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Re: Sri Ramayana Tatthva Deepika - Ba:la Ka:nda (10)

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vaidhehi_nc • Sat Apr 27 2002 - 11:10:07 PDT 


SriRAma Jayam,

Dear Vijay Raghavan,

          Your questions are very fundamental(difficult to answer 
unless the person has supreme intuition and clarity of thought!) 
Don't worry both of us are in the same boat affected by the same 
questions/doubts! 

(i)It's like asking "did universe exist forever or come into being at 
some finite point in space-time?" 

(ii)Every physical change implies a "cause" to generate that change
(effect). Nothing is created from non-existence. It's a firm belief 
that there has to be a "cause". "Causality" is a belief from logic 
which is supported by "Theory of Relativity". But according to 
Quantum Mechanics "one does not always require a cause!" In short 
without a cause one can have an effect! There are lots of heated 
discussion in favoring this or that among physicists. Finally it 
boils down to the "perception of the observer(psychology enters the 
scene now!)". Quantum mechanics has so much philosophical 
implications.

(iii)What's the First Cause of all causes? If you say that God 
created us then the immediate question is "who created God?"

(iv)There was some debate going on regarding vEdAs vs women/sUdrA. I 
still do not agree(simply it's illogical)with people who gave me 
replies. Shubha had responded with some scholar's(it was anonymous!)
reply:That wise man had said that "women/sUdrA are not mentioned in 
the vEdAs and hence one can come to a conclusion that they are not 
eligible! Why can't one conclude that "women/sUdrA" didn't strike the 
mind of the Author(whether sruti is authorless/authored by 
superhuman/human/non-human form)in the first place?. 

(v)Somebody said(I don't want to quote b'coz it's immaterial)karmA 
and jIva are beginningless and they exist time immemorial! To this 
day no mathematician has given any qualitative/quantitative 
definition for "zero/infinity". It simply defies the mind. Our mind 
is finite and we are trying to define the Infinite with finite 
approximations. Obviously we are going to introduce errors!

(vi)We don't even understand "our own mind" completely let alone 
the "mind of God". The so called Theoretical Physicist cum Atheist 
Stefen Hawking says "I want to read the mind of God". You know why? 
He is still living b'coz of sheer "miracle/mystery"

Since I am a science student I sometimes tend to go by logic but I've 
realized that beyond certain point it becomes futile to worry b'coz 
there is no way one can prove/disprove. Either you believe/don't 
believe.  

If there is a person who answers your question,I will give up "Sriman 
NArAyaNA" and accept that person as "my God".

I just wanted to share some of my thoughts. I don't have answers 
either! So I go by blind faith!


Sarvam krSNArpaNam Astu
gita

--- In bhakti-list@y..., vijay raghavan  wrote:
> Namaskaaram,
> 
> Adiyen have a few questions. They may sound naive or
> have been already discussed in the list. But they will
> definitely help to clear my mind of doubts.
> 
> 1) We all take birth is this world and live our lives
> according to our karma. But when did this karmic
> process start initially and how? 
> 2) Why did God create this world and the human beings?
> (when He knows that the human beings are going to
> suffer in this world with disease, losses, fights and
> death)
> 3) According to Western religions, Adam and Eve are
> the first humans in this world. According to our
> tradition who are the first humans created by God? I
> understand that this Kaliyuga has come after so many
> yugas and hence it may be difficult to say who was the
> first human. 
> 
> Kindly excuse me for any mistakes in my message.
> 
> Thanks,
> Vijay.
> Sarvam Krishnaarpanamasthu!



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