Parallel Universe

Kids often have weird thoughts and fantasies. Majority of the discoveries in science are manifestations of these inexplicable thoughts of kids entertained in the past as their wild dreams. The theories of inter-planetary and interstellar travel that we hear these days were fantasies of kids decades ago.

On a hot sunny day in 1981, in a tiny village called Vinjanampadu in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, South India, sat a young boy talking to a middle-aged man on the banks of the village pond.

The boy had just finished the final rituals of his father who passed away a few days ago.The boy was an under-graduate in Physics while the man was a Physics professor from IIT Madras (now Chennai), one of the most reputed colleges in the country. The middle-aged man was his maternal uncle, and the boy was none other than me.

In those days, my knowledge of Physics was very rudimentary, owing to the fact that my college was from a small town. My knowledge was limited to Newton’s laws, Thermodynamics, primary details of Einstein’s theory of relativity, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle and a few concepts of Quantum physics.

By then, I was an avid reader of Vedanta, Yoga, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and such texts. I used to read any book on supernatural things and occult that I could lay my hands upon. Though a science student, I dwelt more on metaphysics than on science, thanks to the spiritual endeavour that overtook me from my early childhood days.

Our discussion began with the final rituals that were just done, the soul’s journey afterwards and astral worlds and moved on to quantum physics and parallel universes. Though I was aware that the person before me was an expert in the topic and I stood no chance, I went ahead with my inquisitiveness.

I said, “If there was another universe that ran parallel to ours, its time would move in a direction opposite to that of ours. Only then would they balance out each other. According to Newton’s third law, everything is balanced by opposing forces. Two worlds born at the same time progressing in the same direction would not create balance. So theoretically, in a parallel world, time would be moving backwards to what we experience here. Is there any research in Quantum physics on this theory?”

My uncle laughed out loud. “There are many such theories. And research is also on-going. The very existence of a parallel universe is not yet proved and you are questioning the details about time running backwards in such a place. How dare you interconnect Newton’s laws and Quantum Physics!”

I replied: “Be it Newton’s laws or Quantum physics, there has to be a balance in nature. Otherwise,life wouldn’t exist. will it?”. My words were left unanswered.

This conversation happened 41 years ago and was mostly forgotten.

One of these days, I happened to read a news report from “The Independent” as under:

Scientists believe there could be an anti-universe next to ours, where time runs backwards.

A wild theory suggests there may be an “anti-universe” that runs backwards in time before the Big Bang.

The concept, explained in a paper accepted for publication in a journal Annals of Physics, suggests that the reason for this universe is because there are fundamental symmetries in nature – such as charge, parity and time. This fundamental symmetry is known as CPT symmetry.

Physical interaction generally obeys these symmetries, but physicists have never observed a violation of these laws of nature simultaneously. The research posted that while symmetry applies to interactions, it could also apply to entire universe.

As such, to prevent this symmetry, there could be a mirror-image cosmos to balance our own.

This news brought back, memories of the conversation I had with my uncle four decades ago. Now, I do not need confirmation from sources, scientific or otherwise, about the existence of parallel universes. I know from my own experience that they do exist. In these 40 years, much water had flown down the Ganges and a lot has happened to me internally which even my close associates and family members are not aware of.

Had the same conversation happened today, I would’ve taken a completely different stance in answering my uncle who passed away in 2017 and moved to a different universe. It happened during my second visit to USA in 2017.

So, what if a parallel universe did exist? Even if we had access to those realms, humans would still carry their negative traits of selfishness, greed, jealousy, dictatorship, caste barriers and money baiting to disturb the serenity there.

A universe parallel to ours definitely exists. Not one but many. There are many such worlds in the unending depths of space. But they are not visible as long as man is controlled by his ‘negative traits’and ‘attachment to the physical world’. The rules of those worlds will not allow humans with limitations to enter into them.

These worlds cannot be accessed by rockets, but only be experienced in deep meditative states. These realms are inside us, not outside. Or, it can be said, they may exist somewhere in the outer space at astronomical distances, but can be easily accessed by going into your own self. With meditation, one can gain complete access to extra terrestrial worlds. Miracles beyond human imagination do exist in abundance in the cosmos. Meher Baba said that 18,000 planets that resemble Earth do exist. He was able to say this based on his deep sadhana and meditative experiences.

As we explore the depths of meditation, new planes of existence become accessible to us. We can travel to them in our astral body. These worlds are not figments of our imagination but real.

Parallel universes do certainly exist. They exist in and around us. It is just like travelling into dream worlds during sleep. One should only know the technique of opening the door to those planes and stepping over through it. As one goes deep into meditation, these mysteries unfold themselves.  To be able do this, one should reorder his priorities in life and put consistent efforts in sadhana. If your goals are money and sense pleasures, you can never see them nor experience them in your life.

While science is still formulating theories about parallel universes, our seers and sages have known them through their personal experiences, long ago. You too can feel them with a little dhyana practice.