Excerpt from The Cosmic Kaleidoscope
What exactly is it that makes vital energy vital? What makes animation come out of matter as a result of physical pressure to produce cognisant beings? The key to this puzzle lies within the atom and its constituents—electrons, protons and neutrons. What are they made of, what do they carry inside?
Microvita, the Vital Essence
While explaining the process of crudification of consciousness into physical matter in the first phase of cosmic creation, we used the examples of pumping up a tyre and the use of a fire piston to generate heat. In the creation of life, something similar happens. On New Year’s Eve 1986, Shrii Sarkar introduced the theory of microvita, “micro-life”, which he went on to develop and give numerous practical demonstrations of. Microvita play an essential role in the science of mind. A microvitum is a basic building block of animated existence, partly physical and partly psychic. The cruder varieties tend towards matter, and the subtler towards mind. They are infinitesimal; billions of them make up a single carbon atom.
In the same way as oil is extracted from seeds, vitality and cognition in the form of microvita are released from atoms when atoms are sufficiently activated in adequate environmental conditions, as indicated in our discussion on the generation of primal vital energy. It is as if the creation uses a ready-made product similar to instant food preparations. All it takes is to mix in water, turn on the heat, stir briskly, and hey presto—action in the kitchen! The manifesting principle has in fact prepared for the coming into being of life and mind. The required concentrated ingredients are available in ample supply in the physical atoms, billions of microvita in each one of them, ensuring that each new creation will be unique.
A microvitum may be physical, psychic, and even supra-psychic, much subtler than the electrons, protons, and neutrons of the first, crudifying phase of inanimate creation. They can be even subtler than the microcosmic mind-stuff and its subjective coverage of the second, animate phase of creation. That is, they may be as subtle as intuition, and roam in ideas and higher psychic processes.
Microvita travel throughout the universe by way of any of the five elements according to their choice and suitability. Microvita may affect living beings physically, psychically, or psycho-spiritually in various ways, and are termed as positive (“friend”), negative (“enemy”) or neutral with reference to the quality of their relation to us. They may be put to use constructively, and may also be misused.
Shrii Sarkar discoursed on and demonstrated microvita numerous times to show that this new theory and science has enormous potentiality. Although microvita are subtle, they are living beings with a natural life span between their birth and death. The cruder variety of microvita may be researched in chemical laboratories and medicinal as well as medical laboratories where they may be observed through highly developed microscopes.
Earlier in the book, it is acknowledged that an atom has both crude and subtle dimensions. Shrii Sarkar explained that both atoms and microvita have subtler and cruder portions. Atoms are of this dual nature as they consist of large quantities of microvita whose subtler portion is closer to idea, and the cruder nature closer to matter. While the cruder aspects of microvita may be studied in physical laboratories their subtler aspects may only be realised by spiritual practices. The subtler kind of microvita is not directly observable but the effects of their actions may be detected physically. The subtlest kind are only conceptually observable; highly evolved minds can conceive of their activities.
Regarding atoms, Shrii Sarkar explained that some of them do not come within the physical arena or even within the realm of physical perception. Therefore, atomic research needs to take place in all three spheres—physical, psychological and spiritual. If we want to utilize a certain subtle state of an atom, the subtler portion, we shall have to do spiritual practices, and if we want to know about the cruder portion, we shall have to do laboratory research.
The theory of microvita points toward a new era of scientific development where researchers will work in both physical and mental laboratories to explore the psychic-physical and psycho-spiritual properties and potentialities of microvita. This new fascinating science of microlife spans the entire spectrum of human energetic existence. Its bottom line seems to be that knowledge itself is an energy that should be properly directed.
Microvita are like the essential ingredients of instant food products that only require water and temperature to be prepared and served. The animate creation comes to life due to the activation of microvita inherent in the inanimate creation. The above observations on microvita and atoms are only a few and relative to the present subject. Interested readers are advised to turn to the compilation of Shrii Sarkar’s discourses on the subject, Microvita in a Nutshell, and later publications and ongoing work by others.