The Breath of Brahma

Life pervades the entire universe. Meteorites that have fallen to Earth often reveal traces of life that have survived the harsh conditions of space. Life, as it turns out, can endure even in extreme temperatures.

We are entering an era when familiar notions and scientific stereotypes are proving to be inadequate.

There are forms of life that exist for only a few hours. Others, like bacteria, could be called eternal, as they do not die after division and never get sick.

I recall a brief note about an intriguing scientific experiment: a mosquito was placed in a glass test tube and sent to astronauts, who mounted it outside an orbital station. For an entire year, the mosquito survived in weightlessness, cosmic cold, and intense heat — and it remained alive.

If not for stubborn facts, scientists would never have admitted the possibility of living organisms existing in thermal springs with temperatures of several hundred degrees. Incidentally, meteorites heat up to thousands of degrees upon entering the atmosphere.

Recently, I saw a television segment about shrimp living in acidic lakes. If we adhere to the conventional definition of life as a form of existence of protein bodies, such facts become incomprehensible — the worldview crumbles.

There are two types of reactions to new information. Religious consciousness prefers to destroy all novelty along with its bearers.

The scientific approach, on the other hand, simply stubbornly ignores anything that does not fit into the conventional model of the universe.

Protein denatures at 42°C. Then why can a Buddhist monk sit in boiling water, serving shrimp cooked in the same liquid?

Why does a dead organism disintegrate at high temperatures, while a living one can survive in far harsher conditions?

The only conclusion is that the primary way life exists is not through its physical body but through what we call spirit and soul. It is spirit and soul that determine the survival capabilities of any form of life.

Thus, naive theories about a primordial soup in which primary microorganisms accidentally arose are, at best, incomplete.

There is growing speculation that life was brought to Earth from space, leaving the question of how it originated there.

The world ocean, emerging from Earth's interior, may indeed have been a cradle for the first organisms, but likely as a final stage. An informational-energy substance found its embodiment on Earth. Why in water?

Probably because water can exist as solid ice, liquid, and vapor. As liquid, it can transition into both «material» stone and «spiritual» vapor.

Just as the soul holds information about both the physical body and the spiritual shell of a living being, water contains information about all its potential states.

Water possesses properties of both matter and space. It retains information despite physical destruction. Water «records» all information about the universe, just as it is «recorded» in the cosmic vacuum.

In ancient India, there was a concept called the Akashic Records. In the world ether, information about all events is «recorded» and stored.

The biofield of a living being retains all information about its ancestors — their actions, thoughts, and feelings. It's no coincidence that a human is almost 70% water. The informational component is primary and persists through all changes.

So why does the Bible state that God created man from clay? This is likely an allegory, much like the concept of paradise. The unique property of clay, like water, is its ability to hold information.

Clay can be hard like stone, soft like wax, or liquid like water. The Quran states that man was created from a drop.

Whether clay or water, the essence remains: life carries and accumulates information that does not perish.

So, how did life begin? On one hand, all scientific theories have proven insufficient. On the other hand, scientists are amazed to encounter facts that align with information from sacred texts.

The Big Bang theory and the pulsating universe theory are merely reiterations of what was described in Indian Vedas thousands of years ago.

Perhaps it is worth turning to the theory of life’s origin on Earth that has been known for thousands of years.

When creating Adam, God breathed a soul into him — without which life would not have arisen. God’s breath is an emanation of the First Cause. Thus, life originated neither on Earth nor in space.

Life is part of the Creator of the universe. It transcends matter, space, and time. Life, by its nature, is eternal.

This means no physical, temperature, or spatial-cosmic factors can destroy the essence of life. External destruction is possible, but the core of life is indestructible and eternal.

When this internal core activates, the physical shell survives even under the most extreme conditions — it aligns with eternity and becomes independent of the surrounding world.

Life is governed by two powerful instincts. The instinct for procreation is not just a desire to preserve oneself in time but a wish to expand one's «self» across generations.

The instinct for self-preservation is not merely self-defense and survival — it requires control over events and the ability to manage circumstances. Ultimately, the scale of control should grow to encompass the universe.

In essence, both instincts work towards an approach to the Creator of the universe. Their core is the knowledge of God and the aspiration to resemble Him.

Eventually, full resemblance and unity with God must occur. The manifest part of the Creator reaches the level of the unmanifested.

The highest opposites cease to differ and merge into a single whole. Another cosmic cycle concludes — the breath of Brahma.

My gaze falls on a small book lying on the table. It briefly recounts stories from the great Indian epic Mahabharata.

These tales of humans, demigods, and demons read like beautiful fables. Previously, I had no idea how much profound information was encoded in these seemingly simple narratives.

For a living being to develop, it must adapt to the world around it.

The higher the level of development, the more comprehensive and accurate the picture of the surrounding world, its model, must be.

There must be guiding beacons that determine a system of priorities. A flawed worldview leads to misfortune, illness, and death.

Instincts, formed over hundreds of millions of years and tied to the emergence of physical life, serve as such beacons.

Without them, highly developed forms of life would have long vanished. Yet, hundreds of millions of years are too brief for the universe. There must be grander beacons.

The main guide for any living being is love for the Creator and the desire to reunite with the First Cause. Through this feeling, new portions of life come to us in every fleeting moment.

If a living being forgets its aspiration for the First Cause and fuses with the surrounding world, life gradually departs — first from the soul, then from the body.

When destruction of the surrounding world restores unity with God, renewal and resurrection of life occur.

Misfortunes and diseases are blessings for highly developed beings. They indicate that the soul has pursued false beacons, losing its focus on God as the ultimate goal and happiness.

However, illnesses and death do not come immediately. Initially, fate provides gentler warnings of trouble. Understanding their meaning can render misfortunes and diseases unnecessary.

Transforming the coercive mechanism of salvation into a voluntary one — that is the essence of overcoming illness.

If we understand what happens to a soul that loses its personal aspiration toward God, it becomes easier to detect in ourselves the seeds of future misfortune and disease.

S. N. Lazarev, «Survival Experience»