Transcript Ses1_Existence_of_God - Krishna Prema

Based on the works of
His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta
Swami Prabhupada
Founder-Acharya of
ISKCON
Contents
•Introduction - The Search for Happiness
•Does GOD exist? What is Scripture?
•
•Who is GOD?
•Who am I? The Science of the Soul.
•Why bad things happen to good people?
- The Law of Karma.
•
•The Science of Yoga and the topmost
Yoga system
•Practical application of the Bhagavad-Gita
The search for happiness
• All activities are
performed in hope of
happiness
• Many anxieties:
– College education
– Job
– Family
– Retirement
– DEATH (the biggest
anxiety)
• Always looking for relief
– Vacation --- a break!
As humans, we can question the cause of our
unhappiness – is there permanent happiness?
Does
GOD
really exist?
Definition of God
• Cause of all causes & the source of everything
that exists
• Supreme controller
• Supreme
proprietor
• Supreme
Enjoyer.
EXISTENCE OF
GOD
AS A CONCRETE
PRINCIPLE
Mona Lisa
Artist: Leonardo
da Vinci
Landscape
Artist: David Copenhagen
Landscape
Artist: John
Green
Who is the
ARTIST?
Creation
implies
Creator
SPACE
Technology
Satellite
Control Room
Satellite Monitoring
Round-the-clock critical observation
of the critical parameters
Critical Parameters to monitor
1. Orientation
2. Spin
5. Earth-Satellite
distance
3. Velocity
6. Heat dissipation
4. Orbit decay
corrections
7. Cosmic
radiation
Earth
Mass: 6x10
21
metric tons
Speed around the
Sun: 106,000 kmph
Earth
Earth
Who is in
Control?
Control implies
controller
ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE
Artificial Intelligence
Dept. of Artificial Intelligence,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
The Most Sophisticated
Computer in the Universe
Human
Brain
The human
brain can store
more
information
than all the
libraries in the
world.
-Dr Richard Restak, MD
Author, The Brain
The human brain is made
of a trilliion
brain cells.
…and each one of these
is more powerful
and sophisticated
than most computers
around the planet today.
- Dr. Tony Buzon
British Psychologist, educator
& author.
Who made the
natural
intelligence
of this incredibly
complex
computer:
THE HUMAN BRAIN
Look at the
ground
reality
WHO
DECIDES ?
We choose
• A job
• A wife or a husband
• The type of car
• An apartment
• And many more things
We don’t choose
• Our parents
• Our beauty
• Our intelligence
WHO CHOOSES ?
AND ON
WHAT BASIS ?
Decision implies
Decision Maker
IS IT BY
CHANCE?
We see
order and
systematic
arrangement
in the
universe…
Laws of
Mechanics
Laws of
Physical
Optics
Laws of
thermodynamics
Macro world
Precise laws of
mathematical
accuracy
govern this
Micro world
world
How can our
birth, beauty,
intelligence…
only be
random
events ?
Isn’t there a
law that
govern these ?
Law implies
law maker
Cause & Effect
Principle
A
Midsummer
Night's
Dream
Entire play
ACT I
SCENE I. Athens. The palace
of THESEUS.
Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA,
PHILOSTRATE, and
Attendants THESEUS Now,
fair Hippolyta, our nuptial
hour
Draws on apace; four happy
days bring in…
Complex material nature with all
its laws implies a higher
intelligence & thus an intelligent
person - “GOD”
Can you
show me
G O D?
Can you show me God?
A fundamental
mistake in the
understanding of
God
Can you show me God?
Mistake
No.1
God is not
our order
carrier
Can you show me God?
Mistake
No.2
Do you
have the
qualification
to see God?
Can you show me God?
Mistake
No.2
R
Radio Waves
Visible Range
V
X-Rays
Electro-magnetic spectrum