NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 26:
Prior
to excerpting the Ramana Maharshi disciple, Master Nome in the text below we
continue the series: Fine-Tuned
Universe 18, the premise that a small change in several of the dimensionless
fundamental physical constants would make the Universe incapable of Life.
Fine-Tuned
Universe 18:
Early Fine–Tuning:
Some additional Fine-Tuned constants include the anisotropy
of the Universe’s expansion and the Fine-Tuning of smoothness-lumpiness as
depicted in the CMB image below:
Other Fine-Tuning includes the Ratio of ordinary Luminous
Matter to Dark Matter, and the ratio of both of these to Dark Energy.
Another key ratio is that of Photons per Proton or Neutron.
Originally, at the conclusion of Cosmic Inflation, the Protons, anti-Protons,
and Photons were equal in number. All that occurs near an octillionth of a
second of age with about an octillion degrees being the Temperature. That
Inflation took a Universe about an octillionth of meter across to one that with
slower continuing expansion is now an octillion meters across. That original
tiny region was one of very many pre-existing that “took-off” fortuitously,
because it was just the right one.
Upon annihilation of anti-Protons, with the Universe a
ten-thousandth of a second old, the Proton number went down and Photon number
remained relatively very large, with only ten trillion degrees as the
Temperature.
As late as 1 second after the Big Bang at ten billion
degrees of Temperature, the Proton/Neutron ratio leveled off at 6:1.
“Much later after 100 seconds at a billion degrees,
Proton–Hydrogen comprised some 75% of Atoms, Helium 25%, with Deuterons down to
0.00033%, but there were 2 Billion Photons per Matter particle.
The CMB image above records the Universe at 1 Month but
Matter Density did not match Photon Radiation Density until the Universe was
56K yrs old.
A long wait, 300K yrs of the Radiation Era of only
Electrons, Nuclei, and Photons continues until the cooler 3K degree (a lab
value) and below Temperature allows the beginning of Atoms in the still-ongoing
Matter Era.
300K yrs Universe:
After very early “explosive” (of space-time, not matter)
Inflation, much slower, continuing Expansion seems “critically” Fine-Tuning for
flat Space moderately expanding, the
middle alternative in the Size vs. Time plots below. Then again, repulsive
Vacuum Energy may be accelerating our Universe out of its present,
long-standing Cold Dark Matter stage into Open Expansion in the Future.
Cosmological Const ==> curved-out expansion; flat
critically in between; curved-in collapse
This very specific sequence and interplay were all
Fine-Tuned to a degree without which there could not have been Intelligent
Life.
Bondage
is only Ignorance, or error
in understanding. One does not attain Self-Knowledge due to Ignorance about the
True Nature of the Self & adherence to false conceptions about the Self.
The Ignorance makes one feel bound, & the adherence to false notions
maintains the Ignorance, yielding the apparent solidity & false continuity
of Illusion. Both Ignorance & the tendency to adhere to it are destroyed by
Self-Inquiry to know the Truth of the Self.
Sri
Shankara declares that just as trees on the bank seem to move when one is in a
moving boat, so “transmigratory existence” (life in a Waking World,
repeating like nightly dreams, but rather as “physical” Re-incarnation)
seems to be true to one who mis–identifies the Self with the Mind.
Thus, when the Mind “moves”,
one thinks that the Self (like the stationary trees) “moves”. When the
Mind is still, one assumes the Self is still. Because the modifications of the
Mind are pervaded by the reflected light of Consciousness, with the qualities
of Reality & Identity borrowed from pure Being, one assumes that the Self
is identical with the Mind & identifies oneself with those modifications.
Thus one imagines, “my thoughts, my state of mind or being, my experiences,
etc.” The Mind, or the Ego, is objective, appearing by the
light of pure (absolute non-dual) Consciousness alone. Pure
Consciousness is the Absolute & is directly realized as existing as such
when the “this”, or the objective portion, falsely attributed
to it is negated.
Ignorance,
or Illusion, is merely a superimposition.
By “superimposition” is meant the imagined placement of some attributes, that
do not belong to the Self, upon the Self. The basis of the superimposition is
real. That basis is pure Existence, pure Consciousness. The superimposed is not
a reality in & of itself, but is only a product of Imagination, the result
of Ignorance.
It
is like the snake imagined to be present when there is only a
discarded rope in dim light. The snake is not
real & was not really born. But in Imagination, the snake seems
to be there, & as long as one is convinced that the snake is there, the true rope is
invisible. If one removes that Illusion with the light of Knowledge, he sees
the rope alone, as it is, which has been the only reality the
entire time. The snake in the analogy represents all that is
attributed falsely to the Reality of the Absolute Self, such as the World, the
Body, Mind & its conceptions & tendencies, as well as Ego.
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:
or with
Caps-sensitive:
Duplicates
have been available on:
jstiga.wordpress.com/
[But
from now on, they will be different & still usually daily.]
No comments:
Post a Comment