Vihangam Yoga unveils the mystery of the Universe
Ever since the dawn of civilization on this planet, the bipedal animals -- human beings -- have wondered about the creation of this universe. Science has been trying to unravel the mystery surrounding its origin since many centuries now but it is only within the last century that this problem has received significant attention. Since the early 20th century, scientists have believed that the universe was created by a cosmic explosion. This explosion originated from a place and the universe came into existence within the first 2 micro seconds of its creation. This explosion is popularly known as ‘the big bang’. With the big bang, along with the creation of galaxies, a radiation called the ‘Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Radiation’ was also emitted. It is the study of this CMB radiation that reveals the origin and the composition of the universe. This radiation was discovered by two radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in 1965. They received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1978 for this path-breaking finding.
In 1989, John Mather, a scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, curious to understand the origin of the universe and to better quantify the CMB radiation, sent out a satellite named COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) into orbit. Startling revelations about cosmic particles and the origin of universe came to light. In 2001, yet another satellite WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) followed the path of COBE to scan the universe. WMAP data endorsed the findings of COBE and established that the universe was, indeed, created with ‘a big bang’. The bulk constituent matters forming the cosmos were also now quantified. For this breakthrough and remarkable achievement, John Mather was honoured with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006. Through a series of research works done by Mather, it is now established that the universe is composed of ‘Dark Energy’- making the bulk of cosmos (~72%), ‘Dark Matter’ (23.4%) and ‘Baryonic Matter’ constituting the remaining 4.6% of the universe.
Let us understand these new and unfamiliar terminologies of cosmic physics. Newtonian physics states that it is the gravitational force that holds all celestial objects in the universe. Hence, all planets and their moons, solar systems, galaxies and super galaxies are bound together by this force. In 1929, Edwin Hubble (the Hubble Telescope is named after this great scientist) surprised the scientific community by proving theoretically that all super galaxies are tearing away from each other and the universe is expanding, defying gravity in some sense. Later in 1990, the pictures of the universe from NASA’s Hubble telescope confirmed Hubble’s proposition. This mysterious ‘anti-gravitational’ force causing the universe to expand was termed by cosmologists as ‘Dark Energy’. Yet another cosmic puzzle was the existence of ‘Dark Matter’. It is known that millions of solar systems form a galaxy. From a simple mathematics, the mass of all the solar systems in a galaxy when added should be equivalent to the total mass of the galaxy. However, the mass of a galaxy is found to be much more than the mass of all the solar systems in it. This ‘extra mass’ or the ‘missing mass’ is termed as ‘Dark Matter’. Dark Matter is the minutest form of matter that exerts gravitational pull and is formed of particles unknown to cosmologists. The matter which forms all objects around us and is detectable by instruments is called ‘Baryonic Matter’.
In a nutshell, even after decades and centuries of efforts, and the significant advances science has made, only 4-5% of the universe is known and the remaining 95-96% remains a mystery. Baryonic matter (4.6%) is known to us, but dark matter (23.4%) and dark energy (72%) is yet to be understood or even to be detected by instruments. And, the relative proportion of matter (dark matter + baryonic matter) to non-matter (dark energy) in the universe works out to ~ ¼:¾.
These discoveries may have been another addition to facts accumulated in mankind’s incessant quest to unfold mysteries of this queer universe, but this knowledge and much else that is yet to be unravelled, was already known to the yogis and sages of India. Sophisticated scientific instruments, satellites and atomic particle detectors, like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located at Geneva, Switzerland can definitely help us understand gross and subtler form of matter, but not all of the minutest forms. The smallest particles, their energy field, the science of creation and dissolution of the universe and more such things that are yet unknown to the scientific community are the domain of a yogi. A true yogi is one who possesses not only the secret knowledge of nature (or Paramanu) but also completely understands the spiritual science. In the last century, one such great yogi, His Holiness Sadguru Sadafaldeo Ji Maharaj, acquired all the secret knowledge of the cosmos through the practice of Vihangam Yoga. He wrote his experiences in the encyclopaedia of spirituality, the Swarveda. One of the verses says:
HetCe& ªHe ceQ peevelee, ye´ïe®e¬eÀ efJemleej~
ye´ïeefJeÐee ieæt{ leÊJe nw, meodieg© ke=ÀHee DeHeej~~
Poorn roop main jaanta, Brahmachakra vistaar |
Brahmvidya gudha tatva hai, Sadguru kripa apaar ||
--Swarveda 05/03/82
His Holiness says that through the knowledge of Brahmavidya (the knowledge of the supremely conscious entity), one can know the complete science of cosmos- from the minutest particles to the vast expanse of the universe. It is achieved by the blessings of the Sadguru, the eternal teacher of spirituality and the source of all hidden and secret knowledge. The following verse of Swarveda specifies the relative proportion of matter and non-matter spread across the universe.
SkeÀ Heeo ceW me=efä nw, Dece=le nw leerve Heeo~
ye× cegkeÌlemLeeve nw, DevegYeJe ieefle ieceJeeo ~~
Ek paad mein srishti hai, Amrit hai teen paad |
Baddh muktasthaan hai, Anubhav gati gamvaad ||
--Swarveda 04/11/18
The subtle most forms of matter, the Paramanu, interact with each other and create this gamut of solar systems, stars and galaxies within 1/4th of the Brahma (the supremely conscious plane), while the remaining 3/4th is pure nectarine bliss. This can only be experienced through meditation.
Although much of the universe is yet to be understood, but the proportion of ¼:¾ constituting the matter and non-matter, as known through modern science and as experienced by a yogi, is remarkably similar. There however is a subtle difference here in the definition of the supremely conscious plane, the Brahma, and the mysterious force, the dark energy. Although they both occupy the same proportion and engulf the universe, the dark energy operates within the nature or creation while the Brahma is beyond this creation and does not interact with nature. Even after significant advancement in the understanding of cosmic constituent elements, there are questions that remain unresolved. For instance, what is this mysterious force that is keeping the celestial objects in motion? Who created this force and how is it being governed and sustained?
Today, scientists do not have answers to these questions, but Swarveda provides an answer to this mystery. According to Swarveda it is the ‘Akshara Brahma’ (the cosmic executor, the conscious plane of spiritual energy), who creates, sustains and governs all forces in the universe. This cosmic executor created this universe and will finally dissolve it. Swarveda reveals:
efve:De#ej mes De#ej, De#ej mes mebmeej~
Deefcele me=efä ye´ïeeC[ keÀes, keÀjlee me=efä Hemeej ~~
Nihakshara se akshara, akshara se sansaar |
Amit srishti brahmand ko, karta srishti pasaar ||
-- Swarveda 05/09/37
De#ej keÀes ye´ïe keÀnle nQ, DekeÀn ÒepeeHeefle mees³e~
Deeefo Meyo meb®eeuekeÀ, Òeke=Àefle ceW ieefle nes³e ~~
Akshara ko brahma kahat hain, akah prajapati soye |
Aadi shabd sanchalak, prakriti mein gati hoye ||
--Swarveda 01/08/01
The ‘Akshara Brahma’ reveals itself from the ‘Nihakshara’ or the Supremely Conscious entity. It is this Akshara Brahma that provides energy to the inert elements of nature (minutest particles), which sets them in motion. Subsequently, the vast expanse of galaxies and super galaxies is created with interaction among these particles.
Parallel to the theory of the big bang, a process which created the universe, there are conjectures supporting the end of this creation. Similar to the theory of creation, science believes that the universe will come to an end. The end will perhaps happen in one of the following two ways: 1) the ‘big crunch’ hypothesis that the expanding universe will come to a stop, and galaxies will come together again, alternatively, 2) the universe will expand endlessly. For scientists, it is nearly impossible to comprehend the physics behind the process of ‘dissolution’ of the universe as it is not happening now and there are no data to verify any of these propositions. Scientists can hypothesise based on theoretical predictions but cannot confirm any conjectures. Swarveda describes the guiding force which dissolves the creation into its original state and how this creation and dissolution of universe repeats itself. The following verse explains:
De#ej ®esleve efvel³e nw, ÒekeÀì iegHle oes ªHe ~
me=efä Òeue³e peie leeefn mes, lee Hej Meyo DevetHe ~~
Akshara chetan nitya hai, prakat gupt do roop |
Srishti pralay jag tahi se, ta par shabd anoop ||
--Swarveda 05/09/01
Akshara Brahma is a conscious entity which creates the universe when it is present. The universe dissolves when the Akshara Brahma conceals itself. The Lord Almighty is beyond this creation and dissolution. This can be realised and experienced by a yogi in a higher spiritual state. Another spiritual book ‘Sankat Mochan’, written by His Holiness Sadguru Sadafaldeo Ji Maharaj, narrates the dissolution in a very elegant way as follows:
ue³ekeÀejer leJe MeeqkeÌle DeHeeje~ peemes ve<ì nes³e mebmeeje~~
ef#eefle HejceeCeg nukeÀe nesF&~ Jee³eg Jesie veYe T[le meesF&~~
ûenceeuee ìtìs Heue ceeefnb~ Òeue³e Ye³ebkeÀj ªHe meceeefnb~~
keÀejpe keÀejCe leÊJe efJeueervee~ jn HejceeCeg leÊJe DeYeervee~~
De#ej MJeeme DeblecegKe nesF&~ j®evee me=efä jns veefnb keÀesF&~~
DeeHe DeeHe jn Heg©
Kshiti parmanu halka hoyi | Vayu vegh nabh udath soyi ||
Grahmala tute pal mahin | Pralay bhayankar roop samahin ||
Kaaraj kaaran tatva vilina | Rah parmanu tatw abhinaa ||
Akshara Swans antmukh hoyi | Rachna srishti rahe nahin koyi ||
Aap aap rah purush akela | Shabd akhand anant amela ||
--Sankat Mochan
During the dissolution, the ‘parmanu’ or inert elements, devoid of energy from Akshara Brahma, tear apart and fly off in the universe at an incredible speed. The solar system, galaxies and super clusters in the cosmos fall apart in a moment. The Akshara Brahma conceals itself in the Supreme Lord Almighty and there is no creation then. The moving particles do not move any more and they go back to their primordial state of existence or the ‘mool prakriti’.
This vivid explanation of the creation and destruction of the universe found in the spiritual treatise written by Sadguru Sadafaldeo Ji Maharaj, is the experience and insight of a yogi, the knowledge a yogi achieves after years of hard penance. No scientist can ever know all the secrets of the cosmos without the blessings of the Sadguru, the spiritual master. And with His blessings all the mysteries can be unravelled!
Scientists can definitely unravel some of the mysteries, but not all of them, separated as they are by billions of years in time and space. Science has its limitations. A true seeker aspiring to become a complete scientist, who wants to understand the creation and dissolution of the universe and wants to gain knowledge ranging from the most minute particles to the vast expanse of our universe, has to necessarily first seek the Sadguru. This knowledge is only one of the many which the Vihangam Yoga science of spirituality offers to its regular practitioners.
-- Kumar Hemant Singh
Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Associate Research Scientist, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland
Instructor, North America Institute of Vihangam Yoga
Email: hemantgfz@gmail.com
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