Hulusi vs Hawking 25 March 2006

                                                             The Cosmic Dancer.
 Hulusi vs Hawking

25 March 2006

“Know that the life of this world is but a sport and a pastime, a show and an empty boasting among yourselves. This world’s life is naught but a means of deception.”
— The Quran (57:20)

The Buddha said something similar when He described this world as Maya—an illusion. And modern science, ironically or beautifully, has confirmed this in its own language: that what we see, feel, and believe to be solid is not what it seems.

Under the lens of powerful microscopes—or at the edge of deep-space telescopes—what we discover is not solidity, but movement, space, and patterns. We are, as physicists tell us, atoms fluttering in vast emptiness, held together by invisible forces. Nothing truly touches anything. Solidity is an illusion of proximity and resistance.

Yet, somehow, through the law of gravity, all these tiny-winy atoms are brought together into forms: humans, trees, mountains, and stars.

Stephen Hawking wrote:

“In this book (A Brief History of Time), I have given special prominence to the laws that govern gravity, because it is gravity that shapes the large-scale structure of the universe…”

Gravity binds the cosmos. It governs the dance of planets, stars, and galaxies—but also the structure of our own physical bodies. It’s not just astrophysics; it’s the story of being.

Even on a spiritual level, we live under the pull of this cosmic gravity. It’s as though the soul too feels its weight—the burden of being bound in a body, stuck to the ground, subject to decay.

From the moment we are born, we begin resisting gravity. Crawling, then standing. But uprightness comes at a cost. We tire. We age. We fall back down to rest. As humans, we spend fortunes trying to escape gravity. We build planes, rockets, and dreams of levitation.

Because somewhere deep within, we long to float.

We yearn not just for physical flight—but for spiritual release. A liberation from the heaviness of this earthly condition. We want to soar beyond the bounds of this world’s deception, to taste weightlessness—not just of body, but of ego, desire, and illusion.

It is a universal human yearning:
To fly.
To transcend.
To return to that state where nothing pulls us down.

Hawking gave us the map of the visible universe. Hulusi and the mystics gave us glimpses into the unseen gravitational fields of the soul.

And the Buddha… simply smiled. 

WallahuAlam!