Returning to hūṁ
Hari Om
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Namaste
just thinking again...
There is this notion that our TV signals and radio programs propagate into space and travel a zillion miles. Sooner or later another civilization will pick up our signals and be watching and listening to our broadcasts. While this is most intriguing thought there is some laws of physics that prevent that signal from remaining strong and therefore distinguishable.
As the signal travels out in space the signal gets weaker. That is, the inverse square law applies - at 2X the distance traveled the signal is ~ 1/4th its original strength.
One may visualize this as peaks and valleys of the signal flattening out - it originally looks like a bunch of mountains with its ups-and-downs, and then erodes into looking like a piece of string - straight and with little if any contours to it.
For me viewing this signal it goes from rajas (lots of activity), begins to erode ( tamas) and then returns to sattva, and displays the beautiful principle of sāma, evenness. It retuns back to hūṁ the bija mantra hūṁ of śiva and bhairava ( some write bhairav).
Scientists have found a background hum that pervades the entire sky no matter where they point their radio-telescopes. They say there is no part of the universe that is without the hum, and believes it is the remnants of the big bang. I prefer to think the hūṁ would be there with or without a bang, as the cradle for creation to reside in.
Sound travels though the medium of ākāśa (pure space) , some call the body of Brahman. This sound predicated on the tattva of vāyu is the first to be manifest or unfold from ākāśa, as this ākāśa becomes the first tattva from akṣara ( or the imperishable, the Absolute, paramaśiva).
So some of the original TV programs happened 60± years ago. That means they travelled ~ 60 light years or so. Yet once that got to Pluto, there was not much left in terms of signal strength for another civilization to recognize. And traveling 60 light years - well that’s 0.06% the distance to the other side of our galaxy.
pranams
Last edited by yajvan; 11 September 2008 at 08:47 PM.
Reason: sentence correction
यतस्त्वं शिवसमोऽसि
yatastvaṁ śivasamo'si
because you are identical with śiva
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