Bharatiya Pragna - Dr. Th Chowdary

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this, the space has another set of three dimen- In the case of energy, if a subtle energy
sions viz. x, y, z.5
has the support of subtle matter it can transform
Due to the effect of stillness both con- itself into a gross energy state. The main reason
sciousness and time become ineffective and for this is that the difference between the matter
added to this it is easy for the mind to grasp xyz and energy is very narrow. If the consciousness
dimensions, and as such they acquire more is associated with new dimension called move-
prominence in the materialistic sciences. ment, energy is evolved. If the same conscious-
If a new dimension called movement or ness is associated with another dimension called
vibration gets added to this pre-creational state, static movement (Spandaspanda) the matter is
then a new object called energy is created. This evolved. Stillness and movement are opposed
has also three dimensions viz. .
to each other and their existence together is nor-
Energy — Consciousness + time + movement
That means the difference between space
and energy is only due to the dimensions of stillness
and movement. Therefore pre-creational
state can be represented as under.
Pre-creational state Simultaneous Evolution
Space Subtle energy
mally not possible. But here it becomes possible
because of spatial adjustment.
We shall explain this. An atom of subtle
matter which is known to be inert is always in a
state of relative movement compared with other
atoms. It is so because, it is an accepted fact
that no particle in the Universe is static. Added
to this, subtle matter is nearer to the energy and
as such movement is inbuilt in it. Moreover, an
(Conciousness + (Conciousness + atom when viewed from the angle of its own in-
Time + Stillness) Time + Movement) ternal parts, it looks as though it is static. That
This subtle energy needs the support of
a matter to transform itself into a gross state.6
This is so, because the mind organs of
human beings can grasp matter more easily and
can grasp energy associated with the matter easily.
The matter also has subtle and gross states.
Matter which can be directly conceived by the
sense organs is gross. Here organs mean only
means the atom is static in one perspective and
mobile in the other. This is how, the diagonally
opposite qualities of stillness and mobility are
existing in an atom of subtle matter. The point to
be noted is the stillness which has been explained
just now from the perspective of internal parts
of an atom is only apparent stillness but not a
real one. This can be further explained as under:
five sense organs and not mind. The conceiv- Energy means consciousness in the state
ability of matter by sense organs depends on the of movement.7 If a conceiver gets a feeling of
capacity of the sense organs. For example we stillness in such an energy, then, both stillness
have matters which are not gross to the human and movement get wedded, as a result, a new
beings are known to be gross ones to some object called subtle inert matter off-springs.
animals.
Therefore–
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