16
Easy Journey to Other Planets
The material body is destructible, and as such it is changeable and temporary. So is the material world. But the anti-material living force is non-destructible, and therefore it is permanent. Expert scientists have thus distinguished the different qualities of the material and anti-material particles as temporary and permanent respectively.
(Bg. 2.16)
The discoverers of the two forms of matter have yet to find out the qualities of anti-matter. But a vivid description is already given in the  Bhagavad-gītā  as follows. The scientist can make further research on the basis of this valuable information.
The anti-material particle is finer than the finest of material particles. This living force is so powerful that it spreads its influence all over the material body. The anti-material particle has immense potency in comparison to the material particle, and consequently it cannot be destroyed.
(Bg. 2.17)
This is but the beginning of the description of the anti-material particle in the  Gītā . It is further explained as follows:
The finest form of the anti-material particle is encaged within the gross and subtle material bodies. Although the material bodies (both gross and subtle) are subject to destruction, the
Anti-material Worlds
17
finer anti-material particle is eternal. One's interest, therefore, should be in this eternal principle.
(Bg. 2.18)
The perfection of science will occur when it is possible for the material scientists to know the qualities of the anti-material particle and liberate it from the association of non-permanent material particles. Such liberation would mark the culmination of scientific progress.
There is partial truth in the scientists' suggestion that there may exist also another world consisting of anti-material atoms and that a clash between the material and anti-material worlds will result in the annihilation of both. There is a clash which is continually going on: the annihilation of the material particles is taking place at every moment, and the nonmaterial particle is striving for liberation. This is explained in the  Gītā  as follows:
The nonmaterial particle, which is the living entity, influences the material particle to work. This living entity is always indestructible. As long as the nonmaterial particle is within the lump of material energy—known by the names of gross and subtle bodies—then the entity is manifest as a living unit. In the continuous clashing between the two particles, the nonmaterial particle is never annihilated. No one can destroy the anti-material particle at any time—past, present, or future.
(Bg. 2.19)