Questioner: Pranam sir, I am Ram Surendra Singh, a research scholar from the Mathematics Department. Sir, we all are dealing with physical matter here but if we see a periodic table, all the elements in there, and if someone knows how to play with those elements they can all create the whole universe. That is just a matter of some addition of electrons and some fewer electrons in that present everything is the same. So, if you go below that then everything is proton, electron, and neutron and again we go down, it is like quark.
So you are also like a quark, we are also like a quark, everyone is a quark with a positive charge or some charge is different. Then why if everything is the same, then why do we have hatred, jealousy and ego among ourselves only? And the people in positions of authority, are biased towards some kinds of people, if everything is one then why is it like that?
Acharya Prashant: Wonderful! See, there is somebody who is the quark, right? The quark itself is not the quark. Does a quark ever say, “I am a quark?” Does an electron or a proton ever declare its identity? Ever heard protons, neutrons, or electrons shouting I am e, n, or p? Or an electron saying, “I want to progress in life by jumping to a higher orbital, S is not good enough so D, P, F?” Ever found an ambitious electron in life, no?
That's where that particular one comes in, who says I am the electron. This ‘Iness’ is missing in the objective universe as you see it. This is a table, the table never says, “I am a table”, but then there is somebody, somebody like me or you who says, “I am the owner of the table.” Now, the table has an active identity. Now, there is somebody who is identified with the table.
