Physical knowledge
Expressions researched:
"physical and metaphysical knowledge"
|"Physical knowledge"
|"physical or physiological knowledge"
|"knowledge of physical"
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 1
SB Canto 2
Lectures
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures
Philosophy Discussions
Prabhupāda: Actually, as we say, that anti-matter are fixed up in (indistinct). I say anti-matter is spirit. That spirit soul is very small, keśāgra-śata-bhāgasya: [Cc. Madhya 19.140] the tip of the hair divided into ten thousand parts. So it is unimaginable by the modern scientist. Therefore the ultimate smallest part is the spirit soul, spark, part and parcel of the Supreme Spirit. Therefore we have to take the knowledge from Vedas. That is the perfect (indistinct).
Śyāmasundara: He says there are two types of logical atoms—the sense data and universals. And this problem, he saw, of the difference between the crude data of the senses and the things as understood by physical sciences. So he divided these into two types of knowledge. The knowledge of sense data is the immediate knowledge by acquaintance with something, and the knowledge of physical science is that knowledge derived from things, or inferred, by description from things. And he says the example of the first type of knowledge...
Prabhupāda: This knowledge, what is that?
Devotee: Inference.
Prabhupāda: Inference. What is that, inference knowledge?
Śyāmasundara: Just like the proposition "All men are mortal," this is inferred after examination, scientific examination, of a number of men.
Prabhupāda: How it is? How many number of men one can examine?
Śyāmasundara: Well, this is what he says.
Prabhupāda: If it is based on scientific examination of men, so our (indistinct) is limited. How many men we can examine to know that he is actually mortal? Just like individual, suppose you live for one hundred years and begin your study of the human being, say, at the age of twenty. So suppose for eighty years you go on examining. How many men you can examine every year? Say ten thousand men? Ten thousand men you examine, go on, eighty years, so how many-ten thousand into eighty?
Śyāmasundara: Er, eight hundred thousand?
Devotee: Eight million.
Prabhupāda: Eight million. Does it mean there is only eight million persons?Page Title: | Physical knowledge |
Compiler: | Visnu Murti |
Created: | 01 of May, 2009 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=4, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=3, Con=0, Let=0 |
No. of Quotes: | 7 |