Light : Bits of Light Energy (Photons) : suvarna rajata srajaa Lakshmi : mass energy equivalence, sat sakti equivalence, advaita, sat cit ananda
All the pictures of Lakshmi Devi, show gold coins streaming from her hands. The Vedic Sri Suktham, tells us that Lakshmi is she who causes/is a stream (srajaa) of brilliant (rajata) good colour (su-varna) and that she is herself the colour of hiraNya ( gold, deer).
Throw a little visible light or ultraviolet light on some metals. And observe at what minimum frequencies electrons shoot out and what the energy is of the fastest particle that shoots out at that energy, or read up the experimental results and conjectures of people who have done these experiments.
It appears that that the electrons can receive energy from light only in multiples of hf , where h is the planck’s constant and f is the frequency of the light that you shine on the metal.
So electromagnetic waves (light) can give energy to matter particles (electrons).
But when electrons get sufficient energy to escape from an atom, they escape and move off with some velocity.
But if there is a change in the velocity of the electron, its momentum must change too!
But momentum must be conserved in the universe.
So the momentum (mv) of the incident light must also change?
How can you change the momentum of something that has no mass?
If the incident light can lose hf energy, then it can lose some momentum.
If we were as smart as Einstein and lived at his time, we would say, “Hey! It looks like energy has an equivalent mass (m)!”.
Then we would do some maths and balance units on both sides of an equation and do something like this? (Of course FAR MORE RIGOUROUSLY)!
E = hf = 0.5 mvv = 0.5mcc, since the velocity of light in vaccuum is c.
Ah! energy is proportional to m times c-squared.
So the equivalent mass of a bit of light energy is proportional to hf/cc.
(Then people smart enough to do so, would make an atomic fission bomb, and the people who were dumb enough to use it would use it! So I think its best to approach the study of light with reverence and s’raddha).
So mass which is the amount of matter in a thing, can be converted to energy and energy could be converted into mass. And masses have an equivalent energy and energies have equivalent masses.
That is vyakta (differentiated) to avyakta (undifferentiated) and avyakta to vyakta, and the “vyakta – avyakta” equivalence.
A sat – s’akti equivalence. And we did work out previously that cit was a form of s’akti and devi was cit swaroopi. So we have a sat-cit equivalence.
I have never discussed “aum tat sat” in detail before on this web-site., but roughly it means, ‘that’ (brahman) is ‘that which is’ (reality).
And suddenly we have tat, sat, sakti all as different apparent forms of the same “It” or “That”. What Richard Bach cheerfully called the “Is”.
And suddenly, it feels like Sankaracharya was bang on with his Advaita philosophy,
“brahma satyam, jagat mithyam, jivo brahmah na parah!” : “Brahman is the reality, the moving world is an illusion, and the jiva is the brahma, none other”
And if I have got the concept right, then the bliss or ananda of knowing this, gives rise to the the term sat-cit-ananda.
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- Time : Past, Present and Future : Bhuta Bhavya Bhavan Nathah Vishnuh
- Time : Why study time ? : “Kaalah Aham – I am Time” – Krishna
- Time : Kalakantha, kalamurthi, kalagni, kalanasana, Siva : Markandeya : Maghamahatmya
- Time and Space : Are Time and Space “side-effect” of matter? Is Space empty? or full of some”thing” else?
- Time, Matter, Energy and Consciousness : Kaala, Sat, Sakthi, Purusha/Devi
- Life : Pranadah, Pranah, Jivanah, Vishnuh! : What is Life? In science and sanskrit texts : Eating.
- Consciousness : Pragnya, Chitta, Purusha/Devi : in Science and Sanskrit Texts
- Time : Movement : Motion: : Jagat : Charaachara : Understanding Devi and Purusha as Movement and Time.
- Light : Lakshmi : Vishnu
- Light : Bits of Light Energy (Photons) : suvarna rajata srajaa Lakshmi : mass energy equivalence, sat sakti equivalence, advaita, sat cit ananda
Some of the above concepts of similarities between what modern physics is uncovering and what our ancient texts already described are explained beautifully in the book “The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism “. Worthy read.
avid learner
December 23, 2011 at 10:21 am
par excellence. a most modern educated individual linking the advanced concepts of science governing the physical luniverse with most ancient rishis’ cognition s of laws governing the subtle realms/lokas .
i see a new age dawning, science reaching to the level of enlightenment. this is a small praise, well deserved.
on the contents i have to say you have done very rightly, appeals to me as a professional, flawless , fitting things in to their right place, thus extending the boundaries beyond a Einstein, a Planck, and great particle physicists like sudarshan, and i know not who the great people who are at the front.
i am particularly pleased to find a science orientation, befitting to the contemporary time, which regards god things as mythology/ or myth / having little significance to the practical life.
here comes fresh light with refreshing breeze, from rishi satyaji.
vasant
July 26, 2011 at 10:53 am
I’m glad you liked the post Vasantji. Thank you.
tvamevaaham
July 26, 2011 at 4:30 pm
admiration for you knows no bounds…..
suryanarayanan
July 25, 2011 at 1:22 pm
Thank you! I am very flattered!
bloggaRSi
July 25, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Actually, I am trying to put in words what I have learned at the feet of my grandfather and father.. I feel my grandfather was really like a Rsi. But still, child that I am at heart, I feel very happy when my efforts are understood and appreciated
! And I feel very flattered and happy!
bloggaRSi
July 25, 2011 at 5:24 pm
Awesome article Satya!! Loved it!! I completely agree with Mayur’s comment!!
Lakshmi
July 25, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Thank you! Lakshmi! Lets’ all read together!
tejaswinaavadheetamastu.
Satya
bloggaRSi
July 25, 2011 at 4:57 pm
What an analysis Madam? Loved it. It took a lot of time for me to understand it but I think I understood it now
I understood that, gold coins streaming from Lakshmi Devi’s hand, is the mass that is converted from stream of brilliant good color or light that she represents. Am I correct in my understanding?
Sakti
July 25, 2011 at 12:41 pm
I think that it is light itself that streams from her.
I think once people started giving value to gold and called gold as suvarna,
They started thinking that gold coins stream from her hands. Especially people who take things literally.
To me Lakshmi is light and light streams from her!…
The mass equivalence concept reminds me of advaita.
Satya
bloggaRSi
July 25, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Ahaa amazing post Satya. Feeling like reading Einstein’s theory of relativity and Modern Physics Principals in conformity with the Classical Ancient Indian Science.
Mayur Ahir
July 25, 2011 at 12:28 pm
Thank you Mayur.! That’s a great idea!
Satya
bloggaRSi
July 25, 2011 at 12:32 pm