Science does not accept God. In principle, it does not accept spirituality either. Science is all about intellectual reasoning and a practical and systematic study of the physical world. Science wants proof for everything, which is good. It is based on observation and experiments of the material world. It is through these observations that science comes to a conclusion about many things. Unfortunately, science has not accepted God, because God has been positioned as a fancy supernatural man or woman. A scientist’s mind is very intelligent. It will not accept any theory without practical analysis. ‘How can there be so many Gods?’ asks science. ‘Where are these so-called heaven and hell?’ ‘How does one go there after death, when the body perishes on earth?’ Science asks many relevant questions and there is nothing wrong in it. While we human beings have been given a contemplative mind, an intellect and five sense organs to perceive –eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin, unfortunately, we have not been given the gift of that sense, with which we can perceive, see and ‘find’ God. If we want to find God, we have to realize God. It happens through an epiphany that arises out of overcoming ignorance and realizing the truth. Spirituality is a science too. It is the science of the Spirit, the Soul, the Atman and there is no doubt that soon spirituality will be accepted officially as a branch of science.
Do scientists accept the Law of Gravity? Of course, they do. When you throw something up in the sky, it does not fly away. Why does it fall back on earth? This is because of gravity. Today, science accepts it but it was not until 1665 that Newton formulated this theory. He was sitting in an orchard and he saw an apple fall down. He asked the question, ‘Why? Why did it fall down? Why did it not go away, up in the sky?’ How is it that science has accepted this as a law for the last 500 years when it was not recorded and accepted for thousands of years? It is because science is evolving as it is discovering new theories that are becoming scientific laws. When scientists wanted to enquire, ‘What is the human body made of? What is every molecule of matter made up of?’, scientists took sophisticated microscopes to study the smallest particle of matter. Not just molecules, but tinier particles – electrons, protons, neutrons, until they reached the tiniest – a quark. When scientists were studying the behaviour of a quark under a powerful microscope, they were taken by surprise because that particle of matter disappeared. As they wondered as to what would have happened, they concluded that the matter must have been transformed into an energy wave. What happened next is history. The quark, that tiny particle of matter, reappeared. The baffled scientists analyzed together and applied the First Law of Thermodynamics to validate their observations. The Law states, ‘energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only be transformed from one form to another.’ They understood that the matter had transformed to energy and the energy had returned to the matter. They coined this observation as the Wave-Particle Duality.
Wave-Particle Duality has become a part of Quantum Physics and Quantum Mechanics. These are branches of science that are starting to accept that a particle is not a particle, nor is an energy wave, a wave. They are interchangeable. There is duality as one can become the other. This has led to science accepting the fact that this whole universe which appears to be a mass of matter, is in essence, nothing but energy that appears as matter. Not all scientists would agree, but this leads us to believing that although we appear to be a body, which is made up of about 30 trillion cells, we are in fact, nothing but energy, appearing as the body. Each cell of our body is energy. This is not a spiritual theory. This is proved by science and accepted by scientists of Quantum Physics. While this theory has had scientific support, for the last few centuries, it is only in the 20th century that scientists have started to view that every particle of matter is nothing but energy. It is said that Albert Einstein discovered that light was neither a wave nor a particle in the early 20th century and he even won a Noble Prize for Physics for the discovery.
What is all this leading us to? Spirituality states that every particle of matter has energy. Energy is accepted by physics. It is scientific. The only difference is that science believes that every molecule of matter is energy, but spirituality realizes that every molecule of matter is Power. It is SIP, the Supreme Immortal Power. The day scientists are blessed to realize the truth, they will infer that the energy
that is accepted by science to be in every particle of matter is not just energy, rather, it is the Power of the Supreme. That day, science and spirituality will become one.
For thousands of years, what have the spiritual sages propounded? The enlightened sages who lived centuries ago, realized the simple truth that we are not what we appear to be. We are all Divine energy that manifests as you and me. The spiritualists were also in a way scientists because they were not basing their theory on some myth or fairy tale. They analyzed birth and they realized that our existence started nine months before our so-called birthday. In the moment of conception, there was nobody, but just one fertilized cell, which we call the zygote. How did this cell that had life, come about? Who creates life? Who causes fertilization? Is the process of birth controlled by man and woman? We know that we have no control over birth. We did not control when we were born, to whom we were born, where we were born and whether we were male or female. Couples sometimes try for many years to have a child and they fail. This is because they cannot control the creation of life. Not only is the creation in the hands of the Divine, even the formation of the body, brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, and every cell of our blood, bone and skin is Divine magic that is beyond any logic! The fact is that it is energy that causes our life. When this energy leaves, there is no breath, there is death.
Spiritual sages contemplated death and they realized that every ‘body’ must die. We are so sure that the one who was alive left the body that we burn or bury the body and it returns to the five elements from which it was formed. What did the spiritual sages realize? They realized that man may appear to look like a man but in reality, man is energy. Man is Power, the manifestation of the Power of the Divine. When that Power arrives about nine months before our so-called birthday, we are conceived as the Soul. When that Soul departs, we are dead. This Realization enlightened the sages to go deeper and realize that even the mud, sand, rivers, seas, clouds, rain and everything in this world was made up of energy. The sages could not physically prove this, but they inferred that every particle of matter in this universe was nothing but the energy of SIP, the Supreme Immortal Power.
While scientists believe that this entire universe came about from a Big Bang, the spiritual sages scientifically questioned this theory. How could a Big Bang create this amazing universe, earth, skies, planets, cosmos, an intelligent being like man, beautiful butterflies, trees, exotic fishes in the seas, ferocious animals, insects and bees? All this could not have come about through just a Big Bang. And even if it did happen through a Big Bang millions or billions of years ago, then who caused this Big Bang or from which material was the Big Bang caused? Who manufactured that material? Spiritual sages were more scientific in questioning the source of our existence and this universe. It is clear that in this case, scientists can be accused of believing in fairy tales, rather than scientifically examining the start of creation and inferring the truth.
Some scientists escaped from this question by believing in the Theory of Evolution. They believed that man evolved from apes. The spiritual sages questioned this too. If that theory was true, then why do we not see the stages of evolution today, where an ape is becoming a man? Further, if man came from an ape, where did the ape come from? There may be many theories, but it is scientifically proven today that the tiniest particle of matter is energy. Energy is the truth.
Science has accepted that it knows less than 1 percent of what exists in this universe. According to science, more than 99 percent is dark matter, dark energy that is beyond the comprehension of man. Spiritualists, on the other hand, are not confused. They are clear that every particle of matter, every molecule, is SIP, the Supreme Immortal Power. The spiritual sages are enlightened with this truth and the truth that matter is energy is now supported by scientific principles of the Wave-Particle Duality, the Law of Thermodynamics and various other studies of Quantum Physics and Quantum Mechanics. Through certain theories of relativity and many formulas including the famous formula E= mc2, scientists are trying to relate the connection between matter and energy. In the branch of physics, there is a lot of development in the understanding of the properties and nature of matter and energy. Scientists are going further into the depth of the structure of each atom to come to the ultimate truth. Science has concluded that energy and matter are really the same thing. They are completely interchangeable and while this universe may appear as matter, this matter is nothing but energy because every atom, every molecule is ultimately energy. This energy is SIP, the Power of the Supreme. Quantum Physics has accepted that a mass of matter is merely a manifestation of energy. Energy is stored in the form of a particle of mass as per that branch of physics, which is now studying theories of Quantum Mechanics.
If we get into a deeper study of scientific theories, we will get caught, going round and round in circles. We need to go beyond science. We need to realize the truth because we want to go beyond energy. We want that Realization that everything is SIP, the Supreme Immortal Power. It is not enough to understand that every particle of mass is energy. This is a scientific fact. We have to be enlightened with the wisdom that the energy in every particle of matter is SIP, is Power, the Power of the Supreme that is Immortal. While science refuses to accept that we are immortal souls, they are saying the same thing in different words stating, ‘energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only be transformed.’ Is not science accepting that energy is immortal? Is not science accepting that all mass is energy? Therefore, is not science in synergy with spirituality? The Nobel Prize for Physics in 2022 awarded to scientists for their work in Quantum Physics and Quantum Mechanics is another step in that direction.