Scientists need to prove whether the universe can exist without consciousness.+

Max Planck, ~Father of quantum physics, says: ~ Science has no answer to it. Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we, ourselves, are part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

Scientists need to prove whether the universe can exist without consciousness. 

Sages of truth already declared:` Consciousness is ever-present. Without consciousness, the world in which you exist ceases to exist. The consciousness is Self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny consciousness because it is the very essence of the one who denies it.  Consciousness is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. Consciousness is everything. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman.

Whatever Scientists are able to monitor the pattern of brain activity through modern scientific equipment is based on the physical Self. The physical Self and physical activities are limited to physical existence. Physical existence has nothing to do with the ultimate truth. The universe is the physical existence

The scientists and their inventions are based on believing the physical Self and its experience world as a reality, whereas, the truth lies beyond physical existence.

Scientists discover that with what the physical body is able to function itself as a person, and perceives the world, the truth will not be unfolded. 

There is a need to know how the universe in which we exist came into existence and the cause and source of the universe.

Sage Sankara: ~ VC-63- "Without knowing and examining the universe, one can’t know the Truth, as the idea that the universe exists won't go. It can only by an inquiry into the nature of the universe.

If the inquiry does not include the universe, then it is incomplete.

Until scientists become seekers of the truth of their existence, the truth will not be revealed. The truth of the universe cannot be seen under the microscope.

When all their invention fails to yield the truth they have to use their reason to reach the ultimate core of their existence.

The man who possesses the highest intellect can grasp Advaita by merely hearing the truth mentioned and will know it.

Bhagvad Gita: ~ Reason as a means to reality. (Chap.18, verse 37)

In chap. 10 of Bhagvad Gita, Krishna says: ~ I cannot save you, but I can give you Buddhi (reason). (chap. 10)

In chap. 10 In Bhagvad Gita, Krishna says: ~ "I have given you the most secret teaching, now reflect over it all." Krishna plainly says reflect, think. (Verse 63 of Chap. 18)

Mundaka Upanishad says: ~ Both states are harmful and take you away from the path of inquiry into truth. (Page 234)

Ashtavakra Gita: ~ It is not the absence of Buddhi (Reason) that can grasp Advaita but the man who possesses the highest intellect. Brains are necessary. Such a man, by merely hearing the truth mentioned, will know it. (Page~ 224)

Scientists are unaware that the Self is not physical; their experiments will not yield any fruit. The experiment on the physical body and trying to find the truth is like trying to drain the ocean drop by drop.

Until scientists realize that the gross world is merged into the mental experience in the sense that when it is analyzed, it is found to exist inseparably in and as the mind alone. All "spiritual" planes are really mental: those who regard them as different or higher are taking the physical body and the world as reality.

Scientists take birth, life, and death as a reality, their scientific inventions are based on the physical awareness, and they will not be able to go deeper into this subject, because they cannot cross the threshold of physicality.

Modern equipment can investigate objects within the physical existence, but it is impossible to investigate the physical existence as a whole, i.e., man and the world together. The whole cannot be investigated with laboratory conditions. Only through deeper thinking through inquiry, analysis, and reasoning, the whole has to be investigated.

One has to reach beyond the physical existence, mentally, and discovers, and grasp the fact that the physical existence is merely an illusion created out of single stuff,; otherwise he will remain the conviction believing the duality is a reality.

Consciousness is the cause of the universe, and it itself is uncaused. The universe is nothing but consciousness. Modern science has yet to discover that consciousness is the cause of the universe, which was discovered and declared by Sage Sankara 1200 years back. :~Santthosh Kumaar