In Search Of Shiva : The Chidambaram Rahasyam (Chidambaram’s Secret)

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“Very early in life, I had started to get a feeling that our religious and spiritual texts were in essence metaphors- for us to decipher and understand Life and how to make sense of the Universe itself. Those of us who struggle with accepting the concept of God-do so because we can’t seem find a good explanation for Him, an explanation that goes without recourse to authority (like blind beliefs in anything). But then even science has many unproven theories and concepts and is yet to harmonise whatever we even know- what I mean is that at least Religion and Scriptures unify everything to the concept of GOD, but Physics seems to have different theories for different things – like The General Theory of Relativity that explains the big world around us while Quantum Mechanics explains the world of Atom and Sub Atomic particles – but there is nothing yet that unifies them and like me, physicists all over the world are doing their best to figure the missing particles of the Unified Theory- at the moment we just have esoteric mathematical concepts- sort of how the scriptures explain the formation of the world.”

“Dad! Less science and more story please!!” I spoke. And everyone nodded in the room.