mini DYS Ses 2 Getting the eyes to see God (1).ppt

eyes to see god

1. Vedic Oasis Vedic Oasis
for Inspiration, for Inspiration,
Culture and Culture and
Education (VOICE)Education (VOICE)
DYS
Session 2
This slideshow is based on the book DISCOVER YOURSELF by VOICE Director Radheshyam das, IIT, Powai.
Please do not copy these slides without permission from Director at e-mail : [email protected]

2. Quiz : What general principles can you draw from the story of 6 blind
men?
What can we learn from it?
Listen to the Story of Six Blind men and
the Elephant from your teacher.

3. How to gain perfect knowledge about God,
the Artist, Designer, Lawmaker, Organizer,
the Controller and Supreme Proprietor?
1. Pratyaksa Praman

2. Anumana Praman

3. Sabda Praman
Three ways of
gaining knowledge

4. 1.Pratyaksa praman – Direct
perception
We cannot acquire COMPLETE knowledge
using our material senses like eyes, ears etc.

5. 3) TENDENCY TO COMMIT MISTAKES
We cannot understand God or even perfect knowledge of this world
through our blunt material senses because of the following……..
FOUR DEFECTS
1) IMPERFECT
SENSES
2) TO BE
ILLUSIONED
4) CHEATING PROPENSITY

6. Four Defects : (1) Imperfect senses
OUR EYES ARE BLIND outside the
range of 400 to 700 milli micron
OUR EARS ARE DEAF outside the
range of 20 Hz to 20 kHz
Radio Waves X-Rays
R V
Visible Range

7. Four Defects : (1)Imperfect senses
Noble Prize winning Physicist Eugene Wigner points out:
“Even if we photograph stars,
- eventually we have to take in by our senses what the photo shows.
- furthermore, without our senses we cannot handle a camera.
- even if we amplified/refined by instruments the knowledge is
no more perfect than our imperfect senses.”
Scientis
t
An uninformed Scientist
may boast:
“We will use the instrument
outside the range
for perceiving things.”

8. Four Defects : (2)To be illusioned
TONGUE : Orange after sugar = sour
Orange after lemon = sweet
SKIN : same water
touched with warm hand appears cool;
touched with cold hands appears warm

9. Observe and Identify Observe and Identify
(5 minutes)(5 minutes)
Each picture has at least two ways to see Each picture has at least two ways to see
depending on what you choose to discard. depending on what you choose to discard.

Use your creativity and identify the TWO Use your creativity and identify the TWO
different ways of perceiving each of the different ways of perceiving each of the
pictures. pictures.
What do you infer from such observations?What do you infer from such observations?

10. Fig 1
Fig 3
Fig 2

12. Four Defects : (3) To commit mistakes
Brain was thought of as
an organ to cool the
blood
Pituitary or Master glands were
considered a vestige or useless
tissue in a human body !
WILDLY INCORRECT ACCOUNTS IN RESEARCH
Value of Hubble Constant,
(used as a cosmic yardstick)
has been changed 3 times !
Is it Hubble Constant or Hubble variable?
Small mistakes can lead to Large disasters.

13. Four Defects - (4) Cheating Propensity
1912 - Connecting Link “Made-up”
1953 - Fraud Revealed :
Human Skull & Filed Jaw
THE PILTDOWN MAN FRAUD

14. ANUMANA PRAMAN
(Theories based on observation)
It may have been like this,
or perhaps it was like this...

15. ANUMANA PRAMAN
(Theories based on observation)
"... I am a firm believer that
without speculation there is no
good and original observation.
After five years work I allowed
myself to speculate on the
subject, and drew up some short
notes; these I enlarged in 1844
into a sketch of the conclusions,
which seemed to me probable..”
(Origin of Species).
In one of his letters to
A.R. Wallace (December 22, 1857), Darwin wrote:

16. Darwin’s theory on
How the Bear evolved into a “monstrous whale”
???
“In North America the black bear was seen swimming
for hours with wide open mouth, thus catching like a
whale, insects in water. Even in so extreme a case as
this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if
better adapted competitors did not already exist in the
country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears by
natural selection, more and more aquatic in their
structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths till
a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.”
‘Origin of Species’ (1964 edition, page 184)

17. RECORD OF
THE ROCKS
MAN CAME FROM MONKEYS
Human beings and
apes simultaneously
existed millions of
years ago
40,000
100,000
400,000
1 million
1.5 million
2 million
Age of Rock Strata in Years

18. Half knowledge is a dangerous thing !
What is the problem with making mistakes in research?
1.A Bisleri (or any polyvenyl) bottle, is offered as a convenient
substitute for a fragile bottle. But water stored in a Bisleri bottle for
6 months or more becomes poisonous and can cause death to one
who drinks it.
2. Mobile has an inbuilt radioactive element that is health hazardous;
- damage to brain if used for a long period of time.
- heart problems if kept in the shirt pocket.
- impotency if kept in pant pocket.
- phone call sound can’t be heard if kept in a jeans pocket below knees
3. During Bubonic plague, researchers claimed that the cats
were the cause of plague; so they killed all cats and then
realised that rats are the real cause; it was too late. Now
there were too many rats, but no cat to eat rats!
Now plague epidemic was spreading violently.

19. We can’t break God’s laws; we can only break ourselves against them.
The farther we go from nature, the greater we obviously
suffer.
QUIZ for You : (5 min)
Can you cite examples to show how modern man, by his
scientific research came up with many artificial
comforts and luxuries to increase happiness, but….
1)Those inventions are creating new problems now &
2)Man is returning back to harmony with nature and God
Organic Food instead of Fast food
Sample Ans :

20. The solution for one problem becomes another BIGGER
problem...
QUIZ for You : (5 min)
(eg) At Pune the number of two wheelers and cars on road
were shooting up a few years ago. To manage traffic
efficiently, the govt came up with a fly over. At the same
time automobile industries started selling cars and bikes at
lesser prices, boosting up sales. Now the flyovers have
become ‘crawl-overs’ & traffic on flyover moves inch by
inch !!!
Quiz : Give an example to show how
modern man’s solution to one problem
leads to another bigger problem and
ultimately deprives us of Happiness.
..Half knowledge is dangerous! We need full ABSOLUTE knowledge.

21. Man thought he can be happy without God,
If only he has money and comforts…….
We can never obtain complete knowledge by Pratyaksha/Anumana
pramana.
………All he found was Stress and Depression. Where is happiness?
Its dangerous to operate a machine with half knowledge.
Similarly, it is dangerous to manipulate the Universal cosmic machine
without knowing about it, from the Creator who created it.
Where is the manual which can explain the operation of this
machine?
If we can get it, then we have the key to happiness.

22. (1) We have IMPERFECT SENSES…….
(3) Due to which we COMMIT MISTAKES…….
(2) That leads to ILLUSION….
(4) To hide the mistakes one tends to
CHEAT OTHERS…….
Four defects keep us in Illusion

24. Just see! My dear
friend! How Four
defects keep us blind to
the Truth!
Is there no other way other
than Pratyaksha or Anumana
to know the complete truth
that is free from all danger?

25. SABDA PRAMAN
Hearing from a Bonafide Authority
KRISHNA
BRAHMA
NARADA
CHAITANYA
MAHAPRABHU
A C BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI
Evam
param
para praptam
im
am
rajarsayo vidhuh

26. How can
a child
know ?
………

27. Inductive Knowledge
We will check your genes and tell
you who your father is in 800 years.
Medical test
by Genetic Finger print
takes 800 years to
identify a
lot of 200 men
one of whom is
Likely to be your
Father.

28. Deductive
Knowledge
Just ask your
mother and
know who your
father is!

29. Deductive
Knowledge
Vedas are
compared to
our Mother.
God is our
Supreme
Father.
Vedas can
Guide us to our
Supreme
father.

30. Professors – one who has heard from his guru /
acharya.
Authorised college – Parampara or Sampradaya
Authorised Books – Vedic texts like Bhagavad gita
The Vedic process of Learning

31. ….tene brahma
hruda ya adi
kavaye….
Srimad
Bhagavatam
1.1.1

32. The Vedic knowledge was revealed
by the Supreme Person, within the
heart of the first created being,
Brahma. – SB 1.1.1

33. This Vedic
wisdom came
down in
disciplic
succession
through a chain
of Gurus

34. Although Vedas are
timeless wisdom, that
was spoken and heard
in parampara,
Vyasadeva, a literary
incarnation of God,
recorded all the Vedas
in writing
5,000 years back
for the benefit of
people in Kali Yuga.

35. Composed by sages
Wording may change from age to age
Revealed absolute Truth
Every word unchanged eternally
sisters sisters sisters
Rajasic
VEDIC KNOWLEDGE
SRUTI SMRTI
UPAVEDAS
Dhanurveda
Ayurveda, etc.
VEDAS
Rg, Yajur,
Sama, Atharva
VEDANGAS ItihasasPuranas Six Darshanas
Tantras
Spoken by Lord
Siva to Parvati
Ritual Sutras
Connected to
Kalpa-vedanga
Pancaratras
Srauta Sutras
explains
public yajnas
Grhya Sutras
explains
home yajnas
Dharma Sutras
Law books
Vedanta
(Vyasa)
(Metaphysics)
theology of
Upanisads
Mimamsa
(Jaimini)
(Hermeneutics)
interpreting
scriptural texts
Nyaya
(Gautama)
(Epistemology, logic)
philosophy of
knowledge
including logic
Vaisesika
(Kanada)
(Metaphysics)
philosophy of
existence
Yoga
(Patanjali)
(Sadhana)
Sankhya
(Atheist Kapila)
(Metaphysics)
Dharma Sastras
including Manu-
samhita and others
18 Major
18 Minor
Samhitas
mantras
Brahmanas
ritual explanation
of mantras
Aranyakas
esoteric explanation
of mantras
Upanisads
Jnana-kanda
philosophy of Brahman
Kalpa
ritual details
Siksa
pronunciation
Vyakarana
grammar
Nirukta
etymology
Chandas
meters
Jyotisa
astronomy-time
calculation
Vaisnava
worship
Tamasic
Sattvic

36. Vedas have precisely predicted the birth of great personalities
Christ , Mohammed (Bhavishya puran,
Atharva veda, kanda 20, shukta 127)
Buddha (SB 1.3.24)
Chanakya (SB 12.1.11)
Ashoka (SB 12.1.12)
Caitanya Mahaprabhu
(Mahabharata 127.92.75, SB 11.5.32)

37. Advanced knowledge in the Vedas

38. If we accept axioms in Science, then
why can’t we accept Vedic axioms?

There is no science
without axioms
Imaginary number ‘i’
Heisenberg’s uncertainty
principle
Third Law of Thermodynamics

39. Description of
Hum
an em
bryology
in scriptures m
atches
m
odern day M
edical
research
Vedas state plants have Life
– proved by scientist
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Vedas state Cow dung is pure.
Only in 1940 the scientists
found its antiseptic qualities.
Modern man is turning to Yoga,
Meditation, Vastu sastra, Astronomy,
Astrology, Metallurgy etc from Vedas

40. Ramanujacary
a
Madhvacary
a
Vishnuswami Nimbarkaswa
mi
The four sampradayas in which the Vedic wisdom has been
carefully handed over through
a chain of acharyas or spiritual teachers till date.

41. Our teachings are Authoritative, Pure and Safe to accept
because they are based on works of
His Divine Grace AC Bhakivedanta Swami Prabhupada,
a pure devotee of Lord Krishna,
coming in the Brahma Madhva Gaudiya sampradaya.

42. WHAT DID WE LEARN TODAY ?
 There are 3 ways of gaining Knowledge
Pratyaksa, Anumana and Sabda.
• Pratyaksa Praman is direct sense perception.
• Pratyaksa knowledge is relative because of
4 defects in living beings.
• Four defects - Imperfect senses, To be illusioned,
To commit mistakes and Cheating propensity.
 Anumana Praman is based on hypothesis dependent on
sense perception.
 Sabda Praman is hearing from a bonafide authority.
 Pratyaksa and Anumana gives relative knowledge ( like the
story of 6 blind men)
 Sabda Praman gives Absolute knowledge and is most reliable
and definite way of obtaining knowledge.