In my previous post, I stopped to show that science is an omnipresent thing and that every field that exist today is a science. But the word "science" actually sounds quite narrow to give a real picture of how this world is interconnected together. But we can start from there. It's better to start from what we already know to discover more. So I said science is omnipresent. This omnipresence is usually termed by scientists or mathematicians as the "general model". A model in which you can plug and play with different values to come up with a different result or make a sub-model. So you may be able to notice that the different fields that exist today work somewhat differently. I said "somewhat differently" meaning that there are quite a number of similarities because they all belong to the same general model. And it is because of this we humans are able to grasp their mechanism and make sense of it or understand that it makes sense. A simple example, say language... every language have their own way of expressing things. Some languages gender things, while others don't. But do we humans find that a problem? Absolutely not. We some how make sense of it but when asked, we say we don't know. We simply say its just the way it is. And if we think of the time when the language was maturing, we stop to ponder why on earth did we want to complicate things? But in the end we can translate perfectly from one language that genders things to language that doesn't and viz. Now when Natural Language engineers try to solve the problem through a general model, boy they have a tough time being accurate.
So there exists in us a mechanism that makes sense out of everything that makes sense. And when we want to explain that to someone who doesn't know that particular thing, we break it down to a simple model that he/she can understand to explain it. Stop here for a sec... isn't that the same thing as translating from one language to another? The key thing we just found here is translating. Its a general thing. Scientists rely on this to understand complex concepts or to explain complex concepts to the "general" public. Now let's get back to the understanding part. The thing that made the scientist understand it in the first place. There was something that helped him make sense out of it. Science!!! It sounds like it spoke to him breaking things down to a model he understands well. Now we can argue that it was his ingenuity that made him understand the concept. Well yes, that is bloody true... but we need to know that it was because he reached to that level of scientific knowledge that helped him understanding it. What helped him was the scientific knowledge he gained. If he didn't have that knowledge, he would have never made sense out of it.
As humans, we love give life to everything. Even variables in an equation. We often hear professors saying "this guy" (pointing to a variable) "is the guy that decides the bandwidth (for example)". Why do they do that? We love to relate to humans, which is why the professor didn't say "this cow is the cow that decides the bandwidth". No student would have liked that in the first place because it sounds funny. Why only cow, why not dog? By saying "guy" students picture it now as a dictator, like Hitler, and they like that. So the scientist might have pictured a human being (having the collective scientific knowledge) trying to explain the concept to him. That human could have been himself, the inner enlightened self.
This is exactly how the Vedic scriptures have been written. The authors gave life to every general concept that exists and in a dramatic style (we love movies) to convey them well to ones who are learning. So the mechanisms remain as mechanisms which humans can model as behaviors of living things for learning and explaining purposes only. Actually thinking that they are in human form is not quite acceptable.
These mechanisms that exist in every field also apply to the living world. So just like in a machine there exists communication within various parts and guidance of materials to be used all in a safe manner so that no other part gets damaged, and if in case that happens some corrective measures will be taken, to ensure that the whole governing system still functions properly, our living world can be thought to be like the same machine that communicates to various living things and guides them all in a safe manner to ensure that no other living thing gets hurt in the process and if in case that happens, a balance will be created, just to ensure that the system is still working well. And there's nothing wrong in imagining that this mechanism is some form of a higher being that communicates with us or to help us communicate with it.
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