Gardens of Wisdom

The universe obeys a single law – the very law upon which the two fundamental forces interact. There has never and will never be any change to this arrangement.

The dead universe is set into motion since creation and will remain in motion. There is no any dead object that can disobey this pre-determined way.

Life is the only force that directly acts on the objects. Without life, the universe would never have witnessed any changes.

We do not see life and we may never know the essence of life but the effect of life is very much around us.

As far as the visible universe is concerned, the basic unit of life is a cell.

Where is life contained in a cell? This is a question we may never be able to answer. As far as we can see, a cell is wholly material and we know pretty well the basic components. We can identify individual elements that are active in a cell. We know also that a cell has the two states of being dead or alive. We do not see life to see where it interacts but the effect is more than enough to prove the presence of a force.

If a virus with only a strand of RNA (Ribonucleic acid) is able to initiate the process of life under a favourable environment then RNA or DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) can be implicated as the centre of interaction between an object and the force known as life. Anything that can initiate activity is living.

A living cell, unlike a non-living cell, can initiate activities - this could not have been possible (looking onto Newton’s first law of motion) if there was no presence of force.

A human being is made up of billions upon billions of cells. It is these cells that actually live and exhibit life activities. It is the cells that actually grow and reproduce. A human being, therefore, can be looked upon as a composite of lives instead of just a single life.

These cells are the bones, blood, flesh and the skin. They compose the heart, liver, kidneys, brain and they are responsible for all the activities that take place in a person.

The cells produce the saliva in our mouth, the sweat that regulate our temperature, 'tears' that lubricate our eyes and mucin that protect our stomach from corrosion.

Human life starts as a single cell invisible to an unaided eye.

After fertilization, the single cell begins to grow and divide continuously and rapidly until they become so many that they begin to be visible. In fact, as at 2 weeks after fertilization, the cells are barely visible to the naked eye.

It is this single fertilized cell under the instructions of DNA packed in its nucleus that will develop and multiply to give birth to various tissues and organs.

At maturity, a person can boast of 10 thousand, million, and million (10,000,000,000,000,000) living cells that are organized into all the systems of the body. What a wondrous growth from just a cell!

When we analyze a cell as a living creature, we do not find but the common elements know to us. We find hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, calcium, sulphur, iron, etc.

What and where is life? Particularly when it is understood that the peculiar arrangement of the elements in the way it is found in a living cell does not give rise to living activities.

If today we talk of food and talk of conscious activities, thanks to life. Without life, all the manipulations going on in the universe today would not have been possible. Without life, we would not be here holding any discussion.