Is there any explanation for Bermuda Triangle in the scriptures?

From: Shubham

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Question from Shubham. Is there any explanation for Bermuda Triangle in the scriptures? Answer. Not specifically for the Bermuda Triangle, but for the underlying principles that govern phenomena like this, which are anomalous in terms of modern materialist science.
So the modern materialist science holds that there is nothing more to the universe than the interaction of subatomic particles governed by impersonal laws. The Vedic scriptures hold that beyond the interaction of particles and laws, there is consciousness. There are individual units of consciousness which are large in number and there is a supreme consciousness.
And these also play significant roles in the universe. So in one sense, we can visualize science as a viewfinder or as a window to reality. So within that window, whatever fits in is explained, is also to some extent controlled and utilized through technology.
But whatever doesn’t fit in the window, then that is dismissed as anomalous data. But many times, such data is anomalous not because it’s anomalous in terms of finding, it’s anomalous in terms of not being able to be explainable within the current framework. So the Vedic scriptures explain that there is much more to the universe than the laws of materialist science as we know it.
And there are areas within the universe where the laws of nature apply in different ways. Then they apply in the earth. So one example is of course the way time flows differently at different parts of the universe.
In the higher planetary systems, the time flows much faster. Here it flows much slower. Apart from that, there is also the understanding that there are higher dimensions to nature.
So when we talk about higher living beings having bodies made of subtle elements so that they are not visible to our gross eyes, that also means that they are existing in higher realms and correspondingly there are higher laws for existence in those realms. So therefore, the occurrence of phenomena like Bermuda Triangle indicate that the laws of physics or the laws of science as we know them are not complete. They may be valid and they are valid within their respective realms but they are not a complete description of reality.
And rather than going into the nitty-gritties of specific phenomena like Bermuda Triangle, we can learn the underlying and more universal lesson from such phenomena. That lesson is that we should be open to phenomena and explanations that may not seem to agree with modern science but that may be valid according to their own internal consistency and according to the coherence of the explanations that they offer. So the Vedic scriptures describe that apart from gross matter which modern science studies, there is subtle matter and then there is spirit.
So at certain places there are subtle laws which occur. Subtle matter affects gross matter according to its own laws and these laws are different from the laws of physics. So basically at the Bermuda Triangle what seems to happen is that time seems to flow at a different rate and also the laws of gravity sometimes seem to occur at or act in different ways and that’s what accounts for the mysterious disappearances of planes and other things over there.
Now of course there are naysayers who will say that there is nothing wrong over there and everything is alright but the fact is there have been many anomalous disappearances over there and rather than going into the technicalities of the specific phenomena because this material universe is itself so vast and so complex that we can exhaust our whole lives just trying to understand what is there in this universe but the ultimate goal is to understand that there is more to life than this universe and phenomena like Bermuda Triangle help us to understand that there is more to the world than what modern materialist science tells us and what is more to the world and what is truly valuable and that which is more in this world that is told to us in the scriptures in the Bhagavad Gita and the Srimad Bhagavatam which tell us that ultimately the only eternal place is the spiritual world and that is where we should aspire for. Thank you.