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Pistachios break on the tree itself — An Essay in the Metaphysics of Science and Spirituality

Pistachios break on the tree itself — An Essay in the Metaphysics of Science and Spirituality

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Pistachios break on the tree itself

An Essay in the Metaphysics of Science and Spirituality

I have nuts to crack, problems in physics,

But pistachios break on the tree itself;

There is the spontaneity with gleam and grace,

And are brought home superlatives of nature;

Oh purple-gold horn of plenty, behold this pride,

Images pleasing, musicalest the pitches;

From another realm of congruences it comes,

With relationships unthought, uncalculated;

Links open to links, boons add speeding boons,

And enrapture destinies beyond the human; 5

But when starts beating the metronome of mind

Recurrently are heard multi-tongued voices;

Swift intuitions may invade once in a while

But nowhere the theory of everything;

Not that mind should not think, stop thinking,

But not with thought yoked with cartesian doubts;

Science keeps itself busy in that enterprise,

Hypotheses and postulates moving in tandem;

You start with an impressive wave equation

And land into incurable duality; 10

You create phase space and darts the quantum,

And uncertainty seizes you at the front door;

Caught in determinism, in throw of the dice

You would never know the cat living or dead;

You acclaim a falsifiable theory,

The function collapsing into observation;

But observation is a consolation prize,

A toffee with hazel nuts soaked in honey;

You set up axioms to gather completeness,

But proven stands erect inconsistency; 15

There is the god-particle unknown to god,

Only to whizz in gigantic collider’s vacuum;

Your sense is caught in its own cherished confines,

Least aware of deepening profundities;

Its understanding is a crutch for the lame,

Its walk from unknown to another unknown;

Reason carries hulking bags of propositions,

With hesitancy held by speculative thought;

And, my god, artificial intelligence

Swears those hundred quantum bits of the future; 20

Yet none knows of deft billions of qubits

Building a brain, nature’s bio-engineering;

And dark matter hides its secret from the gaze

Not knowing it could fast become luminous;

Lost is the substantiality of matter

When it turns into mysterious energy;

If you have in the palm of your left hand bosons

In the right, in a wink, into fermions they change;

A particle of matter becomes that of force,

As if mass could weirdly create gravity; 25

There is the strange radioactivity also,

The decay knowing how much yet to decay;

Flow of water through the capillary

Is the same as RC-discharge of a capacitor;

And there is hasty zeal to say the electron

Is Shiva’s mystic fervency in a Bohr atom;

One may glorify complementary principal,

But that is just to be happy with illiteracy;

Bizarre wind knows not if it is blue or florid,

And the supercomputer sees not the mood; 30

Anticipation of the mathematical science

Is startling yet gets eluded into dumbness;

These are just models for mind’s understanding,

Pleasures promoting pleasures in a chain reaction;

Oh the wonder! the digits of integers

Adding up to nine, they divisible by it!

In it is the glowing magic of new birth

Awaited dense of the supernatural;

Of the numbers there is the mighty occult,

Their first seed elsewhere, so many out of one; 35

A cosmic mind set itself to count things,

Each possibility an index of expression;

The locked delight of hues was in lonely white

That flashed into a spectrum on the screen;

The innumerable in a peacock disco

Pirouetted in moods of laughter and fun;

But incomparable the jumping of the zero,

From the first nothingness into the last;

In pure lonely white dwelt the hallowed cypher,

Shunya, the nothing, celebrated shubhra; 40

And lo! A miraculous intuition reaped it,

In sudden flaming of alert consciousness;

More than meaningful arithmetic was born

Into circle that’s polygon of infinite sides;

But also came differential calculus,

As if at the far sight could meet parallel lines;

Truth and beauty run on the track of delight,

Yet in the world they are not one and the same;

Irreducible are these dimensions, self-poised,

Each a quality of the vast quality-less; 45

Therefore each flower has its own fragrance,

Significance of silence each musical note;

We keep ourselves busy, and sure we must,

But matter is a nut uncrackable by mind;

Deeply there is the buried will of the atom,

And only a sharper brighter sense can sense it;

Even life it cannot comprehend, her charms,

They escape hefty tomes of erudition;

Lost is the substantiality of matter

When it becomes mysterious energy; 50

There is the strange puzzling vice versa also,

Enigma born with the face of ambiguity;

Truth had forgotten itself, had lost self-knowledge,

And in obstinacy became unconscious mint;

Somnambulism entered into dim nucleus,

Hostile resistance to change possessing it,

But it cannot be without a gripping cause,

Sure, if new form is to be built that’s the way;

Ideas may be flickerings of a fire-fly

But sunshine is the real-idea’s gold; 55

A strong miracle is working in interior

Of dense matter, kindled by an orange flame;

Opens a magic door that needs no fabled key,

Revelation walking into the Hall of Fame;

A little search by the renowned cosmic being

Had discovered lush green acres, sensed time’s hopes;

He reaped harvest of the rich sudden mystery

Watered by rains of inspired thought and logic;

But now he hears the far sounds of silence,

Music of the spheres humming into the ears; 60

Its notes are intensities of harmony

Applauding the tranquil unbelievable ;

Reality of matter is in its truth-awareness

And the mind of science is miles away from that;

Consciousness does not arise from Matter,

It is that which can luminously awaken it;

Standing across the path of the prized experience

The formidable mind of night is holding it back;

It was the mind that had appeared in the Void,

To stabilise things that had got formed in it; 65

This creation would have simply got swallowed,

The purposeful cypher having lost its design;

But now is caused havoc by this physical’s mind

Opposing every claim to earn life’s verities;

A mystic transfiguration is the glory sought,

And it must be won in intensity of tapas;

The sun that rules from above must come down

Into the gloom-filled body and soul of matter;                            

One descends with a  lustrous conquering will,

And in God’s hour is prepared the miracle; 70

There is a knowledge that knows all its objects,

Behind the mind Samjñāna holding them in it;

Human effort to comprehend has merit,

But can never secure that not in its reach;

To be open to what is being deluged

Is rush of the stream to its great beginning;              

And pistachios are ready on the tree itself,

Plenty rich, unhurt by the squirrels of mind;

Matter of thinking substance is a wonder

When is present the Revelation’s Gnosis. 75

15 January-10 February 2026

Notes

1:

Pratyabhijñā (Direct Recognition) प्रत्यभिज्ञा 

There is a love that needs no heart to adore,

Music that is played on a harp with no strings;

Beauty smiles even if form is there no more,

Zooms skies and skies a bird requiring wings.

Understanding may come mysteriously

By going back in time to recall what was;

Telling sight must open to vision’s secrecy,

 Future’s gaze in truth-recognition’s awes.

11 February 2026

Pratyabhijñā (Direct Recognition) प्रत्यभिज्ञा

2:

Advancing tardily from a limping start,

Crutching hypothesis upon argument,

Throning its theories as certitudes,       

It reasons from the half-known to the unknown,

Ever constructing its frail house of thought,

Ever undoing the web that it has spun. ||66.17||

A twilight sage whose shadow seems to him Self,

Moving from minute to brief minute lives;

A king dependent on his satellites

Signs the decrees of ignorant ministers,

A judge in half-possession of his proofs,

A voice clamant of uncertainty’s postulates,

An architect of knowledge, not its source. ||66.18||

This powerful bondslave of his instruments

Thinks his low station Nature’s highest top,

Oblivious of his share in all things made

And haughtily humble in his own conceit

Believes himself a spawn of Matter’s mud

And takes his own creations for his cause. ||66.19||

[Savitri Book Two Canto Ten]

3:

Pistachios are unique among tree nuts because they signal their own maturity by naturally splitting open while still on the branch. This process, known as dehiscence, is often accompanied by an audible “pop”.

4:

Gödel’s incompleteness: any consistent system strong enough to describe basic arithmetic will contain true statements that are unprovable within that system (and that such a system cannot prove its own consistency. These theorems shattered the hope for a single, complete mathematical system capable of proving all mathematical truths, demonstrating that there will always be true statements beyond the reach of any given set of axioms.

5:

The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Niels Bohr

“The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.”

John Wheeler

The second part is correct. It is being-consciousness-bliss, the triune reality, that gives birth to the universe.

6:

“The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work — that is, correctly to describe phenomena from a reasonably wide area. Furthermore, it must satisfy certain esthetic criteria — that is, in relation to how much it describes, it must be rather simple.”

— John von Neumann

7:

Werner Heisenberg stated that the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense, but rather forms or mathematical, energetic potentiality rather than concrete things. These units are best understood as mathematical ideas or shapes that represent possibilities, not facts, fundamentally changing the view of subatomic particles. 

8:

As a physicist who has devoted his whole life to rational science, to the study of matter, I think I can safely claim to be above any suspicion of irrational exuberance. Having said that, I would like to observe that my research on the atom has shown me that there is no such thing as matter in itself. What we perceive as matter is merely the manifestation of a force that causes the subatomic particles to oscillate and holds them together in the tiniest solar system of the universe. Since there is in the whole universe neither an intelligent force nor an eternal force (mankind, for all its yearnings, has yet to succeed in inventing a perpetual motion machine), we must assume that this force that is active within the atom comes from a conscious and intelligent mind. That mind is the ultimate source of matter. — Attributed to Max Planck. In fairness to him it must also be understood that what he might have said was at a time when no particle accelerators were present. The first was invented by Ernst O Lawrence in Berkeley California in 1929-30. https://youtu.be/HJVIz44Y3U8

9:

Every symmetry in a physical system corresponds to a conservation law. Empitical observations are a necessary consequences of the symmetries. — Emmy Nöther

10:

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;

And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind.

Nor hath love’s mind of any judgment taste;

Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste:

And therefore is love said to be a child,

Because in choice he is so oft beguil’d.”

William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

True love transcends the physical, everything, and is the cause of all that is and will be.

11:

Significance of numbers — The Mother:

1—The Origin

2—Appearance of the Creative Consciousness

3—Sachchidānanda
4—Manifestation
5—Power
6—New Creation

7—Realisation
8—Double Enclosure (protection from inner and outer enemies)

9—New Birth

10—Perfection
11—Progress
12—Double Perfection (spiritual and material)

14—Transformation

Words of the Mother – III: Numbers

21 responses to “Pistachios break on the tree itself — An Essay in the Metaphysics of Science and Spirituality”

  1. RY Deshpande Avatar
    RY Deshpande

    Zech Joya Panganiban from Auroville sends the following email:

    Here’s a complementary post, including the commentary. Dive deep into the hyperlinks.

    Evolving from The Ignorance

    https://zechjoya.blogspot.com/2026/02/evolving-from-ignorance.html

    We both know that the Direct Action for the Divine Manifestation of the new apex species the Supramental being was kickstarted by the Dual Kalki Avatar Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. As they have already supramentalised their human adhar and also the subtle physical, and are continually working in the background for the Divine Advent, this global terrestrial Triple Transformative process towards total supramentalisation is unstoppable. 

    All the written revelatory operating manuals they have also provided, to prepare us for the ever hastening and intensifying transitional stages, with the Prime Directive here in their Auroville, the epicenter of the contagion:

    “The whole earth must prepare itself for the advent of the new species, and Auroville wants to work consciously to hasten this advent.“

    This is the mantra for the aspiring True Aurovilians, especially for the messengers of the Incommunicable.

    Without this narrative, it’s still all human ignorance and pretensions, and not the Integral Supramental Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.

    Om Namo Bhagavate 🙏🏼

    My immediate response:

    This is very acceptable, but the concern is about the practical dynamics and the modus operandi. I have pointed out at the problems of the scientific methodology, its merits and its glories, and also at the incompleteness. The question is: In what direction should science, empirical and theoretical, move to have some revelatory perception of the deeper things that are present in the material physical as well as biological world? Sri Aurobindo has given the example of Future Poetry in the most original creative and prosodic expression; not only that, he has brought in what he called the Overhead Poetry coming from the regions far above the mental. The Mother has achieved the Future Painting and the Future Music, examples Huta’s Savitri-paintings and Sunil’s music. They have demonstrated these by their own creations. If it is so, we should anticipate and look forward for Future Science also. I have not made any specific suggestion. But should that not happen in Auroville aspiring to belong to the Future Institution moving in the direction of the Future World, the Dawn appearing here first. Any endeavour will be not only fulfilling; it will be more than that. The dynamics of creative life in the modes of the manifesting Spirit will be the triumph. Any suggestions? Please.

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    RY Deshpande

    “Dual Kalki Avatar Sri Aurobindo and the Mother” — Do they belong to that Avatarhood? If we identify Aswapati of Savitri with Sri Aurobindo then “His soul lived as eternity’s delegate,”His a spirit that stooped from larger spheres, A colonist from immortality.,” “a greater sonship as his divine right,” “A power was in him from the Unknowable.” a direct descent from the Supreme, as the Mother says. And She: “I sent you forth of old beneath the stars,”

    O Savitri, thou art my spirit’s Power,

    The revealing voice of my immortal Word,

    The face of Truth upon the roads of Time

    Pointing to the souls of men the routes to God. ” ||155.8||

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  3. Sudhir Sabharwal Avatar
    Sudhir Sabharwal

    In the poem, the great scientific facts are woven together in most simple form. It reflects upon a deep understanding of the scientific facts with a poetic mind. To me, it is an outstanding composition.

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      RY Deshpande

      Thanks. But suggestions to move forward please. I am yearning for the Future Science, Science not for the sake of Science or Scientific knowledge and understanding, but but to have the glimpse and grasp of the real reality of the objective world full of solid and beautiful things.

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  4. RY Deshpande Avatar
    RY Deshpande

    Here is a shallow depth in grasping and understanding both science and spirituality, at CERN Collider:

    Lord Shiva danced the Universe into existence; he motivates it; and he will eventually extinguish it. – plaque inscription beside the Nataraja statue at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Switzerland.

    It is a striking sight: a 2-meter-tall bronze statue of 

    Lord Shiva in his Nataraja (Cosmic Dancer) form, standing right outside Building 40 at CERN in Geneva. 

    The plaque you mentioned captures the essence of why one of the world’s most advanced scientific laboratories hosts a religious and philosophical icon.

    The Symbolism of the Dance

    The inscription draws a parallel between the ancient Hindu concept of the “Cosmic Dance” and modern particle physics. Here is how the two worlds intersect:

    • The Rhythm of Matter: Just as Shiva’s dance represents the continuous cycle of creation, preservation, and destruction (Srishti, Sthiti, and Samhara), quantum field theory describes the universe as a “dance” of subatomic particles constantly being created and annihilated.
    • The Energy Dance: Fritjof Capra, the physicist who popularized this metaphor in The Tao of Physics, noted that for modern physicists, “Shiva’s dance is the dance of subatomic matter.”
    • The Metaphor of Motion: At CERN, where physicists use the Large Hadron Collider to study the fundamental building blocks of the universe, the idea of “static” matter is replaced by “dynamic” energy. 

    Origin of the Statue

    The statue was a gift from the Government of India in 2004 to celebrate its long-standing association with CERN (which dates back to the 1960s). India is an Associate Member State of the organization. 

    The Full Inscription

    The plaque includes a quote by Fritjof Capra that elaborates on the sentiment: 

    “Modern physics has shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth and death of all living creatures, but is also the very essence of inorganic matter… For the modern physicists, then, Shiva’s dance is the dance of subatomic matter.”

    It’s a beautiful example of how humans use different “languages”—one of equations and one of mythology—to describe the same profound reality of a restless, energetic universe. 

    Let us come to the grip of the thing, the essence in its unfolding exquisiteness.

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    RY Deshpande

    On WhatsApp Group Patrick Deshpande makes a pertinent comment: “I have taken a first review. I have noticed you have jumped straight past classical physics and entered into the quantum realm. It seems the more that is discovered about the topic the less sense it makes.”

    That is true, and thanks, Patrick. Please have another richer look when you do get time. In the meanwhile, I may make an interim response as follows.

    In the classical physics there were conceptual issues, for instance, Action-at-a Distance vis-à-vis Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation. Leibnitz was very critical, but then Auguste Comté made a virtue of it by introducing the Doctrine of Positivism, that true knowledge must be empirically based. It was sufficient for him that the Law of Gravitation did empirically work satisfactorily. It worked, and that was enough. One could adopt the same view about the Quantum Conundrums also. That was what Bohr was pleading which Einstein firmly refuted.

    However, all that cannot be raised to the euphoric happiness of mythology as is done by the popularisers of science, including yesterday’s Sir James Jeans with The Mysterious Universe or today’s plethora of Tao of Physics and Dancing Wu Li Masters, for example, jumping with the allegorical metaphors. That is all scratching on the surface, picking up morsels of food from the wasteful stuff. Another surer mode of knowledge must appear on the scene. I have tried to briefly indicate, but it needs a full-fledged development, not in poetry but in prose.

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  6. RY Deshpande Avatar
    RY Deshpande

    “If Quantum Mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.” — Niels Bohr

    Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. Let that sink in. Niels Bohr wasn’t being dramatic. He was describing something genuinely disturbing about the nature of reality — something physics proved but human intuition still refuses to accept

    Continue to doubt until doubt itself is doubted.

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    RY Deshpande

    To weigh the severe limitations of mental reasoning but really not a reasonable science we have this from Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri:

    Man’s eyes could look into the inner realms;

    His scrutiny discovered number’s law

    And organised the motions of the stars,

    Mapped out the visible fashioning of the world,

    Questioned the process of his thoughts or made

    A theorised diagram of mind and life. ||95.14||

    But these cannot fill the wide Self. It is just a human seeking which is limited by its gains. It taps the universe with testing knocks, perhaps the seeking stretched out to find Truth-mind’s divining rod. There is a growing out to numberless sides but not the widest seeing of the soul, not yet the vast direct immediate touch, not yet the art and wisdom of the Gods. There has to be the boundless knowledge greater than man’s thought. When it is stated so, it also means that what is stated is realisable.

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  8. RY Deshpande Avatar
    RY Deshpande

     Science is one-directional, absolutely, from cause to effect, if it has to be an authentic classical science. You have the cause, and the effect follows inevitably with the least uncertainty anywhere. That is the hard-core physics never recognising things happening the other way round, the effect giving rise to cause. That is its perfect Rationalism. It rules out self-initiatives to set processes into motion.

    This deeper aspect of determinism, of causality is the solid foundation of the Classical Physics. But now we have something else entering into the physical theories. The question is, can the effect be the cause?

    Poetry à la Dante will say it is the Love that rules the sun and all the other stars, it is in his will resides our peace. Causeless love that is inherently present is the source and consequence of all that follows, not the sudden sight of a beautiful girl that causes love. Love is not a result but is that which produces a result.

    In contrast to the Classical Physics Quantum Mechanics not only glorifies but also prides itself in the Probability Interpretation providing room for free-will in the microscopic domain without telling where from it can arise. An entity can show itself as a wave or as a particle which knocks off the very substantiality or determinism of the thing being observed. It may successfully produce ‘observed’ results, but that can be only a provisional satisfaction.

    We have lost the track, perhaps suggesting we better have other surer and deeper insights for the ‘understanding’ of the physical universe. This needs a more detailed discussion than is presented here.

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    RY Deshpande

    “In the cold, perfect logic of the early universe, matter and antimatter were supposed to be perfect mirrors—canceling each other out in a final, blinding flash. But CERN has pinpointed the ‘Cosmic Anomaly’ that saved us all: a tiny, stuttering glitch in the laws of physics that allowed matter to win by the narrowest of margins. We are not the result of a perfect plan, but of a beautiful mistake. Every atom in your body is a survivor of that ancient war, a tiny piece of the ‘extra’ matter that refused to vanish into the void.” — From the Facebook

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  10. Mahesh Karandikar Avatar
    Mahesh Karandikar

    Starting with Pistachios, you have opened up the Pandora ‘ s box… concrete evidence based pure so called modern science vs perception beyond that through developing additional facilities which yogies had…now in the modern days of existence and transactional world, how to bridge the two , have a balance and move ahead in the most ideal manner ?… Ishavasya says…vidyam ch adidyama ch…now what’s the protocol for blending the two in the modern context of successful material existence ???

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      RY Deshpande

      अन्धं तमः प्रविशन्ति येऽविद्यामुपासते ।
      ततो भूय इव ते तमो य उ विद्यायां रताः ॥९॥

      9) Into a blind darkness they enter who follow after the Ignorance, they as if into a greater darkness who devote themselves to the Knowledge alone.

      Knowledge of the Brahman and Knowledge of the details of the Creation have to go together. While one descends from above the effort of the other is to ascend to the integrality of Gnosis for the integral manifestation to be apprehended and comprehended. Ganesh and Kartik complement each other. Human aspiration and endeavour is to rise to that stature.

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    RY Deshpande

    Magic Particle in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN:

    What are the implications of this discovery?

    The discovery of “magic” particles at the Large Hadron Collider has significant implications for the development of quantum computing. Here are some potential benefits and insights:

    • Advancements in Quantum Computing: The research suggests that the Large Hadron Collider can produce particles with a property known as “magic,” which is essential for quantum computation. This discovery could accelerate the development of next-generation quantum computers.
    • Understanding Quantum Mechanics: The study of “magic” particles can provide profound insights into quantum mechanics and its applications, bridging the gap between quantum theory and particle physics.
    • Complex Patterns of Quantum Behavior: The Large Hadron Collider can observe complex patterns of quantum behavior at high energies, which can help researchers understand the connection between quantum information theory and high-energy physics.
    • Applications in Various Fields: Quantum computers have the potential to impact various fields, such as:
    • Drug Discovery: Quantum computers can simulate complex molecular interactions, leading to breakthroughs in medicine and pharmaceuticals.
    • Materials Science: Quantum computers can optimize material properties, leading to advancements in fields like energy storage and electronics.
    • Unlocking Revolutionary Computing Paradigm: The discovery of “magic” particles can unlock the potential of a revolutionary new computing paradigm, enabling scientists to solve complex problems that are currently unsolvable with traditional computers.

    Overall, this discovery has the potential to revolutionise our understanding of quantum mechanics and its applications, paving the way for significant advancements in various fields .

    Source: Internet

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    1. RY Deshpande Avatar
      RY Deshpande

      We will thus continue “to revolutionise our understanding of quantum mechanics and its applications.” That will be called progress albeit without getting any close and real glimpse of things. Can some other surer faculty not open in us? Perhaps we are very much enamoured by our “successes” instead of giving time to look into those aspects.

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    RY Deshpande

    “A photon doesn’t know it’s being observed. What happens is that measurement = interaction. When a photon interacts with a detector or measuring device, its quantum state changes. Before measurement, it exists in a superposition (many possibilities at once). The act of observation forces it into one definite outcome—this is called wave function collapse.” This is gross interference in the guarded secrecy or privacy of the object. Science is no more deterministic and neutral. You are getting what you want to get, and not receiving what that is.

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    RY Deshpande

    When you press your hand against a table, it feels solid. It feels direct. But at the smallest level, your atoms are not merging with the atoms in the table. Instead, both are surrounded by clouds of charged particles. When those clouds get close, they push against each other through electromagnetic forces. That push is what your brain interprets as touch.

    Atoms are mostly empty space. The nucleus is tiny compared to the space occupied by the surrounding particle cloud. When two objects seem to meet, their outer particles repel each other before any direct overlap can happen. The force is incredibly strong at very short distances, which is why solid objects feel firm. Your nerves detect that resistance and send signals to your brain.

    So the sensation of touch is not contact in the classical sense. It is interaction. It is force. It is a tiny invisible cushion of energy preventing collapse. Without that repulsion, matter would not hold its shape. Your hand would not stop at the table. The world would not feel solid at all.

    This idea can feel strange at first. It challenges everyday intuition. But it also reveals something beautiful. Reality is not built from solid blocks pressing together. It is built from fields and forces constantly interacting. Every handshake, every hug, every step you take is really a dance of invisible energy shaping your experience of the world.

    This is from Facebook

    But take another example. Simply with the thought of food, mouth starts watering. There is no physical contact anywhere and the chemical reaction sets in. There is no question of forces and fields coming in contact with each other yet such things do happen. There are non-physical relationships producing physical results.

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  14. Professor Dr. Mahesh Karandikar Avatar
    Professor Dr. Mahesh Karandikar

    Yes, these are wonderful insights… Ganesha and Kartikeya approaches,.. physical basis of perception, dynamic interaction between energies in comprehending things…but what is the way to connect to the highest plane to get the additional faculty of perception of the knowledge of the ultimate reality while presently functioning on the material plane of existence and continuing dynamic transactional material interaction of the lower plane ?

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      RY Deshpande

      “… but what is the way… ?” It cannot be just an abstract query or question; it has to be held by the fiery passion for the quest. There has to be that blazing intensity and urgency, of course with solid professional and esoteric readinesses, a dedicated commitment to get at the depth of the matter, and Matter. Effort on our part receives the illuminating intuition and revelation. No textbook formula is available for this. There was something in Einstein and he received the flash. Post-human urge has to work with that kind of rewarding ambition and objective.

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        Professor Dr. Mahesh Karandikar

        yes, perseverance in efforts in right direction with passion and serious deep intensity… thank you so much

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    RY Deshpande

    Beyond the Law of Universal Gravitation

    Was the apple that sparked Newton

    Ripe when under the tree it fell?

    Tycho had sown its robust seed

    At Woolsthorpe to cast magic spell.

    Suddenly from nowhere then came

    Gravity as a worthwhile thought;

    Senseless action-at-a distance      

    Not minding just success it sought.

    Positivism is a virtue

    But that’s a commercial gain;

    Apple has to reach galaxies

    And receding echoes explain.

    19 February 2026

    “receding echoes” — Red Shift; the expanding universe

    The antechapel where the statue stood

    Of Newton with his prism and silent face,

    The marble index of a mind for ever

    Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

    — Wordsworth

    This is a famous quote from William Wordsworth’s autobiographical poem, The Prelude (Book Third, 1850 version), describing the statue of Isaac Newton at Cambridge. The phrase metaphorically depicts the solitary, profound, and uncharted intellectual journey of a great scientific mind. 

    Key Context and Meaning:

    • Context: Wordsworth describes visiting the antechapel of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he beheld the statue of Newton with his prism.
    • Metaphor: The statue is called the “marble index of a mind,” serving as a permanent, silent representation of Newton’s intellectual exploration.
    • Interpretation: It characterizes the intense, solitary nature of genius and scientific contemplation, venturing into unknown areas of understanding.
    • Legacy: The phrase has been frequently quoted to describe deep thought, scientific discovery, and was even used as the title for the 1985 game A Mind Forever Voyaging. 

    The quote emphasizes the loneliness and immense scope of pioneering thought. [Source: Internet]

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    Soham Karandikar

    It is indeed a beautiful poem blending science and spirituality. The metaphorical references to physical concepts are indeed very appealing while the spiritual concepts are mysterious and can be unraveled only after some dedicated effort in the direction of understanding them.

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