Presence Of Mind In All Living Things

 

Sleep is a state of sub-consciousness, which is different from the consciousness present in plants and vegetables. The minds in plants and vegetables are unconscious minds. Plants and vegetables have minds, which is why they can grow and are considered living things. Anything that has a mind will grow whether it is a conscious mind or unconscious mind. All these minds contribute to the sustenance of the gravitational force. By hierarchy, the lowest is the category of ghost and on the other extreme end, is the category of happy spirits, which some civilisations refer to as deities.

 

We have dealt with the basic units of existence in the universe, the units of matter and the mind. Now, we need to study in detail how these units weave together in the formation of intricate webs of the material universe. The four abstract elements can never be made, nor can they be destroyed. We may be able to create a material object and destroy it, but no force in the universe can produce fresh abstract elements nor can any force in the universe destroy them. It is necessary to comprehend this fundamental truth.

 

There are two processes by which material objects in the universe come into existence: they are either made by man or animals or they form by themselves. The formation of each unit of element matter thus causes concentration at places and vacuum at others. In the words of Stephen Hawking, making a hill will cause a cavity at another place. All that is made can be destroyed. If not destroyed by man or animals, its destruction will come due to natural causes in time. Our material system, the body, was formed in stages. Similarly, its decay will happen throughout stages as well.

 

That we have been born into this material state of life is the reason that we must, sooner or later, die out of this material state. Each beginning is invariably linked to an end. Man begins by birth; therefore, he ends by death. The earth and the universe have a beginning and, therefore, they must also have an ending. Whatever has a beginning, be it a material object, a material system of a being, or a material universe, is always linked to an ending, and no amount of ingenuity by any being can alter this law of existence in the universe.

 

There are certain things in the universe which have no beginning which has no ending as well. These things never came to be; therefore, they will never cease to be. These things are the infinite factors of the universe and amongst them are the four great abstract elements. These abstract elements have never been made and can never be destroyed. Subject to their continuous process in the cycle of repetition, the four great abstract elements exist throughout all time. They have existed throughout the infinity of the past; they are existing throughout the present time and they will keep on existing throughout the infinity of the future time. These elements are indestructible, because they are uncreated or unformed. These conditions are characteristic of all infinite phenomena in the universe.

 

This infinite phenomenon forms a major part of the explanation of the origin of life and the universe. We must understand that the destruction or dissolution of material objects and substances does not cause the destruction of the abstract elements constituting them. The destruction of a material object or substance merely means the disintegration of the various abstract elements which combined to form the material object or substance. When, for instance, a substance like water is destroyed, the abstract elements which constitute the water migrate into other substances. If there are no substances available for these elements to merge with, they will continue to exist independently in the form of energy. When a substance like water is destroyed in our atmosphere, the elements constituting it would enter other substances such as air, earth or fire.

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Although we may observe superficially that water, upon destruction, disappears from our atmosphere, the abstract elements continue to exist in other substances. It is only possible to destroy the material combination (the substance taking shape and size as water) while it is impossible to destroy the basic abstract elements constituting the substance of water itself. This applies to all other substances as well.

 

In the same way that abstract elements cannot be destroyed, it is impossible to cause the formation of any new units of abstract elements. We cannot, for instance, make water from absolutely nothing. If we were to make water, we must, in the first instance, have the basic abstract elements essential to make water. If we assemble the correct proportions of the units of abstract water, abstract air, abstract heat and the abstract earth, the substance we refer to as water could be produced. Without this process, it would be impossible to produce the substance of water. In other words, we may weave the four abstract elements together and produce any desired fabric but without the aid of the fibres of the four great abstract elements, neither the threads nor the fabrics we desire could ever be made. We can only weave the threads from the existing fibres, but we cannot ourselves produce these fibres, nor can we destroy them.

 

When we assemble a fabric of a material object with the aid of the fibres which exist in the form of the four great abstract elements, we may certainly claim the fabric to be our creation and claim ownership of the fabric. We cannot, however, claim that the fibres with which we made the fabric from are also our creation. Since we cannot lay claim to the production of fibres, we can only take credit for assembling the fabric from fibres. The four great abstract elements could be assembled and kept bound together for a considerable period of time in the form of a substance. While additional units of abstract elements cannot be made, the units of four great abstract elements, however, circulate and often form one kind of substance at one point and another kind of substance at another point. They never remain in any of the substance permanently.

 

All material objects that may be produced, all material substances that may be formed and the entire universe itself are, sooner or later, subject to destruction. The destruction of a material object causes only the destruction of the combinations of substances in the material object; it does not cause the destruction of the abstract elements constituting it. Similarly, the destruction of the material universe causes only the destruction of the formation of the material universe; it does not cause the destruction of the abstract elements constituting it.

 

In the same manner, the destruction of the human bodily form does not equate to the destruction of the abstract elements constituting the human bodily form. It is the same with other beings. The destruction of each material form merely means the movement of the abstract elements settling in some other combination or existing in their independent and individual forms. The total destruction of the material universe, therefore, can never occur.

 

The present material universe is bound to be destroyed but the abstract elements constituting it will never be destroyed so that, after a long lapse of time, the same units of abstract elements would gather together and cause the formation of an entirely new material universe. The different material universes arise by themselves in space, but it is the same units of abstract elements which, going on forever and ever, make them. These abstract elements never cease to exist and therefore, the basic material substance for the formation of new universes remains absolutely undestroyed. When each material universe collapses, the units of abstract elements remain in the form of free energy distributed evenly over space.

 

We must remember that although the behaviour of the units of four great abstract elements is demonstrable in the modern science laboratories, it is impossible to destroy any abstract elements within the same domain. All that is done and could be done in any experimental laboratory is to process the different abstract elements and thus cause them to display their intrinsic qualities more and more intensely.

 

Just as rain is caused by a process of circulation of the four great abstract elements, the travel of heat is also a process of circulation. The sun is not producing any fresh supplies of heat. All the heat that the sun holds is what it has gathered together from its environment. Just as the oceans gather more water from rain and rivers whilst submitting themselves to the process of evaporation, the sun also gathers into it more heat from the neighbouring planets and stars. All the heat that emanates from the sun onto this earth does not accumulate on earth itself. If that were to happen, this earth within a short period of time would turn into a blazing ball of fire. The fact that this earth maintains a constant temperature indicates that the heat it receives from the sun is radiated away either to other planets or back to the sun itself.

 

All units of abstract elements are subject to circulation but during the course of their circulation even between planets and stars, they neither produce nor destroy more units of abstract elements. Material objects can be constructed and with the ability to handle the requisite forces being available to us, it is not impossible for us to construct an entirely new planet or an entirely new star. By virtue of having been constructed, they can also be destroyed.

 

The mind, however, is an infinite phenomenon and since the mind is not discernible to the environmental sensory organs, it is difficult to understand its behaviour. Like all other infinite phenomenon, the mind has no beginning and therefore it has no ending. The units of mind come from infinity just like the units of the four great abstract elements and the sky element, and the units of minds are proceeding towards infinity also like the five infinite elements. Just as the four great abstract elements circulate from substance to substance, the mind also circulates from life to life. Just as the four great abstract elements cannot remain in any formations of substances perpetually, the mind too, cannot remain in any formations of substances perpetually. The mind is a force more powerful than any of the four great abstract elements and even the weakest unit of mind is several times more powerful than the strongest unit of abstract element. This bring the mind to a position of supremacy amongst all the infinite units of existence in the universe. The mind maintains this supremacy and the forces of the units of mind keep all the units of elements in control.

 

The difference between the units of mind and any of the units of matter is that the units of mind are subject to variations in their strength, whereas the strength of the units of elements are constant. A million units of mind would not produce a force exactly one million times greater than any one particular unit of mind. The reason is that each unit of mind has a different strength and the addition of two units of mind would add together two different forces of mind. It often happens that the force of a single strong unit of mind is more powerful than a million weak units of mind. The force of the mind of a human being is greater than the aggregate force of trillions of bacterial units of mind.

 

By adding many units of abstract element of heat to a substance, the substance becomes hot. However, we cannot add to the strength of minds together simply by multiplication because of the different strength in each unit of mind. Therein lies the main difference between the units of abstract elements and the unit of mind. The process of material life consists of a merger of one or more units of abstract elements with a unit of mind. We must remember that in the merger, the different units do not fuse together completely and that the individuality of the various units is always preserved. In the formation of a material life system, the unit of mind is more active than the units of abstract elements and consequently the unit of mind brings to bear more force.

 

As mentioned earlier, the tendency of the unit of mind is to gather into its hold as many units of abstract elements as it has the strength to control. Therefore, if the unit of mind is powerful, it would gather into its system a large number of units of abstract elements. When the limit is reached, the unit of the mind ceases to take in additional units of abstract elements.

 

During the Big Bang, depending on the strength of the minds, all beings from the lower category of elementary life such as viruses, bacteria, insects, animals, marine life together with humans, start to form simultaneously. The model of explanation put forward in this paper is not in agreement with the theory of evolution. It is during the so-called moment of creation, that all animate and inanimate matters were formed. Due to the speed of the mind, all beings formed at the same time, together with mountains, trees, oceans, planets and stars including all the inanimate matters in the universes. Even amongst the most elementary life, beings developing during this time are born without the support of parents. Beings are born without conception. We can argue that this is the origin of life and the universe. However, life and the universes will collapse after a period of time. If we assume that there is an infinite number of Big Bang, and that the four great abstract elements are infinite by nature, there is actually no origin of life.

 

Based on what was discussed above, at the moment of creation, living things were formed without conception and without the support of parents. With regards to the chicken and egg argument, this would make the chicken first. Due to the limitations of human mind to comprehend a way to understand life, universe and the moment of creation, the concept of God is a convenient alternative. However, the concept of god leaves plenty of questions, especially as humans grow more intelligent by the day. The explanation about the moment of creation where living things were formed without parental support could be helpful. Subsequent to the moment of creation, living things require parental support except for those in the lower categories as discussed earlier. This contradicts with the one cell theory where all animals, human and plants originate from a single cell.

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