What is Knowledge : Ch-6-7.

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Chapter- 6:- Being in Balance with the World-7.

When we go above the Earth, we feel chillness because we are away from its centre. The centre of the Earth is said to be boiling even today, and this sometimes becomes the cause of eruptions such as earthquakes, etc.

The original heated condition of the Earth had to take an immense, almost immeasurable extent of time to cool down, and it became a liquid mass – which are our oceans, and everything that is liquid. Earth came afterwards.

The liquid portion, the watery element, is the consequence of the cooling down of the heated stuff of the physical element. Water condenses into ice, and it hardened into what is called the crust of the Earth.


The Indian cosmological scheme to which I made reference also believes in the dissolution of the cosmos – that as things came, so also they will have to go. We have to return to that place from where we came. Astronomers believe that the principle of entropy, a cooling down of the cosmos by an equidistribution of heat, will mean the end of all things.

Whatever be these doctrines, the Indian cosmological scheme mentions that a day will come when the drama of the universe will cease, whether by entropy, as physicists tell us, or by any other reason such as the will of God or the cyclic motion of nature. Whatever be the reason, the Earth will get dissolved in water.


We know that water is nothing but hydrogen and oxygen, and a proportionate mixing up of hydrogen and oxygen becomes water. And we know there is hydrogen and oxygen in space, in air. Fortunately, they do not mix in the proportion  and  combination required to produce water.

Perhaps the entire gaseous element will get mixed up in this proportion, and the whole thing will become water. Nature has mysteries that we cannot even contemplate in our minds. Earth gets dissolved in water, water gets dried up by fire, fire will be extinguished by air, and air will be lost in space.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  .....


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