Bhagavad Gita and Science (Part-1)

Maya (Illusion)

Your perception depends on how you read the The Gita, as subject of Classical Physics or of Quantum Physics.

The text of Bhagavad Gita, in poetry, is the scientific rendition of deeper realities of existence, of its illusionary nature, of its origin and evolution. In dim light, the rope appears as a snake creating a hue & cry. Several solutions are forwarded to kill the snake until light is shed and voila the snake is gone. There is a rope (reality) which appears like a snake (illusion). This story is the story of illusion but while the illusion persisted every solution to kill the snake was right. That’s our life.

Now the science behind the illusion (Maya).

Atoms are the smallest part of matter. Electrons rotate around the nucleus that have charge, mass, spin and several other properties. This is a fact of the Classical Physics. Heisenberg on the other hand found that electron is not a point particle but a wave of energy. It is at several places at the same time. Where is the wave in this concentric circle?

Everywhere.

Einstein said, “It is absurd. How can a thing be at several places at the same time?”

Over a period of a century and through mathematical equations, it is established that consciousness collapses the wave function of an electron to a point particle.

Amazing that the fundamental particle of all material creation, an atom, is not a particle but a wave. What appears is an illusion of relative consciousness? This is the snake that we see.

The Gita starts with this contradiction. Your perception depends on how are you reading it- as subject of classical physics or as Quantum physics.

Gita is beyond reason and logic. It accepts the illusion (that electron is a particle) but brings in the light to show the reality (that it is a wave). Unless this crucial point is understood by the readers, The Gita also falls under the realm of this illusionary world and then the discussions become the search for a black cat in a dark room, which is not there.

Individual consciousness that appears to us as “I” is the collapse of Cosmic Consciousness. God (Infinite) and “I” (Noun) are not two but one. The two aspects of life are the core of Gita. This “I” relates itself to objects of perception and is deluded.

In my later blogs, I would bring to you the three laws of thermodynamics, theory of relativity, and quantum model of the universe, matter principle wrapped up in string particles, black holes and big bang that are the hidden in the verses of The Bhagavad Gita.