Rationality, Destiny and Divinity (An Old and Rare Book)

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Muktesh Raghupathi is a serving Indian diplomat. He Is an M.A. in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge and holds a Certificate in Diplomacy from the University of Oxford. He worked in the State Bank of India as an officer before Joining the Indian Foreign Service. He has held diplomatic assignments in Jakarta and Brussels. He is married and has one son.

His interests, inter alia, include reading and writing and Western classical music. He has passed the Advanced Grade of Violin playing and the Higher Grade in the Theory of Music, both from The Royal Schools of Music, London.

This book has one pre-requisite for reading it. "Mens Sana in Corpore Sano' - 'a healthy mind in a healthy body. It is primarily meant for people who are seeking something beyond the rational scientific framework, or people who understand something of the "beyond, but need a better knowledge of the 'rational scientific framework, or people who understand both, but cannot reconcile the two consistently, though others also, may find it of interest. It is written as rationally as possible in an easy style. It is purely of a philosophical nature and in parts a speculative work.

The book contains an Annexure on The Mathematical Concept of Infinities as the author feels that the word "Infinity" is generally used in a loose manner. The Anneaste deals with 'infinites from a mathematician's point of this, it is hoped, would help the reader in understanding parts of the rest of the book.

The new discoveries of Quantum Mechanics and Relativity have shaken the old foundations of Science which used to assert that the external objective reality is true independent of the observer, or that Science is based on a rationality of strict cause-and-effect relation. Many of the concepts of new physics are concepts based on relations outside one's direct experience which look 'strange', but nevertheless work out in experiments. The dual nature of light (particle and wave) and, as such, of all Quantum Particles made it clear that Reality is what it is and that it cannot be categorised as strictly particle in nature or wave in nature. The discovery that the speed of light is a fundamental constant physics led to strange conclusions like dilation of time and increase in mass and contraction in length with velocity.

From this starting point the author moves on to discuss Rationality. The commonly accepted Rationality is not, strictly speaking, rational in the light of the discoveries of new physics, neither the so-called 'crazy ideas prove to be 'crazy. From the new concept of rationality, the author moves on to discuss the ideas of Para-Psychology, Destiny and Divine Intervention, ideas which are until to-day beyond the ken of so- called physical sciences. He defends the idea of Destiny and also Divine Intervention: "There must therefore be a larger system within which this, and perhaps other things, are happening which is possessed of a kind of amazing consciousness, and as a starting point, the inter-action of this large-system and consciousness with the rational Scientific framework with which we are familiar, may be called 'Divine Intervention.'