Quantum Physics, Meditation & Me!

So there I was sitting on my Yoga mat with my legs criss-cross- applesauce and my hands extended with the tip of my thumb and fore-finger touching lightly; with my mind a blank sheet of canvas trying to go into a cosmic journey; relieving my innermost free-radicals out into the atmosphere- so as to absorb blithely anti-oxidants that would wash away my inner self and mind to make me a whole new person…or so I thought.

 That wasn’t happening…What was happening was my mind was in a constant Brownian motion and try as much as possible  I was only able to control my breathing. Now I like to breathe and take in a lot of oxygen enabling my lungs to expand and draw the inner energy. That’s what the yoga instructor said, not me.

How the heck do I control the overactive brain that I possess from birth? I have long since blamed it on my parental genes and absolved myself of all blame. The part in Yoga where you twist yourself into a pretzel I can do without ...oftentimes I found my American counterparts pretzelizing themselves more easily than me making me a tad bit embarrassed being an Indian and all and not being able to do those smooth body maneuvers.

So I decided to do some research on the Quantum physics angle to this whole meditation issue and try to see light from their point of view. “Their” being the Albert Einstein’s and such physicists who had a supernova for a brain and could see things that ‘us’ normal people couldn’t see.  As you know Quantum physics is a branch of physics with applications to both experimental and theoretical physics. It has everything to do with sub-atomic particles and explains black body radiation and electron orbits.

Those genius guys came up with ‘heterotic-superstring’ theory of particle physics.

That is supposed to mean it is a theory of closed strings with 10 dimensions and 496 mass less gauge bosons. I have no clue what that means but it sounds very important and meaningful. If I could figure it out, I would be working for NASA and the next person on the moon. But for now I am contented with my feet on terra –firma.

It was Einstein’s lifelong dream to locate the unified source of the diversified universe-the fountainhead of all the laws of nature. This can be achieved by transcendental meditation wherein human awareness opens to the direct experience of the unified field. This experience is characterized by a state of profound rest-much deeper than sleep-while the mind remains restfully alert. This state of restful alertness effectively dissolves accumulated stress and fatigue and thereby prevents a wide range of stress related disorders-which account for 80% of all disorders.

The field of pure transcendental consciousness was introduced by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1971 and has since established a University here with thousands of people learning Vedic sciences in relation to Quantum physics and so on.

For me the quantum physics book has been a good lullaby and every time I read five pages I find myself dozing off and shifting into dreamland with quantum leaps. Not sure if it is because the concept is alien to me and hence soporific or if the thought of it just puts me to sleep. Either way I realized soon enough that Yoga/meditation wasn’t for me and I went back to my regular morning or evening walks on the hiking trails in the mountains which is the closest to heaven I can get.

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