TRANSCENDS SCIENCE

CONTADICTS SCIENCE

AGREES WITH SCIENCE

SCRIPTURAL WISDOM

A quote from Noble Laureate Nobel physicist Erwin Schrodinger

‘I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity. Science sometimes pretends to answer questions in these domains, but the answers are very often so silly that we are not inclined to take them seriously.’

Is there Something beyond Science?

World Of Science (Gross Material Reality)

Reality. Ex: Mind, Emotions: Medical science has no pain meter

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How Are They DivergingOperating Platform

Spirit

Subtle

Gross

SCIENCE SPIRITUALITY

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How Are They DivergingOperating Platform

Spirit

Subtle

Gross

SCIENCE SPIRITUALITY

PROGRESS OF KNOWLEDGE

SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE

BEYOND KNOWLEDGE

BEYOND KNOWLEDGE SCIENCE

GOD

BOUNDARY (INTERFACE)

KNOWLEDGE IS …

GOD

SCIENCESCIENCE

POROUS …KNOWLEDGE ISBased on AssumptionsAxioms

Leads to Incomplete understanding

… AND IMPERFECT

GOD

SCIENCE

Silent about ExistencePurposeValue

Faith and inquiry can

Coexist Complement

Reinforce

3 Possibilities in contradiction

1. Science is WrongEx: Darwinian Evolution

2. Science is IncompleteEx: Big-Bang

3. Science & Vedas Observe from different Scales

Ex: Vedic Cosmology

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How may science be incorrect or incomplete?

Nonscientific extrapolation of scientific data

Vedic cosmology: Understanding how science & scriptures can see from two different perspetives?

White Chalk Powder + (mix) Black Charcoal Powder

=Grey powder

+ =

Same Grey Powder under microscope

Appears as

White + Black Particles

=

Which is real??????

Vedic cosmology - two main sourcesPuranas – divine perspectiveJyotisha Shaastras – human perspective- astronomical siddhanta – similar to info in modern cosmology

Surya siddhanta- 253,000 miles

Modern measurement – 252,710 miles

Earth’s dia – 7840 miles compared to modern measurement of 7926.7 miles

Did humans go to the moon?Three Possibilities:1.Humans went to a 3 D projection of

Chandraloka2. High-tech diversion by demigods.3. Might not have gone at all

2 D projection of a 3 D object contains only a few of its actual features

Space crafts cannot take us more than 3 D.

So astronauts –may go to a 3 D projection of Chandraloka but not experience its higher dimension- residents, heavenly opulences etc.,

If a person moves his finger from Pune to Mumbai in the map he does not experience the people and the skyscrapers.

Vedic scriptures say Chandraloka is a higher dimensional planet for higher living beings. As cosmonauts didn’t experience that, we can’t know for sure where they went

Math book says 3+3=6.3+3≠6 surely wrong

Where modern cosmology falls

short??

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, in his book Ignited Minds, quotes Albert Einstein recalling Werner Heisenberg’s words to him: ‘You know in the West we have built a large, beautiful ship. It has all the comforts in it, but one thing is missing: it has no compass and does not know where to go.’

Different things work at different levels

Goal – improve external comforts and control –then scienceGoal – to improve internal life – then spi technology

•Science cannot even explain life on this planet.•It says life comes from chemicals but cannot demonstrate.It cannot explain how

and why

life arises?

Book Vedic Cosmography and Astronomy – by Dr. Richard L.Thompson – scientist disciple of Srila Prabhupada

Classical Physics – compatible with quantum physics in the domain it was originally applied.

Similarly Vedic cosmology- compatible with modern cosmology with regards to astronomical measurements

and Complete due to its ability to account for higher-dimensional cosmic realms, higher living beings and ultimately the higher purpose of life.

Thus Vedic scriptures offer us a more

complete Cosmology

THE ULTIMATE COSMIC FLIGHT

Vedic culture – not against cosmic travel…….

- become transcendental cosmonauts and fly beyond moon , sun, entire universe to spiritual world(our eternal home).

Is sun closer to earth than moon?

Vedic(Puranic literature) –•based on evolution of consciousness of the residents of the cosmos• vertical dimension(unknown to modern science)•Places planets in hierarchy according to the level of their consciousness

Consider three flats….. •Flat A (ground floor)

• Flat B(20th floor of the next building)

• Flat C(3rd floor of another building far away from Flat A)

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222120191817161514131211109876543210Flat C

Flat B

Flat A

CO

NC

S.

HORIZONTALLYFlat B is much closer to Flat A than B.

DIAGONALLY

VERTICALLYFlat C is much closer to Flat A

Flat C is farther away from Flat A than Flat B.

On the basis of hierarchy of consciousness

Flat A is like EarthFlat B is like MoonFlat C is like Sun

Modern Science – super speculative w.r.t cosmology

Vedic understanding – •intellectually coherent•holistic and •based on higher dimensional perspective

HARIBOL!!!!!Thank you very much