We all have read in our schools that light travels quite fast, at the speed of 3,00,000 kilometers per second. We run at the speed of a few kilometers in an hour. Even the fastest rocket designed by human beings travels at a speed of a few thousand kilometers per hour. Anything that has a mass can not move as fast as light. One of the most wonderful things that has happened in the world of quantum physics in recent years is the experiments of CERN where a large collider has been established where the sub-atomic particles are made to move at a very high speed and then collide. The most wonderful finding of the CERN experiments is that fermions, which are the fundamental particles of mass, get mass when they interact with the Higgs field. The more they interact, the more mass they gain. The bosons, which are the fundamental particles of energy, do not interact with the Higgs field.
Isn't it the same in the material world too. The enlightened souls are like bosons. They live in this world and provide energy to this world like light but do not get much attached to the world just like the bosons passing through the Higgs field. On the other hand, most of us live in this world like the fermions in the Higgs field and we get attached to this world. The greater the attachment the greater the mass we carry. Any and every mass, at the need of the day, is energy itself as Einstien has already told us in his famous equation E=Mc square. Therefore whole of our body comprises energy only but somehow due to the interaction with the Higgs field, it looks so heavy. Probably, at the sub-atomic level, there is no solidity and only energy.
This gives me another insight. If interaction with the Higgs field gives fermions mass, it must be possible for them to reduce that interaction and become pure energy. Similarly, it must be possible for a soul to interact less with the material world. But a question arises how is that possible? Bosons show us the way. They too remain in the same field and yet retain their purest form unaffected by the world. It appears that we have some unfulfilled desire or insecurity and that makes us hold on to the world we live in. We live in this world and have different experiences. Every day and in fact, every moment we have different experiences. However, we hold on to certain experiences in this world and that makes us attached. We like certain tastes and want to have it again, we like interaction with a person and have it again. We keep associating value with different experiences and accordingly keep seeking more and more of the same. The pleasure that money and power give us. The joy of appreciation and validation, the safety, security, and comfort of the religion and beliefs. We get so attached to all these things that we gain quite a huge mass life the fermions and that lays a foundation of our suffering in this world.
Once we get attached to all these things, any and every change in the situation that takes the things we like away from us makes us sad. Of course, the world is not stagnant and is ever-changing and the moment we get attached to this world, we start suffering. Bosons do not get attached and therefore move at the speed of light. Till the time we have insecurities, we will keep accumulating mass like fermions. Mass itself is energy but it is quite dense like Tamas. It makes us slow and suffer because it is a product of ignorance. The moment we become aware of our ignorance, it disappears and all the attachments dissolve and we become free to have any experience. However, since we stay in this world, even an iota of ignorance will make us insecure and we will start accumulating again. Probably this endless cycle will keep going on till we become like bosons, full of light without an iota of ignorance.
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