An Experience at Guntur

At a guntur restaurant one beautiful morning, i was slowly sipping my favourite cup of coffee and cherishing fondly the gift of solitude and unusual silence.
With the golden rays of sun touching the glass windows of the restaurant and slow submissive, graceful movements of tree leaves outside the window to flirtatious action of the morning air, it was wonderful start of a beautiful day, the best and the finest possible.
Suddenly a couple entered the restaurant to disturb my philosophical joy. I thought nothing lasts long in life.
I noticed a lady with a small baby and a young man in early thirties. I thought they should possibly be a newly married couple. May be they wanted to try an early breakfast at the restaurant. Hmmn...cooking was definitely becoming outdated these days.
Suddenly, i saw a small baby in the arms of the lady, I must confess, i was instantaneously attracted towards the baby and was admiring its inquisistive expressions.
Babies to me are very special and interesting as their actions are most natural and honest, their expressions most inquisistive and intelligent.
They lack the deep hypocrisy and immeasurable prejudice that is built in our system as we grow older and older.
Suddenly the baby started to cry, making its mom extremely uncomfortable. The mom started the standard procedure taught to married women to handle such situations ie try feeding food to the baby, check for wet nappy and comfort the baby by hugging it or making weird sounds (some call it lullyby or whatever to scare it into silence).
She tried all the tricks in the book but to no avail. No matter what she did, the baby would not stop crying.
The lady started looking around and smiled at everyone to hide embarassment to herself, i smiled back
at her and waved to the baby so that she would feel better and the situation would look apparently normal.
The young man like a typical Indian husband wasn't much bothered about what was going on around him, afterall the baby is the mother's problem isnt it?
Now this is a normal incident that happens everywhere. What is so special about it? But my mind had started thinking on something deeper.
I was now thinking why do the babies cry so much and so often? and why wasn't her mother able to console it?
Does the answer to this question lie in the study of body language of the child and child pyscology, i think it most certainly is.
Firstly to understand body language, we must know that human beings have extremely underdeveloped capacity to communicate with actions or gestures alone. We may be able to show actions for a couple of things like water, pain etc but will definitely falter at later stage.
This is because we have developed language as primary method of communication over long period of years resulting in complete death of our ability to communicate with body and actions alone.
In the animal world the reverse is true, animals communicate completely with their body and actions because they dont have any language.
This is very effective form of communication in the animal world and particular actions are decoded and understood as good as language in humans.
When two flies are flying around your room, it is not just randomness but they are constantly communicating with each other about food, temperature, danger signale etc But How ? By action. Body language my friend.
How do you think a male bee communicates to a female bees that it needs a companion for mating? Simple make two rounds around the female in clockwise and anticlockwise direction, if the female is interested it flies with the male for mating.
In human beings, we need to resort to language to achieve the same effect, going around girl in clockwise and anticlockwise direction would only make people laugh and cause embarassment.
Now how do babies try to communicate with the world. Surely language communication is not possible as the baby doesn't know any language. So how does the baby communicate with the world. Simple. by crying. Yes you read it right. A baby communicates with the world by crying alone.
Animals naturally and instinctively communicate by use of sound made from their mouth organs that is mutually understood between them. Crying is the most natural method of making sound through mouth. So Crying is a part of body language communication or lets call it an attempt towards body language communication as we humans dont understood uniqueness of each cries and cant decode it.
A baby cries not only to indicate its physical needs like a bad nappy or hunger but for many psycological needs that arise due to world view it has.
Just Imagine the world of a baby. How will it be. Just think and see.
A baby has a developing vision system and hearing system and a feeble perception of world but it is bombarded with the same amount of noise and information like us. Its mind is full of constant amazement and confusion. It is continously trying to make sense " what the hell is going on around me?"
The world outside is super complex yet wonderful. The reality is seemingly comprehensible yet extremely confusing.
Sound and light is the first Instinct. So a baby observes that some objects like cell phones, speakers that make sounds sometimes other times they do not. tats very confusing. Some objects like door lamp or tube light are stationary and give out light some times and sometimes they do not. Tats again confusing for the baby. Some objects are moving others are not.
So many confusions in the mind of the baby and complexity of reality which is incomprehensible creates deep insecurity in the mind of the baby. It wants a reassurance from its caretaker of physical needs...its mom. It communicates by crying. The smoothing touch or warm hug provides the most instinctive and natural form of re assurance to the baby.
This insight of insecurity in the mind of the baby helps us to know why babies cry so often. Other reasons it cries could be because of maladjustment to light and sound. For eg if there is heavy light or loud music, it is hurts the soft developing eyes and ears of the baby so it asks by crying that you should stop it.
Now this insight will help us to also know that we should let a baby cry if it is crying for its psycological needs rather than its physical needs. This is because by letting it to cry more, we are allowing it to better adjust its mind to the world outside and remove its sense of insecurity or constant reassurance from its mother thereby letting it to learn faster.

The Mysterious Power of Numbers

Is there a deep mystery hidden in Numbers?

Let me open your eyes and raise consciousness levels to understand the mysterious and almost divine power of numbers.  Let me start with an example, some one asked me recently on how is it possible for big bang theorists to conclude that a perfectly life-friendly earth could be formed by a big bang?  Surely earth is filled with too many perfections that sustains life.  These are too difficult to imagine to have been created by chance theory of big bang alone.  For example had the power of gravity been at a higher degree than present, we would not be able to walk or move our legs because of high intensity of gravity.  Needless to say that had gravity been lesser, we would be floating in space.  It is the right value of gravity that makes life possible and keeps earth in motion.


The same is true about every element on earth like Oxygen, Nitrogen and Carbon dioxide values in the atmosphere.  Had carbon dioxide been at higher level than what is present or oxygen been slightly lesser than the present quantity in the atmosphere, life would not be possible because of imbalance in the carbon cycle and subsequent death of plant life and animal life.  So many perfections are there on our earth which seek explanation and defy the theory that a big bang could have created earth by chance alone. 

We live in a life friendly planet whose perfection is extremely extremely improbable to have been created by chance alone.

The Most pertinent question here is as follows "Can chance ever create perfection?" by perfection i mean Perfection of not a small measure but a very large measure. 

The Answer to this question lies in the mysterious power of numbers.  Let me explain this with an example:

Imagine that there is a very big hall, now this is the biggest hall in the world whose capacity is 100 crores or 1 billion people.  A billion people enter the hall.  Each person sits inside the hall occupying a chair and a desk before him.  Each mans job is to cast dice 10 times consecutively ie one throw after another and record the result on a paper.  Is there a probability that a person will get the number 6 in all the 10 trials?

Had it been an individual casting the die for 10 times, we could say with a good certainty that he would not get the number 6 in 10 consecutive trials, but if the population is as big as 100 crores, it is not very difficult to imagine that some of them could get the number 6 in all consecutive 10 throws of dice.  To be mathematically precise one person in every 6 crore people will get it the number 6 in all 10 consecutive trials.

This my friend is the mysterious and almost divine power of numbers.  The most beautiful insight of probability theory is that given a very very large number population doing the trial, the smallest probability or the seemingly impossible could also be realized.

The seemingly impossible or highly improbable event is also possible if you just had the power of numbers with you.  The remotest and smallest possibility could also become true with a large population trying the activity.

Now coming to the question of earth's apparent friendly perfection for sustenance of life, we should conclude on the same principles as discussed above.  Today scientist tell us that there are atleast a billion planets in our galaxy and atleast billion galaxies in our universe.  Which means the total number of probable planets in universe are a billion billion.  Now does it look so improbable that in the process of big bang, the vast energy of hydrogen was thrown in various places all over the universe and one planet out of billion billion planets had got the right mix of oxygen, nitrogen, gravity and molecular framework necessary for sustenance of life.

Perhaps not if you view this in the context of vast majesty, magnificence and grandeur of universe and the fact that there are various planets having different combination of elements which cannot support life.