The physicist J. J. Thompson discovered electrons, the smallest known elementary particle until the advent of quantum physics, in 1897. He used a cathode ray tube to "detect" the presence of electrons but no microscope exists which can see the subatomic particles like proton, electron or neutron. All these subatomic particles make up an atom. The atom is million times smaller the thickest human hair. Quantum physics has further discovered subatomic particles such as quark, lepton and gauge bosons. Scientists are using a Large Hadron Collider at a cost of $9 billion, with a diameter of twenty seven kilometers; it is a particle accelerator which uses electric fields to propel subatomic particles at very high speeds so as to collide such beams of particles with an intend to study smaller particles formed as a result of the collision. But no scientist would ever see any subatomic particle with his or her naked eye.
The scientists consider universe to be very large and of infinite volume. The observable matter is spread across a distance of at least 93 billion light years. One light year is the distance light travelling at a speed of 300000000 meter per second travels in a time of one Julian year. The distance comes out to be 10 trillion kilometers. With our naked eyes we can see a few thousands stars in the sky during a clear night which are part of our own galaxy, Milky Way. Scientists have discovered millions of such galaxies and probably millions are yet to be discovered. The furthest a man has traveled in space is to Moon; that's just a distance of about 50 million kilometers.
To sum up our knowledge about the size of universe, nature of our body & mind, the matter that makes us and everything around is very limited. We haven't yet discovered knowledge the size of drop in an infinite ocean of wisdom and knowledge. Everyday during our work and personal life we come in touch with people who are more smarter, more knowledgeable, more conscious about themselves and world around them. In our school days we believed atom exists, the speed of light is approximately 300000000 meter per second, we believed Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle; we still believe in the diagnosis of a doctor but we hesitate to believe in the knowledge & wisdom of our religious scriptures. When a Saint talks about Who is God, His powers, His wisdom, His love we hesitate to believe in Saints' word. We begin to evaluate the Saints' knowledge on the basis of our knowledge. Despite the fact that we know the flaws in our knowledge and wisdom. The openness of our mind disappears or reduces when we listen to a Saint. We are ready to believe in atoms, the existence of which has been hypothesized by a few scientists but we are not ready to believe that God is omnipotent, omnipresence, present in our heart in a form whose size is smallest than the smallest subatomic particle. The mind which is in "open" mode while listening to worldly informations changes to "denial" mode when listening to Saints' word.
We have to realize that we may be twenty or forty or sixty years of age, we may have picked a master's or doctorate degree, we may have learned to manage hundreds of people in a team but in the field of spiritualism we are still in the kindergarten. As a young person we believe in lots of facts and as we grow we evaluate them and this leads to enlightenment of our intellect. Similarly we have to believe in Saints' word, practice his lessons and as we are enlightened by the grace of God we will be able to make better judgement. But until the spiritual enlightenment happens we should be in the "open & accept" mode and evaluate later when we have practiced enough to make a sound judgement & progress.
The scientists consider universe to be very large and of infinite volume. The observable matter is spread across a distance of at least 93 billion light years. One light year is the distance light travelling at a speed of 300000000 meter per second travels in a time of one Julian year. The distance comes out to be 10 trillion kilometers. With our naked eyes we can see a few thousands stars in the sky during a clear night which are part of our own galaxy, Milky Way. Scientists have discovered millions of such galaxies and probably millions are yet to be discovered. The furthest a man has traveled in space is to Moon; that's just a distance of about 50 million kilometers.
To sum up our knowledge about the size of universe, nature of our body & mind, the matter that makes us and everything around is very limited. We haven't yet discovered knowledge the size of drop in an infinite ocean of wisdom and knowledge. Everyday during our work and personal life we come in touch with people who are more smarter, more knowledgeable, more conscious about themselves and world around them. In our school days we believed atom exists, the speed of light is approximately 300000000 meter per second, we believed Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle; we still believe in the diagnosis of a doctor but we hesitate to believe in the knowledge & wisdom of our religious scriptures. When a Saint talks about Who is God, His powers, His wisdom, His love we hesitate to believe in Saints' word. We begin to evaluate the Saints' knowledge on the basis of our knowledge. Despite the fact that we know the flaws in our knowledge and wisdom. The openness of our mind disappears or reduces when we listen to a Saint. We are ready to believe in atoms, the existence of which has been hypothesized by a few scientists but we are not ready to believe that God is omnipotent, omnipresence, present in our heart in a form whose size is smallest than the smallest subatomic particle. The mind which is in "open" mode while listening to worldly informations changes to "denial" mode when listening to Saints' word.
We have to realize that we may be twenty or forty or sixty years of age, we may have picked a master's or doctorate degree, we may have learned to manage hundreds of people in a team but in the field of spiritualism we are still in the kindergarten. As a young person we believe in lots of facts and as we grow we evaluate them and this leads to enlightenment of our intellect. Similarly we have to believe in Saints' word, practice his lessons and as we are enlightened by the grace of God we will be able to make better judgement. But until the spiritual enlightenment happens we should be in the "open & accept" mode and evaluate later when we have practiced enough to make a sound judgement & progress.
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