As
the car rolled into the temple area, Swami ended the
discussion by telling Akbar,"Never
forget that whatever you perceive with your senses
is a form of sat
(Energy)."
Akbar
was now on fire. Two memories came alive. First was
about a scientist. Professor David Bohm, the junior
quantum physics colleague of Einstein, had, in an
interview, talked about emptiness being filled with
zero - point energy. The second was a pithy statement
by Sai Baba which he had not fully grasped.
He
went to the Sai University library and inquired if
there was any book by Professor David Bohm. The Librarian,
as if he was waiting for Akbar, said, "Yes we
do have one" and went straight to a rack and
pulled it out. Akbar opened the book titled Wholeness
and Implicate Order and found it full of higher
mathematics of quantum physics. The jacket had this
comment about the book, "totality of existence,
including matter and consciousness as an unbroken
whole" but Akbar, awed by pages full of mathematics,
wanted to return the book. However, he decided to
take it, when the librarian, who had entered it in
the issue register, asked Akbar to sign for it.
A
few days later when he picked up the book to return
it, he turned a few pages again and suddenly scouted
a pencil tick on a page. He read it. Indeed that was
what he was looking for. Following is the extract
about empty space being the source of the universe:
Empty
space is the source of the universe.
Empty
space contains an immense background of ultra high
energy ( zero point energy of wavelength approximately
.00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00 cm ). One
cubic centimeter of this zero point energy is very
far beyond the total energy of all matter in the known
universe.
The
visible forms in the universe can be understood 'only
when we consider the planum (continuity filling the
emptiness) in which they were generated and are sustained
and into which they must ultimately vanish'.
