In an upheaving sparks of beauty shot forth from the bosom of the Beyond, each shooting energy becoming a finite bubble on the infinite ocean of Cause. The bubbles were vast, and their shooting energy had a double motion; one spiral elliptical, the other centrifugal. After eons the centrifugally-motioned bubbles create vapor, and then luminous vapor called nebulae. The rotating nebulae formed huge suns, which we know as stars. Many stars taken together made a cluster. Millions of years afterward these large suns grouped together in star-cluster nebulae. Each nebula is a world by itself, and millions of these taken together make up a universe. The philosopher Kant says, “we cannot imagine how big the solar system is, but it is only a tiny morsel of Milky way Nebula. It is only a grain of sand.” Sir James Jeans says, “How many worlds are there in one nebula ? So many are the stars and planets that one can only gasp, ‘Millions! Millions!’ And the planets are of such a size that one of them could make a million Earths!
There is controversy over whether the world is measurable or not. Modern mathematical astronomers say that the stars are moving in orbits seeking some limitless centre, the very one from which they came. Everything goes home and gathers more speed as it gets closer to the barn. Einstein says, “The force and speed of light are so great that whatever will acquire this force and speed will not be said to exist.” The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. When nebulae travel at light speed, they turn into electrons. When they travel faster than that, they will vanish.
Through the telescope more than 10 thousand nebulae have been seen. One of the nebulae is moving away at a rate of 5000 miles per second. In America there is a telescope with a 200″ diameter. With that telescope millions of millions miles distant nebulae can be brought within view!
Where is the centre from which all this beauty and motion come? Men don’t know but they get some satisfaction from calling it the Unthinkable, Un-seeable, Unknowable. Who will say where it was at the beginning of the things?
Ours is a scientific century. The scientists of our day try to understand the mystery of Nature. From the time of Galileo, Newton, and Faraday to Rutherford, Lodge, Einstein they have, in their own words, gathered a few pebbles on the seashore of truth. They suggest various theories: relativity, probability indeterminacy, etc. But they could not yet plumb the mystery. The creation is ever beyond their stretching imaginations. They cannot even give a satisfactory explanation for the electrons which are the life of everything. They have only seen far away nebulae through their telescopes. Lord Chaitanya said of creation 450 years ago: “On a fig tree there are so many fruits. In the sky there are so many stars. But the world is full of illusion. Bits of matter are dizzily shuttling to and fro. Lo! the Lord creates the world!” In the Setaswatar Upanishad it is said, “All creatures belong to God. This world and all the laws are from Brahma.” Lord Chaitanya said, “Creatures come from Brahma and merge again in Him. Sound is Brahma and Sree Krisha was its corpo-reality. He is the creator and destroyer. He is the creator of both gross and fine”.
In the Mundakopanishad Brahma is described as seven-fold: (1) rice (sustenance), (2) life (the representation of creation), (3) mind (a manifestation of feeling), (4) truth (the five primary elements), (5) universe (star-cluster nebula), (6) activity (manifestation of instinct), (7) immortality (the product of activity). We cannot express the inexpressible. To express it at all we use the expressions ‘life’, ‘creation’, ‘fine and gross’. Yet we fail. That is why we sometimes call Him simply the Unspeakable or Inexplicable- though He is manifested in the world and all the creation is His image. Emerson said, “Man himself is nothing but universal spirit present in a material organism. Man is the Divine, lives in the Divine, and in every power he manifests, he proclaims the Divine Life within. The soul is not a separate individuality, but part and parcel of God.”
So we conclude that scientists have discovered infinite- simally little.
Lord Chaitanya said:
“Like cows we wander o’er the world
Till God doth give us love.
The seed doth sprout, the creeper climbs ;
On-on it climbs, beyond the Sound,
Unto the Region of Un-limit,
The Origin of Creation.”