In Tune with the Universe - Radha Burnier

The subject of attunement is of vital importance to humanity.  Being out of tune with other people, with the environment and with ourselves we have done enormous damage to mutual relationships and to our own progress.  The damage we do to ourselves can at no time be separated from the damage we do to others.  We are responsible for the whole.  Those who are inwardly well tuned and integrated, radiate harmony and happiness wherever they go and whatever they do.  On the other hand, when there is discord inside, it breeds discord outside.  Further, as The Voice of the Silence says: 'Before the soul can see, the harmony within must be attained.'  All discord blinds the vision and human progress is retarded.  The universe is not a chaos but a cosmos, so perfectly tuned that those who realize it through study and contemplation are left speechless in utter amazement.  In this book Just Six Numbers, subtitled 'The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe', the author Sir Martin Rees writes about six numbers, some of them very small and some very large, which constitute the 'recipe' for the universe. If any one of them were to be increased or decreased even minutely, there would be no stars and no life.  For example, if the existing ratio between gravity and expansion energy had been even slightly different, the universe would have collapsed long ago, or no galaxies or stars would have been formed.  He asks the question: 'Is this tuning just a brute fact, a coincidence?'

©  The Theosophist, May, 2001. Reprinted with permission.

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