The Matrix Decoded

The matrix trilogy is one of the finest creations of the modern era. It tries to give answers to the most pertinent questions man has been searching for since his evolution. I like to compare this creation with the great sanctified books like Bible, Geeta and Kuran. All these books have a purpose, purpose to enlighten human beings and show them the path to follow. Matrix Trilogy is an attempt to bridge the gap between Religion and Science and to unite them and lead them in one direction.

The trilogy is much more than an intellectual Sci-fi movie. Everybody can relate his faith with the trilogy. Trilogy has used Excerpts from almost all faiths known to man. But most of us find the trilogy to be very complex and hard to understand. The purpose of this report is to solve the complexities of the Trilogy based on simple Equations which anybody can understand. The views mentioned are of the author and has no semblance with the creators of the Matrix Trilogy.

I would like to explain the Trilogy in the form of Questions and Answers since many of us are so obsessed with these questions that we have propounded our own theories on it, based on our perceptions and faiths.

I presume that the readers have watched all the three Movies and are quite familiar with all the characters of the Trilogy.

What is the Matrix?

Ans. Matrix is an artificial world created by The Architect to control all humans connected with the Matrix and use them as a power source for Machines. It is an interactive virtual world created by the Machines, based on the building block of Artificial Intelligence, binary codes 0 and 1, or ON and OFF.

The Architect used the following equation to build the matrix.

The Matrix = 1/0

To understand this equation, take an example:-

100/5 = 20 in this equation, 5 has to be added 20 times to reach the figure 100.

In equation 1/0, how many zeroes are needed to be added so as to reach 1? The answer is infinite.

Based on this equation, the architect could manage infinite human beings inside the Matrix for an infinite span of time. The more the humans, the more power the machines could extract from them.

Like any software, the matrix software is compiled in Machine Language. The Architect defined the Start function and the Stop/End function so as to run the matrix on computers.

The start function is assigned to Agent Smith Program and assigned the Value Zero, The building block of the Matrix. He was made the guardian of the Matrix. His purpose was defined to erase all potential End functions (Neo Program) from initializing, so that the matrix can run to infinity. Anything multiplied by Zero gives Zero, so nobody could stand against Smith in the Matrix.

Neo Program is the Exception/End function of the Matrix and assigned the value 1. The purpose of Neo Program has been defined to end the matrix and reload it again. Thus the End function Neo is an anomaly, which is revealed both as beginning and an end.

The Architect does not have full control over the Neo program though he created it. So he gave Neo Program a choice to reconstruct Zion or return to the Matrix. The Architect presumed, that Neo will always choose to reconstruct Zion instead of returning to the Matrix, where Smith is present to end the Matrix as well as the entire Human Race. So, the Architect could finally control Neo and Reload the matrix every time Neo Program reaches the Source.

The Architect wanted Neo Program to comply as the previous Neo’s did but again met with a failure. Neo took outstanding courage to fight against all odds to reclaim Trinity and Zion, and made a choice which could also lead to the end of human species.

The Architect had faced innumerable Neo’s before, and based on his previous experiences and failures, he categorized them in Versions, as per the changes he made in the Matrix. It was the Sixth time, the Architect has made the Changes in the Matrix, but still he could not control the Neo Program, as Neo chose the door the Architect did not wanted, because it has the possibility of human race extinction, which could lower the levels of survival for the machines.

Ques. Why is Agent Smith zero and not -1 ?

Ans. In the Binary system, there are only two digits, 0 and 1. The Machines can understand only the Binary codes or On and Off. The Machines built all their knowledge and Artificial Intelligence using Binary codes. The computers are made of transistors which go on and off and make computing possible. The architect was the creation of the Machines, so is the Matrix. Agent Smith Program and Neo Programs are the creation of the Architect. So if, Neo Programs is the One, then the Smith Program, which is his opposite, his negative, must be the Zero, and not -1.

In the equation The Matrix = 1/0, if 0, the smith crosses the Equal to Sign and multiplies itself with the matrix, then 0 x The Matrix = 1

                                                                        0 =1

 1 will be equal to 0, which is a disaster for the Machines. So when smith program becomes out of control, The Architect ends the Matrix and Zion, to create a new Matrix and Zion with the help of Neo Program.

Neo Program is the sum of the remainder of the unbalanced equation 0=1. The One must always be not getting equal to Zero, otherwise the Matrix will end.

When Agent Smith was defeated by Neo, he could not believe it. Zero function, was meant to be the most powerful program of the Matrix. So Smith started disobeying the Matrix and start enhancing his powers by converting every human being into zero. He wanted to balance the equation 1=0. When he tried to convert Neo to Smith at the first instance, he was rejected because the architect needed neo program for recreating the Matrix. Only when Smith converted the all-powerful Oracle into zero, then only he became powerful enough to convert Neo to Zero.

When Smith came to Oracle to convert her into zero, she called him a bastard. Smith says “you know it mom”. The source of smith, the zero, is not known even by the Oracle. Zero is the ultimate building block of the Matrix.

Ques. What is a Program in terms of the matrix and the real world? How is Neo different from Neo Program?

Ans. Program can be termed as a set of commands which can be interpreted by the computers and human brains alike. They are like thoughts of human brain, an Ideology, a philosophy. They don’t physically exist but can be perceived as a human being by the matrix or as a ghost in the real world. They are nothing, but still affect human lives in the matrix as well as the real world.

Neo Program is the Stop function of the Matrix. It is not a human Being. It is only a set of thoughts. When Neo starts believing in himself to be the Neo Program, then only he and neo programs become one. The thought that he is neo program, resides in his unconscious mind and he becomes the one. Anybody can become the one, everybody is equally created, but only differ in there beliefs and thoughts. Agent Smith was assigned to stop all the potential neo programs from initiating, so that matrix can be protected till infinity.

Serif, Oracle, Sati are all programs, an ideology that is perceived as a human being, but they are non-existent.

Ques. What is the Oracle Program?

Ans. Oracle is mother of the Matrix, as in abruptly mentioned by the Architect. Her purpose is to keep the equation 0=1 unbalanced, so that the matrix can continue in succession. Unlike the Architect, She has a soft corner for Human Race and wants the machines and Humans to unite and work for a common cause. She believed that the meaningless war between humans and machines will end one day and then heaven will see upon earth. She played the dangerous game of inspiring neo and making him convince that he can end the war between the man and machines and will not come in control of anybody else except his own conscience.

Ques. What is the EMP? How was Neo able to stop the sentinels just by thinking? How was Neo able to see even though his eyes were burnt?

Ans. EMP is the tool used by humans to disable the Machines. It is a Magnetic field in which the two poles of the Magnet are united into one. This result in the switches of machines to get affected and the on off transistors start malfunctioning and the machines stops functioning. Thus EMP is a position where 1=0, this is only possible in the real world, because machines can never be allowed to balance the 1=0 equation in the Matrix.

Architect’s room was outside the matrix. When Neo was to enter the room of the Architect, Neo program should have separated from Neo's Body and the Architect needed the Neo program to reinsert it in the Matrix so that a fresh version can be loaded. But, Neo managed to maintain a connection between him and Neo Program even in the Architect's room. That's why Architect says to Neo:-" Though the process has altered your consciousness, you still remain irrevocably human".

    When Neo program came out of the Architects room, in the unconscious level, he realized that Neo and Neo programs are two different Identities. He started feeling things in the real world. His sixth sense had started operating.

Neo Program is derived from the equation where 1=0. When the sentinels came near Neo, they were affected by the Neo Program which resides in neo. The neo program code 1=0 affected the sentinels and in the process neo program was separated from neo’s brain and lost in the world between the Matrix and the real world.

            This made Neo unconscious, though he still manages to have a connection with Neo programs. Later, he was found at the train station. This was a Program created by the train man to smuggle other programs in and out of the matrix. The Merovingian and his gang, must have survived the previous versions of matrix by saving themselves at the train station when the matrix was being reloaded, and must have returned in the next version. Neo program also find place in the Train station from where it can return to the Matrix and finally back to Neo.

When Neo’s eyes were burned by Smith (Bane), he still could feel smith by his sixth sense. This sense was activated in Neo because he thought himself to be the Neo Program, He believed himself to be the one who can save humanity.

Ques. What is the Sati Program? What relevance it had in the trilogy?

Ans. Sati is the daughter of Rama Kandra and Kamala. They all reside in the Matrix. Ramakandra knows that in Matrix, only those things exist which have a purpose. So he goes to the Oracle. Oracle must have told rama that sati program can be separated from sati’s body and Merovingian can help him do that. So the parents went to the train station along with Sati, The train man separated there bodies and took their programs with him to train station. Then he took them back to the Matrix. Now sati program was separated from Sati’s body. She became an ideology. Oracle gave sati to Serif. Serif is the ideology which helps in saving what matters the most.

Sati has a very important significance in the Trilogy. Sati is a hindu ritual performed by a wife to sacrifice her life along with the dead body of her Husband.  This is an ultimate sacrifice of a woman for a man. Hindu religion believe in this sati Program. It not at all means that this ritual must be followed; it only means that a woman should try to have that much sacrificing power for her man. If this happens, this world will become heaven.

The sati program brought heaven in the Matrix too.

The act of being sati is though an extremist thought. But it is the foundation of Hindu culture. It does not mean we should do sati ritual, it just means the woman should have that much sacrificing power.

It is the power of Sati which can make Earth again Heaven.

Ques. What is the significance of the Sanskrit Shloka sung in chorus in the end of the Movies ?

Asato Ma Satgamaya,

Tamso Ma Jyotirgamaya,

Mritoyr Ma Mritamgamaya,

OM SHANTI SHANTI SHANTI  (The Mantra)

Ans. The Matrix Trilogy Movies have many Hinduism connections.  This Shloka is an excerpt from Upanishads, One of the many known epic texts of Hinduism.

It is written in Sanskrit, which is also the Mother of all languages known to man today.

This shloka means, Oh Mother Superior, Bring me to the path of Truth, Bring me to the heaven of Light from the hell of Darkness, Make me Immortal and free from the fear of Death. Om Shanti Shanti Shanti  is the Mantra to achieve all this.

    Om in hindu religion means The Infinite. It means Om = 1/0

    Shanti:- Women have a very special place in Hindu Culture. In the great Epics of Ramayana and Mahabharta, we can see the role of Sita and Draupadi, which are the most important roles in the epics.

Sita's kidnapping was the root cause of mortality for the Immortal Ravana.

Draupadi Cheer haran was the root cause for the defeat of the undefeatable Army of Kauravas.

   Woman can be termed as the Zero, the silence. If a man respects the woman, he gets heaven, but the man who disrespect the woman, gets Hell. Woman has no power in herself, but her love can make miracles for Man. It was Trinity's love that made Neo think he is the One.

    Every woman has the power to satisfy any man, but no man can satisfy any woman except the One.

Like The Persephone , the wife of Merovingian, she was not happy with the Merovingian , though he was very powerful man and had unlimited resources. She was made satisfied by the One, Neo by just giving her a loving Kiss. She gave away the Keymaker to Neo, but the man who never forgives and never forgets, the great Merovingian, could do nothing to her. This proves how powerful and important Persephone was to her husband.

    In Hindu culture, a girl is taught to make sacrifices from the very beginning of her life. When she grows up, She keep fast in the name of long life of her husband, she risk her life in giving birth to a child and what not she does. Sati, is an act of extreme sacrifice by a woman for her husband.

    It is the sacrifice of a woman, which keeps the world running. Woman should have equal rights with man, but if the woman misuses her rights, it will be end of the World. The act of Persephone resulted in the End of the Matrix by Neo.

    A man's lust for sex can easily be satisfied by any woman, but the lust of woman, no man can satisfy. Draupadi was blessed with Five husbands, because the qualities she wanted for her husband, can never be found in a single man. Only Lord Krishna, the one, can satisfy the lust of any woman.

Radha sacrifice her lust for the one (Krishna) and marries a simple man.

    In Bible, Eve, the woman is held responsible for bringing the man to earth from Heaven. She urged the man to eat the fruit of knowledge, and god punished them for this act and sent them to earth.  A woman can make the life of a man from heaven to hell.

In Kuran, Woman is expected to abstain from going in public without a “Burka”. Because the beauty of woman can make a man an evil and he might commit sins to have that woman. It is an Ideology, It just not mean to curtail the freedom of Woman, It is thought to curtail the urges of man against the woman.

This is the truth man cannot accept easily. He thinks, he is the supreme, he is the one with all the power, but the source of his power can only be a woman. Only a Woman's sacrifice can make the world of man.

So Shanti can be termed as the Zero.

Hence Om can be explained easily:-

        Om = 1/Shanti

One is the human who believes in the infinity of god and knowledge and also respect the Zero, shanti, or Woman and wants peace.

Anybody can become the one just by believing in the Mantra.

Ques. Why shanti has been repeated thrice in the Mantra?

Ans.  Om has three parts. Each of these parts have equal powers which together constitute as one. Om sign depicts the letter 3. The three parts are:-

Bhrama which means Creation

Vishnu which means Preservation.

Mahesh which means Destruction.

But 1 cannot be equally divided in three equal parts. So, they form a circle. Only a circle can be equally divided into three parts. So Creation, Preservation and Destruction which is the source of the Universe, goes on in circles. Every Beginning has an End, and after every end a new beginning takes Place. This principle of the Universe goes on till infinity. And since all the three powers of the universe form a circle, a zero. Zero and one both are meant to be the Source of this Universe. One cannot exist without the other.

Shanti has been chanted thrice after Om, to give gratitude to the three gods of the Universe.

Ques. What is the connection between Agent Smith and Neo? What do they really want?

Ans.  Both Smith (0) and Neo (1) are the source of this universe. They have only one thing in common. They both want silence. Smith wants silence in the universe by destructing human beings and also the machines, where as Neo wants peace between humanity and Machines

All religions also preach that Silence is sought after by God and Evil Both, but there ways are different. Evil wants Silence by destroying everything, whereas God wants Shanti Peace by Preserving.

Ques. What is Causality, the only constant of the Universe? What is the relevance of the Sex Scene and rave scene in Zion?

Ans. The Explanation of Merovingian about Causality, the only constant in the Universe.

For every Cause there is an Effect.

            When you drink Wine, you have to pee (Urinate). There is no escape from it. No matter how clean water you may drink, you still have to pee. Because our body creates waste which needs to be clean by urinating it out from the Body. So this is the Cause and Effect relationship.

Urinating is a karma, its purpose is to clean the body. The Karma which has a Purpose remains in this world, the rest are worthless so deleted.

Sex, just like food and water, is an essential need of human body. Even the One has to have sex with his beloved trinity. The rave scene depicts that we humans are originally animals and still have animal instincts. We cannot live without them. Only our faith in god can help us relieve from these animal instincts.

In Hindu Religion, Sex is considered Forbidden for certain age in life. It is a Sin.

Sex is also a Karma, Sex is the function of the Body to clean all the sins in the mind of humans, and after sex every human is clean from all the sins. Now if this karma is done for a purpose, that is to please your partner or to have a child, the sin converts into blessing and a new life is born in a form of a Child. But if the karma is done for self pleasure, after having sex, the human become free from all sinful thoughts.

So, when woman are not satisfied with sex, the sins does not clean out from her mind, and she can make any man evil. Where as, a man, when satisfied after having Sex, does not need woman any more, and cannot become evil persuaded by her.

            It is an Irony that man is the most sexually explicit animal in the world, but still, he cannot satisfy the lust of his better half, the woman. A woman need sex equally as man, but man has misconceptions about himself.

            In the western world, where sex is so explicit, man and woman are considered equal, still, they cannot control the society from falling in the clutches of Evil instincts of humans. Because, there, children are not taught that sex is a sin. It is as bad as urinating or excreting. The children are not taught to have abstinence. They are never told to sacrifice. And in such environment, they become violent and uncontrollable. They are not taught that sex is a way to clean there minds from the sins and Fantasy.

            Where as in India, Sex is a forbidden karma, it is just done for a purpose that is to have a Child. But the western effect is blinding Indians from this truth. They are exposing woman, creating evils in the minds of our People. And people are falling pray to Evil.

            If the world understand that sex is a karma, and should done only for a purpose, then this world will become a heaven. Every Religion says that but nobody obeys that, because they think, there is no god who can read there minds.

            But these fantasies, these sins one day, burst out and man become an evil. So from childhood, everyone should be taught that god is within our minds only. We are our own judges. If we choose to believe in god, this world will be heaven, but if we choose evil, the world will become hell. God won’t come to help us or save us, but only the faith in him can give human so much power that he can survive any difficulty.

            If a man believes in god for a Purpose, than that purpose can’t be deleted, but if a man believes in god because of no purpose or reason, he will be deleted.

Ques. What is the Purpose of Matrix Trilogy? What does the creators of the Trilogy want to convey?

Ans. The creators want to remind everybody that every beginning has an End. Nothing is permanent in this World. All religions and Science proves this point. The quest for knowledge is till infinity, and we must always search for the truth. We must keep faith in god in which ever form we like, but should consider him as one. Anybody can find the truth and become Neo. Neo, had to fight the whole world in form of Smith, still he did not gave up.  Smith enlightened Neo by revealing that Love and Freedom, are all vagaries of perception, an illusion created by the humans to justify there existence. And the truth is, everything that takes birth has to die one day.  Only thoughts can be immortal. Every thought which has a purpose cannot be erased from this world.

            For example, Sati is a thought. It should not be performed but should be understood. Humans must abstain from animal instincts, then only heaven can be brought to earth. If we believe it, we can make our world heaven.

Ques. Why Neo saw a Lotus flower in the end of the Trilogy? What is its significance? Did Neo die in the end of the Movie?

Ans. Lotus is considered a very divine flower in Hindu culture. This flower grows in filthy water, but still makes the place look delightful by its beauty and smell. It is said, that God Brahma sat on lotus flower and created this world.

            We Humans, have many filthiness in our body. But by keeping our mind clean and free from all our animal instincts, we can make the world a Beautiful place just like The Lotus.

            I suppose Neo saw the Mother Nature sitting on the Lotus Flower giving him a blessing of eternal life.

Ques. How can the Theory of Matrix =1/0 be understood at macro and micro level?

Why did the Architect asked Neo to save only 23 people for a new Zion ?

Ans. "Yatha Bhrammande tatha Pinde"
In vedas it is said " yatha bhrammande tathaa pinde "
it means, the nature of the universe and matter, at micro or macro level, is the same.
The equation of the matrix Matrix =1/0 explains this very well

at the micro level, how a life is borned?
There are many millions of sperms, which goes on the hunt for the Ovary.
Only the best sperm reaches the ovary (the source), and mates with ovary to make a single cell life.
A sperm has 23 chromosomes and an ovary has another 23 chromosomes, and when they fuse, a 23 pair chromosome is formed in a single new born cell, and then it multiplies and form a human body.

At the macro level, how life is borne?
There are many millions of Near Earth Objects or NEOs, which are just at the outskirt of the solar system, some of the Neo also carry life forms in it. When some neo attracts towards the earth, it fuses with earth and seed the earth with new Life. So NEO ends life and also bring new life on earth.
So you see, only one in a million is enough to create life and expand it.

Remember, the architect, he asked Neo only to save 23 people to form a new Zion. Why 23 ????
Because, architect followed the principle of life, 23 pairs of chromosomes are necessary to build one human.
23 people along with neo are needed to build a new Zion.

The matrix enlightens us that we all have neo and smith inside us, the fight is happening all the time.
But if neo wins, humanity can be saved and will continue even if end of days come,
but if smith wins, humanity may succumb to death and human species may end like Dinosaurs.

The threat to humanity are real, a tsunami, earth quake, volcanic eruption, gamma ray burst, and many other disasters may happen today, or in the next 1000 years, but they will happen. But god won’t come to save us. He made us capable enough to fight for our existence. He made us conscious, aware of the facts.
            But humanity is blinded from the truth, everybody is obsessed with material possessions, becoming slaves of sex and greed, having no purpose for there existence.

Everything which has a Beginning, has an End. So our Earth is also destined for an End. End of Days is inevitable, but nobody can actually predict the exact Time of it.

But Humanity must prepare for the worst.