Sambodhi 2011 Vol 34

Author(s): Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

Page 75

Vol.XXXIV, 2011
Scientific Dimensions of Spiritual Energy Dr. P.K. Jena and Dr. T. Pradhan - "Light of selected frequencies can be confined within the material whose dielectric constant is spherically systematic but decreases radially outward, becoming negative after a certain radius”. On account of this theory, quarks, the tiny sub-atomic particles are confined within protons and neutrons. So, what is a fact of modern physics about the ultimate form of matter (physical energy) may have its parallel in meta-physics also regarding the ultimate geometrical form of Soul and Supreme Soul (spiritual energies). Thus the entities of meta-physics 'God' and Soul' are such divine and conscient light which are confined'in their respective oval form (aura)." Further, that light is eternal in this form not only because it goes round and round in elliptical orbits of infinitesimal size without ever leaving the medium but also on the following grounds
B. K. Jagdish gives a clear justification about the truth related to these metaphysical energies, referring some of the prime statements of physics -
(i) "If there is any ultimate stuff of the universe, it is pure energy because subatomic particles are not made of energy, they are energy. This is what Einstein theorized in 1905; sub-atomic interactions therefore, are interactions of energy with energy. Atsub-atomic level, there is no longer a clear distinction between what is and what happens between the actor and the action. At the sub-atomic level, the dancer and the dance are one."12
This view explains why despite spending energy, the soul-energy is not exhausted. It also explains how the impressions (samskāra) abide in soul, the doer or the experiencer.
(ii) According to physicists, if two particles are made to collide, they are destroyed and in their place, two new ones are created. Both of these decay spontaneously into two additional particles, making them four. This shows that matter, at energy level isindestructible and the energy can act at its level not getting exhausted but only changing forms and multiplying. 13
This gives a clear hint how despite expending energy, the conscious energy of soul remains intact. Like sub-atomic particles, the soul doesn't get destroyed; it is immortal forever as it is self-conserving. The spending of its energy regenerates energy though its qualities or attributes may change.
(iii) According to Einstein, matter or mass causes a curvature of space-time. Thus in meta-physics, this conscious energy called soul may have a curved form like ellipse.14
(iv) Nuclear fission or fusion shows the vast potential energy of a small particle like atom. Similarly, in the domain of meta-physics Soul and Supreme Soul which are minuter than the sub-atomic particles, can have tremendous conscious energy.15
(v) Revelation of physics is that neutron is almost eternal because its time of decay is 1031 years which is 1000 billion billion times the age of the universe as