Meditation and Random Thoughts

We had a meditation session in the office and although I laughed at the whole thing. [Well, it is funny to see so many people humming at the same time like bees]. But one point made by the instructor really struck me. He said that everything is based on perception. 

Even the facts are based on perception, for instance, I know that an atom is made up of protons, neutrons and electrons. But have I seen them? No. It is based on some person who did some experiments to prove this. Well, then it can be argued, that what I believe in is not true too. Thats because an atom is made of many more particles like neutrino, electron neutrino, muon, muon neutrino, tauon, tendulkar, tauon neutrino, quarks, gauge bosons etc etc etc. 

Did you even read that I put Sachin Tendulkar in that list! Thats because I don't care. For me, an atom is still made up of only 3 particles and I copied all these from Wikipedia . The point is that there are no hard facts about life and universe. Its kind of like the theory of relativity. Its all relative to what I see.

For instance, for me an atom is made of 3 particles only, but for a nuclear scientist it is made up of 100s of particles. For an old lady searching, Google, it is just a magical text box; but for a programmer at Google it is a complex program deployed over many machines in a complex distributed system to serve millions of queries per second. For a priest, God is real, he has devoted all his life to serving God; but for you and me, God is a distant entity who only figures up when we go to places of worship or when we are in difficulty. For some others, there is no God and only nature. For the rest, its all about fate. Whose truth is truth then? Is it yours or is it mine? 

Well, maybe we are all in different reference planes, moving at different velocities, and that there are no absolutes just like Einstein said.