Category:Anti-material World
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda utilizes the scientific concept of "antimatter" to introduce the Vedic understanding of the spiritual world. While material scientists speculate about a volatile "anti-world" made of antiparticles, the Vedic literature describes a tangible "anti-material world" composed of superior, eternal energy. This category explores the characteristics of this transcendental realm, which is free from the annihilation that plagues the material universe.
- Scientific Correlation: Śrīla Prabhupāda notes that scientists are gradually progressing toward the concept of an anti-material world. However, their understanding is limited; they fear a "clash" of worlds leading to total annihilation. The Vedic view clarifies that while the material world is destructible, the anti-material world is eternal and immune to destruction.
- Nature of the Anti-material Realm: Unlike the material world, which is full of inert matter, the anti-material world contains no dead matter. Everything there—land, water, trees, and bodies—is a living principle. It is a realm of eternal life, knowledge, and bliss.
- The Predominating Deity: The anti-material world is not a void; it is governed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. In this realm, the relationship between the predominator (God) and the predominated (living entities) is perfect and free from any tinge of material exploitation.
- Method of Entry: Access to this superior world is not possible through mechanical means like spaceships or rockets. The only path to the anti-material world is through "anti-material activities," specifically the cultivation of devotional service (bhakti-yoga), which changes the quality of the passenger from material to spiritual.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Eternal Nature of the Antimaterial World.
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Pages in category "Anti-material World"
The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total.
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- According to one of the fundamental assumptions of the new theory (matter exists in two forms - as particles and antiparticles), there may exist another world, or an antiworld, built up of antimatter
- After a certain period its (antimaterial particle) encagement by material particles is annihilated. This same principle also operates in the case of the material and antimaterial worlds
- Although life on Brahmaloka is fantastically long compared to life on Earth, it is only a flash in comparison to the eternal life of the nonmaterial worlds
- Any intelligent man who is not disturbed by happiness and distress, understanding that they are different material phases resulting from the interactions of the inferior energy, is competent to regain the antimaterial world
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- From all data available it is to be assumed without the slightest doubt that the antimaterial world is situated in the antimaterial sky, a sky which is mentioned in the Bhagavad-gita as sanatana-dhama, or the eternal nature
- From the platform of the material world, one cannot estimate the real position of the antimaterial world
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- In the anti-material world there is no difference between the predominated and the predominator—the relationship is in perfection and without tinge of materialism
- In the antimaterial world there is no difference between the predominated and the predominator - the relationship is in perfection and without tinge of materialism
- In the antimaterial world there is no inert matter. Everything there is a living principle, and the Supreme Personality in that region is God Himself
- In the Bhagavad-gita it is said that if a man, at the time of death, concentrates his mind upon the form of the Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, & while so doing relinquishes his body, he at once enters the spiritual existence of the antimaterial world
- Instructions of the Brahma-samhita and Bhagavad-gita may be finally confirmed by the material scientist as he researches into the existence of the antimaterial world
- It is a good sign that the materialistic scientists are gradually progressing toward the region of the anti-material world
- It may be that a "clash" occurs between the material and antimaterial worlds, as suggested by the scientists, and that the material worlds are destroyed, but there is no annihilation of the antimaterial worlds
- It may even be possible for them (materialistic scientists) to make sufficient progress to be able to know the details of this antimaterial world, where the PG resides as the predominating figure and where the living entities live with Him and serve Him
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- Long, long before the discovery of the principles of antimatter and the anti-material worlds, the subject was delineated in the pages of Bhagavad-gita
- Long, long before the discovery of the principles of antimatter and the antimaterial worlds, the subject was delineated in the pages of Bhagavad-gita
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- Master yogis who control the antimaterial particle within the material body by practice of mystic powers can give up their material bodies at will at a certain opportune moment and can thus enter the antimaterial worlds through a specific thoroughfare
- Materialistic science may one day finally discover the eternal anti-material world which has for so long been unknown to the wranglers of gross materialism
- Materialistic science may one day finally discover the eternal antimaterial world which has for so long been unknown to the wranglers of gross materialism
- Matter is an energy which creates the material world, and the same energy, in its superior form, also creates the antimaterial (transcendental) world
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- Once he (the materialist who is ailing) agrees to put himself under the "back to Godhead" treatment, he is able to transfer himself to the antimaterial world, where there is eternal life instead of birth and death
- One may conclude that from the BG alone one can have the essence of the Vedas, for it is spoken by Krsna, the SPG, who descends upon this material world from the antimaterial world in order to give complete information of the superior form of energy
- Only those living entities who take to the loving service of the Personality of Godhead during the manifested stage of material life are undoubtedly transferred to the antimaterial worlds after quitting the material body
- Only those who are captivated by the glamour of the material world cannot accept the authority of Lord Sri Krsna. One has to become thoroughly clean in habit and heart before one can understand the details of the anti-material world
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- The antimaterial world is mentioned here (in the Bhagavad-gita), and in addition information is given that in the antimaterial world there is no "seasonal" fluctuation. Everything there is permanent, blissful, and full of knowledge
- The antimaterial world, which is far removed from the material sky, is never annihilated. It absorbs the material world
- The atomic scientist may consider annihilating the material world by nuclear weapons, but his weapons cannot destroy the antimaterial world
- The Bhagavad-gita recommends that one adopt the means of devotional service, or anti-material activities, if one wishes to enter the anti-material world
- The denizens of the antimaterial world possess eternal life, eternal knowledge and eternal bliss. In other words, they have all the qualifications of God
- The eternally existing anti-material world is unmanifested to the material scientist. He can simply have information of it insofar as the principles of its existence are contrary to the modes of the material world
- The eternally existing antimaterial world is unmanifested to the material scientist. He can simply have information of it insofar as the principles of its existence are contrary to the modes of the material world
- The following details outline a general practice by which one can prepare himself for an easy journey to the Vaikuntha (anti-material) planets, where life is free from birth, old age, disease and death
- The following details outline a general practice by which one can prepare himself for an easy journey to the Vaikuntha (antimaterial) planets: The candidate must be prepared to satisfy the spiritual master in every way
- The gross materialist may try to approach the antimaterial worlds by endeavoring with spaceships, satellites, rockets, etc., which he throws into outer space, but by such means he cannot even approach the material planets in the higher regions
- The gross materialists, however, do not believe in the anti-material worlds of the Personality of Godhead. They are therefore unfortunate creatures, although sometimes very talented, educated and advanced otherwise
- The individual living being can very easily enter the antimaterial world by practicing antimaterial activities while residing in the material world
- The living entity is constitutionally an antimaterial particle. But unless he elevates himself to the region of the antimaterial worlds by cultivation of antimaterial activities, he is destroyed materially at the annihilation of the material worlds
- The material world is only a shadow representation of the anti-material world, and intelligent men who are clean in heart and habit will be able to learn, in a nutshell, all the details of the anti-material world from the text of the Bhagavad-gita
- The material world is only a shadow representation of the antimaterial world, and intelligent men who are clean in heart and habit will be able to learn, in a nutshell, all the details of the antimaterial world from the text of the Bhagavad-gita
- The nature of the material world is destructive. According to the Bhagavad-gita, there is some partial truth to the assumption of the physical scientist that there is annihilation of the material and antimaterial worlds when they chance to clash
- The presiding Deity of the anti-material world is Sri Krsna, who exists in His original personality as well as in His many plenary expansions
- The scientist would be rendering service to everyone by researching the constitution of the antimaterial world - how it is administered, how things are shaped there, who are the presiding personalities, and so on
- There are two worlds—the material and antimaterial. The material world is composed of inferior qualitative energy divided into eight material principles. The antimaterial world is made of superior qualitative energy
- There is partial truth in the scientists' suggestion that there may exist also another world consisting of antimaterial atoms and that a clash between the material and antimaterial worlds will result in the annihilation of both
- This antimaterial world would consist of atomic and subatomic particles spinning in reverse orbits to those of the world we know. If these two worlds should ever clash, they would both be annihilated in one blinding flash
- This is the secret of the Bhagavad-gita. The process of entering into the antimaterial worlds differs from materialistic processes
- Those who adopt the means of devotional service, as prescribed by the expert transcendentalist, are never disappointed in their attempts to enter the anti-material world
- Those who have realized the Transcendence can reach the antimaterial world by leaving their material bodies during auspicious moments in which the deities of fire and effulgence control the atmosphere
- Those who have realized the Transcendence can reach the antimaterial world by leaving their material bodies during the period of uttarayana, that is, when the sun is on its northern path
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- We hope that with the progress of time the materialist will be able to estimate the value of the antimaterial world, in which there is no trace of material principles
- We think that the theory maintaining that the material and antimaterial worlds may clash, resulting in the annihilation of both worlds, is correct only within the context of the scientists' limited definition of antimatter
- When we speak of it (antimaterial world) as a "world," we must remember that it has forms and paraphernalia of various categories beyond our material experiences
- Where (in the antimaterial world) life is eternal, full of permanent knowledge and bliss