Friday, July 3, 2009

Physics and Visishtadvaitham

If you look at it from the purely theoretical point of view, the sentient soul and all other objects being different facets of the brahman would just be the ancient way of stating Einstein's principle: e=mc^2 - i.e. that matter and energy are equivalent. This would correspond to advaitham.

Then there's the duality principle: that anything can be considered either a particle or a wave, but only one or the other quality is manifest at any point of time... not both or a mixture of the two. This would correspond to dvaitham.

Now the question arises as to which view is correct? The thing is that at different scales of reality, in order to make sense of the result of some observation, when one or the other view is imposed, we get the correct relation! But that does not make one wrong or the other correct... I thought basically that this was what visishtadvaitham was saying - which is why i believe it to be the more elastic, dynamic and realistic realization of the truth..

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