The need of the hour is a quantum leap in our understanding of life. This universe has never ceased to be a wonder for man right from the time man had developed the intelligence and mental capacity for observation and analysis. Though science and technology have developed by leaps and bounds during the past about 300 years, there are many questions that have no satisfactory answers and remain as mystery. Questions like, how and why this universe came to be there in the first place, how and what for did intelligent life emerge on earth etc have been haunting man for a long time. The traditional and oft quoted answers like, the universe had been in existence without any beginning and that life evolved naturally or created by a supernatural force are far from convincing and they happen to raise more questions than they answer.
What is needed is a holistic and inclusive approach to find answers to such haunting questions. When we ponder such questions like how and why this universe along with life came on to exist, we completely ignore the fact that we make some wrong presumptions in the first place. Invariably our mind makes a wrong presumption that there was empty space with no beginning of time and suddenly as if by magic, matter emerged on the scene as a creation or that this universe had always existed in some form or other before life happened to evolve naturally or get created by a superpower. Basically our mind isolates itself from the outside universe presuming a dual format and as a result makes such erroneous presumptions.
The truth is that existence of any entity whether it is space, time, matter or energy is a mental phenomenon and attribute, because ultimately it is the mind that establishes and accepts its existence. As such, independent of the mind nothing and absolutely nothing can exist. Actually it is the mind that exists in convenient avatars as space, time, matter, energy etc in order to make existence itself a possible and acceptable reality for the mind. Thus this universe is strictly born along with the mind, exists as mind and vanishes also along with the mind. Once this truth is realized, questions relating to the origin and status of this universe before the birth of mind and what shall happen to the universe after the death of the mind become irrelevant and meaningless, in view of the fact that even the question of what can exist in the absence of mind cannot arise. It becomes fallacious to conduct any thought experiment about the past when the mind itself did not exist, because even when we think of the past, this analysis is done in the present only with our own mind. We need to reiterate here that time itself is a concept and format of the mind developed by its memory and intelligence for its own convenience. As such, questions about what happens in the absence of the mind in a different time frame are untenable and illogical and therefore do not deserve any answers.
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