RUN_FOREST_RUN Wrote:
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> Culthusiast.
>
> I thought of you and your recent comment on
> mathematics.
> Truth matters. Numbers matter. Indian spirituality
> has always been full of exaggerated numerical
> claims. Gaudiya Vaishnava texts, along with many
> Puranic and Vedic scriptures, are packed with
> outlandish figures—massive armies in ancient wars,
> impossibly tall mountains and trees, and wildly
> inflated attendance numbers at mythological
> events. Yet, modern archaeology has found no
> evidence of mass battles at Kurukshetra—no human
> or animal remains, no physical traces of these
> grand wars that supposedly shaped history.
> The purpose behind these inflated figures is
> obvious: they create the illusion of mathematical
> precision to make scripture seem more credible.
> The unspoken logic seems to be that if one claim
> appears numerically sound, then the rest must be
> valid too. This kind of wordplay is so deeply
> embedded and taken at face value by the average
> Hare Krishna practitioner that it raises the
> question of whether truth or accuracy—let alone
> absolute truth—even matters at all.
It's true. You can see attempts to stretch various numbers or proportions from the world of astronomy etc. in various "Vedic" environments, but a trained eye will quickly distinguish "party" elements from the objective pursuit of truth and showing the culture of India in this context. Either way, India has a significant contribution to the development of mathematics, but other civilizations or continents have also contributed. A very good book:
"Seventeen Equations that Changed the World
Ian Stewart (Author) John Davey (Author)"
[www.awesomebooks.com]
With a soul smaller than 1/10,000th the size of a hair, there is a conceptual problem. If you distinguish between the elements of earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence, false ego, the unmanifest (forces of material nature) and the soul above that, there is a problem - ether is space plus a medium. So it has the concept of size. So the soul cannot have the concept of space. At least in material sense.
> What is the reality of the grand "planetary
> alignments" touted as "auspicious"? None. No
> unique gravitational, magnetic, or energetic
> influence occurs during these alignments. The
> universe continues functioning as it always does.
> The idea that bathing in a river during this time
> has a spiritual or cosmic effect is purely a
> human-created belief. There is nothing unusual
> about these celestial positions beyond the fact
> that astrologers subjectively assigned meaning to
> them in the Middle Ages.
Generally, the planets move in a certain synchronization. The rotation of the Moon is synchronized with the movement around the Earth. Sometimes there are disturbances, etc. However, from the point of view of the neural network and its limitations, it has the ability to pick up certain information that even a twinkling star can transmit, which is easy to explain - a skilled sailor would be able to read the twinkling of a small lamp with Morse code transmitted if he only paid attention. So in this sense, a scientific explanation has an impact. The signs of the zodiac and the effect on the fetus can also be explained as the tissue stress of the fetus, which, depending on the seasons, experiences e.g. heat or cold at different times, but again this cannot have an absolute reference due to the fact that the fetus will experience different conditions in the body of the mother living, for example, in India and, for example, in Siberia. Today, there are already results of research on the prenatal impact on the human psyche.
Certain Vedic statements were subjected to research along with calculations. Paying attention, for example, to the influence of food. And the result was surprising. If any clear influence has been found, it has turned out that the calendar of this or that group seems to be off by 2 days. The effect is there but not at this moment.
Either way, I subscribe to the principle that if God gave man a brain, he must have used it.
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> Culthusiast.
>
> I thought of you and your recent comment on
> mathematics.
> Truth matters. Numbers matter. Indian spirituality
> has always been full of exaggerated numerical
> claims. Gaudiya Vaishnava texts, along with many
> Puranic and Vedic scriptures, are packed with
> outlandish figures—massive armies in ancient wars,
> impossibly tall mountains and trees, and wildly
> inflated attendance numbers at mythological
> events. Yet, modern archaeology has found no
> evidence of mass battles at Kurukshetra—no human
> or animal remains, no physical traces of these
> grand wars that supposedly shaped history.
> The purpose behind these inflated figures is
> obvious: they create the illusion of mathematical
> precision to make scripture seem more credible.
> The unspoken logic seems to be that if one claim
> appears numerically sound, then the rest must be
> valid too. This kind of wordplay is so deeply
> embedded and taken at face value by the average
> Hare Krishna practitioner that it raises the
> question of whether truth or accuracy—let alone
> absolute truth—even matters at all.
It's true. You can see attempts to stretch various numbers or proportions from the world of astronomy etc. in various "Vedic" environments, but a trained eye will quickly distinguish "party" elements from the objective pursuit of truth and showing the culture of India in this context. Either way, India has a significant contribution to the development of mathematics, but other civilizations or continents have also contributed. A very good book:
"Seventeen Equations that Changed the World
Ian Stewart (Author) John Davey (Author)"
[www.awesomebooks.com]
With a soul smaller than 1/10,000th the size of a hair, there is a conceptual problem. If you distinguish between the elements of earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence, false ego, the unmanifest (forces of material nature) and the soul above that, there is a problem - ether is space plus a medium. So it has the concept of size. So the soul cannot have the concept of space. At least in material sense.
> What is the reality of the grand "planetary
> alignments" touted as "auspicious"? None. No
> unique gravitational, magnetic, or energetic
> influence occurs during these alignments. The
> universe continues functioning as it always does.
> The idea that bathing in a river during this time
> has a spiritual or cosmic effect is purely a
> human-created belief. There is nothing unusual
> about these celestial positions beyond the fact
> that astrologers subjectively assigned meaning to
> them in the Middle Ages.
Generally, the planets move in a certain synchronization. The rotation of the Moon is synchronized with the movement around the Earth. Sometimes there are disturbances, etc. However, from the point of view of the neural network and its limitations, it has the ability to pick up certain information that even a twinkling star can transmit, which is easy to explain - a skilled sailor would be able to read the twinkling of a small lamp with Morse code transmitted if he only paid attention. So in this sense, a scientific explanation has an impact. The signs of the zodiac and the effect on the fetus can also be explained as the tissue stress of the fetus, which, depending on the seasons, experiences e.g. heat or cold at different times, but again this cannot have an absolute reference due to the fact that the fetus will experience different conditions in the body of the mother living, for example, in India and, for example, in Siberia. Today, there are already results of research on the prenatal impact on the human psyche.
Certain Vedic statements were subjected to research along with calculations. Paying attention, for example, to the influence of food. And the result was surprising. If any clear influence has been found, it has turned out that the calendar of this or that group seems to be off by 2 days. The effect is there but not at this moment.
Either way, I subscribe to the principle that if God gave man a brain, he must have used it.