All Glory to Sri Sri Guru Gauranga
Dandavat Pranams
In this lecture, Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaj discusses the nature of the ether (akasa), the 5th gross element in the Vaisesika philosophy. The ether, which is the medium of sound, has no perceptible qualities and lacks a manifest color or form, thus it cannot be sensuously detected by an observer. Yet we can logically infer its existence from sound.
A comparison is made to a cube of sugar which has qualities such as whiteness, sweetness, cubicity, et al. However, if we remove all such qualities in our minds, then the cube’s being can only be inferred. This quality-less being is the “thing in itself” which the 18th-century Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant named in his analysis of the nature of reason. The early 19th-century German philosopher Hegel even said that being and nothing are the same, since they both have the same indeterminate nature.
We can see from this that reality has a very deep structure which the scientists try to get very cheaply by claiming that atoms randomly aggregate to create life and the things around us. We must also say that a finite mind cannot independently create a world. In the final analysis, we must go further still to understand how Krsna is the origin of everything.
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