MAN MACHINE VERSUS
MACHINE MAN
Prof:-P.Sriramamurti
4/112, Vidyut Nagar,
Dayalbagh, Agra-5
1. “Man is a Tool using Animal”.
Param Guru Sahabji Maharaj, one of the greatest scientists of Spiritual
Consciousness explained that a tool is an apparatus employed for achieving big
results with the help of nature in conformity with its laws.
Radhasoami Dayal, the Supreme Source of Infinite Spirit Force, in His Mercy,
uses a unique tool, the Satguru, whom He uses to uplift the spirits from the
ocean of low spirituality making them attain higher levels of
Spiritual Consciousness.
2. There is a huge difference between
tools invented by man and the tools of God which work for achieving the purpose
of creation in accordance with the laws of nature. Man-Machine is an
evolved man, a complete man, a Superman, Homo Spiritualism, a Param Sant, in
tune with Primordial Infinite Reservoir of Spiritual Consciousness. A
Machine Man is a device invented by scientist, endowing it with Artificial
Super Intelligence of the highest order conceivable, a Super Robot.
3. It is feared that the Bostrom Machine
man will supersede natural man governed by the Law of Accelerated Returns.
Others say it will not happen. There will be controls over its
performance again mechanically managed or by spiritually Super-Intelligent
Natural Super Man – Ray Kurzweil.
4. Computers are exceeding human
intelligence. Super-intelligent machines Spiritual machines are soon
coming into existence. This fast development of artificial intelligence
is feared to overtake the efficiency of man who is the creator of all these
machines, himself. Bostrom and others caution – “we need to be super
careful with AI which is potentially more dangerous than nukes” while Ray
Kurzweil holds the view that humans will not be outpaced by the AIs. They
will only enhance the capabilities of men merging with their own creations. In
this predicament certain fundamental questions arise. What is the
destination of all this? Does it coincide with the purpose and goal of
evolution of creation as believed and understood although in the great
Religious Traditions of the world?
5. Did not the Supreme Spiritual
Intelligence that brought into existence all this creation foresee this?
Everything is in order eg., Evolution of man through physical &
chemical, physiological & biological, psychological & scientific,
philosophical & spiritual to a Complete man, a Superman,
“in whom life and attributes of spirit shall have the fullest expression, men
through whom the gracious object of creation would be truly fulfilled.” “
Man will then readily recognize one another as brothers, and nations and
communities will sink their differences and work for the common good.”
6. The arrangement for such a course
of evolution of Superman is made by the Supreme Primeval Spiritual
Intelligent Force (which traditionally is designated as God -
Merciful Radhasoami) characterized as Infinite Reservoir of Chaitanya
(Spirituality) or Sat, Chit, Anand, Prem, Prakash. According to Bruce
H.Lipton (The Biology of Belief), we are made in the image of the Universe with
its benign Creator, the environment created by God. As such we
are designed by nature to fit in that environment not in the
environment we are now waking. We all represent a small part of the
whole, -- a small part of God.
7. If humans were to model the
life style of healthy communities of cells , including from subatomic particles
to cell to neurons and embodied spirit entities of higher order like men the
earth will be more peaceful. He concludes : The members of that
enlightened community will recognize that we are made in the image of such an
environment i.e., we are divine, and that we have to operate that not in
a survival of the fittest manner, but in a way that supports everyone and
everything on this planet.
8. It is easier to make a man of wax or
an intelligent (emotional) or spiritual machine endowed with a
sort of creativity, looking at which one may wonder whereas in order to
produce a living child, in bearing and nurturing it, every
mother has to undergo suffering. The communities undertaking the
responsibility to produce perfect men, intelligent and spiritual with values of
the highest level have to undergo lots of trouble.
9. The child when
born is very weak and small. In order to develop it physically and
mentally and also spiritually, the communities have got to plan and execute it
in a number of ways. “The Seva of producing a real living
child and develop it into Superman appears to be entrusted to the
Radhasoami Satsang by Almighty. Though our progress would be slow and we
have to undergo pain and suffering and remain much behind for quite a
long time, our task is real and genuine and the world with all its
living beings would get real happiness from it and the object of creation as
enunciated by Saints would be fully accomplished in a natural way.
10.Sahabji Maharaj said that
Nature desires now to bring into existence a race in this
world whose members may possess in them the virtues of four Varnas
collectively. This Superman is known as Satsangi in Hindi. The
Community of these people would form Spiritual Aristocracy. In this world
the Satguru alone is such a perfect Being, a Superman. Other Supermen
will be produced on His pattern, under His guidance, from those who
have surrendered to Radhasoami Dayal. The Satguru is the Sun and
Satsangi is like a ray.
11.Radhasoami Dayal selected the
Community of Radhasoami Satsang for doing the greatest service of producing
Supermen. Satsangis and Satsangins should therefore handover their
children to Satsang so that it might form the beginning and they are brought up
under the management of Satsang. This will be of great help in achieving
that object. Arrangements are being introduced in Satsang for the care of
children and their upbringing and education from the time of their birth.
The result would be that they would naturally have love for Satsang and a feeling
in their hearts that they should serve Satsang. Their number will go on
increasing in geometric proportions. As some of these
Supermen invent useful things for the welfare of mankind in tune with
natural environment and fulfil the object of creation. They will naturally have
control of all the advances and inventions that are made by men.
12.The parents also can attract
souls of higher Sanskaras by leading an ideal life and procreating in
accord to the Divine plan for spiritualization of all creation.
Conscious parents and seers know that for human babies and adults the
best promoter into higher life forms is love. “Love is the water of
life”. We are made in the image of God and the
natural environment made by Him. The more we harmonize with
them the better for natural evolution of a man strong in body, intelligent in
mind and loving in spirit.
13.In conscious parenting, parents
function as genetic engineers. Children (embodied spirit entities)
as small creatures have a pre –birth life in the womb and before entering
the womb. Parental programming influences the power of the Sub-conscious
mind, while he inherits the (Sanskars) tendencies from the earlier lives
and from the start of creation. The experience in the womb shapes
the brain and contributes to their personality development. Conscious
conception and conscious pregnancy as also conscious nurturing of the
child from conception are very important.
14.Hence the object of the Satsang is to
make Satsangis obey the orders of the Satguru and then definitely the race of
Supermen would come into being through the Satsang. The present Sant Satguru of
Radhasoami Satsang, Dayalbagh who assumed the role of Chairman, Avisory
Committee on Education in Dayalbagh Educational Institutes , started
recently a scheme of Pre-Nursery training in Dayalbagh which is
designated as Superman Scheme under which parents of children of age 3 months
to 3 years bring them to Satsang, PT, Fields and all other functions and expose
them to Satsang Way of life intimately from infanthood to facilitate their
growing into Supermen. It has also been announced that we should become
buzz-worthy or Consciousness-worthy through publicizing our scientific
investigations on the phenomenology of high spiritual life of Radhasoami
Satsang and experimentations.
15.It is extremely difficult to
describe the origin of creation. Intelligence is incapable of
grasping it and speech is incapable of describing it. Yet every founder
of religion, philosopher and scientist expressed his ideas about it. The
Radhasoami Faith having the highest revelations tells that Supreme Being,
the Infinite Ocean of Spirituality, was in a state of absolute
self-absorption before creation. A commotion (an upheaval or Mauj)
arose in Him which manifested as a spiritual Shabda (sound).
16.The energy of the Supreme Being had
two characteristics – ‘angas’ – one that of spreading out
from the pole and spirit (magnetizing) the particles in its field of
action and the second part of attracting the those particles towards the
pole. “Surat Ang’ and ‘Shabda ang’ and on account of excess or
deficiency of these two characters in a particle of
spirit entity , there is distinction of male and female in the creation.
Shabda Ang predominates in male and Surat Ang in female.
17.The imitation in articulate
speech of the sound of the spirit current is ‘Radha’ and that of commotion or
wave is ‘Soami’. Thus the one holy name or the Supreme mantra of the
origin and source of all spirituality in creation is “Radhasoami”. The first
Primeval Form of the Infinite Source of Spirituality was only elliptical like
the forms of all other force centres in the universe.
18.The Primordial Omni Spirit Force, an
Infinite Reservoir of Spirituality acted in three phases. It was in a
comatose condition of potential state of polarization before creation. With the
First-Big-Bang-Mauj, an upheaval in the Infinite Reservoir of
Spirituality and a wave came out “Soami” and “Radha” and announced itself
as Radhasoami – an integral Sound - Unity of Spirit and Shabda. The
momentum created the Nirmal Chetan Desha with its 6 sub-divisions. Then
Second Big Bang mentioned in Vedas as Ikshana, created
the Brahmandas (at the bottom of Maha Sunn, the buffer region separating
the Region of Pure Spirit and Universal Minds). The third Big Bang took
place below Chidakasa, the buffer region separating Regions of Universal
Minds and Material Regions, which created the physical universe we
see. This is the Big Bang scientists describe.
19.The Spirit Force with
innumerable spirit entities of different grades entered these Lokas
and assumed different bodies made of clouds of low spirituality that
enveloped them before creation. Special arrangements were made to uplift the
Jivas . Arrangements for reclamation of the Jivas to the Infinite
Source are made by sending Avatars from Brahmand and finally Nirmal
Chetan Desh. Avatar of Sant Satguru came as a finale of others from
Brahmand and started work of salvation of Jivas taking them upto higher
spiritual regions and finally to Radhasoami Dham.
20.Starting from the lower rung of the
ladder of evolution, the spirit first conquered the forces of inorganic
matter and converted a portion of it into organic matter and then evolved mind
and ultimately reason. For a very long time our planet was a whirling
mass of minute particles of lifeless matter, spinning in space at a great
velocity. Undergoing necessary transformations, it became fit to be home
of life. Protoplasm appeared on the surface of its waters and organisms
were formed.
21.The forces of spirit further
proceeded and evolved many forms of life and in succession till at last
they produced the first man. The idea of evolving higher species appears
to be dropped and the forces of spirit then directed their attention to evolve
mind and produced the modern man so well-grown and developed in
reason.
22.All knowledge of humanity has been
unfolded and will be discharged by spirits possessing the mental caliber –
scientists, philosophers, and spiritual leaders. Spiritual
knowledge , however was communicated to humanity i.e. revealed by
prophets and incarnations from Brahmanda and Nirmal Chetan Desh.
23.Scientific investigations by
mathematicians and physicists are giving convincing explanations for the statements
of Vedic Rishis and Sants of Eastern Religions and Radhasoami
Faith. They found that the size of those physical particles is
infinitesimally small and the smaller they get the larger capacity they possess
(anoraniyan mahato mahiyanअणोरणीयान्महतो महीयान् ) and (आसीनो दूरं
व्रजति शयानो याति सर्वत: asino duram vrajati sayono yati sarvatah). And the sizes are
akin to those of mind-particles and spirit particles (spirit entities as
described by Religion). They can penetrate into all regions of
physical world and survive there and also get into mind-world (Brahmanda) and
spirit-world (Nirmal Chetan Desh) possessing infinite capabilities.
The inventions and discoveries of modern science are no wonders to the
religious people as they have been known to them intimately.
24.The spirit of the Satguru is also a
motion and the Satguru makes His motion reach the mind and spirit of the person
on whom He directs His glance of mercy. This brings about a
change in his mind and spirit. There is a parallel between the conquests of
emperors and those of the spirit in the evolution of life.
25.It is now endeavouring to evolve a
race of Superman in whom life and attributes of spirit will have fullest
expression. Every normal parent presently wants to raise his children
beyond himself. In this manner humanity is steadily advancing
towards form of life that will be rich in knowledge , that will
comprehend and appreciate its surroundings better and that will not rest till
it has realized Ultimate Reality moving towards Right Consciousness and
Omni-consciousness.
26.Education is the technique of
transmitting as completely as possible, the technological, intellectual, moral
and artistic heritage through which the race forms the growing individual
and makes him completely human, a Superman. Such a sustained effort and
continued progress would evolve a race of higher men through whom the gracious
object of creation would be truly
fulfilled.
27.It is only then that the forces of
Spirit would rejoice at their greatest victory over the forces of matter.
Mankind will then understand the use of acquisitive principle; rancor and
strife, distrust and jealousy that disfigure human society today will cease to
exist in the world forever.
28.Human beings have already started
living beyond reason and lower intuitions. Real life has
significance when it goes beyond reason to ethics, values and beauty.
Reason is only a tool for the fundamental will and desire (Mauj). It
should be used to help us get what we want for our ultimate good.
Exploring limitations of knowledge, reason and intuitions of lower order
man should pursue his ultimate good with the help of Supermen who
realized Ultimate Reality.
29.God created a unique man machine in
the human form of Supreme Saint (Param Sant) who has access to all the Regions
of Creation. Other humans too by submitting a Prayer to
the Param Sant can access to the Infinite Source of Consciousness , the
Creator God through whom it reaches Him and get a response. The
Supreme Being in fact is working out the salvation of all spirit
entities through that mechanism only to make them Supermen like Him.
Human Brain is evolved by Him through Nature, His creation, in such a way as to
contain all the doorways to all the creational regions. When Param
Sant incarnated, the Brain was evolved in full. The doors are all kinetic in
Him and are there in other humans as potential doorways to be
opened when a person is trained in the Surat Shabda Yoga meditation technique
by Param Sants. Surat Shabda Yoga technique comprises listening to the unstruck
sounds inwardly at various subtle nerve centres of mind and spirit resonating
there, under the guidance of a contemporary accomplished teacher.
One then becomes a Superman who can control even the so called
superintelligent machines.
30.Scientists are building
intelligent machines and even spiritual machines which would act and
react emotionally with values as fed to them and create new things
and even create the robots anew in their turn. They are not
endowed with spiritual entities but with chips highly charged which could
act in a way following the value system fed into it. This
feeding is being done based on their knowledge of the human brain and their
functional capacities in terms of physical and electro-chemical, biological and
neurological functions. They are working just at the threshold of
brain-mind interface without even recognizing mind-spirit interface. The
mind centres in brain located in grey matter and the spirit centres
located in white matter on the line of division of left-right lobes of the brain
are not only not identified but also the second and third level
flows of mental and spirit currents are considered.
31.One should understand that the neural
circuitries of flow of attention currents of mind and spirit in outward and
the inward directions have not been fully explored. They are
explained only by the organic physiologists of eastern medicines and
masters of Yoga techniques of different traditions in the world
including Sufi and Sant traditions. It is
therefore a desideratum to tackle and apply these methods for exploring mind
and spirit which alone enables one to understand the true nature of
consciousness. The Universe created by the primeval Consciousness is one
indivisible organic whole in which not only energy and matter are deeply
entangled but also the mind and the spirit.
32.It is said that true experiences in
living beings belong to the the spirit entities residing in them which is
directly perceived when a spirit entity turns inwards and
establishes harmony with the internal sound produced by the flow of the
kinetic spirit current. The faculties of extra-sensory perception in the near
death experiences, knowledge of past lives, and inner visions
pertain to higher mind and spirit. They cannot be had by
chips . It is the prerogative of the spirit entity only. So a
machine man without being endowed with the presence of a spirit
entity cannot have an experience of the sort of pain and
pleasure that embodied humans have. In our quest for Consciousness,
we should not ignore this fundamental truth and biindly go after
illusions created by pseudo-Science. The human machine designed by
nature has this system where all functions are controlled by
spirit force which supervises all activites in creation.
33.As Bruce H.Lipton has rightly said
the intelligent cells should be allowed to propel humanity to go up one
more rung upwards the evolutionary ladder so that the living beings endowed
with love and higher consciousness not only just survive but thrive.
Scientists should try to understand the natural order of things in
creation at all levels and live in harmony with it such that the gracious
object of creation as enunciated by Saints be realized . Providence has created man
in the image of God in an environment designed by nature that is the
counterpart of Infinite Reservoir of Spirit Force. Spirit and
Science should be united to create a better world. The Super intelligence
of the Supreme Spirit Force will certainly take care of the passing
phases of our intellectual vagaries in the course of
evolution.
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