A journey to absolute infinity
The book under review titled ‘A Journey Towards Absolute Infinity’ is written in the Tamil language by a retired mathematics teacher, Mr. M. Subbiah Doss.
Many scholarly math teachers have successfully tried to describe and measure God with their mathematical stick.
We have Swami Ramathirtha who was a great advanced scholar and teacher of mathematics.
In his eight volumes ‘In the Forest of God Realization’ we have beautiful mathematical analogies that explain God.
The great genius Ramanujan declared that he does not believe in any formula in which he cannot see God.
The present work also tries to measure incommensurable things.
The book has three parts with eighteen chapters. Six chapters explain the various principles of spirituality with the help of simple mathematical principles.
Mandukya Upanishad explains the three-dimensional world and the four-dimensional world
The ancient sages have discovered everything with their intuition. Although the physical heart is on the left side of the body, the spiritual heart is on the right side of the body.
When the author emphasizes this point, we are reminded of the saying of Bhagavan Ramana Maharishi, the sage of Arunachala, who also emphasizes this point from his own experience.
The fourth dimension is always a curious subject. The great author JWDunne (1875-1949) has explained it in his world famous book, ‘An experiment with time’.
The author explains the three-dimensional world and the four-dimensional world with many simple sketches.
Man is determined by his karma, which in turn is due to his own thoughts. The next birth is determined by one’s own thoughts of the previous birth, this birth, and the balance one brings from previous karmas.
The ancient sages by their inner vision saw the hexagonal symbol at the north pole of the planet Saturn and decided to carve it on the roof of the temples of Saturn. Now the Cassini spacecraft sent by NASA proves it by sending back photos of Saturn.
After illustrating the above points, the author narrates an incident from the divine life of Sri Sathya SaiBaba. A girl once met Baba at the Chitravathi River in Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh, India. Baba had taken a statue from the river. That was the statue that the girl’s grandfather adored. Including this statue, everything is saved as a thought form.
Living within the limits of space and time and cause and effect is one thing. To get rid of these things one has to choose the spiritual path.
To understand God, mathematics is a useful tool.
All the above points are very interesting. In 147 pages, the author gives us a complete picture of the hitherto unexplained principles.
R. Panneerselvam, a scholar in his own right, has given a suitable foreword.
Many quotes from the sages Swami Vivekananda, Swami Yogananda, Swami Chitbavananda and Ramakrishna make the book an interesting read.
The book is carefully printed and I commend the author for his meticulous research.