All about lightning – its scientific and khshnoomic understanding- By Behram Dhabhar
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How is lightning formed?
First we will try to understand it in the form of a scientific explanation. Lightning is an electric current. To generate this electric current, first you need a cloud. When the ground is hot, it heats the air above it. This warm air rises. As the air rises, water vapour cools and forms a cloud. When air continues to rise, the cloud gets bigger and bigger. In the tops of the clouds, temperature is below freezing and the water vapour turns into ice. Now, the cloud becomes a thundercloud. Lots of small bits of ice bump into each other as they move around. All these collisions cause a buildup of electrical charge. Eventually, the whole cloud fills up with electrical charges. Lighter, positively charged particles form at the top of the cloud. Heavier, negatively charged particles sink to the bottom of the cloud. When the positive and negative charges grow large enough, a giant spark - lightning - occurs between the two charges within the cloud. This is like the static electricity sparks you see; only, much bigger. Most lightning happens inside a cloud, but sometimes it happens between the cloud and the ground. A build-up of positive charge happens on the ground beneath the cloud, attracted to the negative charge in the bottom of the cloud. The ground's positive charge concentrates around anything that sticks up - trees, lightning conductors, even people! The positive charge from the ground connects with the negative charge from the clouds and a bolt of lightning strikes. http://www.planet-science.com/categories/over-11s/natural-world/2012/06/what-causeslightning.aspx
How is lightning formed ? (as explained by ilm-e-khshnoom)
Now let us take a look at the same phenomenon from the religious point of view as explained by Ilm-e-Khshnoom. The Arvahi Alam is made up of Anasari planes, i.e. the regions where matter is produced. Nature’s sequence to produce matter is Asha Chitra >>> Vaha Chithra >>> Gav Chithra >>> Sukhshma Anasar >>> Sthul Anasar Anasar’s are the building blocks of matter, they are Atash, Baad, Aap ane Khak (Fire, air, water and earth). The planes in the Arvahi Alam have sub-planes or transition regions between two such planes, which are known as Zamrirs. There are 7 such Zamrirs between two Dakhyus. All these Dakhyus and Zamrirs are in constant motion – nothing in nature is stationary as all are in the process of reaching Frashogard. The friction caused between the rotation of two adjacent Zamrirs causes Lightning. This lightning can strike as a forest fire and is known as “Zamrir-e-asfal” where the word “asfal” means inferior or lower category, since its derivative is from the lower anasari duniya (sthul anasar). Evaporation of water bodies takes place continuously day and night. If this evaporated vapour comes in contact with the spark of lightning it produces a Meteor or “falling stars”. Both these lightning fires can be used as one of the 16 fires (Atash-e-Vazisht) in the consecration of a second grade (duvvam darraja) Atash Behram. It should be noted that there are 7 such “second grade” Atash Behrams in India, where similarly produced fire of lightning was used. It is at such Atash Behrams that a 7-piece Machhi is to be offered. Science wrongly assumes that “falling stars” are those that fall from the starry vault. The 8th Asman of Anagra Raocha – which we refer to as the Abode of Endless Light or the starry vault – is in the Minoi alam where there are no Anasars ! So such stars cannot appear from there, and hence that assumption is wrong. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________
This extract is sourced from Khordeh Avesta Ba Tarikat – Ustad saheb Behramshah Nowroji Shroff – Pg 927. *** *** ***