Nikola Tesla and Swami Vivekananda by Mr. Toby Grotz, President, Wireless Engineering ------------------------------------------------------------- Swami Vivekananda, late in the year l895 wrote in a letter to an English friend, "Mr. Tesla thinks he can demonstrate mathematically that force and matter are reducible to potential energy. I am to go and see him next week to get this new mathematical demonstration. In that case the Vedantic cosmoloqy will be placed on the surest of foundations. I am working a good deal now upon the cosmology and eschatology of the Vedanta. I clearly see their perfect union with modern science, and the elucidation of the one will be followed by that of the other." (Complete Works, Vol. V, Fifth Edition, 1347, p. 77). #mseswaranpremiummember
Extremely Rare photograph of a sage and a scientist. ( Swami Vivekanand & Nikola Tesla ) In 1896, both of these great minds attended the play “Iziel” in which Sarah Bernhardt starred. After this show Sarah Bernhardt knew Swami Vivekananda as a yogi and after seeing him in the audience she immediately arranged a meeting with him at the end of the performance, which by coincidence also included Nikola Tesla, at that time he had already invented the AC motor, developed and patented. The evening meeting turned out to be an interesting conversation for both, as they discussed the notions of prana (vital energy), akasha (the ether or matter ) and kalpas ( the ideas of the aeon(lifetime)), three elementary concepts of Vedantic Doctrine. Swami Vivekananda later wrote in a letter outlining the meeting, " Mr. Tesla was charmed to hear about the Vedantic prana and akasha and the kalpas. He thinks he can demonstrate mathematically that force and matter are reducible to potential energy. I am to go to see him next week to get this mathematical demonstration. In that case Vedantic cosmology will be placed on the surest of foundations. I clearly see their perfect union with modern science, and the elucidation of one will be followed by that of the other." Tesla was deeply influenced by vedic cosmology and philosophy that he started naming few of his discoveries in sanskrit ,after the meeting. This was also the beginning of the friendship between the yogi and the inventor. Each found an interlocutor who, from his own position, nevertheless had a possibility of proximity to the other. Tesla continued to pursue his interest in the doctrine of the Vedas. Some years later, he didn’t hesitate to use some of its terms (precisely the ideas of prâna and âkâsha) to describe the physical phenomena he’d been researching. “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration ,”---- Nikola Tesla #indianhistory #indianheritage #ancientindia #historyofindia #heritageofindia #indianculture #incredibleindia #indiantemples #templesofindia #templeuniversity #indianculture #ancientwisdom #vedicknowledge #vedicmaths #spiritualhealth #sanatandharma
