Vedanta - Eternal Age Of Wonder
PRASHANT SOLOMON
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Before Galileo Galilei and Nicholas Copernicus, we lived in a geocentric solar system.This was the accepted truth in medieval Europe, accepted by the Church, governments, scientists, philosophers and common people of the day. There was just one little problem it was not true.Today, largely due to the bravery of the two European Renaissance scientists mentioned above, we know that we actually live in a heliocentric solar system. The sun, and not the Earth, is the centre of the solar system and all planets move around the sun and not the earth as was believed before.
The 21st century world has no problem believing that the Earth goes round the sun because we have known this since the time of our birth. But just a few centu ries ago, the world's paradigm of belief was turned over like a ship tossed about by a rogue wave at sea. This shift in perspective no doubt had a large impact on the future course of scientific discoveries, technological inventions and other human events. From a geocentric world we suddenly became a heliocentric one.
Our global perspective is about to shift once more. For now it is not a question of whether the sun moves around the Earth or vice versa, it is a question of our very existence as beings and our own spiritual destiny. We have been so used to considering ourselves as a human body with a soul that most of us have forgotten our own truth.We have forgotten our own destiny . We have forgotten our true being.
The 21st century world has no problem believing that the Earth goes round the sun because we have known this since the time of our birth. But just a few centu ries ago, the world's paradigm of belief was turned over like a ship tossed about by a rogue wave at sea. This shift in perspective no doubt had a large impact on the future course of scientific discoveries, technological inventions and other human events. From a geocentric world we suddenly became a heliocentric one.
Our global perspective is about to shift once more. For now it is not a question of whether the sun moves around the Earth or vice versa, it is a question of our very existence as beings and our own spiritual destiny. We have been so used to considering ourselves as a human body with a soul that most of us have forgotten our own truth.We have forgotten our own destiny . We have forgotten our true being.
