AN
APPLE PIE
An apple
pie is a well known dessert across the world, the mere mention of which makes
the mouth water. It is made from flour, sugar, butter and apple. The mixture of
these ingredients is baked and then the resultant product is presented as a delicious
dessert on the platter.
Says,
Dr. Carl Sagan (American
Astronomer,
Writer
and Scientist,
1934-1996) “If you want to make
an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
The most critical words in the above two lines is ‘from scratch’. As a scientist Carl Sagan examined the process of
making an apple pie more deeply. Flour is made from wheat that is grown on the
soil of earth; sugar is produced from cane sugar under certain agro-climatic
conditions; cows give milk and an apple is plucked from tree. The earth, its
soil and water-- that is the source of moisture of all grains, food and fruits---
all are the gifts of the Nature. Other elements like fire and air are also gifted
by a providential plan. Cows and trees are species of Nature that serve a
definite purpose of this planet. Man, who has the intelligence of making an
apple pie, is also designed by the Divine. Truly one has to create this cosmic
creation if an apple pie is to be made from
scratch.
Man has no role in contributing to
the underlying factors that make the apparent ingredients of an apple pie. His
limitations are total and absolute. Carl Sagan is hinting that man of his own
can do nothing. He simply acts under a given set of circumstances, has limited
choices and appears to choose within the options available to him. His preferences
too are governed by his parentages that carry a genetic codification and social
milieu of past and present. Bible
also says “the very hairs of your head are all
numbered”---that the destiny has predetermined all.
Does it mean we have no freewill of our own? The truth is
that our will is subservient to His will. We can exercise our freewill to the
extent He permits us to do so as all basic conditions of life are circumscribed
in the periphery of time, space, place, day, night, sun, moon, stars, air,
water, fire, vegetation, conditions of body and health, social habitat,
parental origin and material paraphernalia available in this world. Hazur used
to say, “At human level we have a ‘conditioned freewill’. But from the higher
level there is no freewill.” None except the Lord enjoys totality of
freewill—called Omni will. Mystically and
scientifically this is the fact.
Mirdad’s cautionary advice is that “till you
know the mysteries of Omniwill you must not set your will against it; for
surely you shall be the loser. You will come out of each encounter scarred and
drunk with gall (anger/infuriated)……”
Jesus said, “Thy will be done”
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