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Are you a real Swami, or a Sears Swami? If you are the former, what is the meaning of Life, The Universe and Everything else? Thank you for your consideration in this matter. Feel free to comunicate in the form of good vibrations. Thank you, once again in advance. Hamster Sandwich 23:50, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
- It is very nice of you to welcome me. I have not learned the ways of Martha Stewart, so I'm afraid that I do not qualify as a Sears Swami. In the book you reference, Douglas Adams made fun of the process of discovery, but he wasn't far from the mark when he said that the answer is meaningless without knowing the right question. If you were to read the answer to the question you ask, it would be as meaningless to you as the number 42 because it would be the answer to the highest level of a mountain you have yet to climb. The questions of the top level are formed from the answers of the level under it and so on down to the levels that we can understand. Pursuit of the answer to the ultimate question is a lifelong journey because one must overcome the obstacles of each part of our climb before he can even understand the obstacles that lay beyond. This problem of cumulative levels of understanding is inherent in an encyclopedia where we, as editors, must assume a low level of understanding on the part of the reader. We must simplify the beginning overview and try to give more depth in the article sections, but we will never succeed in explaining some things to the understanding of those who spend their whole lives climbing the mountain of knowledge in any given discipline. For that reason, we must not assume that reading a Wikipedia or Google article makes us an expert on the subject. The ramifications of the term are often much deeper than the watered down versions we read. As we climb the mountain of knowledge and see the boulders to master in front of us, our reality becomes those boulders. A response the question of Life, the universe, and everything is only relevant in the context of our lives—if it explains how to overcoming the boulders in our way, but after we've mastered those boulders, we need a new answer to master the next level. The answer I'm going to give you below is not the full solution to your query because that answer would be as meaningless as "42." Instead, I will attempt to take you to the next level of understanding on a journey that will not only completely resolve your question, but give you the context to understand the answer.
- You, Hamster Sandwich, are a cell of the body. Your individual life or death is as irrelevant as whether or not a brain cell lives or dies to make way for a more fit connection in your cerebellum. The important thing is that the most fit connection is made, not the life or death of a cell. A cell that considers its own life more important than the health of the body is a liability. Enough cells with this "attitude" will kill the body and destroy all cells within. In our brains, a process known as Neural Darwinism prunes connects least fit to survive. It could be said that each synapse makes its best case for survival, but some will always be better than others for a particular purpose. Trying to become most useful to the body, living when successful and of dying when our usefulness is done is a natural process. When the cells of a body embrace this concept, the body becomes and remains healthy, but some cells promote their own lives over what is most healthy for all. We call these cells cancer. As cells in the body of humanity, our most powerful weapon in dealing with social cancer is our individual spirituality. A sense of contentment and well-being lets us know when we successfully combine our efforts with others for the health of greater society. For this reason, some jobs are more fulfilling than others. A money trader, for instance, might be able to feed his family by trading Euros and Dollars at the right time, but he may also find that he has to take Effexor to offset depression. Worthlessness and despondency are natural feelings for one who steals, and that is what the money trader does. He doesn't earn his money in recognition for his efforts in building society. He takes from society without replenishing an equal amount. He is told that his actions are acceptable, even desirable, in modern socio-economics, but he knows inside that he is spiritually dead, and that spiritual death feels worse than physical death.
- What is this feeling of spiritual death? Where does it come from? How can we sense helping or hindering humanity's progression along the path when we do not understand the path? Does the path lead to a goal? Are our individual brains sufficient to comprehend it? These are the questions of the next level and they have answers, but as you may agree at this point, the levels should be taken one at a time. --Swami Sathvaatsanjaatha Jnaanaaya Namah 04:35, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
- O Swami, thou art not a Sears Swami to be sure. There is a path, and it has taken me over mountains, and yes, even far above them, across oceans too. But all things are not always as they may appear (although it is true that objects in your rear view mirror may appear to be larger than they actually are). The Truth can be an ephemeral thing. One passing moment can bring the truth fully to another point, and this moment is like a curtain being drawn back to reveal the next level of Truth, another step towards enlightenment, where Truth is All. Which truth have we arrived at, O Swami? Which degree has been revealed? Hamster Sandwich 05:16, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
- I seem to have been blocked by User:Carbonite and all of my edits undone. Why do you think he would do such a thing? --Swami Sathvaatsanjaatha Jnaanaaya Namah 05:40, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
- To ask a question is the first step on a journey. Quite often the hardest step. Let us ask and perhaps the journey will reveal itself more easily. Regards, Hamster Sandwich 05:49, 30 January 2006 (UTC)