Some Ramana Maharshi quotes:
Even the knowledge sense-perceived of the world without has
for its ground the Self above. To search for knowledge somewhere else apart
from That is but to grasp the shadow,
not the substance.
Whatever notion may arise, never to let it live or grow, but
to turn it that very instant, firm &stern, back to its source &merge it
there, this is robust, intense detachment.
The knowledge that ignores the Self, the knower, & holds as true the field perceived, is but
illusive folly. No matter how much one has learned, true knowledge is the
merging of all indicative knowledge in awareness of the Self.
The one true light there is, is pure Awareness. Other kinds
of knowledge clinging to it & claiming to be real are ego-born conceptual
clouds. To trust them is sheer folly.
All other kinds of knowledge are base, trivial. The only
true & perfect knowledge is the
stillness of pure awareness. The many differences perceived in the Self whose
nature is awareness are wrong attributions & not real at all.
What sort of knowledge is this wretched bodily–mental
knowledge of objects ? Would those who long for pure awareness hanker after
this ? To know pure awareness is true
wisdom. All other knowledge is mere folly.
Consciousness
is the kernel of every experience. There
is no experience, whether in the form of a Thought, Feeling, or Perception, or
without form as in Deep Dreamless Sleep or between 2 thoughts, that is not of
the nature of Consciousness.
It
is from the Mind level that we talk of thoughts or their absence. We have seen that Consciousness is always
present; it is beyond Name & Form & thus from its own level, Consciousness
alone exists.
Any
observation itself requires, a fixed "Seer" to observe the changing object
or "Seen", & also a "Memory" in which to record the
observation. The flow of events recorded
as "Memory" also requires that "I" be a fixed or changeless
reference state.
From
the experience of Memory as a reference, Non-Dual betrays the underlying
position of Consciousness more directly perhaps than from any other common
experience in form.
We
remember our previous thoughts & feelings, we remember as well the thinker
who had them. f we remember our Bodies &
Minds along with the things we observed & the thoughts we had, our Bodies &
Minds must also have been witnessed by us in the same way.
When casting the image of a Point, the point of intersection
of the Radius line & the Circumference of the unit Circle, the image of
that Point revolving CCW counter-clock-wise from the right-most place that
would be East on a compass, or Angle 0 on the positive X-axis, we mentioned
that the shadows, sideways or vertically, would exhibit Simple Harmonic Motion,
SHM. We want to use the partial
introduction of Cosines & Sines, Derivatives & Integrals, to look at
this SHM, Simple Harmonic Motion.
F = m a = m d v/ d
t
whereas Velocity, v
is itself the Time Derivative of Distance, Displacement:
v = d v/ d
t = d x/ d t
so that putting Force.
F, in terms of Displacement, which is the "2nd order" Time Derivative of Displacement [Derivative of the Derivative]:
F = m a = m d v/ d
t = = m d2 x/
d t2
The Spring with stiffness or Constant k, characteristically has a (negative) restoring Force. F given by:
– k x =
F = m a = m d2 x/
d t2
– k / m x =
d2 x/ d t2
The Exponential Function had a 1st Derivative equal to itself, or proportional to itself
if other constants were involved. But fir SHM, it is the 2nd Derivative of x
that is proportional to x .
This SHM characteristic is fulfilled then, not by the Exponential, but
by a trigonometric function, Sine or Cosine.
So making this substitution for F we get:
x (t)
= A cos (ω t + φ)
, for A – amplitude, ω –
angular frequency, φ
– phase shift
[This could be put in
terms of Sine, with appropriate phase
shift φ since Cos
& Sin have a
phase shift of π /2 = 90o]
To take the 1st
Derivative we use the above mentioned Chain Rule for Cos
of a function. that function being,
d y/ d
t = (d y/ d
x) ( d x/ d t) =
[ – A sin (ω t
+ φ)] [d x
(ω t + φ) / d
t ]
since: d cos /
d t
= – sin & for
constant ω & φ, d x
(ω t + φ) / d
t = ω
d cos (ω t + φ)
/ d t = – A sin (ω t
+ φ) d (ω
t
+ φ)
/ d t = – A ω sin (ω t + φ)
Taking the 2nd
Derivative, with: d sin / d
t =
cos
d2 x/
d t2 = d2
[A cos (ω t + φ)]
/ d t2 = d [– A ω
sin (ω t + φ)] / d t
= –
A ω2 cos (ω
t
+ φ)
= –
ω2 x (t)
[Incidentally, comparing to the above: – k / m x =
–
ω2 x &
k
= m ω2
, which describes ωo
the "natural resonance" frequency of whatever be the "harmonic oscillator",
Driven by Force (a shove or tug of a
spring instead of a stretch & just letting go) another transient frequency would settle back to
ωo. The forgoing describes a frictionless system.
With Friction, the system slows down & stops.]
For short swings of a weight on a nearly
"massless" String, a Pendulum, the same SHM equations apply with the
substitution for the above (k / m)
being (g / l) for g the acceleration of Earth-surface
Gravity & l the length of the String. For a twisting Torsional Pendulum, the
parallel is even closer with Spring Constant k becoming the Torsion Constant; & mass m becoming a Moment of Inertia I. The exact same terms extend the description
to a Pendulum whose String has mass, or object suspended from a point,
floating, or otherwise "rocking" object. Hence the some of the Physics
of "vibes".
If we go back to: – k /
m
x = d2 x/ d
t2 describing SHM Acceleration, the 2nd
Derivative,
for Friction which depends
on Velocity, we add a 1st
Derivative with a frictional Damping Coefficient b.
– k x –
b d x/
d t
= m d2 x/ d
t2
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