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PREFACE
A living being specially the civilized man has a tendency ,
to Ii ve for eve r and that al s o happily. This is quite natural\
for him be cau se actually or in "
his original state a living being 1
is not only eternal but also ,
joyful and happy.
The present
co ndi tional state of his life, is a
diseased form of struggle with
re curri g birth and death; there- :,
fore he is neither happy nor
living for ever. And the la t es t
dev elop ed is th at he
wan t s to go to other planet s .
This is al so quite natu ra l for
him because he has got the right ''
to go to any part
of
the
material o spiri tu J skies which
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are full Wt th unhmtted globes: 1'
of varied qualities He can however fulfil his desire by the
Tr1'dand'1 G oswam.1
process of Yoga or the means
A. c. Bhaktivedanta Swa10i
by which one can join himself
to the pla nets as he likes or where life is not o nly eternal bliss
ful but also full with varieties of enj oy ab le energies. Any one
who can go to that freedom pla net will never come back to
this miserable land of birth, death, oldage and d1seases. One
can a tta i n to this stage of perfection by hi s individual effort
very ea sil y at his own place simply by following the prescribed
method of Bhakti Yoga which is ea s y an d enj o y abl e also un der ,1
proper gui a nce . An a ttem pt has been mad e herein, in these da ys .
of technological advancement, to give information to the people,
in general, philosophers and religionists. how one can transfer
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oneself to other p lan e ts by the pr oce ss of Bhalcti Yoga the
hightest of all yogic process.
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A SCIENTIST'S APPRECIATION
By
Dr. Y. G. Nailc M.Sc. Ph. D.
Principal Gujarat College, Dean,
Faculty of Science
DEAR SWAMIJI,
I acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your magazine
"BACK TO GODHEAD" of the 5th March 1960. I have
read carefully your article on "ANTI MATERIAL WORLD"
I fully appreciate the g enera l analysis of Gi ta that you
have done. This is no doubt a classic essay bu t I shuold like to
.di ffer in one respect.
There is a different concept to the anti
matter, which the p hysi cist talks about than the concept which
you have accepted.
The JDeaning that you have accepted and on the
basis of which you.have anaylsed this concept is really
a grand one; while the concept which I
would like you to
consider is the following :-
1. MATTER
(positive)
2. ANTI-MATTER-(Negative)
3. DIVINE
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The D ivine Energy is nothin g but BRAHMA, who is nir
nimkar wi t ho ut beginning or and all pervading , above the'
forces of t i me or space coming down fr om eternity and going
te e t ernity.
gun.a,
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I am a physicist
I hope I have made my point clear.
myself but am deeply absorbed in tne Vedanta philsophy
and it-; s cien tific interpretation.
I have written about 20 stanzas by now of what I call
V;.!wa-upanishad. I wil l take pro b abl y a few years before. I
finalise every word of it. It will contain all modern scientific
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one side and all books of the world on the other , the Gita will
be still superior.
It is therefore that we should make every effort to spread
the message of this vital books to the world and preserve that
great cultural heritage which shun signs of invasion and
annihilation by the flood of material ideas sp reading through
the length and breadth of our country.
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like matter, anti - ma tter , proton, electron, neu tron etc. in terms
Df physical science but according to the authority of the
Bhagwat Geeta-all of them are pro duced of the inferior energy '
called by the name Apara Pralcriti. The A para Prakriti con sis ts of '
gross and subtle matters like mind, ego and intelligence. Spi rit is
transcendeptal to all these . The spiritual energy pam Prakriti
is simultaneously one and different from the sp irit whole.,
Qualitatively they are one but quantitati vely they are different.
The Brahman Ray is the effulgence of the Supreme Person.
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In this sense the living being is the positive energy wliereas
the matter is the negative energy. The matter does not deve
lop wit' out being in contact with the superior spiritual or anti
material energy which is directly part and parcel of the
spirit Whole.
Any way the subject matter of this spiritual energy exhi
bited by living being is undoubtedly very complicated thing for
an ordinary man. The ordinary man is therefore astounded
in the subject. Sometimes he partially understands it through
the imperfect senses and sometimes he fails to know it al toge
ther. The best thing is therefore to hear the grave subject
matter from the highest authority Sri Krishna or His devotee
representative coming down in the chain of disciplic succes
sion. Bhagwat Geeta is the essence of all the Upanishads
and Vedanta.
I am glad to note that you have got the highest estimation
for Geeta. I am just trying to present the conclusion of Geeta
to the world as it is and without any imperfect compromise
with speculative interpretations. We have to learn the lessons
of Geeta from the authorised dicipilic succession as it is advised
there in the book (4th Ch. ). Unfortunatelv every one not in
that line tries to explain Geeta in his own way and this process
misguided the people. We have to counteract this disruptive
tendency and put them at right.
Camp, Delhi
Yours sincerely,
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Dr. Y. G. Naik, M.Sc., Pb;D.
Gujarat, College,
Ahmedabad.
Dated 18th April, 1960.
Principal
Dear Swamiji,
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Sd/- Y.G. Naik.
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Modern materialistic science has discovered anti-material
world which was so long unknown to the wranglers of gross
materialism. In the Times of India dated 27th Oct., 1959 a:
news service, dated at Stockholm 26th Oct, 1959, was published as foilows :
is the Veda.
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or the anti-rna terial particle is off from the material body, the
latter becomes useless for all purposes. As such, anti-material
particle is undoubtedly superior energy than the material
,energy.
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"A learn ed fellow who knows perfectiy well that the anti
rna terial particle is indestructible, does not think of its being an
nihilated by any means."
The atomic scientist may think of annihilating the mate
rial world by their discovery of nucleus weapons, but they are
unable to do so in the matter of anti-material world.
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"It is indivisible, non-infl.amable, insoluble and non-evapo1'able. On acc ount of its being eternal it can enter into any sort
of body. Being steady by constitution, its qualities as above
are always fixed up."
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that they speculate with the help of inferior energy wi t h ou t '
any sou ce of information from the Superi or
It is therefor:
necessary that one should rise up to tbe plane of Supe- I'
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energy* and
from
that
transcendental
position
only one can realise the real positio n of the anti-m<Jterial:
principle.
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as.
''Thcre are two worlds namely the ma ter i a l and the anti
material world. The material world is made of inferior quali
tative energy divided into eight material principles but anti-mate
rial world is made of superior qualitative energy. And because
both-the material and anti-material energies are emanations of
the Supreme Transcendance Personality of Godhead, it is apt
to conclude that Lord Krishna is the ultimate cause of all
creations and annihilations".
The Lord's two inferior and superior energies manifest the
material and anti-material worlds and as such He is the Ab*Bhatiyoga" the activity of Superior energy.
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philosophy was first taught to the presiding deity of
the Sun-globe. This means that t he principles of the Bhagwat
Oeeta was spoken by the Persnality of Godhead long long be
fore or at least 400,000,000 forty crore of years before. Modern
science has just very late discovered partial truth inculcated
in the Bhagwat Geeta. The suggestion or assumption of the
anti-material world is also mentioned in the Bhagwat Geeta.
And from all these datas it may be assumed without the slightest
doubt that the anti-material world is the wortd s ituated in the
anti-material sky. This anti-material sky is mentioned in the
Bhagwat Geeta, as the Sanata Dhaam or the eternal nature.
the
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And all the living beings docile in these planets of the material
world are also materially destroyed along with the destruction
of the material world. The living entities are but anti-material
particles. Unless they do elevate themselves to the region
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that a clash may take place between the material and anti
material worlds as suggested by the sci en ti s t and as a result of
this clash the annihilation of the material world tak es place but
so far the anti-material world is co n cer ne d there is no annihila
tion at all even when a ll the m at eri al worlds are annihilated.
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The report adds also as follows :-"It could be that life similar to that in earth, flourished on
such planets."
"Doctor of chemistry Nikolat Zhirov covering the problem
of atm osph e re on oth er planets, poi nt e d out that the orga nisms
of a Mariti an, for instance could very well adapt itself to normal
existence with a low bo dy temperature.''
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if anybody concentrates
And in the same way if any body desires to enter into any
other panet. of the material sky, he can go there just after
quiting the present body i.e., after death and enter intoJhe,
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10. He must show respect to the ban i an tree, the cow, the
learned Brahmin and the devotee.
The above are the first stepping stones towards the path
of devotional se r vice and gradually one has to adopt other
items n ega t i vel y like.
11, One sh ould avoid offences in the discharge of duties
in respect of devotional se rv i ce and chanting of the holy
name.
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and the fruit. A nd - a s such the man may leave behind him his ,
seeds o f numerous childern like the fruit but he cannot exist
within the material body by the l aw of material n a t ure .
How ca n the fiction writer igno r e the law of material
na ture ? No mater ia l scientist can change the stringent law of
natu r e however boastful may he be. No astronome r can change
the course of the planets although he can manufacture a toy
planet
u nder the name and style of the Sputnik . Foolish
children can give much credit to the flying of a modern sputnik
but the saner section of the people, who are still alive in India,
will give more credit to the Creator of the gigantic " sp utnik "
namely the stars and pl anet s of which the material scientist
'have given a rough estim a te to the extent of some one hundred
crores or more.
If a small pl a y ful sputnik has a creator in
Russia why not the Creator, of the gigantic sputniks. shall exist
in the spiritual sky ? If a toy sputnik re quires the assistance
.of so many scien tine brains why the fi cti on writer does not be
lieve in the existence of a more perfect and subtle brain who
has created the gigantic sp u tnik s ? So far we have received no
a nswer from the u nbelie v e r class of men with poor fund of
knowledge about this sugge stion of the Supreme Creator.
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These u nbeli e ver class of men put forward their theories of
the c reati on in so many doubtful wordings and some of them
are as follo ws . 'It is bard to un d erstan d '.
'Our im agi na ti o n
cannot conceive it "but it' is quite pos s ible " "some other form
"strange incomprehensible" ''not probabl y " etc, which shows that
the informations given by t h e fiction writer class of men are not
based on authorised and scient i fi c data. Th e y a re simp ly hy po
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but that does not mean that there is no Creator. Such conclu
sion is made by a man with poor fund of knowledge. One may
not therefore be illusioned simply by the gigantic form of the
material universes but one must learn to admit the existence
of a gigantic brain behind all these material manifestations.
The Sup reme Being Who has such gigantic brain quantitati
vely greater than ours, is the ultimate CREATOR, THE ALL
ATTRACTIVE PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD SRI KRISH' NA. On e may not have the necessary information about the
Creator but there is definite information of the Creator in the
Vedic literatures and specially in the Sreem ad Bhagwatam.
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If living energy was possi ble to be generated in the physical laboratory by in teraction of chemical co m po s i ti ons why
then they are not being manufactured by the boastful material
scientist? They may know i t definitely that the spiritual force
is distinguished from th e matter and it is not possible to pro
duce such energy by any amount of rna terial adjustment
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said there that all living beings who also li v e with man, like the
<:ats, dogs, camel cow, mouse, monkey or even the serp ent etc
all shall be treated as one's own children.
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nor any end. And w hen we speak of S ana tan Dharma we must
take it f or granted on the authority of Sripad Ramanujacha
rya that it has no beginning nor any end. The thing which has
no beginning nor any end must not be any sectarian thing or
limited by any boundry. In the light of modern science it will
be po ss i b l e for us to see Sanasan Dharma as the business of a'il
the people of world nay all the living entities of the universe.
Non-Sanatan religious faith may have some be gi nn in g in the
annals of the human society but there cannot be any history of
the Sanatan Dhararn because it co n tinu e s to re m ain with the
history of the living entities.
When a man professes t o belong to a partic u l a r type of
faith with reference to the particular time and circumstances of
birt h and thus one claims to be a Hindu, Muslim, Christian,
Budhist or any other sect and subsect s uch designations are
Non-Sana tan Dharma. A Hindu may change his faith to become
a Muslim orMuslim may change hi s faith to become a Hindu or
a Christian etc. but in all circumstances such change of rel igious.
faiths does not allow a person to change his eternal engagement
of rendering s erv i ce to other. A Hindu or a Mu sl im or a
Christian in all circumstances, is servant of somebody and thus
tq profess a p a rtic ular type of faith is not to be considered as
Sanatan Dharma but the constant companion of the living
being that is rendering of service is the Sanatan Dharma.
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