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Sriman Naaraayanaya Namaha

Srimathe RamAnujAya Namaha

Srimathe Vedaantha Desikaaya Namaha

 

GyanAnanda mayam devam nirmala spadikAhrutim

AdAram sarva lokhAnam nArAyanam upAsmahe|

 

God vs No God

 

Here is an interesting observation of the day.

 

'A British philosophy professor who has been a leading champion of

atheism for more than a half-century has changed his mind. He now

believes in God — more or less — based on scientific evidence, and

says so on a video released Thursday. At age 81, after decades of

insisting belief is a mistake, Antony Flew has concluded that some

sort of intelligence or first cause must have created the universe.

A super-intelligence is the only good explanation for the origin of

life and the complexity of nature, Flew said in a telephone

interview

from England. Flew said he's best labeled a deist like Thomas

Jefferson,

whose God was not actively involved in people's lives. "I'm thinking

of

a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away

from the God of Islam, because both are depicted as omnipotent

Oriental despots, cosmic Saddam Husseins," he said. "It could be a

person

in the sense of a being that has intelligence and a purpose, I

suppose."

The biologists' investigation of DNA "has shown, by the almost

unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to

produce

(life), that intelligence must have been involved," Flew says in the

new video, "Has Science Discovered God?"'

 

 

This is the kind of volte-face our acharyas induced on the minds of

scholars from the opposing schools of thought just by clear and

intense

arguments. I wonder why it takes a person takes decades to see the

beauty

and complexity of the nature or the viswam. The complexity is not

only

what it is but also how precise it is in the smallest patterns.

There

should have been a grand design of the parabrahmam or paravAsudevA.

HE must have understood how to become all that exists and should

have

figured out how to remain partly as the 'missing matter' of the

universe.

Thus HE is narA as well as ayanA. Hence HE is Sriman narAyanA.

The misguided philosopher now believes in creationism also since he

can in

no way explain how things organized themselves into genes and DNAs

in the

very beginning. He also seems to believe HE must be an intelligent

person

with a purpose. That purpose is what the upanishad alludes when it

says

'tat shrushtva tatonupravisat ...' or what the Purusha sUktam

alludes as

'Yagyena Yagya mayajanta devAha'. The person that everyone imagines

including the misguided philosopher is described by Sri Ramanuja as

'api madana rUpA swarUpa rUpA guna vibhavA aiswaryA'. HE is a very

beautiful person - api madana rUpA - with many other auspicious

qualities.

The universe and the auspicious qualities as well as other qualities

that exist because of a purpose envisioned by Him constitute the

greatest

good in Him. Thus namAzvAr says:

'uyavara uyarnalam udayavan yavanavan

mayarvara mati nalam arulinan yavanavan

ayarvarum amararkal atipati yavanavan

tuyararu surati tozhutezan manane'.

'Worship HE who has the greatest among the great ( has the best

among the

best ), who has given us the mind and removes all its illusions [by

directing us to worship Him as the purposeful cause of all that

exists],

who is the king of the amarAs [and who has the capability to make us

so too]

since by worshipping him at his feet all our troubles will vaporize.'

 

'devo na: subhamAtanotu'

 

dAsan

U. Ve. RTV Varadarajan