In Search of God ( Part 3)

In Search of God
(After hearing the Discovery of God Particle)
 Dr Narendra S Gangakhedkar
 (PART 3)

For understanding this PRAKRITI, Arjuna asked a question to Lord Krishna:

Arjuna said: O Krishna, what is Brahman? What is Adhyaatma? What is Karma? What is called Adhibhoota? And what is known as Adhidaiva? (8.01)

O Krishna, who is Adhiyajna, and how does He dwell in the body? How can you be remembered   at the time of death by the steadfast? (8.02)

These are the questions in everyone’s mind.

The answers given in Geeta are:

The Supreme Lord said: Brahman is the Supreme imperishable. The individual self (or Jeevaatma) is called Adhyaatma. The creative power that causes manifestation of beings is called Karma. (8.03)

All perishable objects are called Adhibhoota, and the soul is Adhidaiva. I am Adhiyajna, the five basic elements, in the body, O Arjuna. (8.04)

The existence of God (BRAHMAN) is further explained as follows:

The one who meditates on Brahman as the omniscient, the oldest, the controller, smaller than the smallest (and bigger than the biggest), the sustainer of everything, the inconceivable, the self luminous like the sun, and as transcendental or beyond the material reality; (8.09)

 We can easily say smaller than smallest is nothing but God particles. Nuclear Scientists have discovered over 240 sub-atomic particles. Higgs boson is one of them. God exists in Higgs boson. We have found it, but we cannot see it. We see the effect. We do not see it in physical form. If we cannot see this what we discovered, how we can see God which exists in smaller than smallest. If new discovery of Higgs boson or Higgs Field opens a new path, may be God is in our reach. That day, we will become the creator and create a new Universe.

I would like to say that Bhagwad-Geeta is not a religious document. It is not a DHARMAGRANTH. It talks about Nature based on scientific ideas and talk of PRAKRITI , a creating force of Universe.

It says:

 There is no nonexistence of the Sat (or Atma) and no existence of the Asat. The reality of these two is indeed certainly seen by the seers of truth. (2.16)

Know that, by which all this (universe) is pervaded, to be indestructible. No one can destroy the indestructible (Atma). (2.17)

Some look upon this Atma as a wonder, another describes it as wonderful, and others hear of it as a wonder. Even after hearing about it no one actually knows it. (2.29)

Nature or Prakriti is indestructible and its business is continuation. It will not stop.

There is a difference between Nature and Prakriti.  Science stops after understanding Nature, It does not go beyond that.  We discovered God particle.  But what is next?  We need to understand the creator of Universe.

Because, de All beings, O Arjuna, are unmanifest before birth and after death. They are manifest between the birth and the death only. What is there to grieve about? (2.28)

Let us take the  example of Higgs boson. It was born and  disappeared in fraction of a second . It has very short life and scientists are trying to find out its life cycle.

Death is certain for the one who is born, and birth is certain for the one who dies. Therefore, you should not lament over the inevitable. (2.27)

This life cycle is critical and changes from one to another. We discovered Higgs boson but not yet understood the creation of the Universe. It is to be noted that Bagwad-Geeta believes in Science.

Using My Prakriti I create, again and again, the entire multitude of beings that are helpless, being under the control of Prakriti. (9.08)

The Prakriti or nature, under My supervision, creates all animate and inanimate objects; and thus the creation keeps on going ( 14.0 - 9.10)

I am the supporter of the universe, the father, the mother, and the grandfather. I am the object of knowledge (9.17)

I give heat, I send as well as withhold the rain, I am immortality as well as death, I am also both the Sat and the Asat. (9.19)

These are different form of energy such as heat, water-PARJANYA etc.

The mind, intellect, ego, ether, air, fire, water, and earth are the eightfold transformation of My Prakriti. (See also 13.05) (7.04) that which creates diversity and all that can be seen or known is called Prakriti.  Prakriti is also the material cause or the material out of which everything is made. Prakriti is the original source of the material world consisting of three Gunas, and eight basic elements out of which everything in this universe has evolved according to Saamkhya doctrine. Prakriti is also referred to as Asat, perishable, body, matter, nature, material nature, Maya, Mahat Brahma, field, creation, and manifest state. This Prakriti is My lower energy. My other higher energy is the Purusha by which this entire universe is sustained (7.05)

It is said that PRAKRITI is the God’s lower energy. As Science is only dealing with Nature (Panchamahabhute), it does not explain the concept of Prakriti which is responsible for creation of Universe.