NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 24:
Prior
to excerpting the other Ramana
Maharshi disciple in the text below we continue the series: Fine-Tuned Universe 16, the premise that
a small change in several of the dimensionless fundamental physical constants
would make the Universe incapable of Life.
Fine-Tuned
Universe 16:
[In the unreal reflection called the
"Universe", a product of an unreal Mind, even there, Infinite
Intelligence is evident and inspiring.]
Early Speculation:
Hoyle (not originally an Intelligent Design advocate)
pondered whether these and many, many other fortuitous coincidences would
someday be shown to have been necessary outcomes of the Universe’s structure,
[OR] an infinite Steady-State Universe could accommodate diverse regions with every
allowable permutation of these constants (an early Ensemble hypothesis).
The curious placing of the levels in C12 or O16
need no longer have the appearance of astonishing accidents. It could simply be
that since creatures like ourselves depend on a balance between Carbon and
Oxygen, we can exist only the portions of the Universe where these levels
happen to be correctly placed. In other places the level of O16
might be a little higher, so that the addition of a
– particles to C12 was
highly resonant. In such a place creatures like ourselves could not exist. Fred Hoyle’s early Anthropic-Ensemble
model
Earlier still was Wallace’s similar 1903 speculation:
Of course, there may be, and probably are, other universes,
perhaps of other kinds of Matter and subject to other Laws.
For the most part, TOE candidates like String & M–theory
are beyond our scope, though mention is made from time to time as we proceed.
But in the spirit of early TOE predictions, Max Born (who probability amplitude into wavefunctions) foresaw in the 1920’s
that the extremal principal in paths Least-Action (as seen in refinements of Newton
Pierre Maupertuis and mathematician Leonard Euler in the
early 18th century initiated an ongoing tradition of organizing Laws of Physics
within a Principle of Least Action [as in the later Fermat Refraction Principle
of Least Action and as in “action” used by Planck, Einstein] which Max Born
recommended for a TOE theory of everything.
Such a TOE (of wider scope than the GUT–plus–Relativity sense) might
from first principles explain a, b,
and other Rees’ Numbers; as well as Numbers and Ratios enumerating and
connecting Photons, Dark Matter, Dark Energy and related repulsive
High-Temperature scalar fields, Universe & Expansion lumpiness and
homogeneity (to 0.001 %), all from a Big Bang Universe portion only an
octillionth of a meter across (as regards the visible Universe, whereas fluctuations
can be inferred theoretically for beyond-the-visible regions of the Universe,
beyond 13.7 B Light-years due to Inflation).
A fantastic Multi-Verse proclamation, or perhaps even
long-odds are easy to glibly accept, regarding Constants of Physics, for those
not motivated to grant the issue long study and attention, and then again also
for those who do so attend but remain intransigent in Physicalist Realism. But
for anyone not so entrenched, and curious enough to look at the much published
reviews, a WAP, Weak Anthropic Principle (constants fit us because we’re here),
veers toward stronger SAP, Strong Anthropic Principle that something is up.
Somehow the Universe accommodates us quite by some kind of intention by
something/somebody or other. Here was a more sophisticated Paley-watch
demanding a Watch-maker. So it was for Hoyle later on:
I do not believe that any Scientist who examined the
evidence would fail to draw the inference that the Laws of Nuclear Physics have
been deliberately designed with regard to the consequences they produce inside
the Stars. If this is so, then my apparent random quirks have become part of a
deep-laid scheme. If not we are back again at a monstrous sequence of
accidents. Fred Hoyle, Ensteinian Deist turned
Anthropist
Some more selected verses from the
other Ramana Maharshi disciple:
The Self is Peace and Happiness. Realizing Peace and
Happiness within you is the true realization of the Self. You cannot
distinguish between Peace. Happiness, and the Self. They are not separate
aspects. You have this idea that Peace and Happiness is within you, so you make
some effort to find it there, but at the moment it is still only an idea for
you. So, ask yourself, "To whom does this idea come ? Who has this idea ?" You must pursue this line if you want to have
the idea replaced by the experience. Peace is not an idea, nor is it something
that comes and goes. We are always That.
So, remain as That. You have no Birth
and no Death, no bondage and no freedom. It is perpetual Peace, and it is free
from all ideas. The "I am the Body" idea is what is concealing it.
This is what has to go.
The idea "I am the Body" is not there during
sleep. Everyone enjoys sleeping, and the reason we enjoy it is because there are
no thoughts there. It is there during sleep. Everyone enjoys sleeping, and the
reason we enjoy it is because there are no thoughts there. It is the thoughts
that arise subsequently that cause us all our trouble. There is no separate
entity during sleep because no thought has arisen to create the image of one.
When waking comes, this first rising thought, ‘I am the body’, brings
separation, doubts 72 and confusion. If you can be without it in the waking
state there will be_ the knowledge, ‘I am Ramana, I am Arunachala. Everything
is myself.‘ Ram, Krishna , etc., are all you. It is just
this limiting ‘I am the body’ thought that keeps this knowledge, this awareness
from you. In the waking state, the jnani has no limiting thoughts, no ego that
identifies with a name and a fonn. His state is crystal clear. Ramana Bhagavan
had no ego, no limiting thoughts, which is why he knew himself to be this
peace, this happiness.
Grace is always present, always available, but for it to be
effective, one must be in a state to receive it and make full use of it. If you
want to take a full cup of water from
a lake, you have fully to immerse the cup first. If you want
to fill your mind with grace, submerge it fully in the Self. In that place the
Grace will manifest in you as Peace and Happiness.
"When the sun comes up, does darkness disappear
suddenly or gradually ?" Bhagavan, speaking on this topic, once remarked:
"Someone mistakes a rope hanging
in the darkness for a snake. He then
asks how many years it will take for the snake
to die." If the Mind does not
exist, it cannot die either quickly or slowly.
All the information the Mind accumulates & all the
experiences it collects are ignorance, false knowledge. Real knowledge cannot be found in the Mind or
in any external location. Don't be
interested in the words that the Mind is serving up for you. It is putting them there to tempt you into a
stream of thoughts that will take you away from the Self. You have to ignore them all & focus on
the light that is shining within you.
The substratum upon which the false idea of the Mind has
been superimposed is the Self. When you
see the Mind, the Self, the underlying substratum, is not seen. It is hidden by
a false but persistent idea. And
conversely, when the Self is seen there is no Mind.
This habit of believing the 'I am the body' idea has become
very strong because you have reinforced & strengthened it over many
lifetimes. This will go if you meditate
on your real Self. The habit will melt away,
like ice becoming water.
The Mind only gets dissolved in the Self by constant
practice. At the moment the, "I am
the body" idea disappears, just as darkness disappears when the Sun rises.
The body is not the Self; the Mind is not the Self. The real
'I' is the Self, & nothing ever happens to or affects the Self.
The above themes & 1600 pages
more are freely available as perused or downloaded PDF’s, the sole occupants of
a Public Microsoft Skydrive “Public Folder” accessible through:
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Duplicates
have been available on:
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[But from now on, they will be different & still
usually daily.]
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