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Erwin Schroedinger and Hinduism
santhosh@iss.nus.sg (Santhosh Kumar) wrote:
> I would like to clarify Caitanya that you cannot be a Hindu
> because you are born in Canada, a Hindu is the one who is
> born in Hindustan ( INDIA ) and follows Sanatana Dharma.
There are people who've NEVER been to India, but who consider themselves to
be Hindus. For Instance, Erwin Scroedinger, the great Quantum Physicist,
has shown his philosophical stand in his book "What is Life ?". The appendix
to that book has his article on the Vedanta. Also, my professor in India
has stated that when Schroedinger was staying for a few days in India,
he scrupulously followed the Indian customs, including applying Tilak
to his fore-head, wearing a Dhoti,etc....and Schroedinger, ofcourse, was
born in Austria( he received the Nobel Prize in physics for the wave equation in
late 1920s or early 1930s ). Schroedinger ALWAYS considered himself a Hindu.
There is another personality-Nikola Telsa(after whom the unit of magnetic field,
tesla, is named) who was all-in-all for the Advaita philosophy. And he,too,
considered himself a Hindu. He was born in Yugoslavia(then migrated to the USA).
BTW, there is a passage in Erwin Scroedinger's book, "What is Life?",which goes-
" ...Consciousness is one thing that can never be experienced in the plural...
even in the cases of split-personality, the two personalities are never
manifest simultaneously...consciousness is one entity of which the plural
is unknown..."
-Kartik
