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His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupda
Founder-crya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
The antimaterial particle within the material body passes from boyhood to youth to old age, leaves the old unworkable body and takes up another one.
Lord Ka imparted this knowledge to the sun god, vivasvn who instructed Manu, the father of mankind, who in turn instructed Ikvku.
Master yogs can give up their bodies at will and enter the antimaterialworlds, while the gross materialists cannot even approachthe higher material planets with their space vehicles.
Bhakti-yoga has been made easy to practice, especially in this ironage, by Lord Ka Himself in His most sublime, liberal and munificentappearance as Lord r Caitanya.
There are unlimited Vaikuha planets in the spiritual sky, and their ratio to the material planets is three to one.
The Supreme Being is the all-attractive Personality of Godhead, r Ka.
One may take an easy journey to the spiritual planets, where he canassociate with the Personality of Godhead in full bliss and knowledgefor eternity.
Contents
Preface
A living being, especially civilized man, has a natural desire to live forever in happiness. This is quite natural because, in his original state, the living being is both eternal and joyful. However, in the present conditioned state of life, he is engaged in a struggle against recurring birth and death. Therefore he has attained neither happiness nor immortality.
The latest desire man has developed is the desire to travel to other planets. This is also quite natural, because he has the constitutional right to go to any part of the material or spiritual skies. Such travel is very tempting and exciting because these skies are full of unlimited globes of varying qualities, and they are occupied by all types of living entities. The desire to travel there can be fulfilled by the process of yoga , which serves as a means by which one can transfer himself to whatever planet he likes-possibly to planets where life is not only eternal and blissful, but where there are multiple varieties of enjoyable energies. Anyone who can attain the freedom of the spiritual planets need never return to this miserable land of birth, old age, disease and death.
One can attain this stage of perfection very easily by his individual effort. He can simply follow, in his own home, the prescribed method of bhakti - yoga . This method, under proper guidance, is simple and enjoyable. An attempt is made herein to give information to the people in general, and to philosophers and religionists in particular, as to how one can transfer oneself to other planets by this process of bhakti - yoga - the highest of all yogic processes.
Chapter One
Antimaterial Worlds
Materialistic science may one day finally discover the eternal antimaterial world which has for so long been unknown to the wranglers of gross materialism. Regarding the scientists' present conception of antimatter, the Times of India (Oct. 27, 1959) published the following news release:
Stockholm, Oct. 26, 1959- Two American atomic scientists were awarded the 1959 Nobel Physics Prize today for the discovery of the antiproton, proving that matter exists in two forms-as particles and antiparticles. They are Italian-born Dr. Emillo Segre, 69, and Dr. Owen Chamberlain, born in San Francisco.... According to one of the fundamental assumptions of the new theory, there may exist another world, or an antiworld, built up of antimatter. This antimaterial world would consist of atomic and subatomic particles spinning in reverse orbits to those of the world we know. If these two worlds should ever clash, they would both be annihilated in one blinding flash.
In this statement, the following propositions are put forward:
1. There is an antimaterial atom or particle which is made up of the antiqualities of material atoms.
2. There is another world besides this material world of which we have only limited experience.
3. The antimaterial and material worlds may clash at a certain period and may annihilate one another.
Out of these three items, we, the students of theistic science, can fully agree with items 1 and 2, but we can agree with item 3 only within the limited scientific definition of antimatter. The difficulty lies in the fact that the scientists' conception of antimatter extends only to another variety of material energy, whereas the real antimatter must be entirely antimaterial. Matter as it is constituted is subjected to annihilation, but antimatter-if it is to be free from all material symptoms-must also be free from annihilation, by its very nature. If matter is destructible or separable, antimatter must be indestructible and inseparable. We shall try to discuss these propositions from the angle of authentic scriptural vision.
The most widely recognized scriptures in the world are the Vedas. The Vedas have been divided into four parts: Sma , Yajur, g and Atharva . The subject matter of the Vedas is very difficult for a man of ordinary understanding. For elucidation, the four Vedas are explained in the historical epic called the Mahbhrata and in eighteen Puras. The Rmyaa is also a historical epic which contains all the necessary information from the Vedas. So the four Vedas, the original Rmyaa by Vlmki, the Mahbhrata and the Puras are classified as Vedic literatures. The Upaniads are parts of the four Vedas, and the Vednta -stras represent the cream of the Vedas. To summarize all these Vedic literatures, the Bhagavad- gt is accepted as the essence of all Upaniads and the preliminary explanation of the Vednta -stras. One may then conclude that from the Bhagavad- gt alone one can have the essence of the Vedas, for it is spoken by Lord r Ka , the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who descends upon this material world from the antimaterial world in order to give complete information of the superior form of energy.
