Creation and Destruction

The suggestion of the scientists that there may exist a world of anti-material atoms and that a clash between that world and this would result in the annihilation of both is partly true. Such a clash is in fact continually going on between the material and anti-material particles. But in that continuous clashing, the annihilation of the material particles is taking place at every step while the nonmaterial particle is only trying to get out of it all.

We think therefore that the theory of the annihilation of both worlds is wrong in conception. This is further explained in The Bhagavad-gita as follows:

Everything that is annihilated is also created at a certain stage. As the material body is created so also the material world is created. And because the anti-material particle is never annihilated, so also it is never created. This is corroborated in the Gita in the different verses cited above. This principle is applicable to the entire anti-material world as well. When the material world is obliterated, the anti-material world exists in all circumstances. This fact will be explained more elaborately later on in this article.

The anti-material scientist may also know from The Bhagavad-gita that, "Those who are seers of the truth have concluded that, of the non-existent there is no endurance, and of the eternal there is no cessation. Seers have concluded this by studying the nature of both." (2.16)

The atomic scientists may think of annihilating the material world by their development of nuclear weapons, but they are unable to do the same in terms of the anti-material world. The anti-material particle and its properties in this connection are clearly explained in the following lines:

Thus, in the Gita and in all other Vedic writings the superior energy or anti-material principle is accepted as the vital force, the living spirit-called in the Sanskrit "Jiva." This living principle cannot be generated by any sort of combination of material elements.

The material elements-namely earth, water, fire, air, space, mind, intelligence and false ego-all these eight material principles are described as inferior energies, whereas the living force or the anti-material particle is described as the superior energy. And they are all called energy because they are all controlled by the Supreme Living Being, the Personality of Godhead.

The materialists have long been limited within the boundary of the eight material principles mentioned above, but it is encouraging that they have now a faint idea of some anti-material principle and of an anti-material world also. We hope that with the progress of time such materialists will be able to estimate the value of the anti-material or spiritual world, where there is no trace of material principles. The very word anti-material suggests that the principle is completely different from all material qualities.

The mental speculators, in two groups, see this anti-material principle in two different and equally erroneous ways. One group (the gross materialists) denies the truly anti-material principle, admitting only the disintegration of material combinations at a certain stage. The other group accepts the anti-material principle as completely, painstakingly opposite to the material principle with its twenty-four categories (as described in various Vedic texts).

The second speculator is known as the "Samkhyaite," or the speculator who scrutinizes the material elements with minute analysis and synthesis. And at the end of such studies, the Samkhyaites can accept only a nonactive principle as antimatter, or the Absolute.

The difficulty for both of the above mental speculators is that they speculate with the help of the inferior energy, without any source of information from the superior. It is therefore necessary that one should rise to the plane of the superior energy, and from that transcendental position only can one realize the true position of the anti-material principle.