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| Mar 09, 2007 2:24 am |
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re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Sanadhana Dharma |
Sumanth Cidambi
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Ganesh
As I had mentioned earlier and to quote Annie Besant who expressed it lucidly.
"Artificial laws i.e. man made laws are changeable; those who make them can alter them or repeal them. Natural laws are unchanging; they cannot be altered nor repealed, but lie in the nature of things."
By that logic, all laws of physics are natural laws - gravity, motion, pressure, etc. They are changeless regardless of the conditions of the experiment.
Another natural law is that of karma, which in a "scientific" sense is the the law of cause and effect, only this is wider than I can currently comprehend. I accept the premise that if I do good, I am impelled to continue doing good and the converse is also true. Our scriptures speak about this as well. The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad contains the following at 4.4.5
"Accordingly as one acts, accordingly as one behaves, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good, the doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous action, bad by bad action. Others however say that a person consists of desires. As is his desire, so is his will; as is his will, so is the deed he does, as is his deed, that he attains."
This is probably one premise for leading our lives in accordance with the natural law. Later date vedantic scripture i.e. Upanishads provided a guide and set down certain rules to lead life but I personally believe these were more ritual than religion (again taking my earlier example of comrehending and performing an act in accordance with its physical meaning as compared to its psychological or symbolic meaning).
Bharat, sorry to digress from your first set of questions but I will post my thoughts on laws of life later today.
Cheers
S
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