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Re: THE HOW AND WHY OF CREATION

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vaidhehi_nc • Tue Apr 30 2002 - 16:14:22 PDT 


SriRAma Jayam
SrimatE RAmAnujAya nama:

Dear jayasree,
      
             It's nice to read your article. I would like to say a 
few things wrt what you have written. I go by physics too but it 
can't explain certain things.

Facts in Physics:
(i)Physicists haven't yet understood the matter completely let alone 
the mind(of their own and then GOD!). This is because 
the "mysterious" gravity is standing alone from the other three 
fundamental forces. There is lot of research going on in GUT/TOE
(Grand Unification Theory/Theory of Everything). Stefen Hawking is an 
Atheist(he already has a mind set!)and it's very difficult for him to 
read the mind of God. (I like SW very much). In psychology,the 
rejection rate for any journal article is very high. Mind is not that 
easy to be read(God didn't program us like the way HE programmed 
animals!)

(ii)Steady state,Bigbang,and contracting/expanding universe are 
eligible candidates that describe the universe. So far no conclusion 
is drawn!

(iii)Einstein's famous statement(against quantum mechanics) was "God 
does not play the game of dice". He lived like a recluse for more 
than two decades(isolating himself from the rest of the physicists)
bothered about some fundamental questions on matter(he was already 
way ahead of his contemporaries by trying to unite the gravity(which 
poses lot of problems!)with the other three. Unfortunately he wasn't 
successful. 

(iv)We fall somewhere in the middle in the hierarchy of 
size/dimension of the universe. We are finite physically/materially 
for sure!
 
I'm going to quote couple of slokas/meanings from BG.

Ch 10(which deals with viBUti yOgA)slokam 40: Lord krSNA says to 
ArjunA "There is no limit to My divine manifestations. This is only a 
brief description by Me of the extent of My glory"

Lord krSNA is not subject to anything esp. time(HE represents time 
and not vice versa). HE is ALWAYS(not born again and again)there but 
whenever righteousness is on the decline,HE manifests Himself and 
bodies His Self forth to uphold dharmA which HE says in 4th chapter
(JnyAna karma sanyasa yoga) 
7 "yadA yadA...srijAmyaham",8 "paritrANAya...yugE yugE"slokams. 
HE also says in 2nd chap. 20 slokam "na jAyate...sarIre"(soul is 
neither born nor dies). But soul assumes different forms.

Here comes the crux:WHY?

Ch 11(VishwarUpa darshan yOga)48,53 BhagawAn says:"Not even through 
the study of the vEdAs,austerity,penance,can you see ME(with four 
arms" but "only through undivided/single minded devotion can you see 
ME in this form and reach ME(in slokam 54)"
 
Ch 11. 55. Lord krSNA says "he who performs all his duties for My 
sake,depends on Me,devoted to Me,reaches Me". In short we all exist 
of His will. HE Himself says that we can't answer why!! Clear from 
the foll. slokam

Ch 10,2nd slokam,BhagawAn says "Neither gods nor the great sages know 
the secret of My birth. I'm the prime cause in all respects of gods 
as well as great seers". There is no answer to the First Cause!!

Quantum mechanics violates the "principle of causality". Without a 
cause we can have an effect. If physicists are of this attitude,I 
really wonder whether they would ever understand the "mind of God"!

I know only little of BG and incase I've made errors in quoting 
slokas,I beg frogivenness from bhaktAs/learned people.

sarvam krSNArpaNam astu
gita 





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