My journey through COSMOS!!!

 I had been a space enthusiast since small. No big deal. All of our journey starts with moon watching from age of 4, it was like today's YT cartoon channels for grandmothers to make us eat!!

I have carried this interest till date and now started connecting the dots between latest findings in this area of knowledge into ancient mythologies, Vedic hymns and Hindu astrology. I am able to connect abstractly. My readers may consider that my thought process is superstitiously unreal :) and I am unable to do away with this. 

For someone who is not having anything to do with NASA or ISRO locally, my interest started catching from Dec 25 2021 when JWST launched. This revolves around the sun and sends the pictures of distant galaxies. Till the we had Hubble Space telescope which only revolved around the earth. Ever since, inter stellar discoveries and theories and studies have been going on extremely rapid level. Every day, we read news of new galaxies or dwarfs or black holes or cosmos cloud getting discovered like never before. Our existence as earth dwellers is so trivial that we live in an outside periphery of a medium size galaxy we call as milkyway. Most of the galaxy's have SPIRAL shape. 

I always believed that every celestial object like comet, planet, star, meteor have a non 3-D existence and both of these existences (3 D and no D) are integrated. Universe is so big that each objects are light years away from end of one to another periphery and it is so dynamic that every second there is either one star forming or being destroyed or being collided with something or whose revolutions are changing or mass is being altered, this is mindboggling as any celestial object has at least million years of life cycle. The physics we study in school is only local to Solar System and may not even apply to our own galaxy outside of it!!!

My baseless (something I cant prove empirically) belief is that every living being on earth or any other planet has also a celestial existence such as a planet, star, comet or dust (cosmic gas). This is the reason we have cycle of life and we are differently powered based on our celestial mass or power existing somewhere in this universe.

Now coming to "Vishwaroopa" explanation of Lord Vishnu in Bhagavadgita. What Arjun saw was countless, Vasus, Indras, Adithyas, Maruths, all Godly powers and planets and finally himself inside lord Vishnu. So Lord Vishnu's celestial existence is 'entire universe' itself. Adithyas means stars, Vasu means planet, Maruths means cosmic dusts/gases, Indras means clusters of stars and planet system  (galaxy?). Lord Vishnu's non celestial existence is in his various 'avatars'. Same thing with each one of us. We HAVE a celestial existence. We are all either a heated star, or muddy/rocky/merky planet or some dust somewhere in this cosmos at the same time while we exist here in this time-space.!!! Well, what you can not prove with limited tools, you can analyse with logic and experience. Just close your eyes and feel if something inside is too older than your age, then that energy is as old as a planet may be. 

Now coming to shapes. We learn shapes at Kinder Garten. Circle, Square, Triangle, Rectangle and done with it. Shapes are reflecting from Cosmic to locally at a planets natural formations. Shapes are related and they are symbols and they are there for a reason. Everything on a planet is a miniature of something gigantic within the cosmic. Dont understand? The angle of a real pyramid and drawing of real pyramid in a small paper should be the same, in order to make it look like it!! Right? So, apply same thing to earth. We see so many things SPIRAL. Now connect the dots.....

Where do you see spirals on earth? water whirlpools, whirlwinds, tornedos, snails, conch shells?

For spirals to exist there has to be a center point and the center point should have an extreme pressure point due to space and congestion from outside. Congestion is formed because of the existence outside. In whirlpool, the element causing congestion is water, whirl wind it is wind. But why galaxies are Spiral? So many galaxies have Spiral shape!!! What is the element that connects the stars and planet system with galaxies that is necessary to give it a spiral shape? So space is empty and there is no element in it how it creates a pressure to give a galaxy a spiral shape? If Spiral shape on earth needs an element like water or air, what needs for a galaxy to have spiral shape which has stars and planets scattered across it forming in such an orderly manner? So nothing is not really 'nothing' and empty spaced is not really 'empty' right?

... Journey Continues..

Indian Jugaad

 They say Indian children are uncontrolled, unsupervised, over curious. Go to any international airports in Europe or USA, take a look at small children. White kids are with pacifiers inside mouth, silent and Desi kids looking around, checking the chargers, touching the display boards if nothing pulling moms clothes and nagging for some toffees and noisy. Yes, they are frowned upon. 

But as they grow, they are less noisy, less confident or self-managed compared to westerners, but this curiosity stays. The same curiosity helps us in Jugaad. Yes. this is good one. Give a mixer grinder to a housewife and she uses it also as curry leave drier, milk churner, vegetable cutter, cake mixer and biggest jugaad is 'kitchen towel washing tool'. A pressure cooker becomes a makeshift oven and during COVID time it became a steam inhaler provider also!!! Again, Jugaad.

Jugaad in Hindi or Panjabi, I guess comes from Sanskrit's Yukthi to Jukath or Jukth to Jugath to Jugad to Jugaad. Now, we do jugaad in corporate offices and high end manufacturing set up to smallest village workshop!!

After 3-day Indo-Pak war, many theories came in. Every person in the south west Asia became a defence expert and claimed the victory of one country that his heart was fond of. But once again there was a topic on S-400 from Russia said to be unsuccessful in Russia -Ukraine war but successful in the hands of Indians!!!

Now I am happy that till now only Indian housewives' world in their kitchen where they use every tool and gadget for a different purpose than what it is used for, reached the war rooms!! So, hopefully henceforth they are taken seriously!!! :)

But, why is it in Indian DNA? Is it right? Not always. It makes us successful and losers at different occasions.

Using any tool or situation other than its purpose it a serious process lapse as per Western or Japanese world. If anyone does this in factories they are fired. But by-birth who is into Jugaad mindset, it is genetically difficult. So, we Indians get frowned if we use an airport lounge glossy magazine to use as a support to write something on a piece of paper that we carry. We are seen as offenders. 

Culturally, being from joint families in the olden days, had we not recycled things in every way life was hard and unless someone did it, he or she was not appreciated or labelled 'smart'. This was another reason, from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and Dwarka to Meghalaya we are the same.

I came to conclude that 'right way' or 'wrong way' are not absolute. But for us, Indians it came from our oldest philosophy of Vedas. During olden school days we were made to recite few Vedic quotes which made no sense then, but now I tressure them. Amongst many of those, one fits the JUGAAD, check it out below: -

"Kriyaa Siddhihi Sathve Bhavathi Mahathannopakarane"

(From Sanskrit: Meaning "accomplishment of work or deed happens by virtues or values and not by extra ordinary tools")

Stoicism

Like we have Chanakya Neethi, Karma Siddhantha from The Gita or Vedic wisdom, Stoicism is for Romans!!!

I am quite interested in the schools of thoughts for philosophical logics and wisdom. So, Stoicism is my natural interest.

Roman Empire shaped the western world. After colonisations, western world shaped entire globe with few exceptions. So Romans somewhere influenced all of us. Romans were not so good people. They were evil, they used slavery for their empire quite extensively. They were cruel and sly in everyday life either directly or in subtle.

They are also credited with so many things which are part of our lifestyle. Running water supply in the stone canals or ducts, Roads across empire to connect every town, Pebbled roads with maps and symbols that lasted 2000 years (still exist), modern masonry (not modern for now), trained army with professional combat gears and weapons, advanced war strategies, economies, export and import and perhaps many more. The ruins of Pompei appear like any old town in Europe is all the living proof that other than consumerism and technology, nothing has really changed.

A lot has been written about Stoicism, but in an organized society like Romans it was like a manifesto for formal interactions and personal mental make-up. Like many things relevant and practiced from Roman times to todays date, stoic wisdom convinces you if you apply to context. 

Well, for each point of stoic wisdom, just browse or ask AI. Contents in social media platforms are flooded..