KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.5.3 TODAY (06/21/21):
- Brahmā is the direct creator of the manifested universe and everything within the universe. He, therefore, knows what happened in the past, what will happen in the future, and what is happening at present.
- Three principal items, namely the living being, the phenomenal world, and the controller, are all in continuous action — past, present, and future — and the direct manager is supposed to know everything of such actions and reactions, as one knows about a walnut within the grip of one’s palm.
- The direct manufacturer of a particular thing is supposed to know how he learned the art of manufacturing, where he got the ingredients, how he set it up and how the products in the manufacturing process are being turned out.
- Because Brahmā is the firstborn living being, naturally he is supposed to know everything about creative functions.
- In the phenomenal world three things are factually observed by any intelligent man:
the living beings, the manifest world, and the ultimate control over them. - The intelligent man can see that neither the living entity nor the phenomenal world are creations of chance.
- The symmetry of creation and its regulative actions and reactions suggests the plan of an intelligent brain behind them, and by genuine inquiry one may find out the ultimate cause with the help of one who knows them factually.
SB 2.5.3 TRANSLATION
My dear father, all this is known to you scientifically because whatever was created in the past, whatever will be created in the future, or whatever is being created at present, as well as everything within the universe, is within your grip, just like a walnut.
Brahmā is the direct creator of the manifested universe and everything within the universe. He therefore knows what happened in the past, what will happen in the future, and what is happening at present. Three principal items, namely the living being, the phenomenal world and the controller, are all in continuous action — past, present and future — and the direct manager is supposed to know everything of such actions and reactions, as one knows about a walnut within the grip of one’s palm. The direct manufacturer of a particular thing is supposed to know how he learned the art of manufacturing, where he got the ingredients, how he set it up and how the products in the manufacturing process are being turned out. Because Brahmā is the firstborn living being, naturally he is supposed to know everything about creative functions.
Biogeo chemical cycles – Scientists use this to explain the order in the universe with these cycles.
Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Water cycles – help to maintain and renew nature. The basis of this cycle is called the conversation of energy. The theory of conversation of energy describes that energy is eternal. Energy can transform into the matter and matter can convert into energy. Earth system science, we can see that atoms are sometimes part of living entities and the same atom becomes part of inert matter. Atoms themselves are not living by themselves. They can travel from living and nonliving matter. “The symmetry of creation and its regulative actions and reactions suggests the plan of an intelligent brain behind them, and by genuine inquiry one may find out the ultimate cause with the help of one who knows them factually.”
There is a greenhouse effect. The more we study we understand that there is a supreme intelligence behind everything.
The cause of all causes, behind it all, is Lord Krsna.. Modern scientists reject it. They think it all started with single-celled amoeba.
The scientists are not concerned with the beginning and the end. They only are concerned with the middle.
We are reading SB and comparing it to what Scientists are saying.