We God and Astronomy and More

 In these columns we will talk and think and write about the relationship with We ourselves, God and Astronomy and many other things associated.
 When do we require God the most?
 Probably more when we are in duress, under stress and strain or are in danger of something. Now what would an atheist look to under such circumstances. The atheist would probably look to nature like a scene from The Grand Canyon or the deep calm river  Alaknanda flowing below as watched from a cliff or the view of the ice capped Himalayan scene as seen from a large distance. These would soothe his mind.
 In any case what you are looking at is a higher power that relieves your fear.
 Now the believer in God has a quick fix answer that is embedded in mythology and our social upbringing. Other examples quoted above for an atheist are Earthen whether The Grand Canyon, the view of the river or the Himalayas.
 Now let us look on a very different plane let us have a view of the night skies. It welcomes you with a lovely vision of the Milky Way and innumerable Stars around and on many occasions the Moon. Probably this would be a more amazing view if you were to move away from the illumination of the artificial lights of the city that obscures the clarity of this scene.Closer look and you will see Star formations the constellations and much more. A look at the day sky with a bright sunny sky has a Sun blowing all its energy to make your life workable and all this worthwhile. Once you start reading the Suns worth its dimensions the Hydrogen Helium explosions under which it works and the magnitude of its size and energy and its potential do you start realizing what a speck you are in the worldly scheme of things.
 As we start magnifying our lives and start watching a billion Suns in the Milky Way's just one arm and know the size of the Galaxy and know that our neighboring galaxy Android is twice the size of the Milky Way and expand your mind to know the the Local Group of Galaxy will we start realising the extent of the endless possibilities that await us and the higher powers of Gods nature.

Knowing Ourselves

 Probably the most intriguing of all the questions that come to our mind are: Where did we come from? What is our purpose in life? Where did it all began? What are our origins?
 Now let us get back a little in time. You are born to your parents. They were born to our grandparents. Then come the great grand parents. I for one succinctly remembers my grandfather and my grandmother when as a child I used to travel to them during summer holidays.  I know the name of my great grand father and great grand mother as these are essential during various Hindu rites but know nothing about them. And beyond that it is all blank a cul-de-sac to most of us.(It may all be very good for everyone of us to start writing the family tree so that the coming generations know of their parental heritage better).  So does it all end here! Our search to find our origins.
 Instead of tracking yourself backwards in time I think it is easier to directly go to the origins of life and the best way is the astronomers eyes, telescopes a lot of astronomical data and astrophysics and maths. This may initially sound heavy but it is really not so as the Sky, its Stars, the Moon and the Milky Way have been too close to our minds and hearts. It is besotted in our mythology, our social upbringing. It is inculcated in our culture.
 Let us begin with the notion that initially there was nothing but a void. We will not get into the astrophysics of it all which does assume the same. There was no life, no Earth, no Moon, no Sun, no Stars, no brightness probably a dark, an unknown. Just a vast vast expanse of nothingness.
 The astronomers don't have any clue even today to what may have spurred the Big Bang. What may have triggered off or what were the circumstances under which it all took place"The expansion which popularly is known as the Big Bang". Did God have anything to do with this  or would the God Particle in the  CERN experiment explain more. Only time will tell.

 However the astronomers have some clue to what may have happened a few thousand years later when matter began to form in the void of the cosmos. The matter that began to form in the same form it is today constituting the same 92 elements that envelope and inhibit the cosmos. The life forms that were born out of these elements including our very own physical form. This definitely points out to the scheme of things in the sky and of our relationship with the cosmos including the Earth, the Moon, the Stars, the Galaxies and anything beyond that. That we are a part of the cosmos.

 The Positive Conspiracy

 If you decide to embark on a desire, vow to take it up as a mission, promise yourself to achieve it through all dedication and perseverance the entire cosmos will conspire to help you achieve your goal.

 To achieve what you will need is a positive attitude. The opposite one, ‘the other one’ need not even be in your vocabulary. Your mind has to be concentrated to achieve the target you have in mind. Like the flowing river your thought process has to be unidirectional.

 Why only positive attitude. The reason is simple. This cosmos, this, universe was a void, was an empty space. The universe was born out of a positive trigger as we all know and later matter came into being and now a huge cosmos still growing positively and enlarging its spheres in the form of moons, planets, sun’s and galaxies galore in the emphatic sky. The process is to grow positively to achieve. All the destruction that takes place while the cosmos grows is for a bigger scheme of things eg there is destruction in a star burning into millions of atomic explosions and there is a beginning and an adulthood and an end to it. But there will be rebirth from its ashes and more mass and more energy will be generated in the process. This and such could happen in nebular clouds of gas as the cosmos keeps endlessly expanding. It is this positive connotation that drives this universe and is embedded and catapulted in every iota of the cosmos.