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So we have to understand where is that spiritual world. That is... You have... Those who are reading Bhagavad-gita, you will find, paras tasmat tu bhavaḥ anyaḥ: "There is another world." Bhava means nature. Paras tasmat tu bhavaḥ anyo 'vyakto 'vyaktat sanatanaḥ [Bg 8.20]. Sanatana means eternal. The living entity is described as sanatanaḥ. Mamaivamso jiva-bhūtaḥ jiva-loke sanatanaḥ [Bg 15.7]. Sanatana means eternal. And there is another nature which is also described, sanatana. So when a living entity is constitutionally sanatana, if he wants to go back to that sanatana nature, that is called sanatana-dharma. It is called... You have heard the name sanatana-dharma. Sanatana-dharma means when the sanatana-jiva, living entity, tries go to back home... That is our real home. Here it is not home. We have taken America as home. How long it is your home, sir? Say, fifty years, hundred years, that's all. Not this kind of home. So that home is eternal. That is called, therefore, sanatana. Avyakto 'vyaktat sanatanaḥ. [Bg 8.20]. Yasmin sarvesu nasyatsu means when in the material world everything will be dissolved, annihilated, then it is said that the other nature... (More...)

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I may also inform you that my concept of anti-matter is exactly what you call it anti-material. Technically it may be that I could not express the exact word used by the physicist but I have tried to explain the word anti-matter in the light and sense of what you say as anti-material which is spirit. But spirit is not apara as you have pointed out. In the Bhagavad-gita The Supreme Truth or the Absolute Personality of Godhead is the transcendental purusha and the two energies namely para and apara are emanations from Him. The Apara or the Inferior material energy may consist of many other elements like matter, anti-matter, proton, electron, neutron etc. in terms of physical science but according to the authority of the Bhagavad-gita-all of them are produced of the inferior energy called by the name Apara Prakrti. The Apara Prakrti consists of gross and subtle matters like mind, ego and intelligence. Spirit is transcendental to all these. The spiritual energy para Prakrti is simultaneously one and different from the spirit whole. Qualitatively they are one but quantitatively they are different. The Brahman Ray is the effulgence of the Supreme Person. (More...)

According to the Visnu Puranam the material energy is called Avidya or nescience which is exhibited in the fruitive activities of sense enjoyment. But the living being belongs to the group of anti-material energy or spiritual energy while he has the tendency of being illusioned and trapped by the material energy for sense enjoyment. (More...)

In this sense the living being is the positive energy whereas the matter is the negative energy. The matter does not develop without being in contact with the superior spiritual or anti-material energy which is directly part and parcel of the spirit Whole. (More...)

Any way the subject matter of this spiritual energy exhibited by the living being is undoubtedly very complicated thing for an ordinary man. The ordinary man is therefore astounded in the subject. Sometimes he partially understands it through the imperfect senses and sometimes he fails to know it altogether. The best thing is therefore to hear the grave subject matter from the highest authority Sri Krishna or His devotee representative coming down in the chain of disciplic succession. Bhagavad-gita is the essence of all the Upanisads and Vedanta. (More...)

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