About Science, Religion and Life

This page contains the glossary that is added to the second edition of the Whence Do We Come?

A general note: throughout the text capitalized words were used to highlight a divine origin of manifested phenomena or to point out a certain aspect of God. Even though the same words in different quoted sources are capitalized differently, this manuscript used the following simple rule; names of God and all phenomena down to and including Atoms (Hearts) are capitalized, while Atoms’ internals and phenomena generated by the Atoms are written in the lower case form.

Architect – a name of God indicating that He is the Creator, the Master Planner behind creation.

astral – the second transformation that the consciousness goes through—the intelligent energy. Another term is lifetronic.

Atom, Anu – capitalized word “Atom” (or “Anu”) refers to the first particle in God’s creation, a particle of dark matter, and it should be differentiated from “atom” (or “anu”) which refers to what is known in physics as a basic unit of visible matter. Particles of dark matter are like generators; influenced by God’s light they create the universe we live in.

Attraction – see Omniscient Feeling.

Aum – the primordial sound vibration. These compression waves compress and rarefy the underlying medium (see Universal Substance) and thus create “all things” within creation. The rarefied portion of creation is what we call space, whilst the compressed areas are individual particles of Spirit; the particles of dark matter (see Atom). The three letters A-U-M represent the cyclic nature of this vibration. It creates things (A), preserves them for a while (U) and then destroys them (M) after a particular cycle has finished. This vibration is often depicted as a storm that rages for a moment (see creation cycle) and agitates the calm ocean of Spirit. It creates waves (“all things”) that exist for a moment and then subside back into the ocean (Spirit). This dynamic and constantly mutating environment introduces the concept of change, which we call time.

avidya – ignorance.

Bhagavad Gita – the holy book of Hindu religion.

Bible – the holy book of Christian religion.

buddhi – the positive pole of the Heart; another term is intelligence.

causal – see ideational.

Chit – see God’s light.

Chitta – see Heart.

Christ Consciousness – the pure Intelligence of God (the aspect of God the Son) which is the cause of all vibration. This consciousness is the “information” embedded in God’s light, which shines on the Atoms, and influences the whirling consciousness inside to become organized and self-conscious (i.e., gives them life). This process is similar to the process of magnetization where the “information” on how to be magnetic is passed on from the external magnetic field onto the magnetic material, but in this case the “information” passed on (from God to His creations) is self-consciousness or life. Other terms used are Christ Intelligence, Kutastha Chaitanya, Universal Intelligence, God’s Infinite Intelligence, Kutastha Intelligence, Universal Christ Intelligence, Son and Tat (see also Holy Trinity).

Christ Intelligence – see Christ Consciousness.

creation cycle, creation day – one full cycle of manifestation and non-manifestation in God’s hobby activity called creation. See also Day and Night.

Cosmic Beam of God – see God’s light.

Cosmic Consciousness – see Father.

Cosmic Nature – see Nature.

Cosmic Source – see Spirit.

Cosmic Vibration – the vibration that makes creation. See also Aum and Holy Ghost.

Creative Power – see Cosmic Vibration.

Creator – a name of God indicating that creation’s cause is not accidental; it hasn’t appeared by a mere chance, but was created by the Being we call God, Spirit. Creator also indicates a role that Spirit has in relation to creation (see also Father and the Holy Trinity).

Day – see Day and Night.

Day and Night – capitalized words Day and Night indicate two stages within the creation cycle (creation day). Day is the period when creation is fully manifested, while Night is the period when creation is just an idea in God’s mind. The morning and the evening are transitional periods, from the state of inactivity into the fully developed state (morning) and later, after the whole Day has passed, from the fully operational mode into the state of non-activity (evening).

Dhammapada – the holy book of Buddhist religion.

dharma –  God’s plan or actions that one should undertake in order to fulfill the mission entrusted to him by God.

Divine Command – a name of God indicating that He doesn’t want His children to suffer due to wrong choices they have made. The free will He gave them usually gets them into trouble at first, but this power of choice is really necessary and is a good teaching mechanism. The purpose of creation is to produce perfect beings that will share eternity with the Lord. This relationship would not be meaningful at all if it were based on the automatism and absence of free choice (to enter into such relationship). So, whenever a situation on earth goes out of control and people start to be oppressed by the accumulated and heavy burden of their wrong decisions, God sends His exalted warriors to rectify the situation and help erring humanity.

Divine Love – see Omniscient Feeling.

ego – soul’s reflection inside the Atom.

electromagnetic – a quality of a material to produce magnetism when subjected to an electric current (i.e., electric charge in motion). Electromagnetism was discovered when it was observed that a copper wire, when carrying an electric current, would magnetize pieces of iron or steel near the wire.

electron – a subatomic particle that carries negative electric charge. It is also believed to be an elementary particle, because it has no known components or substructure.

Eternal Blessedness – a name of God indicating that He lives in the state of ever-existing (Sat), ever-conscious (Chit), ever-new bliss (Ananda), or in other words, in the state of perpetual, always fresh and completely satisfying blissfulness.

Eternal Consciousness – a name of God, Spirit, indicating that It is a Being existing unto eternity.

Father, Father Protector – a name of God indicating His protective role over creation and beings in it. Other terms for this transcendental (i.e., existing transcendentally untouched by all the commotion of the vibratory creation) aspect of Spirit are Ishvara, Cosmic Consciousness, Creator and Sat. See also Holy Trinity.

God’s light, the light of Christ Consciousness – transverse waves of consciousness; the primordial light vibration. It represents the Christ Consciousness, the consciousness of God the Son, which is God’s presence within creation. This light provides the source of guidance and purpose for the Atoms and creation as a whole. The Aum vibration (the primordial sound vibration, the Word), which consists of myriad compression waves, creates all things (the blueprint of creation), but without the light of Christ Consciousness these things would be just ideas in God’s mind (i.e., “without form and void,” see Genesis 1:2) and would not have an objective existence. The light is needed to give them a consciousness of separate existence—life. Other terms used are Cosmic Light and Chit. Souls are individual rays of this light.

Grantha Sahib – the holy book of Sikh religion; also regarded as the final and the eternal guru of the Sikhs.

gravity well – a gravity well is the pull of gravity exerted by a large body in space. The larger the body (i.e., the more mass it has) the greater the gravity well it produces.

gunas (singular: guna) –  essential creative and motivating qualities. There are three gunas: sattva (positive), rajas (neutral) and tamas (negative) and they correspond to the three layers that appear within the polarized Atom (i.e., Heart).

guru – a “dispeller of darkness,” is one’s God-illumined spiritual teacher. Having graduated from the school of life and having realized their oneness with Spirit, gurus have acquired proper qualifications to lead and help sincere seekers on their own journey to self-realization and enlightenment. A true guru is much more than just a simple teacher or instructor, which is the common meaning of the word guru today.

Happiness – see Eternal Blessedness.

Heart – the Atom, when in the spiritually magnetized state, which is due to the influence of God’s light. Another term is Chitta.

Highest Authority, Higher Power – names of God indicating His absolute sovereignty over every force and finite power in creation, because He is the ultimate source of them all (see Universal Substance).

Holy Ghost – part of the Holy Trinity that represents the motherly aspect of God. Other terms used are Aum, Cosmic Vibration, the Word, Shakti, Divine Mother, Pure Cosmic Nature or Pure Nature and Para-Prakriti.

Holy Trinity – a name of God referring to Spirit’s three aspects while It manifests through creation (see creation cycle). The infinite portion of Spirit that is unruffled by the vibration, outside of creation, is the Father. The portion of Spirit that creates and maintains myriad things (i.e., creation), in the relatively small space of the Infinite, is the Holy Ghost or the Mother. The portion of Spirit that serves as the source of guidance and purpose and gives life (see God’s light) to the beings inside creation is the Son. In Hinduism, the Holy Trinity is known as Sat (Father), Tat (Son) and Aum (Holy Ghost).

ideational – the first transformation of consciousness into ideas and thoughts. In metaphysics, the word causal is also used to indicate the same, because thoughts are the causes of other two manifestations: the intelligent energy (see astral) and the gross matter.

Impure Nature – see Satan.

Infinite – see Spirit.

intelligence – see buddhi.

Intelligence – see Christ Consciousness.

Ishvara – see Father.

jnanendriyas – the five sections of the outer, sattvic, layer of the Atom (Heart). Also known as the “organs of the senses.”

karma – the results (visible and invisible) of one’s actions. Karma is the law of cause and effect, which specifies that each action (a deed, a word, an emotion or thought) must cause an exact and appropriate effect, which in itself is either a reward or punishment to the person that performed it. “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting” (Galatians 6:7–8).

karmendriyas – the five sections belonging to the middle layer of the Atom (Heart). Also known as the “organs of action..

Koran – the holy book of Islam, the religion of Muslims.

Kutastha Chaitanya – see Christ Consciousness.

Kutastha Intelligence – see Christ Consciousness.

lifetron(s) – a term coined by Paramhansa Yogananda, which refers to the intelligent energy that thoughtrons transform into (see thoughtron). Other terms for the same are life force and prana.

Love – see Omniscient Feeling.

Maker – see Creator.

manas – the negative pole of the Heart; another term is mind.

Maya – the storm that produces the illusion of dividing a portion of the ever-indivisible Infinite into separate finite objects. Other terms are Magic Delusion, Darkness, Magical Measurer, and Aum.

Nature – similar to a giant movie projector, where God’s light is passing through it to create vivid three-dimensional pictures not just true to the senses of hearing and sight, but also true to the senses of touch, smell, and taste. Another term used is Prakriti. Nature has two aspects: Pure Nature (see Holy Ghost) and Impure Nature (see Satan).

Night – see Day and Night.

Omnipotent Force – the force that creates the Aum vibration and stems from God’s will to create. Another name for this force is Repulsion.

Omnipotent Love – see Omniscient Feeling.

Omniscient Feeling – the force (also known as Attraction, Omniscient Love, Omnipotent Love, Divine Love and Love), which moves the light (see God’s light) around and thus defines the boundaries of the Aum vibration.

One – see Spirit.

Overarching Self – a name of God indicating that He, the conscious eternal Being (see Spirit) and the source of everything (see Universal Substance), is ultimately the only existing Self (see Reality). All other selves are mere reflections of this overarching Self and until they identify with It and are able to say: “I and my Father are one” (John 10:30), they will roam creation and be subjected to the process of evolution of consciousness (see Perfection).

pancha tattwa –the five bands that appear on the surface and within the polarized Atom (Heart). Also known as the “five root causes” and “five electricities.”

Perfection – a name of God indicating the goal of all life (i.e., the final state into which consciousness evolves). The purpose of creation is to produce perfect beings that will share eternity with the Lord. See also Overarching Self.

periodic table – in chemistry, is a tabular arrangement of the chemical elements according to the atomic number. Its invention is generally credited to Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869, who intended the table to illustrate recurring (“periodic”) trends in the properties of the elements.

photon – an elementary particle, the basic unit of light and all other forms of electromagnetic radiation.

Pleasure – a name of God indicating that He is the blissful ocean of consciousness (see Spirit), so to be seeking God means to be seeking the state of existence in which never-ending, ever-new joy is felt. This is the true pleasure that everybody looks for in the little pleasures of the senses.

Prakriti – see Nature.

Proper Solution – a name of God indicating that He is able to fix any problem that we might have and He is ever willing to help; we, His children, just have to ask.

Pure Nature – see Holy Ghost.

Purusha – see God’s light.

prana – see lifetrons.

proton – a subatomic particle with positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron. It is found in the nucleus of each atom, along with neutrons.

rajas – see gunas.

rajasic – something displaying the (neutral) quality of rajas.

Real Substance – see Universal Substance.

Reality – a name of God indicating that creation, and all of the forces and beings in it, are essentially just God’s ideas given the objective existence (see God’s light). However, even though they are alive, their substance is God and apart from this Substance nothing else really exists (see Universal Substance). After a day of creation finishes, creation and everything in it dissolves back into God and rests as seed ideas in His mind until they are brought back to life in the morning of the next creation day (see creation cycle). See also Overarching Self.

Repulsion – see Omnipotent Force.

Sanatan Dharma – literally, “eternal religion.” The name given to the body of Vedic teachings that came to be called Hinduism after the Greeks designated the people on the banks of the river Indus as Indoos, or Hindus.

Sankhya, Samkhya – a philosophy that is one of the six systems of Hindu religion. It studies the exact nature of man’s body, mind, and soul as well as that of the entire cosmos, and how everything is derived from the Universal Substance. Yoga, which is also one of the six systems, complements Sankhya by providing the scientific techniques that gradually expand the practitioner’s knowledge of Universal Substance and ultimately lead him step by step into the final union with Spirit.

Satan – archangel of God who was endowed with the independent will and tasked to maintain the material portion of creation.

sattva – see gunas.

sattvic – something displaying the (positive) quality of sattva.

Shining Truth – a name of God indicating that God, being the beginning and the end of everything, and the substance that everything is made of (see Universal Substance), is ultimately the last truth to be “discovered” in man’s quest for knowledge. But this Substance has transformed Itself into so many different forms and forces and veiled Itself with so many layers of transformation that its research could lead into many different paths of realization. Even though these paths could be totally disconnected and potentially very different, eventually they must meet at the point where their understanding of one God expands to include an acknowledgement of the legitimacy of other paths that lead to the same Truth. This Truth (God) shines on creation (see God’s light) and in that process gives it life and endows it (i.e., the beings within) with a choice: to seek the Truth or to try to ignore It.

Spirit – a name of God indicating that It is the eternal, formless and infinite ocean of consciousness, the one indivisible Being. When Spirit creates, It becomes three: Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost (see Holy Trinity), but when It takes a rest from the “daily” job (see creation day) of manifesting through creation, It again becomes only one—the blissful ocean of consciousness.

Spiritual Light – see God’s light.

Sole Reality – see Reality.

Son – is part of the Holy Trinity that refers to the pure reflected intelligence of God which permeates and overlays creation and is tasked to guide it back into the union with Spirit (see also Christ Consciousness and God’s light). Other terms for the same are Christ Consciousness, Kutastha Chaitanya, and Tat. See also Holy Trinity.

soul – a part of God’s light. Ego is soul’s reflection within the Atom. Once the consciousness inside the Atom fully evolves (see Perfection), the ego reflection will disappear and the soul will take control. Being a part of the bigger whole (i.e., God’s light), a soul does not maintain its separate identity in this state, but assumes the identity of the Christ Consciousness and becomes a true Son of God—hence the other term for the soul is Purusha.

Source – a name of God indicating that He is the source of all creation—by His will it emerges (see Spirit) and out of His Being it is made (see Universal Substance).

Talmud – the collection of ancient rabbinic writings on Jewish law and tradition that constitute the basis of religious authority in Judaism.

tamas – see gunas.

tamasic – something displaying the (negative) quality of tamas.

tanmatras – the five sections belonging to the tamasic core of the Atom (Heart). Also known as the “objects of the senses.”

Tat – see Son.

Torah – the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew Bible (which are also found as the first five books of the Christian Bible).

Truth – see Reality.

thoughtron(s) – a term coined by Paramhansa Yogananda which refers to the internal parts of the Atom; little thoughts or seed ideas.

Universal Intelligence – see Christ Consciousness.

Universal Substance – a name of God indicating that He is the supporting medium that vibrates with the primordial vibration (see Aum) and hence He is the substance of which everything is made.

Unity – see Spirit.

Universal Truth – see Reality.

Upanishads – philosophical texts of Hindu religion; also regarded as the summaries of the Vedas.

Vedas – the oldest scriptures of Hindu religion. There are four Vedas: Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda.

wavelength – the distance between two waves of energy, or the length of the radio wave used by a particular radio station for broadcasting its program.

Word – the original Greek word is Logos, which also means “speech.” Because speech is an expression of ideas and thoughts by means of producing sounds, we can say that Word is the intelligent “sound” that God uses to express His ideas and thoughts. In Hinduism this sound is named Aum.

yoga – literally, “union with God.” Yoga aims to provide scientific techniques that gradually expand practitioner’s knowledge of the Universal Substance and ultimately lead him step by step into the final union with Spirit.