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Namah Vol. 27, Issue 3, 15th October 2019

elements and compounds are found to interact, The centre, the nucleus of an atom is comprised
combine, bond, undergoing cleavage and of both a positive component, the proton, as
formation of bonds (of different types) with well as a neutral component, the neutron.
one another — that is, externally (as also And the nucleus of an atom is found and
undergoing internal rearrangements) — felt (as and through the flash received) to
through such electrons. Of course, not just the dissolve into the Centre, the Divine… the
position of the electrons is the determinant; Source of all. And why not, as the atomic
other factors too play their roles as they too expression too is Its, though the atom and
exist, not in isolation but forming the integral, its constituents are held and hailed as our
hence influenced by the collective, as the (and of everything) fundamental seed and
collective is influenced by the individual. kernel, Science seeing only and endeavouring
to explain matter, reducing and deconstructing
But what brings and forms this flash: It everything in terms of matter, matter-of-factly,
is the position of electrons and the hold, but considering not the Fundamental, the only
relative, of the nucleus on it, changing Fundamental.
with the change of its distance from the
nucleus. Before proceeding on to the Limitation of physical science: the cause
nucleus, one more aspect, in the context,
prods for expression through reiteration. Why the Fundamental eludes, and hence
The outermost shell, among all others, is the happenings delude — the interludes
under the least influence of the nucleus. of incessant occurrences and recurrences
Hence, it is the electrons in the outermost seemingly intruding and disrupting — lies in
shell, outermost orbit of the atom that are the very prelude. It is the ignorance, shrouding
most receptive, prone, susceptible, gullible, and veiling Reality, which determines the
proactive, reactive — and hence, engage meanings of being and life for us, and thus,
and indulge in the interactions, leading determines our ways and means, which are,
to the specific outcomes under the given consequently, enoneous, deficient and
entirety of the condition, the internal as misleading.
well as the external forming the integral
condition and state. “It is evident that however much we may
analyse the physical and sensible, we cannot by
Now to the nucleus… and to the revelation… that means arrive at the knowledge of the Self or
the flash of insight… or whatever it can be of ourselves or of that which we call God (1).”
called… the Centre of our very being and
of everything... comes up as a query, a kind The means has to be different, then.
of self-answering query: “Neutrally positive,
positively neutral? Or just positively neutral? “If, then, there is a Self, a Reality not obvious
Or is it neutrally positive?” to the senses, it must be by other means than
those of physical Science that it is to be sought
As to why it comes up as a query: Because and known. The intellect is not that means (2).”
the Divine is without any duality, is non-
judgmental… However much the intellect is refined and

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