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What is the relationship between inert energy and awareness?

[A question by Smt. Ramya]

Swami replied:- When food is eaten, it is oxidized to liberate inert energy. This inert energy entering the lungs causes a specific work called respiration. When the same inert energy enters the kidneys, it does a specific work called filtration of impurities. The generated specific work is due to the specific nature of the system into which the inert energy enters. Similarly, when the inert energy enters the brain-nervous system, a specific work form of inert energy is generated called as awareness, which is non-inert. The non-inert nature of the awareness is due to this specific nature of brain-nervous system. Awareness is a form of energy only, containing fundamental units called neurons (just like the fundamental particles of light energy are photons). The work done by awareness is to transfer the information of the five senses (from the external world) to the brain so that you become aware of that information. If you see a pot by the eye, the printed image of the pot on the retina of the eye is transformed to the brain as a pot by the awareness. Hence, awareness is a specific work form of inert energy.

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