There would hardly be any human being whose soul would not feel elevated on seeing a baby, any baby, be it of any species including, of course, the human. It is a sensation beyond (what we usually call) pleasure and is a state that can not be adequately described in words. It is felt deeply inside us. Neither do we know as to why such a thing happens nor do we normally ascribe a reason to it. We just enjoy it.
When we compare the above with our daily routine actions involving two or more persons we are always ready to give reasons (generally of righteousness) for all our actions and perhaps justifiably so. Often, however, there are occasions for disagreements (as also agreements) and still very often, we take them personally and, in the process, decide to form a definitive opinion of ‘wrong or right’ action of ‘those’ others. Irrespective of who is wrong or right we firmly decide to live under the perception that we are right (although the other party too lives through the same belief). Furthermore, even if there was no communication with those other persons for any length of time, we still continue to carry those impressions in our conscious or sub-conscious mind (specially if they are of ‘discordant’ type) for most of the time - which is even worse for we carry that person, that episode as if it is / was a most treasured thing.
A careful observation and analysis of the situation reveals the dichotomous nature of these impressions. In our every day usage, we term them as ‘pleasure & pain’, ‘happiness & unhappiness’, ‘good & bad’, ‘hurt & unhurt’, ‘true & false’, ‘victory & loss’ and so on. It is like as if we are living / traveling in a moving sinusoidal wave like environment in which the crest (e.g., pleasure) is one end of the dichotomous state and turf (e.g., pain) the other. And additionally they keep exchanging as if on a moving platform so that one state (e.g., pleasure) follows the other state (e.g. pain) ad-infinitum. The extent / degree of dichotomy is reflected in the amplitude of the wave form; for example greater the amplitude greater the extent of pleasure or the pain, as the case may be. We may depict the situation as under (except, unfortunately, we could not, at this time, work out an animated picture of the situation which could have given a moving view of the changing dichotomous nature of the situation; we hope the reader can visualize it though.) :
Sinusoidal Wave Pattern
We all are well aware that situations like the above do keep developing, in smaller or larger measure, more or less frequently, but occurring in a rhythmic manner, which lead to stresses in our lives. Initially, they are generally either ignored or taken lightly hoping that every thing will fall in place. While this may sporadically be true but this light hearted approach, as we notice from analytical reports in medical literature, leads to an increasing degree of both the physical and mental aggravation. Only when they reach a flash point and / or start getting out of control that they get reported to concerned corrective agencies and where necessary, brought to medical attention. Reports based on recorded cases and information available from numerous surveys conducted by independent agencies on the subject, reveal that stress is one of the foremost issues of concern to our society. And it seems to afflict young adult population as much as the aging populace. Serious attention is required to eradicate it. And indeed, as seen from the medical and other related literature, there are serious efforts being made to redress the situation.
This site attempts to address this issue (and many other pertinent issues) but from an entirely different perspective. Its base lies in the aspects referred to in the second paragraph which culminated with the observation that we somehow end up in surrounding ourselves, through our own actions, in a sinusoidal wave like environment and pattern, while navigating through life’s innumerable episodes.
It may perhaps come as a surprise to many that that the sinusoidal wave pattern is also the underlying base for the existence of the entire universe, irrespective of whether we look at it from the cosmological or the quantum (atomic and sub-atomic) point of view. Not only that, we seem to be surrounded by numerous, neatly overlapping, but perhaps interconnected, sinusoidal waves at the base of which lies the most fundamental, the primordial, sinusoidal wave. This primordial wave relates to the cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (abbreviated, henceforth, as MBR) in astrophysics. MBR was created by the "Big Bang". It helps us know how and when stars first got formed, how galaxies formed and how they aggregated to form the structures that we see in space, etc. Though known to exit, it was discovered by Arnold Penzias and Robert Wilson of Princeton University, New Jersey, and earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978. As a follow up to the COBE satellite probing a) balloons were sent over the Antarctica at an altitude of 100,000 feet, in the year 1999 and b) an even more sophisticated scientific satellite, called Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP), at a cost of around US $ 70 million, sent in the year 2000. They were intended to study the MBR with greater accuracy and, in words of astrophysicist Ned Wright, an attempt to "look at the structures of the universe after the Big Bang". And these structures show us most of the parameters of the universe, what kind of universe we are in? They help us with information on the initial conditions out of which galaxies formed." These efforts are indicative of the dedication of the world’s top astrophysicists and NASA to experimentally know greater details about the primordial, wherein seem to lie the genes of the cosmos.
It will be of further interest to the readers to know that the MBR was the first light (and sound) with which the universe started at the time of its origin from an infinitesimal point space and it envelopes the entire Universe. It has a very unique hiss sound which can be heard through specially built instrumentation and has, in fact, been recorded. (Those interested in hearing it can do so by tuning to (US Public Broadcasting Service) TV channel 13 and look for "Stephen Hawkin’s Universe" episodes; it is often replayed.) The ancient eastern literature, specially the Vedic / Hindu sages, refer to the primordial wave as Om sound; they even gave it a shape like the one shown below:
Visual picture of primordial sound wave OM
Those, advanced in yoga and meditation, can hear the primordial Om wave sound
The views summarized above succinctly point to that
In the context of 1) and 2) above, a very basic but mind boggling query arises as to whether or not we really exist, as an independent entity, in the universe. If the answer was in the affirmative then how do we explain the anomalies arising as a result of the recent revolutionizing discoveries in the fields of the Quantum Physics and the Cosmology. In case, however, the answer was to be in the negative, as appears to be the case, then other significant follow up questions arise, namely, the rationale behind the rhythmically appearing dichotomous (e.g., pleasure ~ pain) states in our lives, the implications of the primordial wave (with its light & sound) to our life's activities and even, more importantly, as to who does really experience these states of dichotomy ?
An intuitive feeling does, however, arise which impels us to make conscientious efforts to comprehend first the implications of the primordial wave in our lives. Could it be that the way we perform our day to day actions result in creating a mire of superimposed layers of numerous sinusoidal waves in which we remain entangled and which, at the same time, mask a more fundamental and an underlying truth, namely the awareness of the primordial, in the process. Furthermore, when we do come across situations which turn on those blessed indescribable feelings (like the one referred to , in the opening paragraph, of watching a baby) then could it be that they act like some sort of a trigger to silently stir our inner core of existence, make us quietly bypass our tangled dichotomous states and somehow take us, (speedily and for whatever length of time) to our own primordial state before returning us back again in the thick and thin of our old tangled dichotomous state. If that be so, then
We feel that there may be some worthwhile offerings to these delicate but far reaching questions. We request visitors visiting our site to ponder over these fundamental issues. We intend to touch base on these and related issues and with a view to understand their implications we would keep reverting to them in the discussions that follow on various subtopics listed on the Activity page. The reason for making an endeavor in this manner is engrained in our intent to each time analyze the situation under different perspectives, build the requisite background and the infrastructure, suggest viable approaches in an attempt to find a resolution.
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