First Cause?
What is the cause of the cosmos? Is it Brahman?
From where do we come? By what live?
Where shall we find peace at last?
What power governs the duality
Of pleasure and pain by which we are driven?
Time, nature, necessity, accident,
Elements, energy, intelligence--
None of these can be the First Cause.
They are effects, whose only purpose is
To help the self rise above pleasure and pain.
-Shvetashvatara Upanishad
From where do we come? By what live?
Where shall we find peace at last?
What power governs the duality
Of pleasure and pain by which we are driven?
Time, nature, necessity, accident,
Elements, energy, intelligence--
None of these can be the First Cause.
They are effects, whose only purpose is
To help the self rise above pleasure and pain.
-Shvetashvatara Upanishad
posted by Gary O'Connor at 8:07 AM
2 Comments:
Ah, Gary, this is exactly the centerpoint of First Cause, and the Truth that is being expressed in the section above.
I've been listening to a lecture series on the origin of life, and it's interesting that (at least so far) the series has not addressed the issue of First Cause. The origins scientists seem to believe that if they can duplicate the basic chemical processes of life, they've solved the problem! So we go from the extreme of the fundamentalists to scientists who don't question the origin of either initial matter or the energy Source that minimizes or eliminates entropy.
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