Invisible
“g”
If tomorrow morning you hurry out of your house and find the pavement
under your feet gently moving like a conveyor belt, quickly, to keep
abreast with your house you will be compelled to walk. Suddenly, the
ground speed doubles, you have to break into a run. A greater acceleration,
a swifter run and to your unthought horror it climbs to an incredible
1000 mph. Man's over-estimated maximum speed is 25 mph and say you
manage the impossible 1000 but then a blasting wind of 66,600 mph
hits you head on. Will you still maintain balance? Who or what can
survive the savage impact of 66,600 mph. It is amply capable of stripping
the earth bare of all buildings, nature and life and can certainly
send the puny 'us' spinning into space, dead.
This is what would happen if there was no gravity! The earth rotates
on its axis at the equatorial speed of 1000 mph and orbits the sun
at 66,600 mph. We remain safe on earth, thanks to gravitational force
('g'). But who has seen little 'g'? No one. Yet, does anyone doubt
its existence?
Before the invention of telescopes, the early astronomers were puzzled
by the erratic orbit of Uranus. Many dismissed it perfunctorily. However,
one adamant French astronomer, Leverrier, postulated the existence
of another planet beyond it. He was right. Two more planets were discovered
- Neptune and Pluto and it was observed that at certain periods the
very close presence of Neptune ensued this freakish change in Uranus'
orbit. As intelligent beings it would be foolish of us to refute these
inter-planetary force fields on the account of their invisibility.
Sometimes things invisible are more important and crucial in life
than things visible. Man needs three things for survival: food, shelter
and clothing. Naturally, a deprivation of any of the three, creates
a calamity. But even in a majestic mansion, adorned with fabulous
clothes and on a lavishly feasted stomach try surviving only five
minutes without air! Air is invisible but that does not stop it from
being the most important. It is our vital life support. We take air
for granted because it is free and unseen. How many times need we
remind ourselves that it is not the lofty sails but the unseen wind
that moves the ship.
From wind, gravity to the magical electromagnetic waves of the remote
control world, all are invisible and will forever remain unseen However,
intelligence and inference makes them as clear as the bright sun.
The only proof of invisible forces lies hidden in a deeper delving
into and experiencing their effects. The following is a real account
of a man who, through confidence, inference and perseverance unravelled
the ultimate source of a mysterious force that saved him in the First
World War.
What Saved Him?
Prof. Ronald Nixon, a brilliant graduate of Cambridge University was
a fighter pilot during the First World War. His job was to bombard
the enemy territory. One day, while on a reconnoitering mission he
sensed half a dozen fighters roaring low as his plane veered off to
the left.
A force was pulling him, the sheer magnitude of which confounded him.
But it was too incredible to be doubted. Confidence reappeared at
the controls as he returned back to base. He alighted briskly to be
told by tension-taut faces that he had done splendidly well to return
back promptly as a number of enemy fighter planes would have blown
him to smithereens. A wave of thankful delight filled him. While his
friends crowded him in cheers Ronald's mind stole aloof, isolated
in mystery, far far away into an unknown world wrestling with an unanswered
question. What had saved him so miraculously? What could have been
that mysterious force?
Straight after the war, he left the airforce, shunned his professorship
and shrugged off all materialistic interests to embark upon an exhaustive
search for that force. It was the spiritual world he entered, a world
with unending horizons and lasting visions. Finally in India, he surrendered
at the feet of a 'guru' and embraced a fresh life and the name of
Yogi Krishnaprem. Through long hours of devotion, meditation and service
he enjoyed visions of God and in his later life wrote of his experiences
with the invisible energies of God.
The Surest Way To
See God
The most essential ingredient in the spiritual world is faith. No
matter how weather-beaten you struggle, faith should always flourish.
At the end of the Second World War the Allied forces as they swept
across Germany found these words scratched on a crumbling wall by
a victim of the Holocaust:
I believe in the Sun - even when it does not shine
I believe in Love - even when it is not shown
I believe in God - even when he does not speak.
However there is one sure and absolute route to seeing and communicating
with God. A genuine aspirant, carrier of unswerving faith and unflagging
determination, if he surrenders unto the enlightened spiritual guru,
the vision and knowledge of God is revealed to him. A classic example
is Narendra Nath, a brilliant young brain burdened with a thousand
doubts. He questioned Ramakrishna Paramhansa.
"Have you seen God?"
"Yes," came the reply
"How?"
"As I see you."
That was it. Enough to cure his agnostic deformity. The short answers
sparked across a divine impulse of honesty and surety. A fresh flower
of faith sprung alive within him, which he plucked and offered to
Ramakrishna, his spiritual Guru from thereafter. The young man was
to become Swami Vivekanand.
Thus to see and experience God one must seek out an enlightened Guru
and implicitly serve him. And today there are thousands of people
who confidently testify of having touched God through His Holiness
Pramukh Swami Maharaj.
Sadhu
Brahmaviharidas
