Krishna Concept of Infinity Empirical Evidence 1 – Perfect Section 1 design Story of Newton’s Solar System Model: Introduction One of the five topics discussed in Bhagavad Gita is God. This lesson is all about God – Does God exist? Those who do agree that He exists also say that God is great! How great is He? That is something that very few people know. God is infinite! Everybody knows. What is the measure of this infiniteness? Hardly one knows. In this lesson, we will provide some empirical evidence to establish the existence of God. Then the authority of holy scriptures and holy seers will be invoked further A friend of Sir Isaac Newton came over for substantiating the existence of God. In the dinner. His friend was an atheist while he was process of understanding the concept of a monotheist (raised a Christian, but infinity, we will establish how the Krishna denounced the trinity as it opposed one god). concept of God (Infiniteness) is Absolute. They often got into debates. While Newton These topics will be dealt with in this lesson was preparing dinner, his friend noticed an based on the teachings of Bhagavad Gita. extraordinary model of the solar system Isaac had in his library book shelf. His friend was Does God exist? amazed and asked him who made it and where Whether God exists or not is a fundamental it came from. Sir Isaac Newton responded question facing mankind today. What was coyly that nobody had made it and that it just accepted commonly as a fact in bygone ages is happened to appear. His friend, confused and now being increasingly questioned. In the irritated, retorted, “You must think I am a fool! following presentation we will discuss some of Of course somebody made it, and he is a the logical reasons proving the existence of genius.” Newton then spoke to his friend in a God. polite yet firm way: “This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer or maker; yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker! Now tell me by what sort of reasoning do you reach such an incongruous conclusion?” 19 The Precision of the Solar System cognitive function of a human brain is far The solar system itself is a perfect example of beyond the abilities of present day amazing order and design. The movements of supercomputers. We do not have a machine planets around the sun in their distinct orbits that can properly understand language. are so precise that we can even set our watch against these movements. Earth is located at a right distance from the sun as shown in the Figure. If it were to move a little closer, earthly life forms would get extinct because of high temperature, and if the earth were to go a little away from the sun, again these forms would not survive because of freezing temperature. Given this delicate yet persistent equilibrium, how can we deny the existence of a designer and assembler behind the universe? A small boy can learn to understand a few languages but no machine is capable of this. Similarly, the eye has the ability to discriminate millions of colors. The combination of three primary colors – Red, Green and Yellow – can provide millions of color shades and the eyes have the power to differentiate them. There must be a creator who has created all these wonderful things. The E. coli bacterium: A Classic Everything in this universe is perfectly Case of Perfect Complex Design designed. Let us examine in this section some E. coli is a common flagellate bacterium. facts around us that can help us keenly Flagellum is a thin filament that rotates and observe some distinct patterns. helps the bacteria in moving. The scientists are astounded by the immense complexity of this The Complex Living Body simple structure of a common bacterium. Every living body starts with a single cell. That single cell multiplies and gives rise to gigantic Flagellum is driven by a reversible rotary bodies like elephant, whale, humans, etc. and motor located at its base. It is powered by an also to tiny insects and microbes. Every organ of our body is very intricate and more complex than a computer. If a computer cannot come about by some random event (chance factor), how can a living body, which is a perfect working assembly of complex organs, come by chance? Similarly, the human brain processes information at a speed that cannot be simulated by the best of supercomputers. The 20 ion flux. The motor is about 45 nm in diameter microbes in the soil that eat the soil, and make and is assembled from about 20 different kinds it porous. If we provide for their fast growth of parts. When the motor at the base of then they help us to make the land light and flagella rotates at a very high speed, it causes fertile. The plants in turn grow better when the bacteria to swim in the water. Even a single soil becomes light and fertile naturally as they cellular organism is so complex in its design. If can now consume the elements of the soil you look at the research community, there are better. Thus we see that there is everything in thousands of people doing PhDs to understand nature designed perfectly to co-exist. Also this nano-motor. So if E. coli bacteria motor is cows eat grass and give us milk. We drink milk so complex what to speak of other living and if we take care of cows a perfect symbiotic beings from reptiles to birds to animals to relationship is harnessed – A perfect design! human beings. Everything in nature inspires us because of the The Self- Restrained Water perfect design. When we observe the wonders Bodies of creation around us closely, then there is hardly a chance to miss the beauty and aesthetics of perfect design at all levels Empirical Evidence 2–Perfect order “I can do that better than the robot” Once there was a young scientist who received a national award in robotic science. The institute where he studied proudly announced a display of his work. Many came Water must continuously flow to remain to see the genius and his robots. unpolluted. Good flow of water in rivers keeps One robot which especially it in pure condition. Similarly, the vast body attracted everybody’s attention that supplies water is the ocean. The moon is was designed to walk and pick a at a perfect distance from the Earth and it ball that was kept 6 feet away. creates important ocean tides and movements Seeing this and seeing all the so that the ocean waters do not stagnate and people who were in awe, a little this water is always in motion because of the girl screamed “But I can do this much faster moon’s gravitational pull. But the pull is only and better than the robot!” so much that there are tides in it, had it been Perfect design in nature also implies a perfect little more, it would have inundated the land. order. And this in turn also means a perfect Thus the massive oceans are restrained from controller who not only designs complex spilling over across the continents. What a orders but also controls them. We may design perfect design! many complicated robots but God has Natural Symbiotic Living Order designed us and unlimited other creatures that When we observe in nature we see that there are astounding in their complexity and is a harmonious symbiotic relationship functions between different living entities. There are 21 In this section we will discuss how there is everything that is needed for survival is perfect order maintained in nature through fulfilled by nature. The sunlight and moonlight certain unchangeable laws, physical and that are so essential for our maintenance and natural and thus come to the conclusion that sustenance are also given to us by Mother that expert designer and controller must be Nature. Most importantly, every living entity, God. from insects to humans, is given parents, who have a natural instinct to go at lengths caring Physical Laws for their offspring. This instinct and other sorts Law of Gravity: Most of the observable of intelligence are also given to us. phenomena we see around us are governed by How far can one go to protect one’s offspring? definite laws. For example, the acceleration due to gravity, g has a definite value of 9.8 m/s2. This acceleration due to gravity does not change with time for a specific location. Speed of Light: The speed of light does not change in a given medium. In Rig Veda there is a mantra for Sun God and it says, sun rays travel at the speed 2202 yojanas in half a The Female Octopus: A Touching Story of Motherly Instinct Can we starve ourselves to death in order to protect our babies? The Giant Pacific female octopus does just that. She lays her eggs in nimisha. Yojana and nimisha are ancient units thousands and divides them into different of length. Calculations give the speed of light groups based on size, shape and likeliness of as 189547 miles per second. This is given in Rig survival. She then dedicates the next two Veda which is thousands of years of old months of her life in protecting them from literature.