More on Creationism

In my previous post I tried to explain what Vedas has to say on creation of Universe and its comparison to Big Bang theory. But as I said words are always less to explain the thoughts from Vedas. So here I am continuing with the discussion with regards to space and time.

As its said that before Big Bang, there was no space and time, there were no distances between any tow objects, there was no relation between anything and no relativity. The Big Bang says there was one point, the nucleus of expanding Universe. But this point, this nucleus was neither in time nor in space as the space and time were not created then. So where was this point. Thus definitely it was not a geometrical point, it is neither geometrically describable nor logically conceivable. That is why the philosophers says about this point "it is a center which is everywhere, with circumference nowhere. It is as if the center of this circle has become the circumference itself." In Euclidean geometry we can't have such a circle.

So this Big Bang theory's center is everywhere, it means it is in everyone of us, every particle of this Universe. And the only thing I can imagine of who is in everyone and is everywhere is Him, the God, the Brahma... And he resides in everyone of us. Thus the Vedas says "Aham Brahmosmi" and "Soham".

OK, so now lets consider more. One of commentary on Big Bang says "There was no space and time before the Big Bang took place; therefore, there was no distance of one thing from another. We have come from a distanceless point, which means to say that even now, at this moment, when we appear to be far, far away—inconceivable light years of distance from that point—we are still sitting at that point only." So then where is creation if after millions year of spatial expansion we come to be at the same place.

Is this all Illusion, Maya? Are we trapped in a Matrix thinking te illusion as reality and waiting for the One to come....

Running child shell even after parent shell closes

Once in my project I was facing a strange problem. We have created a service script to start our product as a service in *nix. To start the service one need to give the command "service start" command on command prompt. However, to ease user we also provided a GUI with a start button to start the service. Now here starts the interesting part of story.

When user starts the service using the UI and as soon as closes the UI after starting the service, the service also used to get stop. After banging my head against the PC hundred times I got the clue and solution :)..

Reason for the above behavior: the SIGHUP signal

SIGHUP is a signal sent to a process when its controlling terminal ( or parent terminal) is closed. This signal causes all child processes to terminate when the terminal which launched them is closed. In my case, the GUI was launched using a shell script, and when the UI was closed, the shell script gets closed and thus the launched service as well.

Solution : NOHUP

NOHUP is a command to ignore SIGHUP signal, enabling the command to keep running even after the controlling terminal terminates. The nohup syntax :

nohup command-name &

And pufffff.... magic was done

And on the last note, nohup prevents logging so to get logs you must redirect I/O stream to some text file using > indirection

Stay tuned....

Pre Universe : Cosmology

On this lazy Saturday I am sitting alone in my flat and thinking something to do. Suddenly I started thinking about Universe, its creation, the state before Bing Bang theory. I took one of book from my collection and started reading it. I started reading "Nasdiya Sukta" the creation hymn from Rigveda and tried to link it with Big Bang theory and thus is this blog post.

Nasdiya Sukta philosophically describes the state before creation of universe, how secret the cosmology is and how creation of universe started. Though its always tough to explain vedic philosophy with limited set of words, I will try my best.

नासदासीन् नो सदासीत् तदानीं नासीद् रजो नो व्योमापरो यत्

किमावरीवः कुह कस्य शर्मन्नम्भः किमासीद् गहनं गभीरम्|1|

In pre-creational state of universe "not the non-existent existed, nor did the existent exist then". Then was neither being nor non-being; there was no realm of air nor sky beyond. What covered it, and where? what sheltered it? Was water there, unfathomed depth of water?

न मृत्युरासीदमृतं न तर्हि न रात्र्या अह्न आसीत्प्रकेतः

आनीदवातं स्वधया तदेकं तस्माद्धान्यन् न परः किं चनास|2|

Death was not then, nor was there immortal; no sign was there, nor day's and night's divider( as no Sun and moon were there) . "The One" being, breathless, breathed by its own nature: apart from it there was nothing else.

तम आसीत् तमसा गूळमग्रेऽप्रकेतं सलिलं सर्वमाइदम्

तुच्येनाभ्वपिहितं यदासीत् तपसस्तन्महिनाजायतैकम्|3|

Darkness there was: at first concealed in darkness all was indiscriminate chaos. The stage was different from real-unreal, truth-false and there was no knowledge of existence. All that existed then was void and formless: by the great power of warmth was born "The One". When compared 2nd and 3rd hymns with Big Bang, the Big Bang says there was one indescribable point, the nucleus of the would-be expanding universe. That nucleus was not in space and not in time, because space and time had not been created yet - the basic quantum uncertainty.

कामस्तदग्रे समवर्तताधि मनसो रेतः प्रथमं यदासीत्

सतो बन्धुमसति निरविन्दन् हृदि प्रतीष्याकवयो मनीषा|4|

Thereafter rose desire in the beginning, desire, the primal seed and germ of spirit. Seers who searched their heart for wisdom discovered the bond of being within non-being with their heart's thought.

तिरश्चीनो विततो रश्मिरेषामधः स्विदासी दुपरिस्विदासी

रेतोधाआसन् महिमान आसन् स्वधा अवस्तात् प्रयतिः परस्तात्|5|

Transversely was their severing line extended: what was above it then, and what below it? There were seminal begetters, there were mighty forces, free action here and energy up yonder. The desires originated and also the consumers of the desires.

को अद्धा वेद क इह प्र वोचत् कुत आजाता कुत इयंविसृष्टिः

अर्वाग् देवा अस्य विसर्जनेनाथा को वेद यतआबभूव|6|

Who knows and who can say, whence it was born and whence came this creation? The Gods are later than this world's creation. Who knows then whence it first came into being? Here the Gods means the gods of air, water, fire but not the Supreme One.

इयं विसृष्टिर्यत आबभूव यदि वा दधे यदि वा

न यो अस्याध्यक्षः परमे व्योमन् सो अङ्ग वेद यदि वा नवेद|7|

The One, the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not, He who surveys it all from his highest heaven, he verily knows it, or perhaps even he does not! Its again a paradox, "The One" was the creator and/or also the creation. The One was creator or creation is similar to "Egg Chicken" puzzle.

The One described in this sukta is similar to center of universe of Big Bang theory. The search for creation is agnostic. The supreme power, the Brahma, the Absolute condensed Itself into the point of a universal will of potentiality to outline the process of the would-be creative universe. Brahman becomes Ishvara; Ishvara becomes Hiranyagarbha; Hiranyagarbha becomes Virat - the Param Purusha, the Axis Mundi......

But the question is who we are our part in this creational philosophy....

Humsafer: कौन हो तुम

Humsafer: कौन हो तुम

कौन हो तुम

क्या हो तुम, कौन हो तुम

मैं ये सोचता हूँ |

क्यों सांसो की डोर हो तुम,

मैं ये सोचता हूँ ||

तुम मेरे ही तो भीतर हो,

हृद्यांगी तुम हो मेरी

फिर क्यों मृगतृष्णा से व्याकुल हो,

हर पल तुम्हे खोजता हूँ |

कहाँ ढूँढू पा जाऊं तुम्हे,

मैं ये सोचता हूँ

क्यों सांसो की ......||

तुम से ही तो पूर्ण हुआ मैं

जन्मो से जो अधुरा था,

अपने प्रेम कलश के पात्र को

तुमसे ही तो भरता हूँ |

कैसे समेट लूं अपने मैं तुम्हे

मैं ये सोचता हूँ

क्यों सांसो की ......||

मेरा जीवन बेजान सा था,

सुनसान मरुभूमि जैसा,

इस वीरानी को अब तो मैं

वीणा से झंकृत करता हूँ|

हर राग मैं कैसे पाऊँ तुम्हे

मैं ये सोचता हूँ

क्यों सांसो की ......||

Invictus : i love this poem

I love this poem, also the movie:

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.