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Re: The Moon (was Re: ISKCON etc)
In article <4icjvv$t4j@babbage.ece.uc.edu>,
Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian <rbalasub@ecn.purdue.edu> wrote:
>susarla.krishna@studentserver1.swmed.edu (Hari Krishna Susarla) wrote:
>
>>>The excerpt: "Srila Prabhupada has often said that the astronauts
>>>have never actually visited the moon." in the book VEDIC
>>>COSMOGRAPHY AND ASTRONOMY by Richard L. Thompson, Bhaktivedanta
>>>Book Trust, 1990, page 130, and supports the above opinion of
>>>Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian. I urge the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
>>>to take out the word "Vedic" from the title in future editions
>>>since doing so grossly misinforms readers about the Vedic sciences.
>>
>>If you had actually read that in context, it wouldn't have sounded so
absurd.
>>
>>Seriously, if there is someone who is interested in discussing this point, I
>>would be happy to do so over e-mail, free from the noisy and prejudiced
>remarks made by certain netters in the name of Hinduism.
>
>I am sure everyone in srh would like to know in what context 'Man didn't
>actually go to the moon' makes sense. Why not post it? Are you afraid that it
>may not hold water and you will be made fun of? Or is your sole aim to take
>pot shots at 'someone' in every post of yours?
As a matter of fact, I would be happy to post it. Unfortunately, I don't have
the book with me, so let me just tell you what I remember reading from it.
What Sadaputa dasa said (and he backed it up with references from the
Bhaagavatam) was that the higher planetary systems like Candraloka require a
higher state of consciousness to perceive. Therefore, he concluded that
Prabhupada was referring to the fact that the astronauts did not see
Candraloka, but saw only what they were allowed to see according to their
consciousness- a lifeless rock.
