What is Knowledge : Ch-6-6.

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Chapter- 6:- Being in Balance with the World-6.


Space, time and motion are considered to be the original conditions of everything in the physical universe.

Air is a concrete visible form taken by these vibrations, which are not visible practically.

Friction produced by the movement of air became the cause of what is called heat, and heat has various potencies in itself.

It condenses into various forms of visible substances.

You must have heard from at least one school of astronomers that this Earth was once upon a time a part of the Sun. It was chopped off from the body of the Sun by certain occurrences, whatever be the cause of these occurrences.

Some believe that a large star came near the Sun, and the magnetic influence that it exerted on the Sun was so intense that a chip was cut off from it; and there are others who believe that there was a gyrating motion of the Sun which caused a piece of it to come off.

Whatever be the reason, the belief is that this Earth is a child of the Sun.

And we know what the Sun is made of.

It is tremendous, unthinkable heat, rising beyond 6000 degrees Celsius.

The astronomers’ conclusion is that the Earth was a boiling mass that was gyrating in space in this terribly heated condition for some millions of years; and even today the centre of the Earth, called the barysphere, is fire, molten mass, due to which we feel more and more heat as we go nearer and nearer to the centre of the Earth.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  .....


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