A true scientist, an unbiased humanist, a lover of humanity, as handsome as a movie star, such was the personality of Prof. Carl Sagan who, for the first time explained the Universe in plain and simple terms to the layman. And who was a brilliant award winning scientist himself.
He was honored
by Harvard University in the USA as well as the Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory and NASA and many famous institutes like
Cornell University etc.
According to him there are billions of planets in the Universe that are capable of harboring life, like ours or even superior to ours.
Strangely enough, even though he was an agnostic, he was greatly impressed by the philosophy of Hinduism, which he believed to have nearly touched the truth about the age of the Universe and the theories of Yugas, the repeated creation and destruction of the Universe, thus giving rise to the concept of an infinite number of Universes, past, present and future. This would make the Universe billions of years old.
His writings make man feel how tiny his own ego is in comparison to the Universes around him, the billions of planets, billions of stars, which are nothing but suns, the billions of galaxies of stars, the billions of clusters of galaxies, the Universe stretching for billions of miles with billions of tons of matter in it, -- and everything following well-regulated scientific laws.
This should give us an idea of the strength and power of the Creator, God.
Someone asked my father HH Shri Bhola Nathji (1902-1992) who was a Great Spiritual Luminary of his time
"If God created the Universe, then who created God?"
And Shri Bhola Nathji replied:
"If you say that God did not create the Universe, then who did?
"If you can say that the Universe always was, it always shall be, it created itself--- then what is wrong in saying that God always was, and always shall be and that He is Existence itself!
"If dead matter can create such an intelligent Universe filled with such intelligent laws of science, then is it not more likely that a Super Intelligent,Super Conscious Power, like God created the Universe with all its scientific laws beyond the understanding of men?"
According to him there are billions of planets in the Universe that are capable of harboring life, like ours or even superior to ours.
Strangely enough, even though he was an agnostic, he was greatly impressed by the philosophy of Hinduism, which he believed to have nearly touched the truth about the age of the Universe and the theories of Yugas, the repeated creation and destruction of the Universe, thus giving rise to the concept of an infinite number of Universes, past, present and future. This would make the Universe billions of years old.
His writings make man feel how tiny his own ego is in comparison to the Universes around him, the billions of planets, billions of stars, which are nothing but suns, the billions of galaxies of stars, the billions of clusters of galaxies, the Universe stretching for billions of miles with billions of tons of matter in it, -- and everything following well-regulated scientific laws.
This should give us an idea of the strength and power of the Creator, God.
Someone asked my father HH Shri Bhola Nathji (1902-1992) who was a Great Spiritual Luminary of his time
"If God created the Universe, then who created God?"
And Shri Bhola Nathji replied:
"If you say that God did not create the Universe, then who did?
"If you can say that the Universe always was, it always shall be, it created itself--- then what is wrong in saying that God always was, and always shall be and that He is Existence itself!
"If dead matter can create such an intelligent Universe filled with such intelligent laws of science, then is it not more likely that a Super Intelligent,Super Conscious Power, like God created the Universe with all its scientific laws beyond the understanding of men?"
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