What is the source of variety in spiritual world?
From: Chandra
In material world ,the variety is because of substance (Nutrons, Protons, Electrons) and structure. Similar what produces variety in spiritual world?
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now i follow up on you okay question by chandra in the material world the variety is because of substances neutrons protons electrons and their structure similarly what produces variety in the spiritual world answer actually what produces variety in the material world is also unknown to science because the scientific view of reality at the level of atoms and neutrons and protons as you have said and the view of human beings towards reality the gap between them is huge and the way to fill it is unknown for science for example science does know that when we have a particular number of neutrons and protons in the nucleus a particular number of electrons around it that leads to a formation of particular element and then that element has a particular structure look shape everything like that but how the particular number of atoms particular number of electrons proton neutrons and that arrangement in the atomic level leads to the taste touch color feel at the human level is an unknown mystery in fact that is why Nobel laureate physicist Arvind Schrodinger states i am very astonished the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient it gives a lot of factual information puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart that really matters to us it cannot tell us a word about red and blue bitter and sweet physical pain physical delight it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly good or bad god in eternity science sometimes pretends to answer questions in these domains but the answers are very often so silly that we are not inclined to take them seriously so this is a Nobel laureate speaking and the reason he is speaking is because it’s a fact that the correlation between these two is inexplicable for modern science and we just know that the two are correlated but how one causes the other how the particular atomic and atomic composition and alignment leads to a particular structure is not known for example carbon comes in the form of graphite comes in the form of diamond it comes in the form of say coal now all of them have radically different features at the level at which we observe one of them is the hardest one of them is soft one of them is highly combustible others are not so how does this variety come up so science has focused primarily on the measurable aspects of the universe and the primary variety that attracts our attention is not just the measurable aspects yes the measurable aspects do attract us and science can explain the to some extent that how the measurable features come up but when we see a building like the Taj Mahal it’s not just the measurable aspects it is the aesthetics that attracts us and the cause of the variety even in the material world is unknown to science ultimately the bhagavad-gita explains that this is because of the achintya shakti of the lord krishna endows different aspects of his creation with his own achintya shakti inconceivable power now we may try to analyze and explain away this inconceivable power through some phenomena like say we may say why the planets are moving in a particular way it is because of the law of gravity but all that science does is name a phenomena naming a phenomena is not an explanation of a phenomena for example if we ask what does what causes the planets to stay in their orbit around the sun we told it is the force of gravity and if you are asked what is gravity it is the force that keeps planets in their orbits so where is the explanation here basically we have observed a phenomena and named a phenomena naming a phenomena is not the same as explaining the phenomena so the law of gravity is just the name given along with a mathematical equation given for some observed phenomena but that is not at all talk about the causal origin of the phenomena what causes it now of course einstein proposed that gravity is a feature of space-time that gets distorted when mass is present and that is an example of the free creation of concepts within science space-time itself is a concept so gravity was not gravity was so one invisible force was postulated to explain an observed phenomena that is planets move around orbits but gravity itself was unexplainable so a second invisible factor was proposed that is called space-time so basically this is this is what modern physics is all about piling concepts concepts upon concepts and each concept becomes more and more difficult to perceive or conceive and to correlate with our day-to-day experience this is not to say that those concepts are wrong but the point is that science does not explain it observes and gives a name and it may explain how things work it doesn’t explain why things are the way they are science may explain to us why the how the earth orbits around the sun but it doesn’t explain why the earth and the sun exist at all so it doesn’t explain it can explain that which pigments contribute to making a complexion that looks beautiful but it can’t explain why those pigments exist and why the person exists and why the concept of beauty exists so therefore it is wrong to say that science has been able to explain the cause of variety in the material world also we may have got in some direction towards understanding some aspects of the variety that also partially so ultimately the beauty and the variety of this world is because of the achintya shakti of god which he may manifest in different ways in this world the same achintya shakti is manifested in the spiritual world and that causes the variety and the beauty over there so in the spiritual world also there is earth water fire air and ether as there are in this world but all of them are spiritual that means the earth water fire air and ether they are all made of sat-chit-ananda they are not made of material substance as they are over here they are all made they are all made of conscious elements chitta shakti so because they are the they are the building blocks and naturally they have their own individual properties and their individual properties when they come together in particular ways that leads to the variety so actually it is not this variety in the spiritual world is similar to the variety here rather the variety in the material world is similar in a downgraded way to the variety in the spiritual world that means the variety in the spiritual world is original and far more attractive than the variety in the spiritual in the material world and what is the cause of that at the ultimate level it is krishna’s inconceivable potency at a more immediate level it is because there are individual elements in the spiritual world all of which are eternal and their combination in various ways brings about the variety there thank you