The Sufi Scientist

Raati jaagien, karein ibadat... Raat nu jaagan kutte, taithon utte... Dar* maalik da mool na chhad de... Bhaanve sau sau pavaunde jutte, taithon utte... Rukhi sukhi roti khaande... Atte ja rodi te sutte, taithon utte... Chal ve miyaan Bulleya chal yaar mana le... Nahi te baazi lae gaye kutte, taithon utte... You keep your self awake at night, to pray... It's dogs who are supposed to be awake all night, they are better than you... They never leave the doorstep of their master... Even if they have to face a hundred beatings... They eat whatever left overs they get... And sleep on the stone floor, they are better than you... Come, oh Bulleya, let me make peace with my beloved... Otherwise, even dogs will be better than me... The current popular opinion about sufism seems to hover around religious devotion. Perhaps this is why it is widely revered. It is misunderstood for the love for the society's interpretation of "god". In sufism, at least in the poe...

In the past few days, whenever I think or hear about the idea of god, I cannot help but think that the people who established the idea really did mean to use it as a metaphor for the universe. It is omnipresent, for we are the universe. Every molecule in our body can be traced back to the stars that once gave birth to these planets. Everything around us, man-made or natural, is a product of the universe. And we are all connected. It is in us, around us in every protein interaction in our body making life happen. In every DNA molecule that gets replicated. In every zygote that becomes an embryo and every embryo that becomes a person. It is the very basis of life. We are in the universe, and the universe is in us. This is much more elegantly said by Neil deGrasse Tyson.  We are one because we are all, the universe. Alif, what existed when nothing existed, and that which will exist when nothing will exist. We came from that and will go back to that eventually. In a sense, ...