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                    Sriman Naaraayanaya Namaha 
                    Srimathe RamAnujAya Namaha
                 Srimathe Vedaantha Desikaaya Namaha

             GyanAnanda mayam devam nirmala spadikAhrutim
               AdAram sarva lokhAnam nArAyanam upAsmahe|

                            God vs No God

Here is an interesting observation of the day.

'A British philosophy professor who has been a leading champion of 
atheism for more than a half-century has changed his mind. He now 
believes in God ? more or less ? based on scientific evidence, and 
says so on a video released Thursday. At age 81, after decades of 
insisting belief is a mistake, Antony Flew has concluded that some 
sort of intelligence or first cause must have created the universe. 
A super-intelligence is the only good explanation for the origin of 
life and the complexity of nature, Flew said in a telephone 
interview 
from England. Flew said he's best labeled a deist like Thomas 
Jefferson, 
whose God was not actively involved in people's lives. "I'm thinking 
of 
a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away 
from the God of Islam, because both are depicted as omnipotent 
Oriental despots, cosmic Saddam Husseins," he said. "It could be a 
person 
in the sense of a being that has intelligence and a purpose, I 
suppose." 
The biologists' investigation of DNA "has shown, by the almost 
unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to 
produce 
(life), that intelligence must have been involved," Flew says in the 
new video, "Has Science Discovered God?"'


This is the kind of volte-face our acharyas induced on the minds of 
scholars from the opposing schools of thought just by clear and 
intense 
arguments.  I wonder why it takes a person takes decades to see the 
beauty 
and complexity of the nature or the viswam. The complexity is not 
only 
what it is but also how precise it is in the smallest patterns. 
There 
should have been a grand design of the parabrahmam or paravAsudevA. 
HE must have understood how to become all that exists and should 
have 
figured out how to remain partly as the 'missing matter' of the 
universe. 
Thus HE is narA as well as ayanA.  Hence HE is Sriman narAyanA. 
The misguided philosopher now believes in creationism also since he 
can in 
no way explain how things organized themselves into genes and DNAs 
in the 
very beginning. He also seems to believe HE must be an intelligent 
person 
with a purpose.  That purpose is what the upanishad alludes when it 
says 
'tat shrushtva tatonupravisat ...' or what the Purusha sUktam 
alludes as 
'Yagyena Yagya mayajanta devAha'.  The person that everyone imagines 
including the misguided philosopher is described by Sri Ramanuja as 
'api madana rUpA swarUpa rUpA guna vibhavA aiswaryA'. HE is a very 
beautiful person - api madana rUpA - with many other auspicious 
qualities.
The universe and the auspicious qualities as well as other qualities 
that exist because of a purpose envisioned by Him constitute the 
greatest 
good in Him. Thus namAzvAr says:
    'uyavara uyarnalam udayavan yavanavan
     mayarvara mati nalam arulinan yavanavan
     ayarvarum amararkal atipati yavanavan
     tuyararu surati tozhutezan manane'.
'Worship HE who has the greatest among the great ( has the best 
among the 
best ), who has given us the mind and removes all its illusions [by 
directing us to worship Him as the purposeful cause of all that 
exists], 
who is the king of the amarAs [and who has the capability to make us 
so too] 
since by worshipping him at his feet all our troubles will vaporize.'

                       'devo na: subhamAtanotu'

dAsan
U. Ve. RTV Varadarajan








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