In the beginning, there was no beginning

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October 16, 2020

Subhuti shows how Osho's dismissal of the big bang theory has now been

verified.

Anatomy of a black hole

Listening to Osho's discourses, you can't help noticing that the mystic's

understanding of science varies wildly, from pinpoint accuracy and clarity to

(apparently) extravagant imagination. Often, Osho doesn't seem to mind if he is

talking fact or fiction, reminding those who are listening not to pay too much

attention to his words, but to focus on the meditative silence and stillness

behind them.

That's fine, but once in a while his words prove astonishingly prophetic and

just now a statement by Sir Roger Penrose, a Nobel Prize winner for Physics,

shows that Osho may be profoundly right.

Let me back up a bit and explain: In 1979, when I was living and working at the

Shree Rajneesh Ashram in Pune, I asked Osho a question in his discourse series,

The Book of Wisdom [Ch 28]. I'd just read a Time Magazine article claiming that

religion and science were brought together by the Big Bang Theory, which

asserted that the universe came into being 15 billion years ago in a vast

fireball explosion. Time's journalists argued that this sounded like the Old

Testament story of the universe beginning in a single act of creation, ordained

and triggered by God Almighty himself.

Osho

I asked Osho, what is wrong with this theory? He replied, "Subhuti, the first

thing to remember is, for three hundred years religion has been losing its

territory continuously. He explained that, at first, religion tried to destroy

science, for example, by persecuting Galileo when he proved the Earth went

around the Sun, instead of vice versa. But now that science has grown to

dominate the objective world, religion eagerly jumps on any scientific theory

that seems to support its superstitions, such as the Big Bang and the Act of

Creation.

Osho continued, "Why do I say that there was no beginning? Subhuti, it is so

simple. Even if you believe in the Big Bang Theory, there must have been

something that exploded. Do you think nothing exploded? If there was something,

x, y, z, any name, I am not much interested in such nonsense things, whatsoever

it was that exploded, if something was there before the explosion then the

explosion is not the beginning. It may be 'a beginning' but it is not 'the

beginning'".

Osho went on, "Something was always there, whether it exploded or whether it

grew slowly, in one day or in six days, or in one single moment, doesn't

matter. There must have been something before it, because only something can

come out of something. Even if you say there was nothing, and it came out of

nothing, then your nothing is full of something, it is not really nothing.

Hence I say there has never been any beginning and there will never be any end.

Maybe a beginning, maybe many beginnings and maybe many ends, but never the

first and never the last. We are always in the middle. Existence is not a

creation but a creativity. It is not that it begins one day and ends one day.

It goes on and on; it is an ongoing process."

Sir Roger Penrose

Osho's view of the universe has been upheld by Sir Roger Penrose, the

89-year-old Nobel laureate who won the honour in 1988 for proving that black

holes exist. Now, in a recent scientific journal, Sir Roger has asserted that

an earlier universe existed before the Big Bang and can still be observed

today. He explained that black holes leak radiation and eventually completely

decay, but at such a slow pace they last longer than the age of our current

universe. He said that 'dead' black holes from earlier universes are observable

now. The Big Bang was not the beginning," he explained. "There was something

before the Big Bang and that something is what we will have in our future. We

have a universe that expands and expands, and all mass decays away, and in this

theory of mine, that remote future becomes the Big Bang of another aeon."

Sir Roger's work is supported by a theory initiated by his colleague, the late

Professor Stephen Hawking, who first theorised that black holes leak radiation

and eventually disappear.

Credit: Subhuti

https://www.oshonews.com/2020/10/16/subhuti-penrose-osho/