Passage 6

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Today's physical science examines tomorrow, rejects this as not so, and on the very next day goes on searching out a new standard. So where does this science, changing from moment to moment, get the authority to refute the culture of the people of Bhārata, which bears the form of eternal truth, or their philosophy, or their logic? If we look well into what was researched from Kant to Spencer, then beside the downpour of Dvaita, Advaita and Viśiṣṭādvaita that the people of Bhārata researched, what those men researched looks like drizzle. All these are of slight form. All that physical science has achieved today is no more than what Hiraṇyākṣa and Hiraṇyakaśipu achieved in the Kṛta Yuga. Hiraṇyakaśipu searched the earth. He searched the sky. He searched the ocean. He took the five elements into his hands. He was proud that all was in his own hand.

Through this Ahaṅkāra, blind to all about him, he went on tormenting even his own son. That is, what use came of these researches? Forgetting himself, he makes his ego grow. Through this ego, the difference between one's own and another's is lost. The difference between son and mother is lost. When anything stands in the way of his hopes, his feelings, his longing, he is ready to destroy whatever it may be. At the very last, his own son taught him a great lesson. The son loved Hari. The father hated Hari. These two could not agree. So a state arose in which this philosophy and physical science cannot agree. But sooner or later this philosophy must bring this physical science to its senses. ‘Where is your God?’ asked Hiraṇyakaśipu. ‘Have no doubt that He is here and not there,’ he said. Child, is He in this pillar? He is, He is. When he broke it open, divine power came forth from within it. What is the inner meaning of this? As long as man lives with the delusion of the body, in attachment to the body, so long God stays far away. The day he gives up the delusion of the body and grows in the passion for God, that very day divinity becomes clear to him. So Hiraṇyakaśipu broke open what is called the body. From within it came forth divinity.