Science and Hinduism

JAY SHREE POOJYASHREE SHREE AMMA
JAY MAHAN BRAHMASHREE GOPALAVALLIDASAR
JAY SHREE RADHEKRISHNA SATHSANG


Dear Readers,

Radhekrishna!!

In our last posting we mentioned a shloka from Srimad Bhagvatham and we discussed about it a bit. We continue with our discussion in this posting.

The explanation of the second line which was:

"Due to karma only the bodies of the jeevaathmaas are facing an end."

This line says that when the purpose of a soul in a certain body is accomplished, it moves from that body to another body. The time of a souls departure from one body to another is decided by one and only one major factor which is nothing but 'the karma's which that body has performed'.Each living thing has been gifted with three things:body, mind and intellect by Lord Krishna. The development of the body,mind and intellect varies from one living thing to another. Animals,birds, plants,trees possess these three things to a very less extent; whereas human beings are fortunate enough to possess a much more developed body,mind and intellect.

The body,mind and intellect are the three subtle elements apart from the five sensory organs. So depending on how a person's body,mind and intellect work, that person performs various karma's. At a point of time when all the purposes for which the soul moved into that body are accomplished then the soul moves from that body in search of another body and the present body perishes.

Now coming to the third line:
The happiness and sadness, fear and comfort; everything is just because of their karmas.

This line has great relevance for we jeevaathmas. Of the three lines of this shloka this line is the most important one.
It says that the various feelings that one experiences like happiness, sadness, fear, comfort, ecstacy, embarassment, pain, grief, jealousy, pride, greediness...... and the list can go on and on; all these feelings are a direct result of our karma's only!!

Let us take some examples:

1. Doesn't one feel guilty when he does anything wrong? When a person intentionally cheats someone say in business, will his mind be at peace? No never! his conscience will always prick him.

2. Similarly, if you happen to save a small puppy which is unknowingly walking on the road and a vehicle is about to hit it, don't you feel that happiness, the ecstacy! The divine joy of having saved the life of a poor thing, of having helped a creature which can't express its feelings properly? Yes you would definitely do!

3. When one is in a hurry to reach a certain place and boards a running train but hurts himself, ouch! doesn't it pain? Yes it does!

4. When a person promises another person that he would meet the other person on a certain day at a certain time and fails to keep his promise, will he not feel embarassed? will he not feel sad? disappointed? Most definitely he will !!

So one can very easily conclude that the state of mind of a person is directly proportional to his karma's. If the karma's are good the state of mind will be good and vice versa.

This was the spiritual version of the scientific law of motion. In our next posting, we shall bring to you a comparison between the two versions. Till then do continuous chanting Radhekrishna!

Sarvam Guruvarpanam