How can a devotee use the ambition to research in Physics in Krishna’s service?

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Hare Krishna If a devotee wants to study physics how can he utilize this ambition in Krishna’s service answer actually physics is the most conducive subject for connecting with Krishna consciousness because physics is today considered the foundation of all other branches of science chemistry is rooted in physics and biology is rooted in physics and conventionally because of physics being matter centered chemistry and biology had also become matter centered and in classical physics or based on classical physics biology had also become matter based but now with the emergence of quantum physics which requires a primary even indispensable role for consciousness physics itself is now no longer matter based but it also has a significant role for consciousness within it and through the role for consciousness which quantum physics requires many physicists and many scientists in general are recognizing that consciousness is a defining feature of reality as not just from our experience we know consciousness is an integral feature of reality but even within the scientific picture consciousness is playing a very important role now because it is being recognized as an integral feature of existence so with respect to general plan quantum physics is a field in which one has a lot of options to explore the boundaries of science which overlap with the boundaries of spirituality so science is one circle spirituality is one circle so actually spirituality is a big circle which includes science in one sense because spirituality studies spirit, subtle matter and gross matter whereas modern science studies only gross matter but now because of quantum physics spirituality physics is moving towards the study of consciousness so how can one go specifically in this direction one will have to see one’s own research interests and along with that one can also see especially if one’s research interests coincide with anything to do with quantum physics and then one can within quantum physics look at those explanations of Schrodinger’s equation actually many explanations have been proposed for the collapse of the wave function and most of them a significant number of them require consciousness otherwise there is a parallel world theory many worlds hypothesis that comes up so I have given a separate answer about how quantum physics can be used to prove the existence of God and I won’t go into that here but quantum physics is a field in which if one chooses carefully the flow of quantum physics naturally takes one towards consciousness another field which one can study if one doesn’t want to go into quantum physics is one can become more of something like a historian of science or historian of scientific research and look at how the current paradigm within science which is reductionism and not just reductionism it is actually mechanistic reductionism which is basically does not allow a role for God within science how? this is not an integral feature of science and by looking at the history of science by looking at the lives, the beliefs and the statements of prominent scientists from the time of the beginning of scientific revolution and one can actually make a very good case to show how there can be science which doesn’t have to be reductionistic and mechanistic there can be non-mechanistic science, there can be integral science which does not have to be reductionistic so for a devotee to go into this field it is vital that one reads the books of devotee scientists so there is the Origins magazine which is also there in the Veda place which is the first essential book to read then one can read especially the two scientists who have worked in the field of physics quite a bit is Sadaput Prabhu and Rasaraj Prabhu so Rasaraj Prabhu has got his papers published through Bhaktivam Institute he also runs a course in consciousness studies which is quite a hardcore science course without much spirituality explicitly in it all the Bhagavatam concepts are there and Sadaput Prabhu has also written a good number of books his book Maya the world is a virtual reality is a very good book which draws in many quantum physics concepts similarly the other book called mechanistic and non-mechanistic science is also very good and these kind of books if one studies and one can also explore the by discussing with specific devotees who have interests which are similar to ours devotee scientists and others are devotees who may not be directly scientists but who have a broad understanding of scientific outreach one can arrive at a specific field wherein one can do further research and generally when we want to do interface of science and spirituality we can have concentric circles one is directly what do our scriptures in scripture world we say about physics and what are the devotee scientists talking about this and then we can look at other religious scientists maybe they are from Christianity from Islam they are also talking about theism and they are also talking about the need for a spiritual paradigm in science and how they are presenting and doing research through that also one can get ideas and gradually by this one will be able to come to a direction and then one can become a physicist in Krishna’s service Vishnu Prabhupada wanted very much devotees to establish the glory of God and the glory of Krishna Consciousness through the means of science and he even immortalized his desire in his Bhagavatam Parapura 1.5.22 so it is a laudable desire and although it is challenging because so few people so few devotees are doing it so one will have to be a trailblazer one will have to trend setter one will have to find one’s own way but if one is determined then it is a laudable ambition which can lead to valuable service in Krishna’s mission Thank you If somebody is working in a