Is it the Sun....?

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Home Base: Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir, Navadwip Dhama, Nadia, WB, INDIA

 

My Dear Spiritual Daughter Hema,

 

Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Thankyou for your letter cited below with my comments. I have noted the

contents carefully.

 

> Most respected Guru Maharaj,

> Please accept my most humble obeisances. ALl glories to Srila Prabhupad

> and your divine Grace. HARE KRSNA!!

> Recently i came to know form a devotee that as per the scriptures the

> sun is coming around the earth which is quite contradictory to the present

> scientific conclusions.

> Can you please enlighten us. Thank you very much Guru Maharaj for your

> kind guidance.

> Wanting to be your humble servant,

> hema.

 

One of my spiritual sons sent me the answer which saves me the time of

explaining it. Although I knew this since I am working with Sadaputa Prabhu

on this project for the exhibitions of the Vedic Planetarium in Mayapur.

The basic idea is that in open space it is purely relative which body you

want to compare the movement of the other bodies to. Heliocentric or

Geocentric are both valid options if properly done. Geocentric (earth

centered) makes more sense from our point of view since we are on the earth

and thus it explains the things we can see in our sky view.

 

Here is reply given by my spiritual son.

 

> Pamho AgtSP

>

> Dear spiritual father,

>

> I think I can tell something about this question. If you want to post it

> to the forum...

>

> This is very well explained in a video called "Misterious Orbits", if I

> can rightly remember, by Sadaputa das, with computer animations showing it

> as he explains it.

>

> It's just a matter of what's your reference. If you take the SUN as your

> reference (Heliocentric model), the SUN is on the center of the system and

> the Earth and other planets come around it in almost circular orbits,

> which is the view of science and is true. But if you take the EARTH as

> your reference (Geocentric model), the EARTH is on the center of the

> system and the Sun comes around it in an almost circular orbit and the

> other planets come around the Sun, which makes their orbit around the

> Earth be helicoidal. Just that simple. This way you can't tell the precise

> distance between the Earth and the other planets, because it's varying all

> the time. What you can do is telling the length of the region within which

> a given planet is orbiting and those regions are known as the islands and

> sees of Bhumandala, which are, in this concept, a region of the space

> (precisely determinated in the Vedas).

>

> Both models are correct. Modern science uses the Heliocentric model

> because it's simpler. The Vedas use the Geocentric model because of other

> reasons, which I can only suppose, like Krsna comes only on this planet,

> the Earth is on the axis of the universe, it's here that we live or

> something different.

>

> Geocentric model was disbelieved because it was misinterpretated by the

> "scientists", which thought it meant that the EARTH was on the center of

> the system and the Sun and the other planets come around it in an almost

> CIRCULAR orbit, which is false. The orbit of the other planets around the

> Earth is HELICOIDAL in this model. This knowlegde was there hundreds and

> thousands of years ago (it's also in the Bible), but it was

> misinterpretated, as I said, and the proper way to explain it was

> neglected.

>

> The video is very nice and all temples could have a copy clear such doubts

> (at least those with college programs).

>

> Your servant,

> Fernando Dias

 

I hope that this finds you in good health.

 

Your ever well wisher,

 

Jayapataka Swami