Again The Same Thing - Mind Or Matter ?

AGAIN THE SAME THING – MIND OR MATTER ?

I’ve frequently wondered at serendipity. Do you ever get a strange feeling sometimes of seeing something you’ve always suspected and discovered it to be true after all?

I draw reference to the now famous experiments in physics designed to prove whether light is a particle or a wave. What now seems to be a common consensus: depends on the way you look at it. Or to put it another way, depends on your inclination. But is this obvious? For example, before Christian Huygens, it was widely held that light is a particle (by Newton and others). But Huygens wanted to see for himself. If he was contented with the idea that light is a particle as earlier experiments had supposedly proved, he would have set up an experiment to confirm it. But no, he wanted to prove the earlier physicists wrong! So he contended within himself – could light in fact be a wave. So he set up experiments to see this angle. And of course, he found that light rays are actually waves!

Can a similar thing happen in the famous philosophical question: is mind supreme or is matter supreme? Could an answer be that it depends on your inclination? Because I’m certain, that in one of my guru’s presence, strange things suddenly materialize. I’ve had no doubt about her veracity, because she is just a middle-class lady, whose existence is hardly known to anyone, and I am convinced she is not out to gain money or fame or glory, because she has requested her guru to take away her power. I am not aware if her guru has agreed or not. But others have seen, how yesterday, in my house, there suddenly materialized – almonds, pistachio, dates, honey, vibhuthi, a ring to exactly fit my ring finger, a pendant for my wife, a silver coin of the British Empire dating 1917, another silver coin with Sai Baba and the Dashavataras etc. I had invited two of my friends to visit and perhaps examine their cocksure conclusions – just to raise the possibility of questioning their assumptions, and of course, they did not turn up. So much for science!

Now if things had just to materialize out of nowhere, does it mean that it is mind that gives rise to matter? For if matter had to come into existence, it does involve a conception of such a thing. Even if it happened to have been transferred from somewhere, an HMT factory, for instance, then it does imply some sort of subjugation to mental ideas! And of course, there is a possibility that a man who does such things is a thief. And like my grandfather, you are apt to prove it. Or would you? What if the persons who say they are the skeptics are really people who have been deputed to keep such a controversy alive? What if they have been given a similar power? To really find out the truth, you have to honestly admit, you have to look for it yourself. If you take another man’s word, that’s just what it is - his word, not His word!