Later in his room, Srila Prabhupada discussed more about Vedic cosmology with Paramahamsa. The different planetary orbits, Prabhupada said, were all independent; the so-called law of gravity was not mentioned as such in the Vedic literature. Prabhupada answered a few more of Paramahamsa's questions about the current work on Srimad-Bhagavatam, Fifth Canto, and then fell silent.
"Actually," he added, after a few minutes, "I am not giving any more information -- simply what is there." Prabhupada was frank. "I am not an astronomer, so I may not understand all the details. Those details are given in another part of the Vedas. Sukadeva Gosvami is giving some basic summary ideas of the universal operation.
The stress," Prabhupada concluded, "is on devotion, not geography."
- From "The Great Transcendental Adventure" by HG Kurma Prabhu
You need to be a member of ISKCON Desire Tree | IDT to add comments!
Comments