Jiva

MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA
M.M.NINAN
BIG BANG AND SINGULARITY
The way out of this dilemma is to give purpose and personality for the Monad when it
ceases to be a monad. It is then called Saguna Brahma. How a Nirguna Brahaman
turn out to be Saguna Brahman cannot be understood. It is a singularity where all our
logic fail. This concept can be elucidated by considering the creation of the universe in
our current understanding of science.
Jayant Narlikar:
“At an epoch, which we may denote by t=0, the Universe explodes into
existence. The epoch t=0 is taken as the event of “creation.” Prior to this
there existed no Universe, no physical laws. Everything suddenly appeared
at t=0.9.
It is important not to overlook the quotation marks around “creation.” To
many theologians and philosophers who are not experts in physics, this
could appear to be a true theological account of creation (“the Universe
explodes into existence”!). Strictly speaking, however, the issue here is the
technical problem of the violation of the principle of energy conservation, as
it could be guessed from the following:
The most fundamental question in cosmology is, “Where did the matter we see around
us originate in the first place?” This point has never been dealt with in big-bang
cosmologies in which, at t=0, there occurs sudden and fantastic violation of the law of
conservation of matter and energy. After t=0 there is no such violation.”( J. Narlikar, The
Structure of the Universe, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977)
The actual point of creation, the singularity, is outside the scope of presently known
laws of physics. In fact t=0 itself is a singularity which is indeterminate. We can never
know even the singularity properties. General relativity is used to predict that at the
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