Dialogue between a Bhakta and Atheist ....( Part - 5)

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Pranams to Bhagavan Sri Krishna and Bhaktas ,

Jawahar ( Atheist ) : O Ram ! Can you prove the existence of Bhagavan through facts about this physical body which is regarded as the temple of Bhagavan ?

Ram ( Bhakta) : The insentient engine of a railway train cannot move without a qualified driver. Even so this insentient body-engine cannot move without an intelligent driver, who is Bhagavan. From the existence of the body, you can infer the existence of the hidden driver of the body-engine.

Mark! There is display of intelligence in every inch of creation. Who pumps blood into the arteries? Who converts food into chyle and red-coloured blood? Who effects the peristalsis in the bowels and stomach and controls the process of assimilation and elimination? Who shuts the eye lids to prevent dust from falling into the delicate eyes? Who gave intelligence to the cells and glands to secrete milk, bile, saliva, gastric juice, etc, from the blood? Who gave intelligence and power to the spermatozoa to move, unite with the ovum in the womb and develop into a foetus? Wherefrom does this minutest, subtlest substance, Jiva , as minute as the tiniest grain of sand, derive the capacity to assume gradually the features, complexion, and shape of its parents? What is the power which sustains it and helps its growth in the mother's womb? Who arranges for milk in the mother's breast before the child is born?

How wonderful is the human-machine? How harmoniously all the organic work in unison in the economy of nature? In Bhagavad-Gita, this body is known as *navadvara-puri * or nine-gate city. In summer the skin works energetically to throw off all impurities of the blood and to relieve the kidneys which had over-worked in winter.The endocrine, pituitary, pineal , adrenal glands work in perfect harmony in manufacturing the internal secretions, and the hormones to help the metabolic process of the body, growth and structure.

It is a great marvel to see the working of the nervous system under the control of brain and the movement of the impulses through the spinal cord. There is a magnificent, electric battery inside with switchboard and wires. The operator is *Antaryamin* ( inner ruler or Bhagavan) who controls and supervises everything. He is Upadrashta ( Supervisor), Anumanta ( Permitter) and Iswara ( Bhagavan). Look at the heart and lungs which work under the direct control of the brain. How wonderful are these three vital organs, the tripods of life? Can an eminent scientist manufacture any of these organs. tissues, fibres, tendons or cells in his laboratory with his intellects?

How harmoniously the different systems such as the digestive system, circulatory system, nervous system, integumentary system work without any rest ! How beautifully the different centres in the brain such as the vision-centre, authority-centre, centre of smell, etc do their functions. One is struck with awe and wonder when he begins to think seriously of the structure and working of this delicate human machinery.

To think that this most wonderful mechanism is the result of and product of a fortuitous combination of matter or atoms is simply absurd and ridiculous indeed ! It has been, doubtless, moulded , and fashioned by some architect, who is infinitely more skilful, intelligent and powerful than ordinary architects who build palaces and bungalows. That architect is Bhagavan.

Bhagavan Sri Krishna says in Bhagavad-Gita ( Sloka 15.16- 19) ;

 

" I am seated in the heart of all beings. The Memory, Self-knowledge, the removal of doubts and forgetfulness come from Me. I am that which is to be known by the study of all the Vedas. I am indeed, the author as well as the knower of the Vedas.

There are two classes of living beings in this world--- the Perishable and the Imperishable . Of these, the bodies of all beings are perishable; while the Jivaatmaa ( embodied soul ) is imperishable.

Besides these two, there is the greatest living personality, the *Paramatma* (Supreme Soul) , the imperishable Bhagavan , who has entered the three worlds and is maintaining them.

Because I am transcendental, beyond both the fallible and the infallible, and because I am the greatest, I am celebrated both in the world and in the Vedic scriptures as the *Purushottama* (Supreme Person.)

Whoever knows Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, , is the knower of everything. He therefore worships Me, wholeheartedly ."

Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya

SriKrishnaDasa Rajeev