand so far of a cosmos built from 12 fundamental particles and four forces.

Ø  UNIVERSAL THEORY :- The Higgs theory explains how particles clumped together to form stars, planets and life itself. Without the Higgs boson, the universe would have remained a formless soup of particles shooting around at the speed of light, the theory goes.

We whole-heartedly congratulate the Physicists teams – for their extraordinary discovery – and wish them greater successes in unraveling the mysteries of the Universe further.

Having said that – we also need to look at the huge super structure we are building on the Big Bang Theory. Whether the Big Bang  is, or is not a Fact – we will never know. What caused, if at all, the Big Bang, and how and why, are not easily explainable. 

There just can’t be a reaction without an action – and the action itself is a reaction, which needs another action. This chain never ends  in any distant past – even if we take it past any number of billions of years. Nor will it ever end in the future, after any number of billions of years.

We can explain movement, gravitation, mass, no-mass, light, heat, sound, touch, smell, change and so on – in absolutely scientific terms. But, can we put them together and explain INTELLIGENCE?

Can we really explain what Intelligence is? Can we explain a consciousness which at least pervades human beings?

If Human Beings do have Intelligence (and the five senses to receive and record it to some extent), what prevents Earth, Sun, and Galaxies from having extraordinary levels of Intelligence – of which we get an infinitesimally small part each – from them? Yes. They give all the Intelligence to us – if physical particles, however minute, are the only things we are made up of. And, the Big Bang theory tells us JUST THAT.

In relation to these huge moving masses in the sky – aren’t we like the white or Red cells in the human body? The cells don’t know why they do, what they do. But they do them all the same. Therefore we are alive as human beings. There is obviously a clock work installed within us, and within them, which takes us from birth to death, through a fixed linear path, unless we end the path foolishly midway.

The Indian thinking on all this is wrongly concluded as RELIGION – but it is not religion; it is not mere faith. It is absolute science. What the West does in the outer world, the Indian scientists had done partly in outer world – but mostly in the inner world.

There is no need for blind faith in any of this; Each person can prove the ultimate riddle of this Universe and the riddle of creation as such , to himself . 

But the search in outer cosmos, will never take us to the end; the ultimate Goal. We will never discover anything One hundred percent even about one atom, no, not even about one Higgs Boson particle. The search will be endless. In due course of time, the Higgs Boson Particles will, without an iota of doubt, reveal further sub-sub-sub atomic particles within them. 

If anything exists in physical form – it is made up of PARTS. 

It can’t be otherwise. Its minuteness is immaterial and does not alter this rule. Does it mean, the search is useless. No. Not at all. The external search must continue. It happened in ancient India too.

But, the inner search, a search in a space-less space within us, in the innermost recesses of the Individual, hides the most precious secrets of the world. Search for Intelligence – not just for mass, not for gravitation, not for physical properties. Search for an awareness that pervades the Individual and the entire Universe.

Indian sciences firmly say – that all that is outside of us – is also equally within us in miniature form. The whole Universe is in us in miniature form.

It is a fact that – in the external world, the Bosons, Photons, Electrons, Atoms, the whole earth, the Sun, the whole Galaxy will all fold back into a nothingness some time in future – and then come up again  in some form . We do have some proof now that  these do disappear into a nothingness. It is happening to some star in the cosmos all the time.

Likewise- human beings come up, grow, play, and disappear all the time.

People are willing to believe either science or even religion – which has come up in the last 2000-3000 years. But not earlier than that! Science which had sprung up in Ancient India is looked at with suspicion – and not with absolute scientific spirit. People are unwilling to think straightly -  and admit that huge body of scientific knowledge could have come up several lakhs of years back – when the world looked different; and extraordinary levels of scientific spirit was available in India. India was certainly not roaming bare; and not eating raw flesh – even lakhs of years back. It had extraordinary levels of knowledge and wisdom even then – which is extremely useful to humanity now.

Today-we simultaneously believe both the Big Bang theory and the 7-Day creation theory. Likewise, we simultaneously believe the Human evolution theory as in  Adam-and-Eve story and the Darwinian hypotheses both. Aren’t we excellent, highly adjusted split personalities?

We do not know who we are; yet, we know, by birth that we are going to a heaven, where we don’t know what we will be doing. All religions are so. They don’t reform the most glaring FALSITIES in them – as long as we remain mere believers.

At the same time, science co-existed with religion all the time. It was more so in India. The Indian religions do exist partly for the faithful. But, it also provides a huge opportunity for the explorer, for one who is willing to transform himself into a Powerhouse of Intelligence and awareness.

The Inner science that India promoted so perfectly - is more important to us today - than the outer science – and more beneficial too. It is also the shortest route – to more important facts about the Universe. Instead of “split-split-split –And see”; the Inner science takes us to Join-Join-Join-and become one with it.

India may produce a Satyendra Nath Bose – or many such, for the outer search too; but the inner science is India’s Forte. India has a lot to achieve in this respect.  The world has a lot to gain from it.

Ignoring this takes the world nowhere. 

The Inner science is the easiest path to the finest of truths.

All the same – we congratulate the Physicists – for their path-breaking and Path-extending discovery – of the Higgs Boson Particle.

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GURU PURNIMA = 03-07-2012 = Did you worship your Guru(s) this Guru Purnima Day?

GURU PURNIMA

03-07-2012

The Full moon day in the month of Ashadh – which generally falls in July –is celebrated as Guru Purnima in India.

Guru – means the remover of the darkness of Ignorance – and therefore, by implication, the giver of wisdom.

Generally, not every Teacher is acknowledged as Guru, for this purpose. One who teaches a science or art – is a teacher – but is not the one in respect of whom Guru Purnima Puja is intended.

One who removes the darkness of Ignorance means – one who gives us the wisdom of a permanent kind. One who shows us the path of permanent Joy and lasting wisdom is the Guru.

This Day - was said to be the day on which Krishna Dvaipayana (Vyasa) was born in the Dwapar Yug. He re-wrote all the Vedas in their present form and, went on to write the Greatest Epic of all times, THE MAHABHARAT. He was thus the giver of  Bhagavad Gita also to us – through the Maha Bharat. He also wrote the Bhagavat, another extraordinary Book containing the deeds of God in his various incarnations.

VYASA was acknowledged as one of the Greatest teachers of ALL TIME. It is primarily in his honour, that  Guru Purnima day is celebrated.  However, traditionally, starting from Lord Shiva (and Vishnu), a great lineage of teachers is recognized and this lineage of Gurus is known as GURU PARAMPARA.

Vedantic Knowledge or knowledge of SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT, as it is popularly called these days, comes to the Sadhakas from Great Gurus, who become the Part of Guru Parampara for each sadhaka – and these Great Gurus are worshipped on this day by the Sadhaka.

Such Gurus can be one or more – which is not an issue at all. All of them need to be worshipped on this Guru Purnima  Day.

Even if the Sadhaka learns from a Guru’s teachings, in his absence (say, after his death), yet, if the knowledge is spiritual, the Guru has to be worshipped on this day.

As earlier said, the worship starts with Lord Shiva (or Vishnu) – and comes through Vyasa, Adi sankara and so on upto the Sadhaka’s Last Guru.

Sadhakas equate the Guru with the God himself – through the hymn (Guru Brahma, Gurur Vishnuh; Guru Devo Mahaswara; Gurur Saakshaath Parabramha, tasmai sree Gurave Namah” – which means My Guru himself is Brahma, Vishnu and Maheswara for me; therefore I worship my Guru.

Every Individual born on earth needs a Guru of the right Kind, whose words he respects, whose actions he adores and in whom he has great faith. A Guru is one who walks the talk. He is a practitioner of all that he teaches. He knows what he is teaching. He has seen and experienced it all himself.  It is necessary to go to such Gurus and become their disciples. It is not necessary that a Guru must be knowing ALL OF VEDANTA, YOGA etc –before he teaches. He teaches what he clearly and undoubtedly KNOWS and practices. The rest of it – he will direct the Disciple to another Great Guru. This was how ASHRAMA  teaching used to happen in ancient Days. Sage Vasishta himself asked Lord Rama to learn many things from sage Vishwamitra. Not that Vasishta does not know. But, Vishwamitra is the appropriate Guru for the purpose.

Lord Krishna himself was a Great Guru. His Bhagavad Gita is an extraordinary Book containing his teachings on absolutely scientific knowledge of many varieties, relevant to this day and for thousands of years in the future too. For instance, his Guna thraya vibhaga Yoga, his Karma Yoga, his Dhyana yoga – are all marvels of scientific knowledge. All of today’s scientific achievements pale into insignificance before this great knowledge. If one does not study them – one will never know enough about his own BODY-MIND combination itself.

Yet, the same Bhagavad Gita also talks of the most intricate knowledge of the Atman, of the Godliness and Daemonliness in us, and  many other extraordinary aspects of life and life-beyond. Lord Krishna is called Yogeswara.

Lord Shiva, curiously, is called Yogeeswara. Of the three Great Gods, Lord Vishnu and Lord Brahma are not residents of EARTH. They have their own heavens. But, Lord Shiva resides on EARTH, on Kailas in the Himalayas.  He is called Adi Guru – and he taught  Vedanta and Yoga Sasthra to his concert and to Seven Great Sages. 

A question arises – can we see him – if he is on Kailas? If one is a right disciple, certainly Shiva will see him. Many, many Great Gurus are said to be on the Himalayas for thousands of years – but they, their Ashrams and their disciples are invisible to the rest of Mankind. And, In Yoga Sasthra, this is not considered a great achievement at all.  Patanjali Yoga Sutras also mention the procedure for the same – as Sutras or Principles.

Lord Krishna’s Bhagavad Gita mentions many aspects of Patanjali Yoga Sutras – long before Patanjali. And, Lord Krishna says clearly that – this knowledge is nothing new from me – it is the most ancient knowledge coming from the ancient Gurus. Lord Krishna also mentions in the Gita, how, as Guru, he himself taught various Great people, in his previous Births.

It was only when Arjuna’s surrender to the Lord was TOTAL and COMPLETE, after his VISHADA YOGA – or, his sadness at having to kill many of his friends, gurus and relatives in the Battle field, that Lord Krishna starts teaching him the Gita.

It is so with every Guru. Only the Disciple who totally surrenders to the Guru and keeps absolute faith in him, receives the Guru’s wisdom. Else, even if one is among the group sitting before him – he does not receive the wisdom. The words are heard – but the wisdom is not received. This too happens, very often.

Bhagawan Buddha has said so - on many occasions. If the question is very deep in you – you receive the answer – merely by sitting before the Guru. If there is no question, there is no answer! – says Buddha.

Adi Sankara also says exactly the same thing. The old disciples sit before the young Guru. The Guru remains silent. And, in that silence, the disciples receive all their answers – says Adi Sankara.  

Adi Sankara received his Greatest teaching from Lord Shiva himself, at Varanasi – and eulogizes that incident in his NIRVANA SHATKAM. Readers can see detailed exposition of the same in this Blog elsewhere. The first part of Nirvana Shatkam, coming from Lord Shiva himself, can be termed as extraordinarily REFORMIST, from a mundane view point. But, Shiva was only telling what the Vedas and Upanishads teach. The way, Adi Sankara responds to Shiva’s mocking questions – with absolute humility – is a marvel in itself. Readers are strongly advised to read and digest the same.

Coming back to Guru Purnima – Adi Sankara is a great Guru and his teachings are just as Good as the Upanishads themselves. Every Sadhaka acknowledges him as his Guru – and so do I.

From the Vedantic side (including Upanishads etc) – My Guru is –Swami Paramarthananda (an illustrious disciple of Swami Dayananda) – whose teachings I attend. I also read and listen to other Great Teachers like Swami Guruparananda (a disciple of Swami Paramarthananda).

From the Yoga side – I read (and listen to) Swami Vivekananda and Osho – with great respect.

I have attended practical classes conducted by contemporary Gurus Like – Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, Sri Sri Ravishankar’s Art of Living, Swami Sukha Bodhananda, Swami Ramdev. These classes have given me great benefit in the practical aspects of Yoga. 

As a school going youngster, over 50 years ago, I had attended a 6 month training at my Native town (in a group of about 40 children) – specially conducted by a Sage (from, possibly Ramakrishna Mission or Chinmaya Mission or some other Great Mission), who was almost compelled to do so, and the permission for that, from his Mission HQs was specially obtained by our town elders with great difficulty. That training was extraordinary – at that tender age, specially the one like Savasana and Dhyana prakriya.

On the Day of Guru Purnima, I bow down before all these Great Gurus of mine – and seek their blessings – in my spiritual Journey further.

As a last point – I must mention that – for a school or college going child – every conscientious teacher of any subject – is worthy of REVERENCE. It does not matter that he or she is not teaching Vedanta or Yoga. Every Great teacher is to be respected and worshipped on this Day.

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GREAT QUOTES FROM = SADHGURU JAGGI VASUDEV = & Events at Isha = Post Dt (09-06-2012)

GREAT QUOTES FROM

SADHGURU JAGGI VASUDEV

& EVENTS AT ISHA

(09-06-2012)

Readers will find below some of the latest Quotable Quotes of Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. Some of the key words in each quotation (the action part) are highlighted in Red.

This time, below the quotes, I have also given, very briefly, some of the interesting events at Isha and the major activities of Sadhguru in particular.  For readers’ benefit, I have also given the relevant URL Nos. so that, they can see the full details  themselves.

Please do enjoy the same. I will be grateful for your suggestions, comments (& criticism).

1.   Irrespective of what the nature of their immediate business may be, in reality there is only one business – the business of human wellbeing. Whatever you are doing, fundamentally, you are doing it for human wellbeing, it is just everyone’s scale and scope that is different. For one person, human wellbeing means their wellbeing alone. For another person, it includes their family; for another, it includes their community, nation or race. For another, it includes everyone and everything on the planet.

2.   With what you get, you can make a living. Only with what you give, you can make a life

3.   A decision should not be in terms of what you like and what
you do not like, it should be in terms of what works.

4.   If we are serious about saving the environment, we need to adjust our population growth to the natural resources that we have

5.   "Trees are our closest relatives. What we exhale, they inhale. This is a constant relationship that no one can afford to live without.

6.   Every society needs individuals who go on planting mango trees without thinking whether they would get to eat the fruit or not.

7.   If no matter what is given to you, you can make something
beautiful out of it, that is intelligence.

8.   If you think one thing is sacred but you cannot stand the other, if you love the creator but hate the creation, that is vulgarity.

9.   The essence of Isha Yoga is to make every aspect of your life a
stepping stone for a higher possibility.

10.        Your personality is something that you created. Once you are
aware of that, you could create it whichever way you want.

11.       When you came into this world, you came without a single
investment. So whatever happens in your life, anyway you are in
profit.

12.        Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that
you have taken in.

13.        Fear has essentially come into human life because of lack of
clarity. Wherever there is clarity, there is no fear.

14.        Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.

15.        The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are
expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.

16.        Problem is not with the content of your life. You have simply missed the context of your life!

SOME NOTABLE ACTIVITIES AT ISHA

(I)          May 29th, a group of 75 business owners, entrepreneurs, investors and managers with a wide variety of skills and talents came together at iii, to explore a new method of supporting Isha’s mission of creating wellbeing through raising human consciousness. Key projects were discussed that would support Isha’s objectives while also allowing the entrepreneur, investor and business professional to achieve the right returns for their effort and investment. (See Details at : http://blog.ishafoundation.org/happenings/the-business-of-wellbeing-the-first-invest-in-consciousness-meet-at-iii/)

(II)        After Houston been a blitz of activity including Bhava Spandana, Sathsang in Atlanta and of course the Federal Aviation Authority certification that included cross country tests and a check ride. Well, now I can fly by myself without an instructor – at least in the USA. There are a few more hurdles to be crossed in India.-Says Sadhguru (6th June 2012)- (see :  http://blog.ishafoundation.org/sadhguru-spot/now-flying-solo/.  )

(III)      Indian Politician Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan, Member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly and President of the Lok Satta Party, in conversation with the Mystic Sadhguru Vasudev,  Saturday, June 16, 2012 at 8:00 PM (GMT+0530)-Readers can register for the event. (see details at :  http://jpnarayan.eventbrite.com/)

(IV)      for the householders, generally, the full moon is considered more suitable to do anything spiritual because it is gentle on them. And generally, what is gentle is also slow. Amavasya is for the ascetic, for those who are in a rush, for those who don’t have much time……  The idea of becoming a householder is to organize your survival, so that you don’t worry and struggle with it on a daily basis.- Sadhguru talks beautifully  about the householder or the Grihastha :

(see : http://blog.ishafoundation.org/sadhguru-spot/grihastas-raccoons-and-higher-possibilities/)

(V)        Once you are identified with something that you are not, the mind is an express train that you can’t stop. Do what you want, it won’t stop. So you put the mind on full steam and you want to apply brakes – it doesn’t work like that. You must take your leg off the throttle first, before you brake any vehicle….says Sadhguru, examining whether the Mind is a friend or enemy (see at : http://blog.ishafoundation.org/masters-words/is-my-mind-really-against-me/)

(VI)      A hollow bamboo can
turn the passing Wind
into a Sweet Song.

– this is the part of a beautiful poem by Sadhguru (see it in full at : http://blog.ishafoundation.org/sadhguru-spot/poem-the-song-geeta/)

(VII)    If you look at it closely enough, there isn’t one thing in creation, without which you can exist. So I want you to look upon everything as a mother. Today is the tree-mother’s day, tomorrow is the mountain-mother’s day, next day is your biological mother’s day.- says Sadhguru, examining the concept of mother’s day (see at :

 http://blog.ishafoundation.org/masters-words/every-day-is-mothers-day/)

(VIII)  we just concluded an Inner Engineering programme with 964 participants, the largest for USA till date. A wonderful group of people and an outstanding level of organization; hats off to our teachers and volunteers. They have been working for this for the last two months. This effort to conduct Mega Programmes is a serious attempt to ignite a silent revolution of self-realization. –says Sadhguru on 09^th,May,2012 (see at :  http://blog.ishafoundation.org/sadhguru-spot/isha-usa-going-into-overdrive/)

More details of the program are at :

 http://blog.ishafoundation.org/happenings/sadhguru-in-houston-largest-us-program/

(IX)      What is Good & what is Bad-why are good people suffering (enjoy sudhguru’s talk on this at :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8tIWqPo8wI&feature=youtu.be)

(X)        Indian Express releases a new list of the 100 most powerful Indians each year, reflecting the social, economic and political change in India. Included in the list for the third straight year, Sadhguru was named last week to the Indian Express Most Powerful Indians List for 2012. ( details at : 

http://blog.ishafoundation.org/happenings/sadhguru-named-in-most-powerful-indians-list/        and at :

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/the-most-powerful-indians-in-2012-no.-91100/916140/)

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