Skip to main content

The Poorna Mantra

By
Have you ever been confused with the indeterminate forms ( 0 / 0, ∞ - ∞ ) in Mathematics? Have you ever failed to understand the intricacies of Discrete Mathematics? Have you ever faced issues with Set Theory or Equilibriums in Physics? Keep your worries aside and read this philosophical point of view provided by the Sanskrit Poorna Mantra. It will definitely give you a different perspective of looking at these mathematical terms.


(Om poornam-adah poornam-idam poornat-purnam-udachyate
poornasya poornam-adaya poornam-eva-avashishyate) 

Let us go by its word by word translation first:

पूर्णमदः (poornam-adah) means ‘that is complete’. पूर्णमिदं (poornam-idam) means ‘this is complete’. पूर्णात्पुर्णमुदच्यते (poornat-purnam-udachyate) means ‘from completeness comes completeness’.

पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय (poornasya poornam-adaya) meaning ‘if you remove completeness from completeness’ पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते (poornam-eva-avashishyate) meaning ‘completeness is what remains’.

This is a poetic construction made on the word पूर्ण (Complete), and there is much deeper meaning to it than what appears on the face of it. If you actually think about it, it explains some interesting concepts in Mathematics and Science.

So, let's delve deeper into its real meaning:
पूर्णमदः (poornam-adah) means the outer world or the material world is complete. That is, the world as can be experienced by our five senses is complete. पूर्णमिदं (poornam-idam) uses the word "idam" meaning "this". We use the pronoun "this" to indicate things closer to us. What can be closer to us than the things that we experience with our senses? It is what we experience with out mind! The inner world, the spiritual world! It means that the Spiritual world as experienced by human mind is also complete. 

Furthermore, the two "complete" things are not mutually exclusive sets. From completeness comes completeness. It tells us that from the vastness of the material world, the complete nature of the outer world, comes the vastness or completeness of your mind. Conversely, a complete mind completes your material world. This is what is double implication ( Inner Completeness ↔ Outer Completeness ). The two complete worlds enrich each other and that is how a human being matures throughout the life. Education helps you enhance your understanding of the outer world while spiritual development helps you understand yourself. They both together make the human life "complete". 

So, there you have your first set of equations using ∞ (completeness). Consider natural numbers ( 1 to ∞ ) as the indicators of completeness with infinity being the most complete ( The catch here is that you don't know what is "the most complete", just like you don't know what is the highest number. It is ∞ )

(natural number) + ∞ = ∞
∞ + (natural number) = ∞
(natural number) * ∞ = ∞
∞ * (natural number = ∞  
∞ + ∞ = ∞
∞ * ∞ = ∞

This shows that if you find complete understading of even one of the worlds, it can be enough to get you closer to overall understanding of the life.

The second part is even more beautiful because if tells you the importance of finding total completeness, total control and understanding of both the realms and this is where the essence of this mantra lies. It says that if you take out completeness from completeness, you will find only completeness. That is, once you reach the state of utmost completeness and achieve control over your senses as well as your mind, you will never lose that control. You will reach a state of stable equilibrium!

∞ - (anything) = ∞ 

Reading between the lines:
If you are a zero or worse in any of the things, then you are doomed!
  
0 * ∞ = indeterminate
∞ * 0 = indeterminate
∞ - ∞ = ∞ + (-∞) = indeterminate
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Using static IPs in Linux

By
It is often a requirement to assign static IP addresses to some important and permanent network interfaces. This is to avoid setting up a local DHCP server or relying on IP given by your network provider which may not be stable. This post shows steps to configure static IPs in Linux using Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 18.04 distros. We are considering two distros as network configuration has changed significantly in Ubuntu 18.04. There are two general steps to be followed: 1. Configure the network interface and assign a static IP. 2. Restart interface for the changes to take effect. Ubuntu 16.04  The current interfaces on the system are as follows: As can be seen, enp0s8 interface does not have any IP. Let's assign a static IP to it. In case you already have an interface with a DHCP assigned IP, you just need to change that IP and make it static. Edit the /etc/network/interfaces file and add the following code block. Prefer using the IP address range available for pri...
Post a Comment
Read more

Local domain name resolution using /etc/hosts

By
The /etc/hosts file is a powerful mechanism for managing the information about hosts in the local network in the absence of a local DNS server. Setup We have 4 VMs in the local /24 network. The following are the details: vm-1-ubuntu-16-04 - 10.0.1.11 vm-2-ubuntu-16-04 - 10.0.1.12 vm-1-ubuntu-18-04 - 10.0.1.21 vm-2-ubuntu-18-04 - 10.0.1.22 The VMs are reachable via their IP address but not by their hostnames. This is problematic because we have to remember their IP addresses everytime we want to access these hosts. It is would be much simpler to remember and access the servers by their hostnames. For that we need some sort of mapping between the IP addresses and their corresponding host names. There are 3 common ways of achieving this mapping. Setup a DNS server which handles resolution for your local network. Use an existing DNS server of the local Internet Service Provider (ISP) or any other higher level ISP. Note that a public static IP address is required for this s...
Post a Comment
Read more

Simple HTTP Server in Python

By
Have you ever come across a need to share a file over a local network to a number of machines? Have you ever felt the need to share output of a task in text files available at a web-endpoint? Often, there is a requirement to quickly setup a light-weight web-server for such requirements. Python provides the easiest way to setup a simple HTTP server for such use cases with a single command. Python comes pre-installed with Linux as many of the linux libraries use python in background. Therefore there is no extra overhead of installing python. With support for python2 getting stopped in April 2020, many of the newer versions of linux distros come with default python3. Therefore this post will focus on setting up an HTTP server using both python2 and python3. We will be using Ubuntu 16.04, however it will work for majority of the linux systems where python comes pre-installed. Preparation Steps to follow before starting the server: Make sure you are in the directory which you want ...
Post a Comment
Read more