16 Apr 2011
Note: This article is meant for intellectuals only
Science goes up to the space only, which is very subtle form of energy. Due to bending of space around the boundaries of object, space cannot be treated as nothing since nothing can bend. The topmost scientist, Einstein, treats the space as geometrical entity and not absolutely existing item. He treats space as relatively existing based on the existence of two materialistic items, since space is the distance between two materialistic items. If the matter disappears, space also disappears according to him. If all the matter is converted into energy, you may imagine the situation as space in which the waves of energy travel. Of course, according to Einstein, energy also disappears if matter disappears. In that way, the energy including the space also disappears on the disappearance of matter. Like that, he is correct in his own way. Energy is also treated as matter since the fundamental unit of energy is accepted to have rest mass. Energy and matter become simultaneous forms and are inter-convertible. While accepting all this, you can also believe that matter is generated from energy by condensation. You may say that the fundamental unit of space, which is energy, also has rest mass and thus, energy and matter are simultaneously created. For the sake of convenience, you can distinguish matter and energy and you can also distinguish space from energy and matter and assume the space as almost nothing. All these are various assumptions based on convenience for analytical studies of the creation. Einstein concludes that matter, energy and space exist or disappear simultaneously. We also agree to this statement based on the above scientific analysis. But, we slightly differ in saying that the space disappears on the disappearance of energy since space itself is energy. If space is nothing, it should exist even on the disappearance of matter and energy. When the total energy disappears, space should also disappear being a part of energy. However, the final conclusion is one and the same.
Science ends its analysis at the space. The characteristics of space are the spatial dimensions (length, width and height), the product of which is the volume. Ancient Indian logic also says that volume (parimana) is the characteristic of space. The Veda says that God created energy as well as space. This contradicts another Vedic statement, which says that God created space, space created air, air created fire, fire created water and water created earth etc. The contradiction is that why God is said to be the creator of space and energy only? If you take the sense of the actual creator to be God, the Veda should have said God as the creator of every item. In the sequential steps of creation, the word ‘Agni’ is used, which is visible energy. But in the context of God creating the energy, the word ‘Tejas’ is used, which is the invisible energy. Since space is invisible energy, the Veda said God as the creator of space, which is invisible energy. There is no contradiction since the essence of this apparent contradiction is only to say that space is a form of invisible energy. X-rays, Gamma rays etc., are also other forms of invisible energy.
Science keeps silent about God since no analysis is possible in the case of God, who is beyond the spatial dimensions. Our intelligence cannot go beyond the spatial dimensions and therefore, can never imagine the entity, which has no spatial dimensions i.e., volume or area or single dimension. The difference between science and philosophy is that philosophy accepts the existence of God, who has no spatial dimensions, whereas science keeps silent about the existence of God due to absence of spatial dimensions. However, both science and philosophy are similar in the inability of imagining God, who does not have the spatial dimensions.
Magic Tricks and Miracles
You may straight away ask that why should you accept the existence of any item, which does not have spatial dimensions. Science says that the universe consisting of space, energy and matter is the absolute reality and has no generator. We don’t find fault with the true scientist in keeping silent about God. But, we oppose the false scientist, who says that God does not exist. The simple reason is that God is unimaginable due to the absence of spatial dimensions and consequently due to the failure of application of any analysis. But, you find the so called miracles, which are the unimaginable events and science fails to analyze these miracles. But still, the miracles exist. A true scientist sincerely accepts the existence of miracles and keeps silent about them. A pseudo-scientist, who has half knowledge of science is always egoistic and denies the existence of miracles. Miracles cannot be denied as magic. Miracle may give the same result as that of magic. But, based on this, you cannot say that miracle is magic. By magic, you may generate a golden ring by hiding it in the folding of hand. Such generation is false because in the real generation, the ring is prepared from gold. You cannot say that whenever a ring is generated, it is always done by the false magic only. The false magic cannot disprove the real generation of the ring. In the real generation, you are only generating the ring from already generated gold. You are not generating the gold from energy by way of condensation. In a miracle, the gold is generated from energy by way of condensation. If the miracle is done by a devotee, the condensation of gold is from already existing cosmic energy. If the miracle is performed by God in human form, the energy is created by the will of God since the already existing cosmic energy was also created by the will of God. Therefore, in a miracle performed by a devotee by the grace of God, the law of conservation of energy is followed. This difference between God and devotee need not be discussed here since both are one and the same as far as the inability of the human being is concerned.
A human being can neither create energy nor create matter from the existing energy. Moreover, the instantaneous implementation of the specific design of the ring is also not possible for the human being. All these impossibilities make the event unimaginable, which is called as a miracle. In spite of the impossible unimaginable steps, the basic process of generation of matter from energy and the generation of ring from the matter by application of some work form of energy is one and the same and is not violated even in the miracle. Generation of a product may be done in several ways and since the product is one and the same, one way of generation cannot disprove the other way. For example, the same sodium chloride can be generated by different chemical reactions. You might have generated it by one specific chemical reaction. It does not mean that the other ways of reactions used in the generation of sodium chloride cannot exist. You might have generated some ash by moving the hand with the help of magic. It does not mean that ash cannot be produced by other real ways. Your way of generation of ash is false since it is magic. But, generation of ash by a miracle need not be false because already the possibility of the alternative real way is existing. Miracle is only an extension of the real way. The ash is generated by the oxidation of some matter and this is the real way. In the miracle, the matter is generated from energy. Therefore, the present real way of generation of ash is only a part of the entire real process. The entire real process is called as miracle and a part of the real process is called as the human way of generation of ash.
The miracle establishes the existence of unimaginable entity with the help of imaginable items. Once the unimaginable entity is practically established, the saying of the unimaginable entity becomes valid till you disprove the unimaginable event. In future, you may disprove it or you may not disprove it at all. I cannot depend on the first possibility only to disbelieve the present status of the issue. You might have shown some petty un-imaginable events as imaginable. That does not mean that you will show the mega unimaginable event also as imaginable. An ignorant man thinks that he cannot touch the roof by high jump. He is ignorant of the fact that anyone can touch the roof by the long practice of high jump. You may exploit his ignorance and touch the roof by long practice. The ignorant man thought this as really impossible. Now, he is surprised at this and will believe that one day or other, you will touch the sky also. He is also ignorant that the sky can never be touched. But, you cannot fool a wise man, who knows that the roof can be touched by long practice and the sky can never be touched by any amount of practice. There was one day, when the man did not know that a ring can be prepared from gold. In course of time, the ring was generated from gold. This does not mean that in future, on some day, the man will achieve the power of generating the gold from energy.
A true scientist is always humble, understands all these aspects and therefore, keeps silent about God. In no book of science, I have found a chapter dedicated to denial of existence of God. Science never mentions God because He is unimaginable. Even Shankara said that the best expression about God is only silence. Only ignorant and egoistic scientists with little knowledge of science become atheists, always trying to disprove the miracles and thereby, try to disprove the existence of unimaginable God. A true scientist and a true philosopher are one and the same keeping silent about the unimaginable God and accept the existence of unimaginable events (miracles) performed by the devotees and human incarnations. Once you accept the existence of unimaginable God and the existence of unimaginable events, you have to accept the validity of the scripture spoken by the unimaginable God. The scripture says that the unimaginable God created energy in an unimaginable way and the entire world is manifested from the energy in an imaginable way.
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