What do you expect from a boy of 10? He is growing up. Exploring everything around.Playful.Mischievous. Boys are Boys. After all,he is a boy. All pranks are excused. Even you enjoy them. A certain liberty is assumed.
But strange is the story of this boy.He was not sick. Very healthy indeed physically. He also played football. He was also going to school. Then what is so unusual about him?
Listen.All on a sudden , he got an idea. He did a thought experiment . We have heard of scientists devising ingenious thought experiments. You may be aware of Einstein's thought experiment of chasing the light and to understand what would be the consequences. The consequences are that he revolutionized our concept of time and space fathering the theory of relativity.
But this boy also revolutionized things in another sense.
He lies down on a bed. Closes his eyes. Assumes that he is dead. In other words , enacts death.
Ok. I am dead.
He keeps all limbs so tight to enact rigor mortis.
Thought process goes on.
Ok . What will happen ?
They will take this body to the cremation ground and cremate. The dead body is reduced to ashes.
Ok . In that process , is everything obliterated ?
Is it the end of everything ?
Is it a complete annihilation ?
Of course many scientists would answer these questions with YES.
But this boy did not get that answer.
Even when this body is turned into ashes which form part of the physical world , the " I " is still there.It is eternal . That is immortal. That is never destroyed.
He got that Illumination in a flash .
The rest is history.
And that thought experiment gave to the world a remarkable personality who would be a beacon for generations to come. Don't think it is a mythological story. The boy lived in twentieth century. He was none other than RAMANA MAHARSI . We don't know what triggers transformation in individuals.
Sayee Jayaraman
22/02/2015
But strange is the story of this boy.He was not sick. Very healthy indeed physically. He also played football. He was also going to school. Then what is so unusual about him?
Listen.All on a sudden , he got an idea. He did a thought experiment . We have heard of scientists devising ingenious thought experiments. You may be aware of Einstein's thought experiment of chasing the light and to understand what would be the consequences. The consequences are that he revolutionized our concept of time and space fathering the theory of relativity.
But this boy also revolutionized things in another sense.
He lies down on a bed. Closes his eyes. Assumes that he is dead. In other words , enacts death.
Ok. I am dead.
He keeps all limbs so tight to enact rigor mortis.
Thought process goes on.
Ok . What will happen ?
They will take this body to the cremation ground and cremate. The dead body is reduced to ashes.
Ok . In that process , is everything obliterated ?
Is it the end of everything ?
Is it a complete annihilation ?
Of course many scientists would answer these questions with YES.
But this boy did not get that answer.
Even when this body is turned into ashes which form part of the physical world , the " I " is still there.It is eternal . That is immortal. That is never destroyed.
He got that Illumination in a flash .
The rest is history.
And that thought experiment gave to the world a remarkable personality who would be a beacon for generations to come. Don't think it is a mythological story. The boy lived in twentieth century. He was none other than RAMANA MAHARSI . We don't know what triggers transformation in individuals.
Sayee Jayaraman
22/02/2015
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