ses 2 getting the eyes to see god final10
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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.
UNDERSTANDING THE
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Three Ways Of Gaining Knowledge :1. Pratyaksa Praman (Direct Sense Perception )
2. Anumana Praman (Theories Based On Evidence )
3.Sabda Praman (Hearing From A Bonafide Authority)
SUPER INTELLIGENCE
PRATYAKSA PRAMAN
WE CANNOT ACQUIRE ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE THROUGH MATERIAL SENSES.
OUR SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE IS RELATIVE
3) TENDENCY TO COMMIT MISTAKES
4) CHEATING PROPENSITY
We cannot understand the Absolute Truth through our blunt material senses because of the
following……..
FOUR DEFECTS
1) IMPERFECT
SENSES
2) TO BE ILLUSIONED
Four Defects : Imperfect senses
OUR EYES ARE BLIND outside the
range of 400 to 700millmicron
OUR EARS ARE DEAF outside the
range of 20 Hz to 20 kHz
Radio Waves X-RaysR V
Visible Range
Four Defects : 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.”
Scientist
An uninformed Scientist may boast:
“We will use the instrument outside the range
for perceiving things.”
Four Defects : To be illusioned
TONGUE : Orange after sugar = sour
Orange after lemon = sweet
EARS : Cannot distinguish hissing of a cooker and train
SKIN : same water
touched with warm hand appears cool;
touched with cold hands appears warm
Guess what Truth can you see in Darkness?
When the sun rises, the darkness is dispelled;When perfect knowledge is obtained, all illusion is dispelled.
Group Task Group Task
(5 minutes)(5 minutes)
Group workGroup work: Each picture has at least two : Each picture has at least two ways to see depending on what you ways to see depending on what you choose to discard. choose to discard. Form groups to use your creativity and Form groups to use your creativity and identify the two different ways of identify the two different ways of perceiving each of the pictures. What do perceiving each of the pictures. What do you infer from such observations?you infer from such observations?
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Four Defects : 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 body !
WILDLY INCORRECT ACCOUNTS IN SCIENCE
Three astronomers recently discovered a significant mistake in the Hubble Constant, a value used as a cosmic yardstick to measure enormous distances in the universe.
Four Defects - Cheating Propensity
1912 - Connecting Link “Made-up”1953 - Fraud Revealed : Human Skull & Filed Jaw
THE PILTDOWN MAN FRAUD
ANUMANA PRAMAN(Theories based on Evidence)
ANUMANAHypothesis on the knowledge
acquired by direct perception
It may have been like this, or perhaps it was like this...
ANUMANA PRAMAN(Theories based on Evidence)
"... 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:
ANUMANA PRAMANDarwin’s theory on How the Bear
evolved into a “monstrous whale”
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“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)
ANUMANA PRAMAN
“To suppose that the eye could have been formed by evolution, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.”
RECORD OFTHE ROCKS
MAN CAME FROM MONKEYS
HUMAN BEINGS AND MONKEYS
SIMULTANEOUSLY EXISTED
MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO
40,000
100,000
400,000
1 million1.5 million2 millionAge of Rock Strata in Years
Collapse of Darwinism
SABDA PRAMAN Hearing from a Bonafide Authority
KRISHNA
BRAHMA
NARADA
CHAITANYAMAHAPRABHU
A C BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI
Evam parampara praptam
imam rajarsayo vidhuh
How can we understand the Supreme Person who is creator
of infinite gigantic universes?
….tene brahma hriday adi kavaye….
Srimad Bhagavatam
1.1.1
The Vedic knowledge was revealed by the Supreme Person, within the
heart of the first created being, Brahma. – SB 1.1.1
This Vedic wisdom came
down in disciplic
succession through aural
reception.
Srimad Bhagavatam predicts about people in Kali-yuga
•mandäù — lazy;•sumanda-matayaù — misguided;
•manda-bhägyäù — unlucky;•hi upadrutäù — and above all disturbed.
Vyäsadeva, a literary
incarnation of God, recorded all the Vedas in writing 5,000 years back for the benefit of
people inKali Yuga.
The Vedas are also called as SHRUTIS or knowledge
received through aural reception.
The means of Vedic knowledge is to accept an authority & learn the truth by inquiring submissively.
The Vedas offer insight into -
• Who am I ?• Where have I come from ?• Where do I go after death ?
The Vedas offer insight into -
• What is the purpose of my existence ?
• Who is God ?• How am I related to God ?
Composed by sagesWording may change from age to age
Revealed absolute TruthEvery word unchanged eternally
sisters sisters sisters
Rajasic
VEDIC KNOWLEDGE
SRUTI SMRTI
UPAVEDASDhanurveda
Ayurveda, etc.
VEDASRg, Yajur,
Sama, AtharvaVEDANGAS ItihasasPuranas Six Darshanas
TantrasSpoken by LordSiva to Parvati
Ritual SutrasConnected to
Kalpa-vedangaPancaratras
Srauta Sutrasexplains
public yajnas
Grhya Sutrasexplains
home yajnas
Dharma SutrasLaw books
Vedanta(Vyasa)
(Metaphysics)theology ofUpanisads
Mimamsa(Jaimini)
(Hermeneutics)interpreting
scriptural texts
Nyaya(Gautama)
(Epistemology, logic)philosophy of
knowledgeincluding logic
Vaisesika(Kanada)
(Metaphysics)philosophy of
existence
Yoga(Patanjali)(Sadhana)
Sankhya(Atheist Kapila)(Metaphysics)
Dharma Sastrasincluding Manu-
samhita and others
18 Major
18 Minor
Samhitasmantras
Brahmanasritual explanation
of mantras
Aranyakasesoteric explanation
of mantras
UpanisadsJnana-kanda
philosophy of Brahman
Kalparitual details
Siksapronunciation
Vyakaranagrammar
Niruktaetymology
Chandasmeters
Jyotisaastronomy-time
calculation
Vaisnavaworship
Tamasic
Sattvic
sarvasya cähaà hådi sanniviñöomattaù småtir jïänam apohanaà cavedaiç ca sarvair aham eva vedyovedänta-kåd veda- vid eva cäham (Bhagavad Gita 15.15)
I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness.
By all the Vedas, I am to be known. Indeed, I am the compiler of Vedänta, and I am the knower of the Vedas.
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.
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