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> Yes and the Bhagavatam says 200,000 yojanas which is 1,600,000 miles as

> oppossed to Surya siddhanta which says 258,000 miles. Now I do not see any

> contradiction in this, although I do not fully understand it.

>

> Now please explain where the 94,000,000 million comes into this picture?

>

 

Please read this. It is one idea how to look at it and be happy. As you

suggest, 95,000,000 miles may not be numerically correct, but it is correct

according to the point, that Srila Prabhupada is making, "if you put

together the Bhagavatam and modern astronomy you get a contradictory

picture".

 

So Srila Prabhupada knew well, what he was trying to tell us. The numbers

may or may not be correct, the message certainly is correct.

 

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Q: In SB 8.10.38p, Srila Prabhupada says, "The sun is supposed to be

93,000,000 miles above the surface of the earth, and from the

Srimad-Bhagavatam we understand that the moon is 1,600,000 miles above the

sun. Therefore the distance between the earth and the moon would be about

95,000,000 miles." Doesn't this plainly say that the moon is farther from

the earth than the sun?

A: In the summary at the end of Chapter 23 of the Fifth Canto Srila

Prabhupada says, "The distance from the sun to the earth is 100,000

yojanas." At 8 miles per yojana, this comes to 800,000 miles. We suggest

that when Srila Prabhupada cites the modern Western earth-sun distance of

93,000,000 miles, he is simply making the point that if you put together the

Bhagavatam and modern astronomy you get a contradictory picture. His

conclusion is that one should simply accept the Vedic version, and he was

not interested in personally delving into astronomical arguments in detail.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => VCA 8: Questions and Answers

 

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