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Re: Krishnas, Vedas, and all that (was: TM

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From: Daniel Norman Johnson
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:47
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In article 7VHVXB7w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us, system@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa) writes:
>lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
>
>> >Actually, the Vedas state that the Moon is 800,000 miles HIGHER than the
>> >Sun, in the plane of the Bhu-mandala system, not that it is farther away
>> >in terms of linear distance.
>> 
>> 	What's the "Bhu-mandala system"?
>
>The Bhu-mandala system is a gigantic disk-shaped region in
>higher-dimensional space. Its 3-dimensional projection is on the
>ecliptic. Ordinary human beings cannot see the physical disk of
>Bhu-mandala, because our senses are not sophisticated enough. But its
>existence has been reported by demigods and advanced yogis.

Why can't any of our instruments detect this oddity- I mean if
the planets were moving of 4-spaces, surely we'd notice
something?

>>       And is the Moon _closer_ in linear distance, or isn't it?
>
>Yes, the Moon is closer in linear distance, but higher than the sun in
>the "z" coordinate. However, this is a 3-dimensional analogue of what is
>actually a higher dimensional situation.

Wow, this actually makes some sence, Kalki!

Doesn't seem terribly connected with reality tho. If tehse
things are in different places in n-spaces (n=whatever just > 3)
why do they wind up projected into 3-space at all?

>> >Eclipses are explained as the result of the planet Rahu passing
>> >between the sun and the earth, or the moon and the earth. In modern
>> >astronomy, the planet Rahu is identified as the moon's ascending node,
>> >which is indeed in line with the sun-moon-earth system during an
>> >eclipse.
>> 
>> 	There is no such thing as a planet separate from the Moon that
>> causes eclipses.
>
>So you say, but this is only your opinion. You cannot see Rahu, but that
>does not mean it doesn't exist.

But we CAN see the body that causes the eclipses- both during, before
and after the event. It is quite clearly the moon.

So what makes you think Rahu has anything to do with it?

---
			- Dan Johnson
And God said "Jeeze, this is dull"... and it *WAS* dull. Genesis 0:0

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Subject: Re: Krishnas, Vedas, and all that (was: TM
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