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AumBoy Registered User (2/28/02 10:03 am) Reply ezSupporter	Tara Mata writing's (Yoga or Modern Science) (There is a link from this article to more of her writings online in boldface at the bottom.) Yoga or Modern Science By Tara Mata MODERN inventions merely copy nature. The telescope is only equivalent to a pair of abnormally bright eyes and brings us merely an extension of vision. It cannot give us a new sense but simply enlarges the sense of sight we already possess. Knowledge of the electro- magnetic world of atomic structure has opened to us universes so infinitely small that the microscope itself cannot perceive them and we must represent them with mathematical equations. But we understand that, given a microscope of sufficient power, the atoms, being forms, could be seen. We see light, though it travels 186,000 miles a second. We see Andromeda, and the inconceivably distant universes of stars, with the naked eye. Because we cannot go beyond sensory perception (for even thought and imagination are forms perceived with the inward eye or the inward sight) the ancient Hindus And doubtless every other great race Of the past Golden Ages Built up their systems of Mental Science, Yoga (control), Through which the senses were Refined, Broadened AndSharpened so that all natural phenomena lay open to their true-seeing gaze. The whole body of scientific inventions of which the modern world is so proud was totally unnecessary, an encumbrance, in fact—like spectacles to a man of good vision—to Golden Ages rishis (literally, seers). Red begins the spectrum of colors, and red ends it, but the intensity of one is not the intensity of the other. Though it is true that extremes seem to meet, and that both the most backward peoples and those belonging to the highest civilizations, do not have inventions and observatories and scientific laboratories, yet in the first case, it is due to the ignorance of Kali Yuga (Dark Age) and in the later case, to the perfected insight of Golden Age men. So we need not conclude, because the ancients left no records of inventions such as we have today, that they were ignorant men. Inventions are for Dwapara and Treta Yugas (the Bronze and Silver Ages1), the midpoints between savagery and true civilization. Thinkers of our own age are not failing to point out that our inventions are likely to lead us to ruin unless and until we are morally developed enough to direct and use them rightly. Without a better understanding of his own nature, man is not fit to be trusted with a knowledge of nature and her dynamic forces. So the Golden Age men developed and perfected a science of man. Yoga—not science of nature, for that follows automatically. Man too is a solar system, a universe, fit for the profoundest study. He too has a Grand Central Sun within him, the Spiritual Sun. He too is a Creator and by him creation was made, is preserved and shall be destroyed—the trinity of all religions. Yet what does he know of himself? Man can harness the lightning, tame the wind and control the elements, pluck the Moon from the sky and bring it to his own doorstep with his telescopes, more easily than he can control his own passions. Yet that was the goal and the achievement of Golden Age men, the "gods" of all ancient mythologies. Out of millions a Newton and an Einstein are born, with enough natural concentration to penetrate some of the secrets of nature. These men are true men; Newton was deeply religious, and Einstein is a true humanitarian. But the results of their discoveries, the host of practical inventions that follows each new discovery of the laws of nature—can these be entrusted to the hands of ordinary men? Are not discoveries in physics and chemistry put to destructive use, as in the late war? The undeveloped man has always used discoveries and inventions to enslave others, and the machine age is far from a perfect one. Such are the dangers of inventions. The forces of nature are not for the use of weaklings. First perfect the man, then he will know how to utilize nature. We do not need to perfect a cosmic-ray method of curing cancer, but to produce a race of men of pure minds and bodies where no cancer can grow. Man is the problem, not nature. The time spent on science in this age is not misspent, because the more we discover of natural laws and their practical utilization, the more quickly we will see that without a corresponding extension of knowledge of man and his own nature and its control, the specter of world-wide destruction is the only promise of the future. World-peace is only the dream of visionaries so long as man does not know and is not taught ....how to control his passions. Whether he fights with poison gas or from the air with bombs, or with his bare hands, he is still a victim of his own ignorance. If he can live at peace and in harmony and cooperation with his family, his neighbors and his friends, then he is fit for world-peace. When nations are composed of men like that, then we can expect world-peace. Man is the measure of all things, according to the Hermetic teachings and all ancient philosophies. World conditions can do no more than reflect the temper of man. It was for this reason that Buddha, Christ, all the great teachers of mankind, stressed one point and only one—the conquering of human passions. They did not attack institutions nor initiate sweeping outward reforms of social or economic conditions, because these are only an effect of far deeper causes. The sages who have guided mankind did not bring inventions with them nor point out new ways to enslave nature for the daily purposes of man. The conquest of the internal nature is the only fit occupation for a human being. Otherwise he is no higher than an animal. Spiders can spin a geometric web; the ant is the greatest organizer in the world. A monkey can put any agile athlete to shame; the hibernating animals can live without food or drink; a turtle can exist for hundreds of years. A body of strength and endurance is not the measure of a man, nor his command of mathematics nor the extent of his scientific or artistic ingenuity. The measure of a man is his control over himself—his lower self, his thoughts, his impulses, his desires and his actions. This goal can never be achieved without a knowledge of his own nature, such as is embodied in the psychological, mental and spiritual sciences of Yoga. These sciences all rest on the same fundamental foundation of morality (yama and niyama), non-stealing, non-injury, truthfulness, etc. This is the starting-point of all religions as they were laid down by their founders. Science such as we know it today can never be anything but fallible. There is no such thing as certainty or finality, when the proof must depend on the ordinary perceptive sensory powers of man. If the sensory instruments are faulty, so will be conclusions. And all inventions depend on the senses of man to utilize them. Golden Age men therefore set out to perfect their sensory instruments, and did it so well that there is no modern discovery of natural law that has not already been known and elucidated by the ancients. What fragments of natural laws have been discovered through physical instruments by the moderns were known, and far more comprehensively, by the ancients without any other instrument than their true inward eye. Modern science can never hope to do more than confirm what the ancients have already said about the nature of the universe. The conclusions of scientists today are minus the ring of conviction, for knowledge obtained by outward means can never fully satisfy the nature of man, and there is always an element of doubt connected with every man-given dictum. The foremost scientists of our time openly acknowledge that they expect their present views to be overturned by later developments. But the ancient rishis knew, because they had seen, and not merely arrived at their conclusions by the trial-and-error method. Hence they could sing of the laws of the universe, could mix science and poetry and music, as later Pythagorus did, with the utmost serenity, knowing that future ages could do no more than confirm the timeless truths they were giving out. ________ 1The significance of these Yugas or Ages were explained in the writer's series of articles on "Astrological World Cycles" which appeared in Inner Culture Magazine 1932-1933.
AumBoy Registered User (2/28/02 10:15 am) Reply ezSupporter	East-West, Inner Culture, SRM (1925-1998) Online here: www.geocities.com/Athens/...azines.htm

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