The Vedic student must contemplate not only the individuals karmic responses within the responsive universe, which automates through the higher realms ,and that are set in motion by the agents of Divinity, but as well , they must contemplate the collective karmas’ of society. The collective consequences of the livings beings actions when carried out within the defined standards of the Vedas along with sacrifices and atonement , have one result , but when universal laws are broken, such as indiscriminate killing and neglect of natures needs , an entirely different energy is transmitted via ethereal energies which find their source. One example could be allowing a leader that society has voted in to carry out atrocities and killings , if a counties citizens allow their leaders , who they voted in to kill or cheat others , each citizen shares in the collective karmas as does the fate of the country or the totality of the world.

Schrödinger thought the mind was one entity along with the universe..

In one sense it can be looked at like that , in material consciousness we have a conditioned mind that reacts within the responsive universe, both the universe and the material minds are expanded from and different aspects of Maha Visnu . Our minds are one energy , borrowed plumes, from Anirudha an expansion of Visnu, who is the total mind . However, each individual consciousness particle has an original pure spiritual and individual mind, which is currently covered by a material one .
The doctrine of simultaneously one and difference can be helpful as taught by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and within Gaudia Vaisnavism.
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