Bharatiya Pragna - Dr. Th Chowdary

L et us assume that a ray of light was
sent into a dark room and the door was closed.
What happens to that ray? The layman’s answer
would be that the walls absorbed the ray. Likewise,
let us assume that the ray was sent into the
closed room for crores of years uninterruptedly.
Will there be, then, any possibility, for any change
in the atomic structure of the atoms in those walls,
due to concentration of energy? If so, why not
the mountains, which are exposed to the sunrays
for thousands of crores of years, were affected
by such rays?
Not only the ray of light, for that matter,
any form of energy conducted through a medium,
would be absorbed to some extent, in
course of time, and the intensity of that energy
would be diminished. That means the energy is
weakened as time passes by. What is the reason
for this?
Energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
This is a principle accepted by both the
ancient as well as modern scientists. If it is so,
where is the absorbed part of the energy going?
in which form? and can it be measured? —are
the questions that challenge us. To derive answers
for such questions we have to ascertain,
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Nature Of energy : Scriptural perspective
Kuppa Venkata Krishna Murthy
In the scriptures of ancient Indian sages, the nature of energy was contemplated
so extensively. But at the time of interactions of energies of different dimensions, how
the resultant dimensions differ and how the resultant energies behave and how their
limitations form, are the things to be yet studied and determined.
as to what the term “energy” means? What is its
nature? Now, we try to study this from the perspective
of references available in the ancient Indian
scriptures, duly co-relating them with the
modern terminology.
Now, the pertinent question is: What is
energy? There is no conceivable energy, which
can be conceived without being influenced by
the conceiver. So, it should be possible to arrive
at the pure form of energy, by deducting or subtracting
the points of the conceiver from the
points of the conceived.
The conceiving energies under the command
of man are of six kinds viz. the five sense
organs and “mind”. Of these, mind is a better
conceiver and the other five are actually under
its control. So, the master key is the mind itself.
So, let us examine the inner parts of the
mind . If consciousness contained in a subtle shell
gets a movement, then it is called “mind”. So,
Mind = Consciousness + A Subtle Shell + Space
+ Movement.
To understand this equation, we should
know what a subtle shell and what is space. For
this, we have to analyze the process of evolution
of this universe from, the point of view of energy.
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