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3. The anti-material and material worlds may clash at a certain period and may annihilate one another.
Out of these three items, we, the students of theistic science, can fully agree with items No. 1 and 2, but we can agree with the third item only within the limited scientific definition of anti-matter. The difficulty lies in the fact that the scientists' conception of anti-matter extends only to another variety of material energy, whereas the real anti-matter must be anti-material, or spirit. Matter as it is constituted is subjected to annihilation, but anti-matter—if it is to be free from all material symptoms—must also be free from annihilation, by its very nature. If matter is destructible or separable, anti-matter must be indestructible and inseparable. We shall try to discuss these propositions from the angle of authentic scriptural vision.
The most widely recognized scriptures in the world are the  Vedas . The  Vedas  have been divided into four parts:  Sāma ,  Yajus ,  Rk  and  Atharva . The subject matter of the  Vedas  is very difficult for a man of ordinary understanding. For elucidation, the four  Vedas  are explained in the historical epic called the  Mahābhārata  and in eighteen  Purāṇas . The  Rāmāyaṇa  is also a historical epic which contains all the necessary information from the  Vedas . So the four  Vedas , the original  Rāmāyaṇa  by Vālmīki, the  Mahābhārata  and the  Purāṇas  are classified as Vedic literatures. The  Upaniṣads  are parts of the four  Vedas , and the  Vedānta-sūtras  represent the cream of the  Vedas . To summarize all these Vedic literatures, the  Bhagavad-gītā  is accepted as the essence of all
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Upaniṣads  and the preliminary explanation of the  Vedānta-sūtras . One may then conclude that from the  Bhagavad-gītā  alone one can have the essence of the  Vedas , for it is spoken by Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who descends upon this material world from the anti-material world in order to give complete information of the superior form of energy.
The superior form of energy of the Personality of Godhead is described in the  Bhagavad-gītā  as  parā prakṛti . The scientists have recently discovered that there are two forms of perishable matter, but the  Gītā  describes most perfectly the transcendental concept of matter and anti-matter in terms of two forms of energy. There is an energy which created the material world, and in its superior form, also created the anti-material (transcendental) world. The living entities belong to the category of superior energy. The inferior energy or material energy is called  aparā prakṛti . In the  Gītā  the creative energy is thus presented in two forms, namely  aparā  and  parā prakṛti .
Matter itself has no creative power. When it is manipulated by the living energy, material things are produced. Matter in its crude form is therefore the latent energy of the Supreme Being. Whenever we think of energy, it is natural that we think of the source of energy. For example, when we think of electrical energy, we simultaneously think of the powerhouse where it is generated. Energy is not self-sufficient. It is under the control of a superior living being. For example, fire is the source of two other