Enlightened ... There are no special effects.

davide ragusa on Unsplash “You are going to be a Guru one day, like a Satguru or something.”  told one of my colleagues in the room.  The other person in the meeting room smirked.  I knew what he thinks about it.  He has a lowly opinion of all Gurus.  I hoped he doesn’t have such a low opinion about me.  If I really become a Guru, he might consider that I have fallen from my values.  But why would a normal person lose respect when he becomes a master, revered by the masses.  I can dismiss it, as just envy.  Or it could be a sense of superiority over the lowly masses that respect a Guru more than anyone else.  The masses have no idea of the philosophies, the ways of worship, the mantras that a learned man like him knows.  And they go after an ordinary man like him!  That might translate to be the irreverence.  I don’t know. I thought I should check my master about it.  At least I would come to know what it means...

At the lowest level, how do we differentiate life and death?  A living cell once it comes into existence,   has the energy to hold the organelles together and goes through the grind of growth, split and finally death.  You can see these as the basic intelligence of the cell.  What about death of the cell?  It must also be an intelligence of the cell.  Why is it an intelligence?  Because, if the cell has an Apoptotic or a natural death, its contents are recycled as nutrients.  I would like to view this as a "sacrifice" baked into the DNA - to let itself die and be useful for the next generation of cells. What if this intelligence is missing?  The cell lives for ever, may even reproduce for ever until a necroptotic or artificial death is effected.  This lack of this intelligence results in cancer.  So, let's conclude that sacrifice is natural and the opposite is an abnormality. Newton's first law of motion doesn't align with na...