By:- Shambo Samrat Samajdar and Shashank Joshi
A man walked through the streets carrying a lamp, asking, ‘Have you seen light?’ Some sent him to temples and scholars. Years passed. One evening, tired, he sat down. The lamp was in his hand. He had carried the light all along.
The Upanishads tell us: what we seek is not missing; we have forgotten our nearness to it. Gita calls the body a city of nine gates. Through the eyes, ears, nostrils, mouth and two lower openings, we meet the world. We see, hear, speak, desire and release. Yet the deeper question is: who watches all this?
In the Chandogya Upanishad, Uddalak teaches Shvetaketu the truth of existence through salt dissolved in water: unseen, yet present in every drop. Then comes the whisper: Tat Tvam Asi – Thou art That.
The Brihadaranyak Upanishad declares: Aham Brahmasmi – I am Brahmn. Not ego, but the silence left when name, role and pride fall away. The Aitareya Upanishad adds: Prajnanam Brahmn – consciousness is Brahmn. Awareness is the light by which experience is known.
Quantum physics warns us not to trust appearances too quickly. Matter is not as solid as it looks. A photon may behave like a wave and arrive as a particle-like detection; measurement changes what can be known.
Entanglement challenges separation.
The Upanishads are not quantum mechanics, yet both invite humility: reality is deeper than the senses report and the mind can grasp. Tantra enters the body with reverence. Breath, silence and the pause between thoughts become doorways. The body is not a prison; it is an altar. Shiv is consciousness; Shakti is life moving as pulse, breath and courage.
Tripura Rahasya says truth is found not by running away, but by recognising the witness while living. The Gita’s battlefield is our morning: duty and doubt, courage and confusion, action and surrender. Katha Upanishad gives the chariot: body, senses, mind, intellect and the silent Self as rider.
Spiritual growth is recognition. Vedanta says: You are That. Yog says: Become whole. Tantra says: Awaken where you are. Quantum wonder entails what is revealed, depends on how deeply we look. Therefore, pause. Close the nine gates for one breath. Place a hand on your chest. Inhale: So. Exhale: Ham. So’ham – I am That.
The temple was never empty. The deity never left. You have been carrying the lamp all along. You are That.
Disclaimer
Views expressed above are the author’s own.
