However there is the science of the soul
but contemplate on such grandeur, indeed
are invited to do so, for contemplation of
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itself is value in and unto itself, unless we
apples of astounding proportions, though
blow ourselves up. The absurdity of such
esoteric. God is seen in aspects and symbols a thought.
and described as such. Maha-Vishnu holding the Shanka, conch, or shell [indicates all
“It is the power of Brahma in man that
sound], and the chakra, wheel or discuss,
causes the mind and the intellect and the senses
[indicating all time]. All is in “connexion ...
procession.” Maha-Vishnu ideates and the
to perform their functions; and when that
“World Process” is underway. We enjoy the
power ceases to act, these also stop work”
manifestation of this. Brahma (God), oft
~ Sri Rama Krishna
described as “One-Without-A-Second,” has
a long life; sidereal time as a day is equated
Fortunately Brahma loves a good drama
as 360 days the figures below are based on
this “mortal year.” “The long life of Brahma”
Modern science postulates that The
culminates eventually as the entire period
Universe had exploded the bits and pieces
of “Brahma’s age ... one day and night.” One
of us into our future with such accuracy
day of Brahma is 4,320,000,000 years, one
it deified as it defined our very existence!!!
night the same duration, so “360 of such
Cool. Professor Stephen Hawking, as he
days and nights make one year of Brahma,
drilled into black-holes, speculated that
equal to 3,110,400,000,000.” Further, 100
God might have second-guessed Himself,
of such years constitute the whole period
divinely fiddled a bit and changed events
of Brahma’s age, i.e. Maha-Kalpa, or
a tad of a millisecond after the Big Bang
311,040,000,000,000.” Then all is withdrawn
to create the universe. What came before?
into Brahma’s spinnerets, where He dreams
Well Hawking has as an accuracy of
His dreams, that were forever dreamt, and
absolute uncertainty that is scientifically
he dreams of us.
unmeasurable, in that he has no idea,
and neither do we. Yet from whence the
The rub is this, “Great as the period of the
Biggest Bang? Doesn’t that question just
Maha Kalpa seems to be, we are assured
nag ya? We might as well just tell the
that thousands of millions of such Maha
joke; “How many surrealists does it take
Kalpas have passed, and as many more
to change a light bulb?” “Fish.” A paradox.
are as yet to come.” Time, then, is infinite
in this cosmic sense in both past, present,
Self consciousness, it follows (if we follow
and future duration. So are we in Self,
the big-bang theory), must have been in
or Sat-Chit-Ananda, as Brahma breathes
us in and out, in and out, in and out, into
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