In one passage,
Brahman says that for this universe and the world to exist four things are
needed: Knowledge, Action, Cause and Effect. Brahman says that He is ALL FOUR.
The Universe is made of matter(Prakriti and the Five
elements, namely space, air, fire, water and earth) called Pancha Bhutas. We
all know that Time (kaala) is another
item needed for something to appear from something else. This was well-recognized in Maha Bharata and other ancient texts.
Our mind also asks “who did it?” and “why?”. Majority of the
humanity will say “God” and then will fight to establish that “their god” is
the real one. Leaving that apart, that “God” has to have a “desire” to do
something. That becomes iccha shakti
in the Vedic writings. He or It needs “Knowledge” and that becomes gnana Shakti and the action itself
becomes kriya Shakti.
And what is “knowledge”? One passage says that when the one
and only Brahman dissolves the universe into Himself, He was “alone with
knowledge as my only companion”. This is very profound because of my intuitive
feeling that information is one of the most fundamentals of this universe.
Just, replace the word “Knowledge” with the word “Information”. It becomes the
sixth element.
If we update this knowledge to our understanding of the
universe in the 21st century, we should replace space, air, fire,
water and earth with the following: matter, energy, space, time and
information.
As I have written in earlier
blogs, to make anything we need matter (prakritit). For performing an action and
to make something, we need energy (Shakti). To desire and to know what to make,
we need knowledge and Information. As Seth Lloyd pointed out in his book
on Programming the Universe:"To
do anything requires energy. To specify what is done requires
information".
Information is inherent in matter. This seems to be the modern equivalent of samavaya of Vaiseshika philosophy.
Information is inherent in matter. This seems to be the modern equivalent of samavaya of Vaiseshika philosophy.
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