MAY THE MERCIFUL RADHASOAMI
HAVE MERCY!
MAY RADHASOAMI HELP!
DISCOURSES ON
RADHASOAMI
FAITH
BY
MAHARAJ SAHAB
Pandit Brahm Sankar Misra, M.A.
PART I
TRUE RELIGION, ITS OBJECT AND THE CONDITION UNDER WHICH IT IS
ATTAINABLE
NEED OF CONDUCTING
RELIGIOUS RESEARCH ON SCIENTIFIC LINES
The apathy which manifests itself
amongst the most intelligent classes, especially amongst scientific men, in
respect of religion, is due to the fact that religious matters are more or less
shrouded in sentimentality, mysticism, and dogmatic faith, and are void of that
practical and matter-of-fact research which distinguishes a scientific study.
To endow religion with practical and scientific interest, it is essential that
religious research should be conducted on the same lines as those employed in
scientific research, that is to say, the object in view should be clearly
defined and practical measures should be prescribed and adopted for attainment
of that object.
The principles and
experimentations, or the practical devotional methods,, of such a scientific
religion are published in the following pages.
These experiments on spiritual / religious rsearch can be done at individual level to actually experience like science in daily life. The experimental / research lab for this is nothing but, the human body, spirit and mind / brain. It helps to connect to all the centers of the Universe / Cosmos and the Source of All Sources. But manjority do not care this in the rush of the life. Pray for the Grace of the Source of all Sources to give enough wisdom to every one to carry out the spiritual / religious experiments to take this forward to all humanity.
ReplyDeleteReligious research on scientific lines is very much required. When I was in Ghazipur in late seventies or early eighties, Huzur Maharaj Bhandara Day a Muslim gentleman known to me came to attend the Bhandara programme. This gentleman was a liberal Shia Muslim cloth merchant. He also used to attend Satsang of Nirankari Mission. I used to visit his shop occasionally to buy clothes. After this incidence when I visited his shop I reminded him about his attending Bhandara Programme in our Branch Satsang, to my great pleasant surprise he told me that his son was pursuing his research work in astrophysics and used to refer to Hidayatnama from Sar Bachan (Poetry) for his research work in astrophysics.
ReplyDeleteKindly refer to para 172 of Article 112-The Recruitment of Human and Other Species on the Earth. "....Pind Desa is travelling in space round Brahmand and that Brahmand too, is making a similar revolution round the spiritual region. During the course of these revolutions, the Earth and the other spheres of the often come near such creations as possess fauna (including man) and flora differing to some extent from our own fauna and flora. This conjunction of above description often leads to some affinity between the subtler portions of our system and of those of the creations our Earth may have approached. Many new forms of life are often manifested on our Earth, and remain are often dug up as fossils of the species not to be found on this Earth."
ReplyDeleteThe above description may be compared with the panspermia theory' of evolution of species on Earth. Panspermia (Gr. Pan meaning "all" and spermia meaning "seed") is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the universe distributed by meteoroids, asteroids, comets, planetoids and also by spacecraft in the form of unintended contamination by microorganisms.
Reference my previous comments with regards to para 172, Article 112 from Discourses on Radhasoami Faith. Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) and Chandra ,Wickramasinghe (born 1939) were influential proponents of panspermia. In 1974 they proposed the hypothesis that some dust in interstellar space was largely organic (containing carbon), which Wickramasinghe later proved to be correct. Hoyle and Wickramasinghe further contended that life forms continue to enter the Earth's atmosphere and may be responsible for epidemic outbreaks, new diseases and the genetic novelty necessary for macroevolution.
ReplyDeleteIn an Origins Symposium presentation on April 7, 2009, Physicist Stephen Hawking stated his opinion about what humans may find when venturing into space, such as the possibility of alien life through the theory of panspermia: " Life could spread from planet to planet or from stellar system to stellar system, carried on meteors."
Comets might have brought life to Earth; Presence of RNA in universe can decode the mystery
ReplyDeleteIn a new research, scientists have revealed that comets might have brought life to Earth. It also lends further support to the theory that comets are the source of the organic molecules that made life possible on Earth, and perhaps elsewhere in the universe.
By Priyanka Singh - Apr 12, 2016
With an aim of decoding the origination of life on Earth, scientists have created an artificial comet and discovered the presence of one of the key elements of genetic material in living organisms which suggests that comets and asteroids bombardment might have brought life to Earth nearly four billion years ago.
Scientists have found sugar ribose “R” in RNA (Ribonucleic acid) in the cometary ice. Against the previous theory, the new study says that the R is more abundant in the universe than previously thought which points towards the existence of extraterrestrial life.
RNA is among the three essential macromolecules along with DNA and proteins that are necessary for all known life forms. Life is not possible without these three compounds. RNA forms under specific conditions and scientists believe that the first strand of RNA came on comets.
To make the artificial comet, scientists used three compounds ammonia, methanol and water as these compounds were present in the ancient time during the appearance of very first life form. Scientists kept the compounds in a vacuum and supplied heat which caused the compounds to sublimate leaving behind a thin film of material. The process was continued for six days and scientists obtained 100 micrograms of the artificial cometary ice residue.
It isn’t the first time that any team of researchers has created artificial cometary ice. However, it is the first time when researchers have found sugar like ribose in the sample of artificial cometary ice.
“Our ice simulation is a very general process that can occur in molecular clouds as well as in protoplanetary disks,” Meinert said. “It shows that the molecular building blocks of the potentially first genetic material are abundant in interstellar environments.”
The study has hinted towards the presence life in the artificial cometary ice but scientists still need to confirm it real samples of cometary ice. More importantly, the study has given a new insight into the origin of life and has strengthened the possibility of existence of extraterrestrial life.
The study appeared in the journal Science.