Chapter 5 - Rest Within
Day 37
A body comes into being by the union of energies. There are two subjects for inquiry. One is "I', and the other is "that".
Science asks the question, "What is that?" while spirituality asks, "Who am I?" The body is created by the proper organisation and coordination of energies.
Without the joining of two energies, the creation of a body is not possible, whether it is an ant's body or a human's. This is the only way to create a body.
This is natural and clear. Whenever a body is created, there is a union of two energies. Understand this energy and observe it.
Then you will understand the knowledge of a body's origin. These days, cloning is being done everywhere. Cloning is not a new subject.
In India, Gandhari did it. She made 100 pieces out of an embryo, and placed them in 100 pots and heated them.
However, who was born out of this - Duryodhana, Dushasan and others - is another matter. Gandhari made it possible though. What were they if they were not test-tube babies?
History would not describe cloning unless there was some truth in it. It is said in Ramayana that Ram flew back to Ayodhya in an aircraft.
They must have had a vehicle that was something like an aircraft or else why would that word have been in use or even created? Something like pushpak vimana may have been there.
The people then certainly had an understanding of these things. This sutra only mentions that by the fusion of two energies a body is created. After it is created, the life and spirit enter the body.
This sutra explains how consciousness is brought forth in something. In Himanchal Pradesh, the statues of gods shake, tremble, dance and write.
Scientists do not understand how the statues move. Consciousness has been brought forth in them. This is a very deep science.
The statues made from bronze, stone or panchadhatu, a mixture of five metals, move and write. This is very difficult to understand.
You may have read or heard about it. The energy of prana is moving in them. If you go to Kulu or Manali there are many such figures there.
Consciousness has been invited through prana vidya. It causes consciousness to enter into the statues. From the union of two energies, the body is created.
This sutra also means that both the energies are equal. It is not that either man or woman is superior. Both energies are equal, and only through their union can bodies be created.
This world is created by the union and separation of the five elements. This world is created by the union and separation of matter in the form of the five elements.
If you look at water, when you divide water you get oxygen and hydrogen, and from these two you can produce so many other combinations.
If five elements are split up, many new combinations can be produced. In the same way, an atom can be split into two, releasing tremendous energy, which is eventually used to generate electricity.
In the same way, this world is created from the five elements - water, fire, air, earth and space and the world moves due to the union and separation of these five.
This sutra is the start of science. If you mix the elements in different ways, you get different things. The existence of the world is based on their coming together and then separating.
This is not merely a belief, but it is a science. When at first a principle or rule is given, which you then try to understand, you are starting with belief science works differently.
In science, subjects are understood first and then accepted. The world's religions ask that you first accept and then understand.
Science says, first understand and only then accept. You cannot say, "I understand it, but do not accept it." Shiva Sutras can be read from both angles.
In India, science and religion
were never in conflict. The religious and scientific subjects of India are not only for belief, but they are scientific truths.
You can understand them, study them and experience them yourself. It has also been said not to accept anything without first hand experience.
