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Understanding
God
Based on the teachings of
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupada
Founder Acharya – International Society for Krishna Consciousness
We inhabit a
HUGE UNIVERSE
We are
here
This huge temple
complex is
represented
as a dot on
Bangalore map.
Bangalore
Population: over 6 million. One of the fastest growing cities
However,
Bangalore
itself is a dot
in map of
Karnataka
and
Karnataka is
one of the
many states
in India
India with population of
One Billion is...
... one of the many countries on
the planet Earth.
Earth weighing 6x1021 Kg., is one of the
many planets in our solar system.
Sun, around which all the planets
are orbiting is 14,00,000 times
bigger than Earth.
Astrophysicists
point out
There are 2000
billion stars
like sun each
having its own
family of
planets
According to science...
Organizer
Designer
Controller
UNDERSTANDING THE SUPER
INTELLIGENCE
THREE WAYS OF
GAINING
KNOWLEDGE
THREE WAYS OF
GAINING
KNOWLEDGE
THREE WAYS OF
GAINING
KNOWLEDGE
1. IMPERFECT SENSES
2. TO BE ILLUSIONED
3. TENDENCY TO COMMIT
MISTAKES
4. CHEATING PROPENSITY
Four Defects - (1) IMPERFECT SENSES
OUR EYES ARE BLIND outside the range
of 400 to 700millmicron
An uninformed
Scientist may boast:
Optical illusion
Our eyes
imagine the
lines that
form a white
triangle.
Four Defects - (2) TO BE ILLUSIONED
Optical illusion
Optical illusion
Picture shows 2 faces,
either a young woman
or an old woman,
depending on how you
choose to interpret the
data before you.
Four Defects - (2) TO BE ILLUSIONED
Optical illusion
HOW MANY LEGS CAN YOU COUNT?
Four Defects - (2) TO BE ILLUSIONED
Optical illusion
Which circle in the middle is bigger?
Technically both are of the same size.
Four Defects - (2) TO BE ILLUSIONED
If you take a look at the following picture , let me tell you ... it is not
animated. Your eyes are making it move. To test this, stare at one spot for a
couple seconds and everything will stop moving. Or look at the black center of
each circle and it will stop moving. But move your eyes to the next black center
and the previous will move after you take your eyes away from it.... Weird
Optical illusion
Four Defects - (2) TO BE ILLUSIONED
Optical illusion
Four Defects - (2) TO BE ILLUSIONED
Optical illusion
Four Defects - (2) TO BE ILLUSIONED
Optical illusion
Four Defects - (2) TO BE ILLUSIONED
Optical illusion
Do you see gray areas in between the squares?
Now where did they come from?
There are only black areas in the picture.
Four Defects - (2) TO BE ILLUSIONED
EARS
Cannot distinguish hissing
of a cooker and train
Four Defects - (2) TO BE ILLUSIONED
EARS
1. Human hearing extends from 20 Hz up to 20,000 Hz.
3. That's why when you blow dog's whistle all street dogs
will come running to you, but you cannot hear!
Four Defects - (2) TO BE ILLUSIONED
TONGUE
SKIN
Same water touched with
warm hand appears cool;
touched with cold hands
appears warm
Four Defects - (3) TO COMMIT MISTAKES
Charles Darwin's
theories and
much of
archaeology and
anthropology
100,000
RECORD OF
THE ROCKS
HUMAN BEINGS
AND MONKEYS
1 million
SIMULTANEOUSLY
1.5 million EXISTED MILLIONS
OF YEARS AGO
2 million
Age of Rock Strata in Years
SABDA PRAMAN
Hearing from a Bonafide Authority
KRISHNA
BRAHMA
t am
NARADA
r ap
a p
p ar idhu
r a m ov
p a say
CHAITANYA a m j a r
MAHAPRABHU Ev m ra
ima
A C BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI
How do we understand
GOD who is ...
Its tooooo...
small & has
limited sense
perception
Then how can we go about
understanding GOD who is creator of
infinite gigantic UNIVERSES?
We have no choice...
apaurusah
– they are not man-made
Vedic History
tene bramha
hriday adi
kavaye
Vedic History
•mandäù — lazy;
•sumanda-matayaù —
misguided;
•manda-bhägyäù — unlucky;
•hi upadrutäù — and above
all disturbed
Today, we depend on modern gadgets to
even remember details of our near & dear
ones
Therefore...
literary
incarnation of
God,
shaktyavesa
avtara, records
all the Vedas in
every Dvapara
yuga in the
concised form
in writing.
Sources of Vedic Knowledge
Prasthana-traya
1. Sruti-prasthana - Vedas, & Upanisads
3. Nyaya-prasthana - Vedanta-sutra
Vedas, Mahabharata & Puranas are
breathed out by the Absolute Truth
Brhad-aranyaka Upanisad 2.4.10
Shruti & Smriti
Vedanta sutra
Most concise form of all Vedic
knowledge
Smriti sastras – Puranas
Puranas: The Histories
18 in no - Originally 100 crore slokas
(now 4 lac)
Also called
Pancamah Vedah
Narada-Panchratra
Teaches pancharatriki vidhi of Deity
worship
Knowledge from Vedas –
compatible with modern day
knowledge
Bhugol, Saptadvipa,
Embryology, Life in plants,
Fire bacteria mentioned in
Vedas.
Vedas – predictions
Albert Einstein
Physicist
“The balance of mind
which few highly-
civilized individuals,
such as Arjuna, the hero
of Bhagavad-gita, can
maintain in action, is
T. S. Eliot difficult for most of us
American-English
Poet even as observers.”
“The deeper you dive into
it, richer the meaning you
get...with every age, the
important words will carry
new and expanding
Mahatma
meanings. But its central
Gandhi
India’s Father of teachings will not vary.”
Nation
“Let the Gita be to you a
mine of diamonds as it
has been to me. Let it be
your constant guide and
friend on life’s way. Let
Mahatma
it light your path and
Gandhi
India’s Father of dignify your labour.”
Nation
“It gives utterance to
the aspirations of the
pilgrims of all sects
who seek to tread the
inner way to the city
of God.”
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
former President of India
“In the morning I bathe my intellect
in the stupendous and cosmogonal
philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita,
in comparison with which our
modern world and its literature
seem puny and trivial.”
• Who am I ?
• Where have I come from ?
• Where do I go after death ?
The Vedas offer insight into