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Prabhupada, Hawaii, February 2, 1975: […] Just like this world, this earthly planet, is moving at the rate of one thousand miles per hour. Such a gigantic body, it is also moving. Every, all planets are moving. Even the sun is moving. But we cannot perceive. You ride on a best airplane—there are so many disturbances, sound, moving, sometimes table is (trembling?) moving. But this planet also moving more speedily than the airplane, but you do not perceive. This is Krishna’s manufacture, perfectly. Purnam idam. This is called purnam idam, everything perfect. Purnam idam purnam adah purnat purnam udacyate, purnasya purnam adaya purnam eva avasisyate [Isopanisad, Invocation]. Because He is so perfect, we do not perceive. But it is moving.
Everyone knows that the morning, there is sunrise, and in twelve hours after covering twelve thousand miles, the evening is there. Again twelve thousand miles moving—you are sleeping—in the morning you see again the sun. The sun is there. Sun is not moving. But the world is moving. It is moving so nicely. Not only this earthly planet, but there are millions and trillions of planets within the sky. They are all moving. Seasonal changes, day and night, everything is going on. This is perfection. So those who are in divine nature, they can understand all these things. That is called daivi sampat.
In other philosophies they can say… The Christians say, “God is great.” The Muslim also say that allah akbar. That is also same meaning. The Vedic literature also says, Brahman, Parabrahma. Brahman means the greatest. Brhatvat brhannatvad iti brahma. Brahman means because it is very, very great. And not only great, it is becoming greater and greater. Brhannatvat. So the great understanding, greatness understanding, of Krishna or the Absolute Truth is accepted everywhere in civilized human society. But how God is great, that you can find in the Vedic literature. Full Lecture
FROM BAKTIMATH.COM:
In the ancient Vedas concerned with cosmology, we find astoundingly exact figures on the size of the earth’s and other planets diameter, the solar system’s diameter and the age of the sun (in the Rig Veda, the Vishnu Purana, the Bhagavad Purana, and in the Suryasiddhanta). Some of these texts have been on earth for over three thousand years, long before the telescope was invented. The diameter of the different planetary orbits are described as “ring continents” which are measured in yojanas (1 yojana = 8.6 miles). When these calculations are inserted into a computer, the size of the edges of the “ring continents” are astonishingly similar to the actual size of the planetary orbits. The calculations are in fact so precise that coincidence can be ruled out.