Energy comes from consciousness
This cosmic energy the Indians first conceived as Sakti – the primeval energy sustaining the universe. According to Vedanta, space is Brahman (Kham Brahma: Chandogya Upanishad 4.10.4). Space is verily a pay of cosmic energy (Pranavai Satyam – Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 2.3.6). Empty space is the sea of continupus creation-destruction dance of Nataraja Siva, as Fritzof Capra has shown in his book Tao of Physics.
Wherefrom does motion or energy come? A conscious being only has motion. Consciousness is the root of all energy. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad calls the Ultimate Reality or consciousness s Satyasya Satyam (2.3.6) – the truth behind the apparent truths of the phenomenal universe. It is cosmic consciousness which creates the cosmic energy. Talbot quotes from the Mudaka Upanishad: “By energyism consciousness (Brahman or the unbroken ultimate Reality) is massed; from that matter is born and from matter, life and mid and the worlds” (Mysticism and New Physics, p.143).
Matter is like ‘quantum foam’, says John A. Wheeler. What is quantum foam? Matter floats like ‘foam’ as ‘quanta of energy’ on the surface os the underlying ocean of the cosmic energy from which all the five kinds of forces (gravitational, electrical, magnetic, strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force) have been born. “Wheeler’s proposed picture of space’, writes Talbot, “as composed of microscopic bubbles foaming, can be conceptualized as a carpet of foam” (ibid p.188).
The Vedantic text Drk-Drsya-Viveka says that creation is the appearance of name and form on the infinite Brahman, which is the nature of absolute existence – consciousness – bliss, like foams on the surface of an ocean. The story of Uma Haimavati in Kenopanishad speaks of Brahman – the undivided consciousness appearing as the supreme energy in the universe. And the Vedic seers equated the energy with the female being who creates, sustains and destroys the universe. Sri Ranakrishna, the greatest Vedanta mystic of modern age, repeatedly taught that Brahman, the absolute consciousness, and Sakti – the cosmic energy, are one and the same just like a rippleless sea and the same sea undulating and creating typhoons.
This cosmic energy Sri Ramakrishna called Divine Mother Kālī. With the aid of the supreme consciousness or Śiva, She is continuously playing her blissful divine sport of creation, sustenance and destruction.
(To be continued)
Excerpts from SWAMI JITATMANANDA’s research article (58 pages) *”Science and Philosophy : An Approach to Consciousness”* – published in *”Philosophy and Science – An Exploratory Approach to CONSCIOUSNESS”* – Papers read at a 2002 seminar at the Ramakrishna Mission Institue of Culture, Kolkata
N Ganapathy Subramanian, 07 JAN 2024
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