Beyond Matter and Energy: Vedanta’s Vision Through Tesla’s Eyes

When Swami Vivekananda Met Nikola Tesla: Science Meets Spirituality


Swami Vivekananda once met Nikola Tesla, the famous inventor known for electricity and modern power systems. During their conversation, Vivekananda explained the Vedantic ideas of:

  • Prāṇa – the energy behind all movement
  • Ākāsha – the basic substance (everything we can touch & feel) of the universe
  • Mahat – the cosmic mind from which everything comes

Tesla was amazed. He said that modern science could also accept these ideas and believed he could even prove that everything—force and matter—comes from one single source of potential energy

Dvaita (the dualistic view) says the soul travels through different worlds after death:
From there, a divine guide takes the soul to Brahmaloka, the highest heaven.
Advaita: The Soul Never Moves


Advaita (non-dualism) gives a completely different explanation:

The soul never travels anywhere. Everything happens in the mind. The different “spheres” are simply different levels of experience


  • Energy = physical force
  • Matter = the solid universe
2. Lunar Sphere : A subtle world where energy becomes mental or psychic forces.
3. Electric Sphere : A level where force and matter almost merge—like pure electricity.
4. Brahmaloka : The highest plane where even energy and matter disappear into pure consciousness. The individual soul sees everything as one giant mind. Beyond this lies complete unity with the Absolute.

Advaita says these stages are visions that appear before the soul, but the soul itself never “goes” anywhere. Creation and destruction happen in the same sequence—one going forward and one backward.

What Is Maya? A Simple Explanation

Maya means name and form—the appearance of things.

A simple example:

A wave is really just water. 
As long as it appears as a wave, it has a name and a shape. When the wave disappears, the name and shape vanish. But the water remains the same.
The wave was always water. The name “wave” and its shape were temporary.



In the same way:

The entire universe is like waves. Brahman (the ultimate reality) is like the ocean.
Everything we see—objects, people, worlds—is Maya: temporary forms appearing in the one reality.

Maya is not totally real, because it depends on something deeper. But it is not false either, because we experience it every day. It is the great illusion that allows one reality to appear as many.

This simple idea is what inspired Tesla so deeply:
Behind all matter, all energy, and all worlds, there is one single reality, and everything else is just its passing form

Om Tat Sat. 

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